Account Executive

Job Title: Account Executive

Location: Hybrid - New York, NY

About This Role:
Come join Proximic by Comscore’s team, a high growth startup within Comscore! Our team is relentlessly pursuing how to change the world of programmatic advertising by turning existing targeting solutions on their head and leading the industry with new technologies without sacrificing privacy. We are passionate about helping brands, agencies, publishers, and ad platforms to reach the right audiences while maximizing ROI in new innovative ways.

We are growing fast and looking to hire an Account Executive to grow our sales team focusing on brands and agencies. From your first day, you will have the opportunity to make a valuable contribution to the team. This is a rare role in that it will have the opportunity to be part of our transformation in a startup environment, all with the backing of an established and trusted industry provider. We are focused on growth, scrappiness, and innovation, and looking for someone who has the drive and passion to help us put it all together and crush it in market.

We are seeking a high performing individual with strong initiative and a passionate drive for data and the programmatic space to join our team. The ideal candidate will have an entrepreneurial spirit and be motivated to play a key role in building and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders at brands and agencies, and helping them derive value from Proximic’s best in class audience and contextual targeting assets.

What you'll do:

• Own the sales cycle for programmatic buyers and agency trading desks with a drive to consistently meet and exceed revenue expectations

• Identify sales opportunities across the Proximic business with key partners by prospecting and managing an account base – this includes both uncovering new opportunities and driving account growth.

• Hunt new contacts / prospect new clients within named prospect account list

• Educate and reinforce Proximic’s value proposition through key messaging and providing deeper understanding of benefits to clients of Proximic’s solutions

• Act as programmatic subject matter expert: partner with Comscore measurement sales counterparts to uncover new opportunities and support account growth

• Understand the evolving market, including buyer needs, programmatic industry trends, and the competitive landscape

What You'll Need:

• 3-5 years’ working in the programmatic, data driven targeting, or ad tech/mar tech space (hands on keyboard trading experience is a plus!)

• Experience working with/at holding companies, agencies, agency trading desks, advertising data vendors, and programmatic buying teams

• Track record and demonstrated success in consistently exceeding sales goals

• Robust working knowledge of the advertising technology and programmatic landscape and ecosystem (DSP's, SSP's, DMP's, Ad Servers, 3rd Party Data)

• Demonstrated success in growing and retaining business. Highly skilled in building trust by understanding client objectives and recommending best practices

• Ability to quickly grasp and adapt in a fast-paced technology, data-driven environment • Strategic thinker

• Initiative to grow and retain business

• Sense of humor and can-do attitude are a must

• Rolodex of industry contacts

• A scrappy, roll up your sleeves mindset

• Excellent people skills to interact with colleagues, clients, and third parties

• Compensation: $105,000-115,000 per annum base salary plus target incentive; commensurate with experience.

About Comscore

At Comscore, we’re pioneering the future of cross-platform media measurement, arming organizations with the insights they need to make decisions with confidence. Central to this aim are our people who work together to simplify the complex on behalf of our clients & partners. Though our roles and skills are varied, we’re united by our commitment to five underlying values: Integrity, Velocity, Accountability, Teamwork, and Servant Leadership. If you’re motivated by big challenges and interested in helping some of the largest and most important media properties and brands navigate the future of media, we’d love to hear from you.

Comscore (NASDAQ: SCOR) is a trusted partner for planning, transacting and evaluating media across platforms. With a data footprint that combines digital, linear TV, over-the-top and theatrical viewership intelligence with advanced audience insights, Comscore allows media buyers and sellers to quantify their multiscreen behavior and make business decisions with confidence. A proven leader in measuring digital and set-top box audiences and advertising at scale, Comscore is the industry’s emerging, third-party source for reliable and comprehensive cross-platform measurement. To learn more about Comscore, please visit Comscore.com.

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