Conviva

Strategic Sales Director

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What Conviva is looking for in applicants

Have you streamed a program on Disney+, caught the latest binge-worthy series on Hulu, or tuned in for NFL highlights on social media? If the answer is yes, you have already benefitted from Conviva’s technology.

At Conviva, we create the technologies and standards driving industry transformation and streaming media growth worldwide. It’s not about the data, it’s about what you do with it. As the leader in global streaming media intelligence, Conviva measures in excess of 500 million unique viewers watching 150 billion streams per year with 1.5 trillion real-time transactions per day across more than 180 countries. Our platform and products are designed to deliver the real-time, cross-screen, integrated insights our customers need to understand their business and focus on what matters. Join us as we make streaming better.

Strategic Sales Director

We’re looking for an exceptional person to take a key position as part of our growing North America enterprise sales team, focusing on increasing value and revenue across existing named accounts. Our clients and internal teams will all attest that this is an exciting time to be working with Conviva and we’re looking for a sales leader who will embody the passion, curiosity and can-do attitude to help us continue to drive the business forward.  This person should have a strong track record with exceeding revenue goals in a consultative sales role selling platform solutions. Most of our rockstar sales reps are highly creative, organized, self-motivated while also motivating their internal teams to produce results. We’re a customer-first culture so a proven record of relationship-building and value-creation is critical!


What You Get to Do:

  • Be a part of a privately held, technology-leading, fun, collaborative and innovative team.
  • Work with the industry’s top publishers, driving new technologies and increased value across new and existing client teams.
  • Do what you do best. Manage your book of business and build upon the relationships and skills you’ve developed throughout your career.
  • Become a trusted advisor to stakeholders within assigned accounts. Build, manage and grow relationships across multiple departments at video publishing companies for continued value-creation and increased revenue.
  • Manage the day-to-day account, including overall engagement and strategy, discovery of business objectives and initiatives, organizational hierarchy, key players and their decision process, documentation of business use-cases, identifying product expansion/upsell and utilization to additional business units and users.
  • Manage a complex sales process from initial conversation through negotiation and closure. Maximize results for the company and for your client.
  • Effectively manage the business as it relates to ongoing sales activity including pipeline forecasting, organizational mapping, contracts, proposals, and legal.
  • Maintain a solid understanding of the ever-evolving streaming video technology landscape & architecture.
  • Ability to travel to support to both client and internal meetings/events.


What You Bring to the Role:

  • Passion, Curiosity and high expectations for your performance and the value you bring to your clients.
  • Sales experience in B2B SaaS environment with a proven track record of success and exceeding quotas.
  • Background building deep relationships at the C-Suite across an enterprise organization as a consultative Sales leader in Broadcast Media or related video industry. Ideal experience selling technology and platform solutions.
  • Experience building and executing a complex Sales strategy across multiple organizations.
  • Demonstrated ability to work cross-organizationally, aligning multiple stakeholders and internal teams.
  • Able to quickly grasp, comprehend and articulate new technologies.
  • Excellent networking and relationship building skills.
  • Expert negotiation skills, having managed complex deals where you have driven maximum value and ROI for your customers.
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree and a MINIMUM of 8+ years of strategic sales experience.
  • Exceptional analytical, verbal, and written communication skills.
  • Hands-on experience with CRM software (preferably SalesForce).

  
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Conviva is the leader in streaming media intelligence, powered by its real-time platform. More than 250 industry leaders and brands – including CBS, CCTV, Cirque Du Soleil, DAZN, Disney+, HBO, Hulu, Sky, Sling TV, TED, Univision, and WarnerMedia – rely on Conviva to maximize their consumer engagement, deliver the quality experiences viewers expect and drive revenue growth. With a global footprint of more than 500 million unique viewers watching 150 billion streams per year across 3 billion applications streaming on devices, Conviva offers streaming providers unmatched scale for continuous video measurement, intelligence and benchmarking across every stream, every screen, every second. Conviva is privately held and headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, with offices around the world. For more information, please visit us at www.conviva.com.

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