Business Development Director, Media Business

Description

POLITICO seeks an experienced Business Development Director with a passion for storytelling to join our dynamic and growing Media Business team. The Director will leverage a deep understanding of POLITICO’s audience to provide thoughtful, creative and consequential opportunities for brands to engage with our audience. The Director must be entrepreneurial in spirit with the ability to craft insightful solutions as we problem solve for our clients. Ideal candidate will have a firm understanding of the public affairs ecosystem and advertising market trends.

As POLITICO’s Business Development team grows, we have re-envisioned the way a business development team engages with clients and agencies. We embrace individuals from immensely diverse professional and personal backgrounds in an ongoing effort to create a comprehensive and collaborative team that is driven to support not only our clients but one another.

Who You Are :

You’re skilled at cultivating long-term relationships with clients and agencies, earning trust through transparency, responsiveness, and results.

You thrive on uncovering client needs and developing thoughtful, creative solutions that align with their goals.

You possess a strong understanding of the public affairs ecosystem, including the key players, policy dynamics, and how to influence is shaped across sectors.

You’re motivated by outcomes and how to measure success- whether through campaign performance, client satisfaction, or revenue growth.

What You’ll Do :

Identify new potential clients and execute creative outreach strategies

Maintain and grow existing client and agency relationships

Respond to RFPs with creative solutions

Execute campaigns and analyze performance with the assistance of your dedicated Account Manager

Continue to embody the successful brand presence of POLITICO in the market

What You'll Need :

Passion for journalism : individual who reveres and respects the art, science and creativity involved in journalism and its impact on our democracy

Knowledge of political influencer market : individual who understands the dynamic and complex ecosystem that drive public affairs decisions

Creativity : individual who wants to think outside of turnkey solutions for clients and is willing to dig deep into their initiatives and KPIs to create campaigns that will move the needle

Initiative : individual who has a desire to grow within their role and not only take on but create new opportunities

Collaboration : individual with the ability to collaborate across departments and work closely with POLITICO’s marketing and product development team to balance the company’s editorial integrity with client goals

BA / BS degree required

3+ Years of experience in sales, digital advertising or marketing

Communication Skills : excellent oral and written communication skills to be used in presentations and written memos

Experience with Keynote, Microsoft Suite, especially PowerPoint to be used in presentations and written memo

The anticipated OTE range for this role is up to $170,000.00 USD. The final salary offered to a successful candidate will be dependent on several factors that may include but are not limited to the type and years of experience within the job, type of years of experience within the industry, etc.

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About Us.

POLITICO illuminates the forces shaping global power. Since 2007, we have delivered intelligence that anticipates tomorrow's headlines, not reports on yesterday's news. As politics has increasingly become the defining force of our era, our work has never been more vital.

Cabinet secretaries and Ministers start their mornings with our analysis. CEOs shape strategy around our reporting. Advocacy leaders rely on our insights to move policy. We deliver the straightforward facts and clear-eyed analysis they need to navigate the most complex political landscape of our lifetimes.

Our 1,100+ publishing professionals across the world's key democratic capitals—Washington, Brussels, London, Paris, Berlin, Sacramento, and New York—form the world's premier politics and policy newsroom. We tell the story of how power really works by explaining who wields it and how they plan to exercise it, connecting dots others miss and delivering scoops from sources others don't even know exist.

Innovation has always been a core tenet of our story. At launch, we bet that depth would trump scale, that talent would trump traffic, and that politics would become central to modern life. In 2011, we made another bet and launched POLITICO Pro to help decision-makers understand the business of government, transforming both how they shape government action and the business of journalism itself.

These bets have made POLITICO the most successful digital news startup of its generation and the indispensable resource for leaders who shape the future. Today, we are a rarity in media : a growing, profitable, and sustainable news organization.

POLITICO is a subsidiary of Axel Springer SE, a family-owned transatlantic media company headquartered in Berlin and New York. Axel Springer is dedicated to shaping the future of journalism in the free world, believing that a free and informed society is essential to democracy. Learn more about Axel Springer. ()

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