Director of Brand Partnerships - West; Auto

About Atmosphere TV

Atmosphere is the leading streaming TV platform built specifically for businesses. Unlike ad networks or signage companies, Atmosphere is the only true TV company whose first priority is to entertain television audiences outside of the home. Our content is designed to be fun, engaging, and worth watching, transforming waiting rooms, gyms, bars, and restaurants into better experiences for customers and better businesses for owners.

We are the first and only company to think about both the business owner and their customers when creating TV content. With 55,000+ venues and a global audience of over 150 million monthly viewers, Atmosphere is redefining what TV means outside the living room.

About the role

Atmosphere is looking for an automotive industry expert to serve as Director of Brand Partnerships, Auto, joining our National Ad Sales team, primarily focused on the Los Angeles automotive market, while covering other verticals and agencies. The Director will focus on selling video (TV, OTT/CTV, DOOH) advertising opportunities across our network of screens across the US.

This role is truly a ground floor, exciting opportunity, as we have created a new advertising channel that gives brands the ability to reach folks they can't reach with traditional TV or video advertising. We are looking for a highly motivated, self-starter to evangelize our brand to agencies and clients directly throughout the Los Angeles automotive market. We're not looking for an order taker or lone wolf, as we adhere to a team first, collaborative culture.

This is a remote role that must be based in Los Angeles, given the need for direct, in-market client relationships, and will report to the VP of Sales, West.

What you'll do

• Own the full sales cycle: prospect, pitch, close, and renew accounts
• Be able to articulate both direct IO and programmatic direct opportunities, as we are a buying agnostic platform
• Introduce Atmosphere's unique offering to agency contacts, programmatic teams and client direct, educating the market on how best to allocate video dollars towards our platform
• Manage RFP prioritization to weed out time wasters vs value-added relationships
• Drive proactive outreach while collaborating with your sales support team
• Use data analytics to boost narrative to clients
• Own CRM responsibilities associated with your client list
• Convey client feedback with recommendations based on this feedback to sales leadership
• Proactively develop first to market campaign strategies that are unique to specific clients
• Stay on top of industry trends, events, new technologies, unique opportunities
• Push the envelope and be innovative.

Qualifications

• 4-8 years of demonstrated advertising sales success including experience selling both IO and programmatic direct
• Recognized automotive industry expert, with deep category knowledge of the automotive industry
• Strong, client-direct relationships with the top automotive OEMs including Toyota, Lexus, Kia, Hyundai, Genesis, Honda, Acura and Mazda
• Deep relationships with agencies such as Saatchi & Saatchi, Zenith, Team One, RPA, Canvas, WPP, Publicis and major agency holding companies, that you've built over the years that you can use to immediately bring value to Atmosphere
• Experience across other verticals and agencies strongly preferred
• Strong client references who can personally vouch for your relationships, credibility, and track record of results
• Track record of building a multi-million dollar book of business from scratch — this is a hunter role focused on new business creation, not managing or growing an existing book
• Experience selling a unique, emerging, or unconventional media platform and/or sales experience at a startup
• Proven ability…