Senior Account Executive
We are currently expanding our sales operations and looking to add a Senior Account Executive in Chicago or New York. We’re looking for someone to join our team who has deep relationships with agencies and clients. They know you and trust you enough to test opportunities when you bring them something new and can make things happen quickly. The ideal fit for this role is someone who is an experienced digital media sales executive who wants to grow within our sales org and also has a deep understanding of programmatic and 1st-party audience data. You have a stellar book of relationships, an entrepreneurial spirit, a problem-solver and most importantly you have a contagious and insatiable desire to win!
What you’ll do:
- Generate revenue for Ranker across a book of Entertainment, Gaming accounts, but not limited to just those verticals.
- Develop an intimate understanding of our products and their place in the industry
- Develop and manage relationships with advertising partners, both agencies and end clients
- Identify and develop outreach to new clients, establishing mutually-beneficial relationships and educating them on Ranker and the Ranker ads products
- Cross-functionally collaborate with Ranker's marketing, media planning, and ad operations team to meet and exceed clients’ marketing goals
- Strive for excellence, education, self-advancement and the demonstration of top seller behaviors that lead to breaking performance records.
Who you are:
- 4+ years of experience in online media sales
- Experience with Programmatic and Audience Data
- Demonstrated high achievement against sales targets
- Motivated self-starter who thrives in unstructured environments
- Positive attitude, enthusiasm, high energy; roll-up-your-sleeves mentality and a high level of emotional intelligence
- Highly entrepreneurial, comfortable working in fast-paced environments and loves the hustle
- Strong negotiation skills & ability to close
- Superior written and oral communication skills
- BA / BS degree
What's In It For You:
- Competitive compensation package
- Full benefits package including medical, dental, vision, life, 401(k), PTO and holidays
- Remote in NYC or CHI reporting to VP in LA
About Ranker:
A Quantcast Top 40 site, reaching 80MM monthly people across platforms, Ranker sits at the intersection of passion and curiosity. Fans passionately vote on rankings they care about across movies, music, gaming and travel to name a few, and they're consumed with learning about topics like history, true crime, mystery and nature.
Ranker.com consistently delivers 30MM worldwide unique visitors and outranks nearly every competitive site in minutes spent per visit according to comScore (5+ mins per visit). Visitor engagement is the center of Ranker, with over 1B votes across more than 100K lists including extremely competitive searches like “best movies of all time” (which has over 6.1MM votes alone).
Consumer votes have allowed us to build Ranker Insights, a treasure trove of psychographic correlation data ("people who like X also like Y"). These unique correlations are ideal for reaching new audiences, developing more engaging campaigns or informing content recommendations.