Global Media Partnerships Director

Purple; Texas; Hybrid; USD 76,000 - 127,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote and hybrid working

Flexible working

25 days holiday

4 volunteering days each year

Life insurance

Employee Assistance Programme

Company pension

Private Healthcare

Long Term Incentive Plan

Job summary

Purple is seeking a Media Sales Director to build and lead our advertising and sponsorship business globally. You will win new advertisers and sponsors, craft sponsorship packages, and drive revenue through measurable results.

The role requires 8+ years in advertising, media, or sponsorship sales, strong relationships with brand teams, and hands-on knowledge of paid social and search platforms. Remote/hybrid work with travel to client sites as needed.

Qualifications

• 8 or more years in advertising, media or sponsorship sales, at a media owner, media agency, ad-tech platform, sports or entertainment rights holder, or similar.
• A record of winning and growing significant advertising or sponsorship revenue against a target, including multi-year deals.
• Strong relationships with brand marketing teams and, ideally, media agencies.
• Hands‑on knowledge of paid social and search, including Meta, Instagram, TikTok and Google, and of audience targeting, retargeting and lookalike campaigns.
• Able to build sponsorship and partnership packages, and to talk about results in plain terms: reach, cost per customer won and return on ad spend (the revenue a campaign brings back for every pound spent).
• Experience selling to hospitality, retail, leisure or other consumer‑facing brands is a real advantage.
• Curious about AI and data‑led advertising, and comfortable shaping a proposition that is still developing.
• Commercially driven and autonomous, with the discipline to keep a clean pipeline and accurate forecast.
• A clear, courteous communicator with the presence to build trust with senior marketing and commercial leaders.

Responsibilities

• Own a senior quota for advertising and sponsorship revenue across the World, initially the UK.
• Find and win new advertisers, sponsors and brand partners, particularly consumer-facing brands.
• Build and sell sponsorship and partnership packages that give brands meaningful reach and measurable results.
• Lead campaign planning with advertisers: audience strategy, channel mix, budget and measurement.
• Grow revenue with existing advertisers and sponsors through clear performance reporting and renewals.
• Move clients from one-off campaigns to always-on activity and multi-year partnerships.
• Shape the media proposition, packaging and rate card with Product and Marketing.
• Keep an accurate pipeline and forecast in our CRM.
• Represent Purple at marketing, media and sponsorship industry events.

Skills

Advertising sales

Sponsorship sales

Media partnerships

Paid social & search

Forecasting & CRM

Job description

Purple is seeking a Media Sales Director to build and lead our advertising and sponsorship business globally. You will win new advertisers and sponsors, craft sponsorship packages, and drive revenue through measurable results.

The role requires 8+ years in advertising, media, or sponsorship sales, strong relationships with brand teams, and hands-on knowledge of paid social and search platforms. Remote/hybrid work with travel to client sites as needed.