Account Manager
Description
Job Summary
Crooked is hiring for an Account Manager on the Sales department reporting to the Director of Accounts. This role will play an integral role in sales operations and relationship growth of Crooked's direct and agency accounts. The Account Manager is savvy, strategic and forward thinking. They will hold a book of clients and be their point of contact to execute and optimize client campaigns from kickoff to wrap, ensuring smooth execution, reporting, KPIs, and great client service. The ideal candidate will be effective in communication, organization, and critical thinking, while thriving in an ever-evolving, fast-paced environment. Candidates should have experience with RFP volume-based business as well as the creation and distribution of proactive opportunities.
Crooked Media's primary inventory is bespoke audio advertisements across podcasts, but it also includes newsletter sponsorship, event integration, and premium video and social sponsorship.
Crooked has adopted a hybrid work model for our entire staff. We believe that the best work is done in a hybrid capacity as it combines the flexibility of working from home with in-person collaboration. We are ideally looking for Los Angeles-based candidates, or candidates willing to relocate within the first 3 months of accepting an offer.
How You'll Spend Your Time:
Outbound Sales
- Day to day Crooked sales efforts for all available Crooked ad inventory both direct to brands and via agencies with a focus on traditional digital holding companies
- Bring to the table new relationships as well as leveraging your existing relationships to meet quarterly and yearly revenue targets. Develop new relationships at all levels with agency and client partners.
- Manage the sales pipeline with timely and accurate forecasting as the primary point of contact for brand partners to ensure goals are met and surpassed with an emphasis towards maintaining long-term client satisfaction.
Client Management
- Partner with Crooked Media's sales team, creative, and production teams to integrate partnerships with programming; work closely with our ad operations team to ensure smooth executions.
- Manage the strategy, implementation and optimization of partnerships with major hosts and key stakeholders for shows and publishers.
- Track, analyze and communicate quantitative metrics and business trends as they relate to partners.
Operations
- Prospect, including the ability to qualify new leads and close new accounts.
- Contribute to additional sales projects that require research, deck development or proactive response on a case-by-case basis.
- Relay client and marketplace feedback and insights to better inform Crooked sales offerings, tentpoles and calendar initiatives.
- Generate media plans and sponsorship proposals for podcasts, video, social, newsletters, and event integrations.
Requirements
What You'll Bring To The Table:
- 5-7 years experience in account management
- Experience working with creative talent in high stakes scenarios
- Project management experience, with experience leading and handling multiple time-sensitive, cross-functional projects on deadline
- Must have previous presentation and client-facing experience in media
- Keen sense of confidence, ability to learn, and willingness to share knowledge learnings to teach the entire team
- Selfless team contributor willing to take ownership of tasks
- A Positive mindset that values collaboration and delivering results
- Expertise in Microsoft Office Suite, with an emphasis in Excel, creating pitch decks (Google Slides/Powerpoint), and proposals (Google Sheets)
- Knowledge of Podcast Sales Software and Reporting (such as Simplecast, Megaphone, Magellan, Claritas, Podscribe)
- Copywriting/creative capabilities a bonus
This job description provides a summary of how you'll spend your time but is nowhere near exhaustive, so other duties may be assigned over time.
Benefits & Perks
Pay and Perks:
At Crooked, we believe in paying employees competitive market salaries. And we also believe in providing holistic and rich benefits to all full time staff, including:
- Paid healthcare, with most individual plans paid fully by the company
- 401k match
- Generous vacation and paid leave including, sick, bereavement, pregnancy loss, and disability leaves
- 20 weeks of paid parental leave
- Commuter reimbursement or paid parking
- A monthly communications stipend
- Professional development opportunities
- And did we also mention our offices are closed at the end of the year?
When we open up a position, we conduct a market analysis to ensure we have the most up-to-date data. Once we're ready to extend an offer, we look at the individual's years of relevant experience and other compensable factors to determine a competitive offer. And for this role, the starting salary range is $80,000-$90,000.
How to apply
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