Account Director

Viant Technology • Dallas, TX

8d • $140,000 - $150,000

About The Position

Viant has an exciting opportunity on our Dallas sales team for an Account Director to evangelize new business, generate awareness, and grow sales of our Viant DSP. This is a tremendous opportunity to have an instrumental role in the growth and development of a territory as well as take ownership over our existing relationship with independent agencies and brand direct in the Dallas market.
Our Account Directors are enthusiastic, self-starters who drive revenue while expanding their client bases; they are hunters who are focused on new business as opposed to farmers. With excellent communication and interpersonal skills, the ideal candidate works well with cross- functional team members in order to help our clients navigate changes in the media landscape and leverage Viant’s DSP platform and data services to grow their business.

Requirements

• 6-8 years programmatic/ad tech sales experience
• 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

Nice To Haves

• Existing experience supporting independent agencies a plus

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 media agencies and advertisers in the Dallas 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, meeting, 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

Benefits

• Investing in our employee’s professional growth is important to us, but so is investing in their well-being. That’s why 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 and unlimited PTO and more.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees