About the Role
This is a heavy, hands-on sales role where you will work directly with client buying and planning teams within assigned holding-company agencies. You will build relationships across investment, strategy, and programmatic teams to personally lead deals end-to-end, translating products into client solutions.
Responsibilities
- Own and exceed an individual quota across assigned holding-company agency and brand-client portfolio.
- Personally source, lead, and close deals, running discovery, ideation, pitch, negotiation, and contracting.
- Build and maintain a healthy pipeline at 3x+ coverage; keep CRM (Salesforce) accurate and current.
- Translate Genius Sports' Moments framework into clear, repeatable narratives for planners and media buyers.
- Build and own day-to-day relationships across assigned holding-company agencies, including Investment Directors, Planning Directors, Programmatic Leads, Strategy Leads, Connections Planners, and brand-team contacts.
- Map and multi-thread each assigned agency across investment, planning, programmatic, strategy, and brand-aligned teams.
- Partner with the VP, Sales on joint business plans and execute agency-level workstreams.
- Serve as the day-to-day point of contact for accounts and liaison to Genius Ad Ops, Insights, and Client Services for campaign execution.
- Drive expansion of audience and moments solutions across programmatic, PMP, and direct/guaranteed buying methods.
- Partner with Account Management to ensure client retention and renewal, and build the case for year-over-year growth.
- Operate with discipline through weekly pipeline reviews, accurate forecasts (within ±10%), tight follow-up, and clean CRM hygiene.
Requirements
- 7+ years selling advertising, ad-tech, or media to agencies.
- Direct experience inside a major holding-company ecosystem (Omnicom, WPP, Publicis, IPG, Dentsu, or Independent Agencies).
- Track record of personally closing six- and seven-figure annual agency deals and consistently hitting individual quota.
- Strong, current relationships at holding-company agencies.
- Deep fluency in the modern media stack: CTV, programmatic, social, addressable, attention/measurement, and the agency P&L.
- Comfort selling complex, data-driven products.
- Operating discipline: forecast accuracy, CRM hygiene (HubSpot or Salesforce), pipeline management, and a point of view on agency sales processes.
Skills
- Sales
- Client Relationship Management
- Pipeline Management
- CRM (Salesforce, HubSpot)
- Media Planning
- Programmatic Advertising
- CTV
- Social Media Advertising
- Addressable Advertising
- Attention/Measurement
- Agency P&L Understanding
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Office-first
Experience Level
- 7+ years
Salary/Compensations
- $120,000 - $130,000
Benefits
- Variable compensation
- Eligibility for Genius Sports Group’s benefits plan
- Support for employee wellbeing
- Opportunities for skills, experience, and career growth
About the Company
- Genius Sports is enabling a new era of sports for fans worldwide by bringing together next-gen technology and live data, delivering immersive, interactive, and personalized experiences.
- Company values: One team, being brave, driving change.
Equal Opportunity
- We strive to create an inclusive working environment, where everyone feels a sense of belonging and the ability to make a difference.
- Assistance is available during the recruiting process for individuals with disabilities.
