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Sales Director

Posted: 02 May 2008
Expires: 01 Aug 2008

Category:Sales
Status: Full Time, Permanent
Location: New York, United States

Job Description

Efficient Frontier (http://www.efrontier.com) is looking for dynamic individuals who want to be part of building solutions that change the economics of online marketing. As part of Efficient Frontier's world-class team, you will have the opportunity to be a part of a private company and work in a fast-paced, rewarding environment, addressing a red-hot market. Our products and services rely on patent-pending portfolio management algorithms to deliver search engine marketing solutions to some of the world's largest online advertisers. Efficient Frontier offers a challenging career experience, top-notch benefits and the best and brightest minds in the business. We have openings in a variety of areas and are always interested in speaking with talented individuals.

The Sales Director should be familiar with selling in the paid search or online advertising space. Has experience leading by example, closing six and seven-figure deals and is used to succeeding professionally. He/she should be familiar with many of the VP's of Marketing, Directors of Online Marketing at many of the major B2C, retail, personals, technology, travel and financial service companies. In order to sell as quickly as possible to paid search marketing top advertisers, we need to find a self-starter-salesperson who can go out and close deals.
Core Responsibilities
This is not a "relationship" sales position, where you are going back to the customer multiple times during the year to sell add-on products. This is a role where the right person will sell a deal, transition it to our industry best client services team and then move on to the next deal.
This role will require the sales person to have existing executive level relationships within the marketing field as well as the ability to establish meetings with a broad array of marketing executives.
Travel 2 - 4 times/month.
Sell into multiple levels of an organization.
Close six and seven-figure deals.
Work autonomously to close deals.
The right candidate will be a great sales person, but also be comfortable working in a smaller company and creating process on the fly.

Experience

Minimum of 5 - 7 years of selling experience.
Experience in selling paid search and/or search marketing services or analytics packages.
Background in selling online advertising, advertising technologies, and/or online marketing consulting will also be considered.
Must have a strong understanding of a 2- 6 month sales cycle.
Both inside and outside sales experience.
Strong presentation skills.
Decision maker level contacts in the search marketing and/or online marketing space. People who have that experience might come from Avenue A, Atlas DMT, Doubleclick, Google, Overture/Yahoo, Carat, Amazon.com, etc.
University educated preferred

Efficient Frontier is an equal opportunity employer.

Contact

Efficient Frontier
Name: Paul Taylor
Email: Contact
Phone: 213-200-7139
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