Account Executive II Vibrant Media

Vibrant (www.vibrantmedia.com) is a world leader in contextual technology aligning billions of words across the Internet with relevant video, information, tools, and advertising. With over 6,000 premium publishers, reaching over 250 million unique users per month, Vibrant gives top brand marketers the opportunity to deliver highly targeted advertisements within premium Web content and offers publishers premium editorial tools to re-circulate users throughout their websites. Vibrant was founded in 2000 and has offices in London, New York, Boston, Detroit, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Paris, Hamburg, Munich and Dusseldorf. Vibrant's rapid growth has been recognized by the Inc. 500 and Deloitte Fast 50 lists. Vibrant has been named a "Best Place to Work†by Ad Age and Crain's.

We are looking for someone that can:
- Fortify and expand the existing sales relationships within specific vertical industries
- Sell online contextual advertising opportunities to both the agency and client side of the business
- Help develop sales strategies and collateral
- Work with operations to track and optimize account performance
- Management of accounts to achieve outside individual sales goals as well as vertical team goals
- Prepare and research for client meetings, working closely with Sales Managers
- Travel to client sites for meetings
- Check inventory
- Create proposals while working with the client's budget and also looking for growth opportunities
- Confirm the final buy
- Conduct client follow-up

You'll need these skills to be successful in this role:
- Minimum of 2-3 years of online ad sales experience with at least 1 year of core sales experience within one of the following categories: Automotive, Business & Finance, Computing & Consumer Electronics, Entertainment & Video gaming, Lifestyle & Health, Retail, or Travel
- Ability to demonstrate success in vertical sales in one of the above categories
- Understand the value of brand based advertising and marketing
- Show a high degree of self-motivation and work well within an individual and team environment
- Internet savvy and proficient with a sales database (Microsoft Dynamics preferred) and office productivity tools (i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel)
- Excellent organizational, communication and presentation skills
- Bachelor's Degree

All regular Vibrant Employees are eligible for competitive pay and benefits packages.
Vibrant is an Equal Opportunity Employer.