The Trade Desk is a global technology company and the world’s leading independent platform for digital advertising, with over 3,000 employees across more than 30 offices. Our technology helps advertisers reach the right audiences across the open internet — from streaming TV and podcasts to mobile apps, news, and more.
Advertising powers the content people love. By making it more transparent, effective, and responsible, we help support trusted journalism, quality entertainment, and creators worldwide. The world’s brands and agencies rely on us to reach their customers and grow their businesses responsibly.
The scale of our platform brings unique technical challenges — from processing massive datasets in real time to building systems that operate reliably on a global scale. When you work here, your impact is worldwide. We welcome diverse perspectives, encourage curiosity, and build teams that learn from one another. If you’re driven to solve meaningful challenges, we’d love to meet you.
- Acquire, build, and cultivate relationships with Independent Agencies in the Central Region
- Schedule and conduct meetings with ad agency decision-makers in programmatic, planning and strategy organizations
- Use knowledge of the market and competitors to identify and develop the company’s unique selling propositions and differentiators
- Communicate the value of our media buying platform by walking through detailed demonstrations of the product
- Execute on a strategic plan to achieve revenue goals
- Hit monthly and quarterly revenue targets
- Respond to RFPs and prepare customized proposals to win new business
- Grow current accounts by identifying and closing up-sell opportunities by understanding core client business needs
- Acquire, develop, and close new agency relationships to use the platform
- Understand competitive differentiators in a dynamic online advertising landscape
- Work with the product team to help share customer insights to craft our product
- Collaborate with the trading and account management teams to up-sell clients
Who you are:
- Bachelor’s Degree
- 2-4+ years of outbound sales experience
- Relationships with advertising agencies, media buyers and technology decision-makers in the Central Region is not required but helpful
- Strong quantitative skills and negotiation ability
- Self-starter – able to tackle new clients or territories with little mentorship
- Agile learner – able to rapidly grasp new technology and product changes
- Able to travel 1-2x per month, including overnight travel
- Strong experience prospecting new accounts
- Experience managing longer sales cycles with multiple partners
- Comfortable working with several different teams inside the organization to collaborate and grow an account
- Established record of exceeding revenue expectations, hunting, and winning net new business
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