Senior Client Partner, Mid Market Sales (Goods)

Reddit
San Francisco, CA
On-siteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

A natural match if you have experience managing mid-market advertising clients and working in digital media sales.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with a history of managing C-level relationships and driving account growth in digital media
    — “Proven experience managing relationships up through C-level executives”
  • Individuals who thrive in unstructured environments and can lead special projects independently
    — “Motivated self-starter who thrives in unstructured environments”
  • Professionals with a strong background in social media advertising and native ad formats
    — “Subject matter expertise in the social media landscape and native advertising”

Things to consider

  • Requires in-person presence in San Francisco 1-2 days per week despite potential remote flexibility
    — “work in-person from our SF office 1-2 days per week”
  • Candidates should be prepared to manage a large client portfolio and meet aggressive sales targets
    — “manage and scale a book of business greater than 20 accounts”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience in developing long-term account growth strategies and consultative client advice
    — “Experience building and executing long-term account growth strategies”
  • Emphasize your ability to own client meetings and set clear expectations and outcomes
    — “Own client meetings from agenda to final presentation”
  • Showcase your track record of top-performer achievement against sales targets
    — “Demonstrated top-performer achievement against sales targets”
  • Demonstrate your ability to shape product roadmaps with client feedback and campaign data
    — “Shape Reddit’s ads product roadmap by aggregating and sharing client feedback”
  • Demonstrate your ability to collaborate across teams and provide mentorship
    — “Collaborate closely with other Client Partners and Account Managers”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • deliver Reddit solutions that help achieve customers’ marketing and business goals
  • identify areas of additional opportunity within existing client relationships
Typical background
experience in sales and business development

Skills & requirements

Required

Sales StrategyClient Relationship ManagementBusiness DevelopmentAccount ManagementStrategic Planning

Preferred

Experience In Digital Advertising

Stack & domain

SalesAccount ManagementClient RelationshipsData AnalysisCommunicationStrategic ThinkingProblem SolvingAdvertisingMarketing

About the role

Original posting from Reddit via Greenhouse

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com.

We're looking for a sharp, positive, and motivated self-starter to join our Mid-Market team in San Francisco! In addition to laying the foundation of the team, the Senior Client Partner will be responsible for forming relationships with key brands and ensuring they meet their business objectives using Reddit's advertising suite.

Please note that this role is required to work in-person from our SF office 1-2 days per week.

Core Responsibilities:

Collaborate with existing clients to deliver Reddit solutions that help achieve those customers’ marketing and business goals

Identify areas of additional opportunity within existing client relationships, including new lines of business, and move them through to close

Collaborate with Account Managers to create long-term, mutually beneficial partnerships between your customer base and Reddit

Act as the CEO of your book of business, and take full ownership of strategic bets, revenue forecasting, and ensuring operational rigor

Communicate feedback on our sales processes, narratives, and products to advocate for customers and improve the team's effectiveness and efficiency

Proactively manage and deepen relationships with existing advertising partners, both with agencies and directly with clients to drive year-over-year revenue growth

Proactively construct upfront and joint business plans with top clients

Establish mutually beneficial relationships with new clients, educating them on Reddit and the Reddit ads platform

Leverage agency and client direct relationships to identify new buyers of Reddit advertising products

Leverage data from internal and external sources to inform client strategies and pitch proposals

Consistently meet deadlines for all projects, ensuring that clients receive the highest level of customer service

Act as an internal lead by actively volunteering in team meetings and Reddit special projects

Own client meetings from agenda to final presentation, instilling confidence and setting all interactions up for success by appropriately setting client expectations, identifying outcomes, and communicating clear next steps

Act as the primary point of contact for clients to communicate major platform updates, releases, changes, and/or opportunities that will deepen or expand the relationship

Provide strategic, proactive, and consultative advice to clients in order to uplevel and grow the relationship

Persistently explore and uncover the needs of your clients, leveraging deep product knowledge to align their goals with new and unique opportunities on the platform

Shape Reddit’s ads product roadmap by aggregating and sharing client feedback and campaign metrics with cross-functional stakeholders

Provide thought leadership and act as a Reddit evangelist with partners and at industry events

Share your industry, client, and product expertise by mentoring and training other team members

Collaborate closely with other Client Partners and Account Managers to craft a cohesive strategy across shared accounts

Build and leverage deep internal relationships, both within your direct team and cross-functionally, working together to deliver on client and business goals

Qualifications: 

8-12 years of experience in digital media with at least 4-7 years of experience in sales

Proven experience managing relationships up through C-level executives

Deep industry expertise in specific verticals, product types, and/or measurement solutions

Deep existing relationships within the agency and client direct space

Subject matter expertise in the social media landscape and native advertising

Experience building and executing long-term account growth strategies

Demonstrated top-performer achievement against sales targets

Ability to lead special projects

Ability to manage and scale a book of business greater than 20 accounts

Positive outlook, team player

Demonstrated high achievement against sales targets

Motivated self-starter who thrives in unstructured environments

BA / BS degree or equivalent work experience

Benefits:

Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs

401k with Employer Match

Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support

Family Planning Support

Gender-Affirming Care

Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off

Generous Paid Parental Leave 

Pay Transparency:

This job posting may span more than one career level.

In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and will also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.

The base salary range for this position is:$124,700—$174,600 USDIn select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI). You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews.

During the interview, we will collect the following categories of personal information: Identifiers, Professional and Employment-Related Information, Sensory Information (audio/video recording), and any other categories of personal information you choose to share with us. We will use this information to evaluate your application for employment or an independent contractor role, as applicable.  We will not sell your personal information or disclose it to any third party for their marketing purposes.  We will delete any recording of your interview promptly after making a hiring decision.  For more information about how we will handle your personal information, including our retention of it, please refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy for Potential Employees and Contractors.

Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve.  Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.

Source: Reddit careers (Greenhouse)

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