The Account Executive sells advertising solutions, manages accounts, develops new business, and achieves revenue targets through effective client relationships and multimedia strategies.
Viamedia will deliver successful marketing and advertising solutions for our customers while generating income and increasing value for our communications partners, our employees, our shareholders and communities.
We will accomplish this through a dedication to integrity, quality people, quality products, performance excellence and effective communication with our customer and our employees.
About the role
- The Account Executive is responsible for selling advertising solutions across Viamedia.ai traditional television, digital, and programmatic offerings. This role requires strong organizational skills, customer focus, and a commitment to achieving revenue targets. The position carries an annual revenue quota of $500k-$750k.
What you'll do
- Manage multiple budgets across traditional and digital media.
- Build and maintain relationships with key accounts while developing new business.
- Identify client marketing budgets and secure incremental revenue across Viamedia.ai platforms.
- Create multimedia recommendations integrating branding and performance strategies.
- Review account lists, sales pipelines, forecasts, and digital metrics with management.
- Network within the community and digital marketplace to promote Viamedia.ai solutions.
- Complete all required training programs.
- Consistently meet or exceed all sales performance expectations related to pipeline generation, weekly client meetings, and revenue goals across all lines of business.
- Represent Viamedia.ai professionally and ethically.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree preferred; or minimum of 5 years of digital sales experience.
- 1–3 years of cable, broadcast, or other media sales experience.
- Strong knowledge of digital marketing, multi-screen (video/display), social, and search campaigns.
- Demonstrated ability to drive revenue growth through traditional and digital integration.
- Excellent verbal, written, and presentation communication skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and follow projects through to completion.
- Valid driver’s license and state-minimum automobile insurance required.
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