Title: Manager/Director, Sales

Company: LOUD3R Inc.

Industry: Software, Internet

Location(s): New York, NY; Chicago, IL; San Francisco/Bay Area, CA; Los Angeles, CA

Overview:

Are you looking to drive sales at the intersection of media and technology?  Do you get all your news online? Are you convinced marketers need to move beyond traditional ads to engage with their customers?

LOUD3R’s content discovery, curation and publishing platform gives publishers and marketers simple tools to quickly add high quality content to their sites, apps and social media.  ReadWriteWeb thinks our product is “dripping with cool features” and “one of the most cutting edge services in this emerging market.”  Our list of top publisher and marketer clients includes New York Daily News, Fox Broadcasting, Tribune Media and U.S. News, among others.

Make a name for yourself in a high-growth segment of online media.  Make good money and have fun in the process.  Make your career LOUD3R.

Description:

The Manager/Director Sales (title based on experience) will be responsible for selling LOUD3R’s leading content curation platform to publishers and marketers (agencies, brands). This role requires enterprise sales and strategy expertise, strong business development and consulting skills, and key industry relationships. Your primary responsibility will be to develop and execute a pipeline of new business partnerships, generating sales. Typical customers will be large premium online publishers, advertising and marketing agencies and marketing departments at major brands. We are hiring sales professionals in several major markets.

Responsibilities:

* Prospect, negotiate, and close new business deals with online publishers (both traditional and web-only), portals, marketing services agencies (advertising, PR) and brands.

* Engage at high frequency and availability with clients via phone, email, and presentations, both remotely and in-person.

* Provide leadership in post-sales activities to ensure that customers’ needs and requirements are met.

* Continue to build strong customer relationships in order to ensure renewals and follow on opportunities.

* Participate in industry events and conferences.

* Track and manage sales pipeline and account activities.
Qualifications:

* 3-6+ years of relevant experience (minimum 2-3 years in technology and/or online media). Enterprise software and/or media or marketing solutions experience is a huge plus.

* Strong list of executive contacts at, and extensive experience working with, major publishers and marketers.

* Strong understanding of digital media, online publishing and internet advertising.

* Previous experience with a SaaS company or digital media company a plus.

* Experience in enterprise consultative selling processes for revenue-generating deals.

* Significant relationship management, post-sales consulting, and up-selling/cross-selling experience.

* Driven, smart, proactive, entrepreneurial and at ease with uncertainty and rapid change.

* Independent self starter, while being open to direction and guidance.

* Bachelor’s degree.

Compensation:

Commission

Equity bonus upon achieving targets

To Apply:

Please send resume and cover letter to jobs@loud3r.com

To learn more about how leading publishers and brands are making their sites LOUD3R, visit http://loud3r.com

What will you be doing?

Developing applications that aggregate content, apply NLP techniques for classification, relevancy algorithms, and machine learning.  All Loud3r applications will run on AWS. Making  significant contribution to our small and growing company.

Must-have skills:

• Python
• Relational and Key/Value Databases
• TurboGears2, CherryPy, Twisted
• Ability to work independently
• Creative problem solving

What will really set you apart:

AWS Experience (EC2, S3, EBS, SDB, SQS, etc)

Why should you be interested?

LOUD3R’s small team environment provides extra responsibility per person, placing you in a role where you can participate directly in the making of pivotal decisions. We work on a hybrid version of Agile development, always seeking ways to adapt to the current situation. You’ll get to work on technologies involving NLP and machine learning techniques, as well as explore building real-time applications; all-in-all an incredibly exciting and fast-paced technical environment. LOUD3R just closed a multi-million dollar Series A financing round which provides both a financial stability and the necessary capital for real growth and upside.

What is LOUD3R?

LOUD3R is a real-time content aggregation platform that finds, filters and publishes the best news, blogs, photos, videos and tweets about any topic. We license our technology and content feeds to publishers, marketers, journalists who want to find, track and publish the hottest, freshest, most relevant content on the web.

How to apply

Please email resume and portfolio examples to jobs@loud3r.com