Director of Political Sales
Location
Michigan
Posted
1 day ago
Salary
Not specified
English
Job Description
• Take over overall go-to-market strategy and execution plan for the political sector in 2026 with the opportunity to capture dollars as early in the year as possible.
• Continue to define PREMION’s resource strategy for Political
• Manage and develop relationships with all key senior level and day-to-day decision makers at the national political agencies; including but to limited to National Media, Target Media, and GMMB, PAC’s, candidate groups, etc.
• Manage and lead pitches to drive agency-wide deals, pricing, and client development.
• Execute on RFP responses and new business proposals.
• Manage and work with our third-party sales team/consultancy to maximize results
• Execute with pre-sales, sales operations, marketing, account management teams and sales channel partner teams
• Also, partner with product and technology teams to ensure targeting, identify data enrichment opportunities and define reporting and insights requirements.
• Collaborate with the Premion team of requirements, opportunities, and challenges from political agencies that will enable Premion to maximize revenue and make necessary adjustments to products and processes.
• Network at key political events to develop relationships and keep Premion top-of-mind as the leading local, streaming, premium solution.
• Communicate at a high level with the Premion team and TEGNA senior sales leadership.
• Manage current Manager, Political Advertising
• Reach/exceed established revenue goals
Job Requirements
- Experienced advertising leader with deep and existing contacts with key political agencies based in DC, NY
- Experience in streaming, local, broadcast TV or other digital video.
- Leader with an entrepreneurial mindset.
- Dynamic presenter, who hits the ground running and closes business.
- Able to effectively solve problems and identify solutions and opportunities.
- Able to work alongside and influence key Premion team members and groups
Benefits
- Winning, inclusive, supportive and fun culture
- Purpose driven and employee-centric organization
- Leading and innovative media products
- Resources to set you up for success
- 401k retirement matching
- Health, vision, dental, disability and life insurance
- Health savings account
- 12 free annual therapy sessions with Spring Health for you and your family
- Give & Volunteer opportunities
- Exclusive employee discounts including, but not limited to: Health & wellness apps, fitness equipment, Costco & Sam’s club memberships, computers, travel, cell phone carriers, movie tickets, pet insurance, home/ auto insurance, legal insurance, etc.