The Director of Brand and Agency Sales will drive revenue through advertising solutions, leveraging industry relationships and managing ad campaigns. Responsibilities include creating account plans, nurturing client relationships, and providing feedback for product development and forecasting revenue.
Real Voices. Superior Advertising. Thriving Media.
CivicScience is seeking a high-impact Director, Brand and Agency Sales to spearhead our revenue growth in the Chicago market. In this senior-level, individual contributor role, you will be the primary evangelist for our suite of advertising and data solutions, leveraging our unique position in the market to drive net-new revenue across Display, OLV, CTV, and Native channels, while positioning our high-value differentiators—including custom audiences, brand lift studies, and proprietary research insights—to the world’s most sophisticated agencies and brand advertisers.
Key Responsibilities
Qualifications & Experience
Benefits & Expectations
Join a company that values innovation and creativity, works with cutting-edge technology to influence major business decisions, and makes a real-world impact. Benefits include:
Working at CivicScience
CivicScience has a vibrant, high-energy work culture with ambitious, innovative, and forward-thinking team members. Our specialized business units collaborate to fuel CivicScience's goals and objectives.
We've been recognized for our work in the Inc. 5000, Pittsburgh Top Workplaces 2022, Pittsburgh Business Times Fast 50, GRIT Top 50 Innovative Supplier, Pittsburgh Technology Council's Tech 50 (winner), and Mental Health America’s Bell Seal program (Platinum winner, 2026; Gold winner, 2025 & 2024).
More about CivicScience
CivicScience is a consumer analytics and advertising platform. Our proprietary, always on, data collection engine captures over 1M survey responses daily, creating the most dynamic, real-time understanding of consumer wants, needs, and intentions in a constantly changing world. Powered by our premium media partnerships, our attitudinal database helps brands and media companies retain and grow existing customers while reaching and acquiring new ones.
Our clients use CivicScience's unique dataset to inform advertising, communications, product, and financial strategies that drive superior business outcomes. Join the conversation.
CivicScience is seeking a high-impact Director, Brand and Agency Sales to spearhead our revenue growth in the Chicago market. In this senior-level, individual contributor role, you will be the primary evangelist for our suite of advertising and data solutions, leveraging our unique position in the market to drive net-new revenue across Display, OLV, CTV, and Native channels, while positioning our high-value differentiators—including custom audiences, brand lift studies, and proprietary research insights—to the world’s most sophisticated agencies and brand advertisers.
Key Responsibilities
- Leverage established relationships with agencies and brands in the greater Chicago area across investment, strategy, and programmatic teams.
- Partner with internal and external stakeholders to create and lead an account plan that will exceed revenue goals for your territory.
- Possess a strong understanding of business challenges and market dynamics across the AdTech/MarTech landscape.
- Work with internal client activation teams to manage ad campaigns, ensuring delivery on campaign goals and exceeding client expectations.
- Drive a positive customer experience and nurture relationships that create new and incremental upsell opportunities.
- Develop and manage territory forecasts that accurately project revenue throughout the entire sales cycle.
- Provide management with client feedback and industry knowledge, enabling investments in product development to meet the future needs of our clients.
Qualifications & Experience
- 5+ years experience with a proven track record of success selling to agencies and advertisers across multiple sectors
- AdTech experience in first- and third-party audience targeting and technology, DSPs, online measurement, and/or delivery and measurement platforms
- Ability to prioritize and manage multiple client/stakeholder deadlines simultaneously
- Experience using CRM and prospecting tools such as Hubspot and LinkedIn
- Effective time-management skills
- Bachelor's degree (preferred)
Benefits & Expectations
Join a company that values innovation and creativity, works with cutting-edge technology to influence major business decisions, and makes a real-world impact. Benefits include:
- Company paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for you and your legal dependents
- Company paid life insurance plus short- & long-term disability coverage
- Flexible spending accounts for medical and dependent care
- Employee assistance programs
- Unlimited PTO
- 401(k)
- Travel and educational opportunities
Working at CivicScience
CivicScience has a vibrant, high-energy work culture with ambitious, innovative, and forward-thinking team members. Our specialized business units collaborate to fuel CivicScience's goals and objectives.
We've been recognized for our work in the Inc. 5000, Pittsburgh Top Workplaces 2022, Pittsburgh Business Times Fast 50, GRIT Top 50 Innovative Supplier, Pittsburgh Technology Council's Tech 50 (winner), and Mental Health America’s Bell Seal program (Platinum winner, 2026; Gold winner, 2025 & 2024).
More about CivicScience
CivicScience is a consumer analytics and advertising platform. Our proprietary, always on, data collection engine captures over 1M survey responses daily, creating the most dynamic, real-time understanding of consumer wants, needs, and intentions in a constantly changing world. Powered by our premium media partnerships, our attitudinal database helps brands and media companies retain and grow existing customers while reaching and acquiring new ones.
Our clients use CivicScience's unique dataset to inform advertising, communications, product, and financial strategies that drive superior business outcomes. Join the conversation.
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