Digital Executive (digital advertising/media Sales)

GumGum; Greater London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

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Job summary

GumGum is a Mindset Company™ transforming advertising through AI-driven context and programmatic solutions. The Digital Executive role focuses on leading and developing relationships across international media agencies to close deals and drive revenue.

You will translate client insights into tailormade solutions and collaborate across internal teams to exceed sales goals. We offer an onboarding program, flexible work environment with in-office or remote options, and a requirement for 2 days

Qualifications

• Experience in digital advertising and client-facing sales
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to build and maintain client relationships at all levels
• Proficiency with PowerPoint, Excel and Word

Responsibilities

• Coordinate sales across a sales team to drive revenue
• Prospect and hunt for new business, including presentations and RFPs
• Upsell existing clients with new products and provide market insights
• Develop relationships with brands, agencies, and clients to meet marketing goals
• Translate client insights to internal product teams and feedback
• Collaborate with Account Managers to implement proposals
• Support strategic sales opportunities across international teams

Skills

Digital advertising experience

Sales experience

Excellent communication

PowerPoint/Excel/Word

Relationship building

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Media or Marketing/Advertising

Job description

London, England, United Kingdom

GumGum is The Mindset Company™ transforming advertising. We’re an advertising technology company delivering results by matching brands with people in the right mindset in the moments that matter. Our platform is powered by the Mindset Graph™, our AI-driven data engine that processes billions of real-time contextual, creative, environmental, and historical signals to match every ad with the most receptive audience. The result is advertising that drives meaningful outcomes for advertisers and publishers, and is more relevant for consumers.

We were founded in 2008 and are headquartered in Santa Monica, California, operating in over 19 markets across North America, Europe, Japan, and Australia.

Our principles guide our work every day and are as follows:

• Customer-Obsessed: We’re focused on advertising solutions that solve needs and drive success for clients and partners.
• Make it Happen: We have a bias for action and take ownership to deliver results.
• Always Innovate: We push boundaries with creativity and technology.
• Foster Belonging: We ensure colleagues feel included, supported, and empowered to thrive.

The Digital Executive is a motivated team member who wants to develop their commercial and programmatic skills and wants to help get our team to the next level. You are a person that can work with internal teams and is committed to achieving and exceeding sales goals.

Your responsibilities within the team will be leading and developing key relationships and strategy across International media agencies. You make sure our clients fully understand our vision and market leading proposition, you can detect opportunities and translate these into tailormade solutions, and ultimately closing the deals.

When starting at GumGum you can expect a solid onboarding program, making sure you get all the insights and knowledge to get you started.

And finally, as we thrive to get the best out of our teams, we also get to celebrate successes together with our teams and with our partners. So we will be having lots of moments to hang out together and have fun.

Note: GumGum fosters a flexible work environment, offering GumGummers the ability to work either in-office or remotely/from home. However, for 2 days weekly in office, we kindly ask that this hire be located within a 'commutable' distance to Central London.

What You'll Achieve

• Support revenue growth across sales teams:
  • Sales co-ordination sitting across a sales team
  • Supporting sales prospecting and hunting - generating a high volume of sales related activities including presentations, RFP’s, and proposing innovative sales solutions
• Drive revenue from media agencies and clients directly
  • Sales Prospecting and Hunting - Expectation to generate a high volume of sales related activity including presentations, RFP’s, and innovative sales solutions
  • Upsell current clients in current and new products - Provide deep market insights into the in-image and in-video display vertical and generate sales specifically from key brands and agencies. Continue to support the roll out of Verity and AIP and provide market insights from clients
• Relationship development - Cultivate relationships with brands, agency contacts and clients to gain deep insight into their business and ultimately provide GumGum solutions for their marketing and advertising goals.
• Translate client insight to internal product team - Provide thorough and prompt feedback to the company on how to best service clients’ needs
• Internal collaboration - Work with designated Account Managers and other internal teams to ensure sold proposals are successfully implemented and aligned with client expectations in a timely manner.
• Strategic sales - Support the sales team in developing, managing and executing strategic sales opportunities

Skills You'll Bring

• Bachelor's Degree, Media or Marketing/Advertising field preferred
• Ideally 1 year of solid experience in digital advertising
• Must have strong affiliation with selling
• Experience in both Managed Service and Programmatic solutions
• Must possess superb written and verbal communication skills
• Attention to detail and organization in daily tasks
• Powerpoint, Excel, Word
• Can build and maintain/grow client relationships at all levels (entertaining is required)

What We Offer

• Learn about our benefits & perks package at gumgum.com/benefits . If you'd like additional information, your recruiter can share more specifics during the hiring process!

Awards

• 2025 AdExchanger Awards AI Innovators, Technology & Service Provider, Finalist
• 2025 MARKETECH APAC Marketing Technology Awards Silver Winner for Best Contextual Advertising Tech Platform

We're always learning and evolving as a company, and we continue to take thoughtful steps to support our people and strengthen our culture.