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Mobile Ad Sales Executive Appia
Appia is seeking an extraordinary individual with a track record of proven results in sales to join the Appia business development team. You will be responsible for establishing and growing distribution relationships with mobile Content Partners, and for driving revenues through the sales of Appia?s performance-based advertising services. You will be an important player in the success of growing Appia's advertising revenues with Content Partners around the globe.We are looking for a forward-thinking, hands on, self motivated executive with strong communication & business development skills who is effective at working across organizations and functions to meet and exceed quarterly key performance metrics.
As Mobile Advertising Sales Executive, you will be responsible for selling and managing the performance of advertising campaigns across the Appia network of mobile app stores. You will grow revenues by sourcing relevant mobile content from app publishers and negotiating performanced-based advertising campaigns with partners to help them promote their apps and drive downloads across Appia's distribution channels. You will be responsible for participating in the day-to-day operations of processes related to monetizing Appia's reach and traffic to constantly improve engagement, revenues and other important KPI's.
Key areas of responsibilities will include:
Prospect, qualify, and sell Appia's performance-based mobile advertising solutions to app developers, content publishers, and agencies who can benefit from Appia's global reach
Consistently surpass monthly sales quotas
Establish and foster client relationships within the mobile content and advertising communities
Provide functional leadership in market with ability to represent Appia at industry events
Engage in cross-functional collaboration with business development, product, and engineering
Perform effectively working independently, in small teams, and communicating with colleagues and clients in different locations, geographies, and timezones
Requirements/Skills:
BS/BA or equivalent experience required
3+ years experience in either a business development, or sales role, preferably in advertising
Strong acumen, background, and familiarity in Internet, advertising, and mobile technologies, trends and product landscape.
Understanding of the mobile ecosystem ? app developers, content publishers, carriers, OEMs, billing partners, operating systems and business models
Strong communication skills ? written, phone, in person.
Proven ability to sell and exceed your objectives
Ability to thrive in a start-up environment
About Appia
Founded in June 2008, Appia is the world's largest open app marketplace delivering app downloads to over 700 million users around the world. Built on a robust carrier-grade platform, Appia serves apps to millions of customers per day in virtually every country and has delivered 500 million apps and counting.
The Appia Ad Network, powered by our 50+ publishers, is a performance based advertising solution for the Appia developer community. Developers simply set the bid price they want to pay per download and choose the geographies they want to target to prominently feature their app across Appia?s marketplace. Appia provides application distribution and marketing solutions for developers including Facebook, Priceline, Disney, GREE and DeNA, and distribution partners including Am-rica M-vil, Vodafone, Airtel, Telcel, Zedge and Myxer.
Appia has raised $30M in funding from Venrock, DCM?s A-Fund, Trident Capital, Eric Schmidt?s TomorrowVentures, Relay Ventures, the Social Internet Fund, Noro-Moseley Partners, and Wakefield Group. The Wall Street Journal ranked Appia #22 on its list of the Top 50 Venture Backed Companies in 2012, the second year in a row that Appia has made the WSJ list of the Top 50, known as ?The Next Big Thing?.
Appia?s management team has worked together before as part of the leadership that helped grow mobile data company Motricity to more than $100M in annual revenues. Under the leadership of Jud Bowman, founder of both Motricity and Appia, the team has deep bench strength in mobile and digital media technologies, and enviable relationships throughout the mobile advertising ecosystem. They have delivered exceptional results as measured both by the reach of their solution across the developer and publisher landscape, and most importantly, on revenue growth.
The name Appia comes from the ancient Roman highway Via Appia. Built in the 4th Century BC, the Appian Way became one of the most strategically important roads and distribution channels in ancient Rome. It connected people, moved troops, and fostered tremendous economic growth. That is our mission today ? to connect application developers and markets and foster the huge mobile application ecosystem.
| Location: | Durham, NC United States |
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Investors: Noro-Moseley PartnersAll Jobs: at Appia
| Web Site: | www.appia.com |
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| Headquarters: | 00000 United States |
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