Roku in New York is all about hap­py stream­ing, an ear­ly leader in the con­nect­ed TV space, Roku wants an Account Exec­u­tive — Adver­tis­ing Sales to grow their adver­tis­ing sales, for an already impres­sive port­fo­lio of adver­tis­er wins, an extreme­ly active user base, rich con­tent choic­es, and sophis­ti­cat­ed, inter­ac­tive pro­mo­tion­al capa­bil­i­ties for both con­ven­tion­al and enter­tain­ment mar­keters. The Roku plat­form includes: video adver­tis­ing, long-form video pro­gram­ming, cus­tom con­tent spon­sor­ships, brand­ed chan­nels, and unique off-device retail activations.

Stream­ing is all they do. Roku shipped the first stream­ing play­er back in 2008. Since then, mil­lions of peo­ple have cho­sen Roku and stream what they want every day.

They make it easy to watch a wide range of free chan­nels, sub­scribe to pop­u­lar stream­ing services—like Net­flix and Hulu Plus, rent the lat­est TV episode, or own a major block­buster. With over 200,000 movies and TV episodes to choose from, and inno­v­a­tive fea­tures that make it sim­ple to stream, it’s easy to see why Roku makes Amer­i­ca’s favorite stream­ing players.

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Who is the ide­al Account Exec­u­tive – Adver­tis­ing Sales for Roku

This posi­tion is on the front lines of gen­er­at­ing media ad sales and spon­sor­ship rev­enue. The ide­al can­di­date will be evan­ge­liz­ing their adver­tis­ing offer­ing to agen­cies and brands direct. A back­ground in dig­i­tal video adver­tis­ing, pre­mi­um pub­lish­er cross-plat­form media sales, and spon­sor­ship sales is required. Must be dri­ven to work inde­pen­dent­ly and resource­ful to man­age many duties, includ­ing cold call­ing, account man­age­ment, media plan­ning, cam­paign report­ing & opti­miza­tion, devel­op sales pro­pos­als, pre­sen­ta­tions, mar­ket­ing mate­ri­als, and ideate cus­tom solutions.

The right can­di­date has worked in a dig­i­tal start-up envi­ron­ment and is famil­iar with the required ded­i­ca­tion for long hours, fast paced/­mul­ti-task­ing duties, embraces and thrives on uncertainty.

You’ll be a key con­trib­u­tor to rev­enue, work against aggres­sive adver­tis­ing rev­enue goals — need to hit the ground run­ning and be a fast learn­er. Research, devel­op, and pitch media plans and pro­mo­tions fea­tured on Roku. Proac­tive­ly build and main­tain a pipeline of sales tar­gets, con­tacts, and sales oppor­tu­ni­ties via cold call­ing and lever­ag­ing your brand con­nec­tions and their AORs. Pro­vide cam­paign man­age­ment, opti­miza­tion, report­ing, recaps, and lead upsell opportunities

Can you col­lab­o­rate with edi­to­r­i­al on spon­sor-able cus­tom con­tent solu­tions, sup­port research in devel­op­ment of win­ning case stud­ies? Min­i­mum of 5 years’ expe­ri­ence in dig­i­tal video & pre­mi­um pub­lish­ing com­mis­sion based adver­tis­ing sales. Expe­ri­ence with dis­play, video, mobile, email, and cus­tom con­tent ad sales. Demon­strate a suc­cess­ful track record in clos­ing large, com­plex, and cus­tom adver­tis­ing sales with enter­tain­ment adver­tis­ers and key stake­hold­ers at their agencies.

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