Account Executive

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About the role

  • Account Executive selling Quora advertising solutions to brands and agencies. Growing ad partnerships through proposals, performance insights, and full-cycle sales.

Responsibilities

  • Source and close new business by presenting Quora's advertising solution online and in person to leading marketers and agencies
  • Deliver media proposals that educate prospects and drive new business activation to exceed quarterly revenue targets
  • Develop and execute sales strategy in a dynamic, small-team environment
  • Leverage data, insights, and measurement to help advertisers achieve marketing objectives
  • Lead partner growth activities focused on performance advertising KPIs including CPA, CPL, and ROAS
  • Identify and communicate opportunities for new approaches to increase team effectiveness
  • Manage the full sales cycle, including prospecting, contract negotiation, project management, and post-sales support
  • Identify and activate new advertising partners across Quora's ads platform
  • Serve as the main onboarding point of contact for key advertisers and agencies
  • Provide market feedback to cross-functional peers to inform ads product development and business marketing activities

Requirements

  • Availability for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora's coordination hours, Monday–Friday, 9am–3pm Pacific Time
  • 2+ years of industry experience, including 2 years of recent digital media sales experience
  • Understanding of digital marketing fundamentals and the broader advertising ecosystem
  • Exemplary verbal, written, and listening communication skills with clients up to the C-level
  • Confidence and tact to respectfully challenge clients on strategic decisions
  • Bias for action and ability to overcome barriers and work collaboratively in a fast-paced, challenging environment
  • Self-driven and detail-oriented
  • Openness to manual processing required in early advertising platform development
  • Passion for Quora's mission and goals
  • Comfort working with a new product and serving as the onboarding point of contact
  • Digital advertising sales experience in B2B, Financial Services, Technology, Professional Services, Health, or Entertainment is preferred
  • Experience with a self-serve ads platform and performance marketers is preferred
  • Previous experience using Salesforce.com for opportunity management and sales forecasting is preferred
  • Authorization to work in the selected employment-eligible country
  • Willingness to undergo identity verification and a comprehensive background check

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Equity refreshers
  • Remote work reimbursement
  • Paid time off
  • Employee assistance programs
  • Flexible equity program in equity-eligible countries, with a portion of equity compensation potentially payable as cash
  • Equity and benefits for US and Canada candidates
  • Identity verification and comprehensive background check prior to onboarding

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

JuniorMid level

Salary

$57,231 - $107,954 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

SFDC

Location requirements

RemoteUnited States

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