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Senior Account Executive – Independent Agencies
Company | The Trade Desk |
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Location | Chicago, IL, USA |
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Salary | $76900 – $141000 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree
- 4+ years of outbound sales experience in a relevant industry or field
- Experience at an online publisher, ad network, ad exchange, ad server, SEM platform, DSP, or other online advertising roles
- Strong quantitative skills and negotiation ability
- Self-starter – able to tackle new clients or territories with little mentorship
- Agile learner – able to rapidly grasp new technology and product changes
- Able to travel 1-2x per month, including overnight travel
- Strong experience prospecting new accounts
- Experience managing longer sales cycles with multiple partners
- Comfortable working with several different teams inside the organization to collaborate and grow an account
- Established record of exceeding revenue expectations, hunting, and winning net new business
Responsibilities
- Acquire, build, and cultivate relationships with Independent Agencies in the Central Region
- Schedule and conduct meetings with ad agency decision-makers and executive leaders
- Use knowledge of the market and competitors to identify and develop the company’s unique selling propositions and differentiators
- Communicate the value of our media buying platform by walking through detailed demonstrations of the product
- Execute on a strategic plan to achieve revenue goals
- Hit monthly and quarterly revenue targets
- Respond to RFPs and prepare customized proposals to win new business
- Grow current accounts by identifying and closing up-sell opportunities by understanding core client business needs
- Acquire, develop, and close new agency relationships to use the platform
- Understand competitive differentiators in a dynamic online advertising landscape
- Work with the product team to help share customer insights to craft our product
- Collaborate with the trading and account management teams to up-sell clients
Preferred Qualifications
- Existing relationships with advertising agencies, media buyers and technology decision-makers in the Mountain West Region is not required but helpful