Diply is looking to hire an experienced Account Executive to build consultative relationships with advertising clients and maintain customer satisfaction while reporting to the Midwest Sales Director. You will be responsible for educating the market on the benefits of Diply's capabilities and product offerings while actively soliciting client RFI/RFP’s.

This is a full-time permanent, position based in Chicago. 

Responsibilities:

• Successfully build consultative relationships with key marketing and C-level executive stakeholders within the top Fortune 500 brands.
• Act as an evangelist and a leader in the marketplace and within Diply - setting a professional and knowledgeable tone about branded content, influencer marketing and social media distribution
• Manage your own sales activities and pipeline, while providing ongoing visibility to your leader

Qualifications:

• Experience selling digital media solutions
• Proven track record of bringing in new business and growing an existing account list of media agencies and brands direct
• Strong preference for candidates with a background selling branded video and custom article content and have relationships with agency and brand decision-makers
• Experience developing 360 sales solutions that leverage content marketing and social media distribution and amplification (Facebook experience is a plus)
• Proven experience selling a new brand or solution in the marketplace
• Must be personable, charismatic and passionate about video advertising
• Consultative seller and problem solver: to be successful, you will need to have the ability to engage with prospects to understand their business, uncover challenges and propose customized solutions that drive value for each marketers unique needs. 
• Ability to speak intelligently with senior executives on all facets of the digital advertising ecosystem
• A strong will to win and confident “can do” attitude
• Ability to travel

About us

Launched in 2013, Diply is a leading social entertainment publisher that creates captivating content for millennials. Through serving its 70+ million social fans with fun, fresh stories daily, Diply generates five billion content impressions and one billion social video views monthly. Diply is a top 10 Lifestyle property and the 56th largest domain in the U.S. with 42+ million monthly readers. Diply was founded by Taylor Ablitt, Dean Elkholy, and Gary Manning. Headquartered in London, Ontario, Diply has offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Toronto.