Account Executive
Emerging & Scaled
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Sell what you love. For us and millions of users across the globe, that’s Spotify. Join the Sales team and you’ll build the relationships that help grow our business in existing markets and beyond. We don’t just sell creative solutions to our clients and partners, we help to shape them; using our expert knowledge of ad products, sales channels and the industry to impact the way the world experiences music and podcasts.
Location
- Los Angeles
Job type
Permanent
We are seeking an outstanding Account Executive to join our Emerging & Scaled Sales team, a fast-growing unit within the Spotify ad sales organization. We want someone who loves our product and wakes up every morning happy to interact with our clients. This role includes strategic planning, expert product knowledge, storytelling, and client communication.
You should be confident while staying humble. You work hard, but appreciate a healthy life balance. Your work will impact the way we connect with Spotify advertisers and users, and will shape the way the world experiences Spotify, so operating with integrity, speed, and passion is invaluable.
What You'll Do
- Client Strategy: Focus on consultative selling, educating, and inspiring our clients to use Spotify to enhance their business objectives.
- Business Development: Proactively source and engage customer relationships across the vertical and industry to build future pipelines.
- Sales Propositions: Develop and coordinate effective sales propositions and practices for client interactions, sales, and services. Adapt to platform and ad product innovations by preparing key data, historical findings, and relevant research.
- Sales Targets: Meet and exceed advertising revenue goals by taking ownership and applying an entrepreneurial approach to drive growth.
- Strategic Insight and Reporting: Develop strategic insights and perform basic performance reporting for your market or vertical. Analyze campaign performance statistics and recommend enhancements to improve results.
- Product Expertise: Maintain an in-depth understanding of Spotify products and developments. Use this knowledge to identify cross-selling opportunities aligned with customer business goals.
- Pipeline Development: Track a high volume of complex conversations, utilizing software tools to prioritize activities and engagements.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with Product, Marketing, and Data teams to drive holistic strategies. Contribute to platform maintenance and efficiency as needed.
Who You Are
- Knowledgeable: 4+ years of experience managing a pipeline & driving revenue within a digital advertising technology organization. Expertise in audio advertising preferred
- Organized & self-reliant: You thrive while having to navigate varied demands on your time, rather than being told what to do in an environment free of distraction
- Articulate: You succinctly express your stakeholders’ needs, and your own, to others
- Intrinsically motivated: You want to be the best, but you’re more driven by beating your own prior top score than by reigning as the top scorer on your team
- Hungry: You’re excited to overachieve against targets
- Team-oriented: You’re keen to learn from peers, and share your own strengths & success stories to support others. You’re quick to credit others with wins; your team’s victory is your own
Where You'll Be
- This role will be based in our LA Office
- Spotify offices are located in the Arts District in Downtown LA
- In-office expectations are 3+ times per week
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Our global benefits
Extensive learning opportunities, through our dedicated team, GreenHouse.
Flexible share incentives letting you choose how you share in our success.
Global parental leave, six months off - fully paid - for all new parents.
All The Feels, our employee assistance program and self-care hub.
Flexible public holidays, swap days off according to your values and beliefs.
Learn about life at Spotify
The United States base range for this position is $67,433 - $ 96,333, plus equity, plus bonus or commission. The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, 13 paid flexible holidays, paid sick leave. These ranges may be modified in the future.
Spotify is an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.
Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service.