Senior Account Executive

Viant Technology; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 115,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully paid health insurance

Paid parental leave

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

A leading advertising technology firm is seeking a Senior Account Executive in Boston to drive sales and grow market presence. You'll identify new business opportunities, consult with clients to align solutions, and generate high sales activity. The ideal candidate has 3-6 years of ad tech sales experience, excellent problem-solving, organizational, and communication skills, and a Bachelor's degree. This role offers a competitive salary and outstanding benefits including health insurance and unlimited PTO.

Qualifications

• 3-6 years of programmatic/ad tech sales experience with ad agencies in the Boston metro area.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced work environment.
• Smart, articulate, polished, self-driven.

Responsibilities

• Identify new business opportunities with agencies and advertisers in the Boston metro area.
• Generate a high volume of sales related activity including cold calls, meetings, presentations.
• Cultivate relationships with clients to provide marketing solutions.

Skills

Programmatic/ad tech sales experience

Digital media understanding

Problem-solving skills

Verbal communication skills

Consultative selling skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

What You'll Do

Viant has an exciting opportunity on our Boston sales team for a Senior Account Executive to evangelize new business, generate awareness, and grow sales of the Viant DSP with a focus on ad agencies and advertisers in the Boston metro area. This is a tremendous opportunity to have an instrumental role in the growth and development of a market.

Responsibilities

• Curate a rallying, leading presence of the overall sales team to inspire action by vocal participation in team meetings.
• Identify new business opportunities with agencies and advertisers in the Boston metro area.
• Consult with clients to uncover marketing objectives and align our solutions to deliver against those goals.
• Generate a high volume of sales related activity including cold calls, meetings, presentations, proposals, and more. Must consistently meet or exceed revenue quota assignment.
• Responsible for driving new and growing existing revenue through long-term contracts and contract negotiation.
• Cultivate relationships with clients, gain deep insight into their business, and ultimately provide solutions to their marketing and advertising goals.
• Expand Viant’s footprint across the territory and within key accounts by cross‑selling and up‑selling product portfolio.
• Provide feedback to the company on how to best service clients' needs.

Great to Have

• 3-6 years of programmatic/ad tech sales experience with ad agencies in the Boston metro area.
• Strong understanding and enthusiasm about the latest in digital media, ad tech, data targeting, 1st party data, platform sales, programmatic, behavioral targeting and optimization strategies.
• Ability to thrive in a fast‑paced work environment, while being able to quickly gain product efficiency across our broad set of offerings.
• Smart, articulate, polished, self‑driven, highly motivated team player with excellent problem‑solving skills, as well as superb organizational, written, and verbal communication skills.
• A consultative, strategic thinker with great energy and enthusiasm for prospecting for new business and excellent closing skills.
• Demonstrated proficiency in demo‑premised and solution‑premised selling.
• Bachelor’s degree required.

Life at Viant

Investing in our employees' professional growth is important to us, but so is investing in their well‑being. Viant was voted one of the best places to work and some of our favorite employee benefits include fully paid health insurance, paid parental leave, unlimited PTO, and more.

Base compensation range: $115,000 - $135,000.

In accordance with NYS law, the range provided is Viant’s reasonable estimate of the compensation for this role. Final title and compensation for the position will be based on several factors including work experience and education.

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