Assistant Account Executive

Thomson Reuters • New York, NY

19h • Hybrid

About The Position

Reuters is hiring an Assistant Account Executive (AAE) to support and help grow a portfolio of client and agency relationships across the financial category as well as net new B2B business. This is a hybrid sr. planner/jr. seller role: you will split your time between sales planning on our largest strategic partnerships and growth accounts (5-10 fluid accounts) and to help develop strong integrated media responses and proposals to win new business. You'll partner closely with senior sellers and cross-functional teams to drive revenue, deliver excellent campaigns, and support larger strategic partnerships across the accounts you’ll support and new business that you’ll drive. About the Role As an Assistant Account Executive on Reuters' Digital Sales team, you will: Support sellers in a Sr Planner role across our largest strategic partnerships in a planning function across the finance vertical category, consulting and B2B as assigned. Meet weekly with clients and agencies across territories of the senior sellers you are supporting and your own new business prospects, building a clear understanding of business objectives, campaign requirements, timelines, budgets, and success metrics. Represent the Reuters brand in market, confidently articulating Reuters' audience, editorial mission, and premium environment—plus competitive differentiation relevant to each pitch. Help develop integrated responses and media plans in partnership with Integrated Marketing, aligning solutions across Content Marketing, OLV, Reuters.com, and social channels. Contribute to proposal development across senior seller’s list and your own account list by gathering inputs, synthesizing insights, shaping narrative flow, coordinating pricing/packaging, and ensuring materials are accurate, compelling, and on time. Maintain rigorous Salesforce hygiene, including meeting notes, pipeline stages, next steps, and booked revenue to ensure accurate forecasting and visibility. Support quarterly account planning by partnering with your manager and senior sellers on target accounts, stakeholders, and revenue expectations—then tracking progress against plan. Coordinate campaign execution with operations and campaign leads to ensure launches are on time, optimizations are captured, and clients/agencies receive proactive check-ins. Assist with wrap reporting and renewal growth, helping deliver final campaign wrap decks with insights, outcomes, and clear next-step recommendations. Build market presence through industry events, client meetings, and agency engagement—helping Reuters stay visible and relevant across your account set.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in digital media sales, media planning, account management, sales support, or a related digital advertising role (video/native a plus).
• Interest and/or exposure to content marketing and integrated solutions (sponsorships, custom content, OLV, and multi-channel planning).
• A demonstrated ability to support or contribute to hitting revenue goals, with a desire to grow into a larger closing role over time.
• Strong ability to turn client objectives into clear plans—organized thinking, strong writing, and comfort with building polished materials.
• Experience working cross-functionally (sales, marketing, ad ops/ops, measurement), with a team-first mindset and strong follow-through.
• Excellent communication skills—written, verbal, and presentation—with the confidence to engage agency and client partners.
• A highly detail-oriented and process-driven approach, including comfort with CRM usage (Salesforce preferred).
• Strong prioritization and execution skills in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines.
• Analytical and curious—able to learn from performance reporting and translate results into optimization and renewal recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Support sellers in a Sr Planner role across our largest strategic partnerships in a planning function across the finance vertical category, consulting and B2B as assigned.
• Meet weekly with clients and agencies across territories of the senior sellers you are supporting and your own new business prospects, building a clear understanding of business objectives, campaign requirements, timelines, budgets, and success metrics.
• Represent the Reuters brand in market, confidently articulating Reuters' audience, editorial mission, and premium environment—plus competitive differentiation relevant to each pitch.
• Help develop integrated responses and media plans in partnership with Integrated Marketing, aligning solutions across Content Marketing, OLV, Reuters.com, and social channels.
• Contribute to proposal development across senior seller’s list and your own account list by gathering inputs, synthesizing insights, shaping narrative flow, coordinating pricing/packaging, and ensuring materials are accurate, compelling, and on time.
• Maintain rigorous Salesforce hygiene, including meeting notes, pipeline stages, next steps, and booked revenue to ensure accurate forecasting and visibility.
• Support quarterly account planning by partnering with your manager and senior sellers on target accounts, stakeholders, and revenue expectations—then tracking progress against plan.
• Coordinate campaign execution with operations and campaign leads to ensure launches are on time, optimizations are captured, and clients/agencies receive proactive check-ins.
• Assist with wrap reporting and renewal growth, helping deliver final campaign wrap decks with insights, outcomes, and clear next-step recommendations.
• Build market presence through industry events, client meetings, and agency engagement—helping Reuters stay visible and relevant across your account set.

Benefits

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed