Toast creates technology to help restaurants and local businesses succeed in a digital world, helping business owners operate, increase sales, engage customers, and keep employees happy.

As an SMB Flex Territory Sales Account Executive, you will be part of a team that is transforming the way restaurants operate. Using a consultative approach, you will prospect, build relationships, and sign up new restaurateurs in your local area. By understanding their unique needs, you will develop a customized solution that helps their business thrive. We need your passion and expertise to help us build the Toast brand in your geographic territory. 

This is a Flex field sales opportunity based out of a personal home office. You must live local to the Central region, or be willing to relocate to the area. This role requires travel apx 30% of the time.

A day in the life (Responsibilities)

• Generate list of prospective restaurants and manage the entire sales cycle from initial call to close 
• Conduct demos and develop a solution that best meets the prospect’s needs 
• Partner with teams across the business to ensure that expectations set during the sales process are met in delivery
• Leverage Salesforce (our CRM) to manage all sales activities
• Understand the competitive landscape and determine how to best position Toast in the market

What you'll need to thrive (Requirements)

• 1+ years of experience in a sourcing or closing sales role, restaurant operations, or a relatable field and industry
• Since this is a field position, you must have reliable transportation (will reimburse for mileage)
• Strong communication, organizational and presentation skills with the ability to sell and negotiate at all decision-making levels
• Proven track record of success in meeting and exceeding goals
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial and team environment
• Self-motivated, creative, and flexible
• General technical proficiency with software

What will help you stand out (Nonessential Skills/Nice to Haves)

• Experience with Salesforce CRM
• Sandler Sales Training

AI at Toast

At Toast, one of our company values is that we're hungry to build and learn. We believe learning new AI tools empowers us to build for our customers faster, more independently, and with higher quality. We provide these tools across all disciplines, from Engineering and Product to Sales and Support, and are inspired by how our Toasters are already driving real value with them. The people who thrive here are those who embrace changes that let us build more for our customers; it’s a core part of our culture.

Our Total Rewards Philosophy

We strive to provide competitive compensation and benefits programs that help to attract, retain, and motivate the best and brightest people in our industry. Our total rewards package goes beyond great earnings potential and provides the means to a healthy lifestyle with the flexibility to meet Toasters’ changing needs. Learn more about our benefits at https://careers.toasttab.com/toast-benefits.

About the Role

As a Channel Sales Manager, National Partners (Midwest) you'll be pivotal in scaling Verkada's reach and impact by developing and managing a network of high-performing LVARs (large value-added resellers). You'll be responsible for driving net new business through the channel—building pipeline and executing strategic plans that result in measurable growth.

This individual contributor role requires strategic thinking and hands-on execution as you collaborate across sales, marketing, and partner teams to grow Verkada’s presence nationally. 

What You’ll Do

In this role, you’ll be at the heart of Verkada’s mission, working hand-in-hand with our sales teams to drive growth and success with channel partners. You’ll be responsible for building pipeline and generating net new business through reseller partners while executing a best-in-class channel strategy. Here’s what you’ll own:

• Drive Net New Pipeline: Proactively identify and generate pipeline with named strategic Large VARs. Collaborate closely with field sales teams to co-sell and close high-value opportunities.
• Execute National Channel Strategy: Develop and manage a focused partner business plan for your territory that aligns with Verkada’s overall GTM objectives and quarterly sales targets.
• Empower Our Partners: Train and enable partner executives, sales teams, and technical stakeholders on Verkada’s full product portfolio, programs, and campaigns to ensure deep engagement and capability across all levels.
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work closely with Verkada’s internal sales, marketing, and pre-sales teams to drive joint activities, including partner events, demand generation campaigns, and customer-facing initiatives.
• Lead with Insight: Conduct regular QBRs and ad-hoc business reviews with partners to align on priorities, track performance, celebrate wins, and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Strengthen the Channel Ecosystem: Influence partner sales teams to prioritize Verkada in key deals and business planning efforts. Leverage insights from the field to recommend improvements to Verkada’s channel tools, incentives, and partner program offerings.
• Drive Awareness and Demand: Lead and participate in regional in-person and virtual events to grow Verkada’s brand awareness, build community, and strengthen relationships with key partner contacts and stakeholders.
• Operate Strategically and Tactically: Own the full lifecycle of partner engagement in your region—from onboarding and enablement to pipeline development and revenue realization.
• This role requires regular travel, estimated to be more than 50% of the time, including both domestic and international destinations as needed. The successful candidate must be comfortable with frequent travel to support business operations, customer and partner engagements and team collaboration. 

What You Bring

• Experience & Success: 5+ years of channel sales or partner management experience with a strong track record of building new business via Security Integrators or IT LVAR partners. Experience managing and growing partners: Sentinel, NTT, World Wide Technologies, AHEAD, or Marco Technologies is highly preferred.
• Recognition, such as President’s Club, is a plus.
• Strategic & Creative Thinking: A process-driven approach, complemented by innovative thinking to create scalable, partner-focused initiatives.
• Relationship-Builder: Ability to influence and engage across all levels—from partner sales reps to executive leadership.
• Technical Fluency: Comfortable navigating product discussions and sales operations. Proficiency in Salesforce, Excel, and business intelligence tools.
• Clear Communicator: Strong verbal and written communication skills with sharp attention to detail and a professional presence.
• Midwest based (near a major city/airport): Must be open to 50% travel across the country.

US Employee Benefits

Verkada is committed to fostering a workplace environment that prioritizes the holistic health and wellbeing of our employees and their families by offering comprehensive wellness perks, benefits, and resources. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to:

• Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial well-being needs - Premiums are 100% covered for the employee under at least one plan and 80% for family premiums under all plans
• Nationwide medical, vision and dental coverage
• Health Saving Account (HSA) with annual employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) with tax saving options
• Expanded mental health support
• Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits
• Time off to relax and recharge through our paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time
• Professional development stipend
• Fertility Stipend 
• Wellness/fitness benefits
• Healthy lunches provided daily
• Commuter benefits

Additional Information

• You must be independently authorized to work in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this role, at this time.

About the Role

We are seeking a hardworking, driven individual with superb energy, passion and experience driving new business acquisition in the State and Local (municipalities of 250k+ populace and city gov with 500k+ populace). This person will join a growing Public Sector Field Sales team and will cover the Kansas, Nebraska, and Missouri region. The Enterprise Account Executive will play an integral role in developing the territory and will focus on formulating and executing a sales strategy within an assigned territory, resulting in new customer acquisition and revenue growth.

With Verkada’s consistent year over year growth, now is the perfect time to join the sales team. This is an outstanding career option for an enthusiastic sales professional looking to further their career in a fast paced dynamic environment while also being part of a rapidly growing start-up.

This position reports to the Regional Sales Director (Enterprise, North Central - SLED).

What You'll Do

• Develop and Implement a comprehensive territory plan
• Manage the entire sales process to ensure delivery against key performance metrics and quota, with a strong emphasis on net new business sales. This includes prospecting and outreach to new SLED business opportunities providing product demos, product trials, and strategic negotiations with customers and channel partners
• Meet or exceed individual targets and contribute to the overall team and company success. Proven ability to proactively penetrate new, untapped markets with greenfield accounts and achieve a quarterly quota of at least 1 qualified net new logo
• Initiate and manage expansion discussions to drive customer retention. This includes identifying customers’ goals and requirements, including budgetary constraints and key decision makers
• Devise a comprehensive customer acquisition strategy and partner with Verkada’s channel partner sales organization to establish channel partner initiatives that result in a minimum of 5 deal registrations each quarter
• Drive business growth and enhance market presence through a combination of customer engagements, marketing campaigns, executive briefings, industry conferences, events and market sector knowledge/intelligence 
• Gain an in-depth and detailed understanding of Verkada’s business and products to confidently sell to states, cities, counties, education agencies and special districts within your territory
• Create effective presentations and proposals; create urgency to drive deal closure, negotiate pricing and contractual agreements
• Provide account analysis, quarterly business reviews, and accurate revenue forecasts
• This role requires regular travel, estimated to be more than 50% of the time, including both domestic and international destinations as needed. The successful candidate must be comfortable with frequent travel to support business operations, customer and partner engagements and team collaboration

What You Bring

• 5-10+ years of quota-carrying software/hardware technology or channel sales with focus on building a greenfield territory and landing new business; 2+ years selling technical solutions or products to the Public Sector (SLED, Local Government, Municipalities) is a plus
• Proven track record of success in a sales-driven organization selling a highly complex technical solution (with the awards and references to prove it) 
• Willingness to have a strong field presence multiple days per week; Must live in territory & willingness to travel up to 50% 
• Possess a hunter sales mentality with a strong desire to be successful, and have a proven track record of prospecting, closing new logos, and landing major accounts against incumbents 
• Customer-focused with extensive experience developing customer relationships within SLED accounts. This includes relationships with Government Agencies, Higher Education Institutions, Solutions Partners, and Resellers 
• Experience managing longer, complex sales cycles This includes navigating the complexity of multiple buying stakeholders and the nuances of government and education buying 
• Experience collaborating with an internal channel partner team to sell through and with channel partners is a plus
• Relevant software or hardware industry experience in any of the following domains; security software or hardware, computer networking and “how the internet works”, subscription, SaaS, or Cloud software is a plus
• Strong knowledge and execution of MEDDIC is highly preferred
• Self-motivated, tenacious, confident, with a willingness to engage in prospecting to maintain individual funnels as expected 
• Intellectually curious High IQ, EQ and self-awareness
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) with peers, customers, and partners
• Thrive working in a fast paced dynamic environment with a strong sense of urgency
• BS/BA degree strongly preferred

US Employee Benefits

Verkada is committed to fostering a workplace environment that prioritizes the holistic health and wellbeing of our employees and their families by offering comprehensive wellness perks, benefits, and resources. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to:

• Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial well-being needs - Premiums are 100% covered for the employee under at least one plan and 80% for family premiums under all plans
• Nationwide medical, vision and dental coverage
• Health Saving Account (HSA) with annual employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) with tax saving options
• Expanded mental health support
• Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits
• Time off to relax and recharge through our paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time
• Professional development stipend
• Fertility Stipend
• Wellness/fitness benefits
• Healthy lunches provided daily
• Commuter benefits

Additional Information

Open position in all True Media office locations, including Kansas City, MO, Columbia, MO, St. Louis, MO, and Minneapolis, MN; Hybrid work schedule: 3 days in the office, 2 days working from home

Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position, now or in the future. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States on a permanent basis without requiring employer sponsorship.

The Vice President, Cultural & Creative Media Innovation is a senior individual contributor who serves as the agency's foremost authority on culture, audience behavior, and media innovation. This role exists primarily to fuel new business growth (approximately 80% of responsibilities) by translating real-time cultural intelligence and audience research into bold, media-first ideas that win pitches and open doors. A smaller but meaningful portion of the role (approximately 20%) supports high-profile existing client engagements at critical moments. Reporting directly to agency leadership, this position operates with a high degree of autonomy and is expected to move quickly — identifying a culturally relevant moment one day and having a client-ready concept the following day.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities (Other duties may be assigned)

• Cultural Intelligence & Real-Time Trend Monitoring. Monitor culture, media, social platforms, sports, entertainment, and current events on a continuous basis to identify timely, relevant moments that can be activated on behalf of clients or new business prospects. Operate with a quick-turn mentality — when a cultural moment emerges (e.g., an athlete's viral on-air comment, a breakout meme, an unexpected brand opportunity), rapidly assess its relevance and develop an actionable idea before the moment passes. Attend major cultural events, industry conferences (including South X Southwest and similar), and media and entertainment activations annually to stay on the leading edge of emerging trends, platforms, and consumer behaviors.
• Audience Research & Insight Development. Conduct and synthesize primary and secondary research to build nuanced audience portraits — going beyond demographics to map media habits, cultural touchpoints, platform behavior, and moments of peak receptivity. Identify non-obvious audience insights that form the strategic backbone of new business pitches and client recommendations. Develop reusable research frameworks and proprietary points of view that sharpen the agency's strategic differentiation.
• Media Innovation Ideation. Translate audience intelligence and cultural insight into big, executional media ideas — concepts that are surprising, channel-native, and grounded in research. Develop ideas that leverage non-traditional media opportunities: talent and cultural figure integrations, IP and brand partnerships, experiential media, platform-specific formats, and tentpole cultural moments. Ensure that media channel recommendations and creative concepts are directly informed by data — articulating a clear logical bridge from insight to idea.
• New Business Pitch Leadership. Serve as a primary strategic voice in new business pitches, owning the cultural, audience, and innovation narrative within agency presentations. Write compelling briefs and strategic frameworks that elevate work from executional planning to idea-driven platforms — giving creative and media teams a clear, inspiring foundation to build from. Collaborate with agency leadership and cross-functional pitch teams to shape a compelling, differentiated strategic story from brief to final presentation. Identify prospective client opportunities and develop proactive, speculative concepts that demonstrate the agency's cultural and media capabilities. Serve as a skilled cross-collaborator across agency partners within the Meet The People family — proactively engaging sister agencies and practice areas to inform and elevate holistic campaign strategies, including creative, brand positioning, experiential, and any other element of a fully integrated advertising campaign.
• High-Profile Client Engagement. Partner with account and integrated media teams to bring senior strategic perspective to select existing client relationships at pivotal moments — annual planning, competitive reviews, campaign launches, and upsell opportunities. Develop tailored cultural intelligence and audience insight reports for high-value clients seeking to deepen their connection to a specific audience or cultural moment.
• Agency Thought Leadership & Strategic Positioning. Build and represent the agency's cultural and strategic point of view externally — through speaking engagements, published content, conference presence, and industry networking. Introduce new thinking around emerging platforms, creators, content formats, and data signals — challenging briefs and pushing teams toward more differentiated, idea-led solutions. Contribute to the agency's positioning as a culturally-intelligent, insight-driven media partner capable of moving at the speed of culture.
  
  

What Success Looks Like

• New business presentations are distinctive, insight-driven, and idea-led — with a clear through-line from audience truth to media concept.
• Internal teams and agency partners consistently seek this role out as a strategic thought partner, not just a resource.
• Clients recognize and value the agency's cultural intelligence as a differentiator in the relationship.
• Cultural moments are identified and converted into actionable client concepts quickly — before the window closes.
• Campaigns and concepts originating from this role resonate in culture and contribute to measurable business impact.

Supervisory Responsibilities - 

• No supervisory responsibilities. This is a senior individual contributor role.

Qualifications - To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• 10–15+ years of progressive experience in media strategy, brand strategy, cultural strategy, communications planning, or a closely related discipline — ideally within an agency environment. 
• Demonstrated experience contributing to or leading new business pitches with a measurable record of success. 
• Experience working across integrated media channels including digital video, paid social, out-of-home, and emerging platforms.
• Skills & Technical Proficiency: Deep proficiency with audience research and cultural intelligence tools such as MRI-Simmons, GWI, Sparktoro, Mintel, or equivalent social listening and data platforms. 
• Strong working knowledge of the media landscape — paid, earned, and owned — and how channels work together to reach specific audiences. 
• Proficiency in presentation software (PowerPoint, Google Slides, Keynote) with the ability to build and deliver compelling, visually engaging presentations. 
• Familiarity with social media platforms and their cultural dynamics across audiences and demographics.
• Traits: Executive presence with the ability to represent the agency's cultural and strategic POV at the highest levels; identifies patterns and insights that others overlook, and thinks in ideas and narratives rather than tactics and formats; instinctive cultural fluency with a proven ability to move at the speed of relevance; quick-turn agility balanced with strategic rigor; fluent in both data and creativity — able to challenge and elevate a brief rather than simply respond to it; natural connector and cross-collaborator who builds trust across creative, media, and leadership teams; highly articulate with the ability to command a room and make complex ideas feel simple and exciting; comfortable with ambiguity and energized by building in fast-moving environments; willing and able to travel for conferences, client engagements, and cultural events.

Licenses/Certifications:

• Web analytics platform training and certification required within six months; renewed annually.
• Scrum Essentials and Agile Essentials on-demand courses required within six months.

Education

• Bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university, with a degree or concentration in advertising, marketing, communications, or a related field preferred; or an equivalent combination of education and experience. 

Total Perks Package

• The chance to be a part of a growing company and the next success story
• Amazing opportunities for career development
• Recognition programs
• Employee referral bonus
• Hybrid work schedule; 3 days in the office, 2 days working from home
• Fun and collaborative work environment
• Casual dress code
• Insurance Coverage (medical, dental, vision, life, and disability)
• 401(k) retirement plan, with employer 4% match
• Work/life benefits, including mental health and wellbeing support
• Flexible Time Off Policy
• Paid holidays, including agency soft closing Christmas Eve-New Year's Day
• Paid leave options, including sick leave, medical leave for self and family, and parental leave

Open position in all True Media office locations, including Kansas City, MO, Columbia, MO, St. Louis, MO, and Minneapolis, MN; Hybrid work schedule: 3 days in the office, 2 days working from home

Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position, now or in the future. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States on a permanent basis without requiring employer sponsorship.

The Vice President, Cultural & Creative Media Innovation is a senior individual contributor who serves as the agency's foremost authority on culture, audience behavior, and media innovation. This role exists primarily to fuel new business growth (approximately 80% of responsibilities) by translating real-time cultural intelligence and audience research into bold, media-first ideas that win pitches and open doors. A smaller but meaningful portion of the role (approximately 20%) supports high-profile existing client engagements at critical moments. Reporting directly to agency leadership, this position operates with a high degree of autonomy and is expected to move quickly — identifying a culturally relevant moment one day and having a client-ready concept the following day.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities (Other duties may be assigned)

• Cultural Intelligence & Real-Time Trend Monitoring. Monitor culture, media, social platforms, sports, entertainment, and current events on a continuous basis to identify timely, relevant moments that can be activated on behalf of clients or new business prospects. Operate with a quick-turn mentality — when a cultural moment emerges (e.g., an athlete's viral on-air comment, a breakout meme, an unexpected brand opportunity), rapidly assess its relevance and develop an actionable idea before the moment passes. Attend major cultural events, industry conferences (including South X Southwest and similar), and media and entertainment activations annually to stay on the leading edge of emerging trends, platforms, and consumer behaviors.
• Audience Research & Insight Development. Conduct and synthesize primary and secondary research to build nuanced audience portraits — going beyond demographics to map media habits, cultural touchpoints, platform behavior, and moments of peak receptivity. Identify non-obvious audience insights that form the strategic backbone of new business pitches and client recommendations. Develop reusable research frameworks and proprietary points of view that sharpen the agency's strategic differentiation.
• Media Innovation Ideation. Translate audience intelligence and cultural insight into big, executional media ideas — concepts that are surprising, channel-native, and grounded in research. Develop ideas that leverage non-traditional media opportunities: talent and cultural figure integrations, IP and brand partnerships, experiential media, platform-specific formats, and tentpole cultural moments. Ensure that media channel recommendations and creative concepts are directly informed by data — articulating a clear logical bridge from insight to idea.
• New Business Pitch Leadership. Serve as a primary strategic voice in new business pitches, owning the cultural, audience, and innovation narrative within agency presentations. Write compelling briefs and strategic frameworks that elevate work from executional planning to idea-driven platforms — giving creative and media teams a clear, inspiring foundation to build from. Collaborate with agency leadership and cross-functional pitch teams to shape a compelling, differentiated strategic story from brief to final presentation. Identify prospective client opportunities and develop proactive, speculative concepts that demonstrate the agency's cultural and media capabilities. Serve as a skilled cross-collaborator across agency partners within the Meet The People family — proactively engaging sister agencies and practice areas to inform and elevate holistic campaign strategies, including creative, brand positioning, experiential, and any other element of a fully integrated advertising campaign.
• High-Profile Client Engagement. Partner with account and integrated media teams to bring senior strategic perspective to select existing client relationships at pivotal moments — annual planning, competitive reviews, campaign launches, and upsell opportunities. Develop tailored cultural intelligence and audience insight reports for high-value clients seeking to deepen their connection to a specific audience or cultural moment.
• Agency Thought Leadership & Strategic Positioning. Build and represent the agency's cultural and strategic point of view externally — through speaking engagements, published content, conference presence, and industry networking. Introduce new thinking around emerging platforms, creators, content formats, and data signals — challenging briefs and pushing teams toward more differentiated, idea-led solutions. Contribute to the agency's positioning as a culturally-intelligent, insight-driven media partner capable of moving at the speed of culture.
  
  

What Success Looks Like

• New business presentations are distinctive, insight-driven, and idea-led — with a clear through-line from audience truth to media concept.
• Internal teams and agency partners consistently seek this role out as a strategic thought partner, not just a resource.
• Clients recognize and value the agency's cultural intelligence as a differentiator in the relationship.
• Cultural moments are identified and converted into actionable client concepts quickly — before the window closes.
• Campaigns and concepts originating from this role resonate in culture and contribute to measurable business impact.

Supervisory Responsibilities - 

• No supervisory responsibilities. This is a senior individual contributor role.

Qualifications - To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• 10–15+ years of progressive experience in media strategy, brand strategy, cultural strategy, communications planning, or a closely related discipline — ideally within an agency environment. 
• Demonstrated experience contributing to or leading new business pitches with a measurable record of success. 
• Experience working across integrated media channels including digital video, paid social, out-of-home, and emerging platforms.
• Skills & Technical Proficiency: Deep proficiency with audience research and cultural intelligence tools such as MRI-Simmons, GWI, Sparktoro, Mintel, or equivalent social listening and data platforms. 
• Strong working knowledge of the media landscape — paid, earned, and owned — and how channels work together to reach specific audiences. 
• Proficiency in presentation software (PowerPoint, Google Slides, Keynote) with the ability to build and deliver compelling, visually engaging presentations. 
• Familiarity with social media platforms and their cultural dynamics across audiences and demographics.
• Traits: Executive presence with the ability to represent the agency's cultural and strategic POV at the highest levels; identifies patterns and insights that others overlook, and thinks in ideas and narratives rather than tactics and formats; instinctive cultural fluency with a proven ability to move at the speed of relevance; quick-turn agility balanced with strategic rigor; fluent in both data and creativity — able to challenge and elevate a brief rather than simply respond to it; natural connector and cross-collaborator who builds trust across creative, media, and leadership teams; highly articulate with the ability to command a room and make complex ideas feel simple and exciting; comfortable with ambiguity and energized by building in fast-moving environments; willing and able to travel for conferences, client engagements, and cultural events.

Licenses/Certifications:

• Web analytics platform training and certification required within six months; renewed annually.
• Scrum Essentials and Agile Essentials on-demand courses required within six months.

Education

• Bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university, with a degree or concentration in advertising, marketing, communications, or a related field preferred; or an equivalent combination of education and experience. 

Total Perks Package

• The chance to be a part of a growing company and the next success story
• Amazing opportunities for career development
• Recognition programs
• Employee referral bonus
• Hybrid work schedule; 3 days in the office, 2 days working from home
• Fun and collaborative work environment
• Casual dress code
• Insurance Coverage (medical, dental, vision, life, and disability)
• 401(k) retirement plan, with employer 4% match
• Work/life benefits, including mental health and wellbeing support
• Flexible Time Off Policy
• Paid holidays, including agency soft closing Christmas Eve-New Year's Day
• Paid leave options, including sick leave, medical leave for self and family, and parental leave

Open position in all True Media office locations, including Kansas City, MO, Columbia, MO, St. Louis, MO, and Minneapolis, MN; Hybrid work schedule: 3 days in the office, 2 days working from home

Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position, now or in the future. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States on a permanent basis without requiring employer sponsorship.

The Vice President, Cultural & Creative Media Innovation is a senior individual contributor who serves as the agency's foremost authority on culture, audience behavior, and media innovation. This role exists primarily to fuel new business growth (approximately 80% of responsibilities) by translating real-time cultural intelligence and audience research into bold, media-first ideas that win pitches and open doors. A smaller but meaningful portion of the role (approximately 20%) supports high-profile existing client engagements at critical moments. Reporting directly to agency leadership, this position operates with a high degree of autonomy and is expected to move quickly — identifying a culturally relevant moment one day and having a client-ready concept the following day.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities (Other duties may be assigned)

• Cultural Intelligence & Real-Time Trend Monitoring. Monitor culture, media, social platforms, sports, entertainment, and current events on a continuous basis to identify timely, relevant moments that can be activated on behalf of clients or new business prospects. Operate with a quick-turn mentality — when a cultural moment emerges (e.g., an athlete's viral on-air comment, a breakout meme, an unexpected brand opportunity), rapidly assess its relevance and develop an actionable idea before the moment passes. Attend major cultural events, industry conferences (including South X Southwest and similar), and media and entertainment activations annually to stay on the leading edge of emerging trends, platforms, and consumer behaviors.
• Audience Research & Insight Development. Conduct and synthesize primary and secondary research to build nuanced audience portraits — going beyond demographics to map media habits, cultural touchpoints, platform behavior, and moments of peak receptivity. Identify non-obvious audience insights that form the strategic backbone of new business pitches and client recommendations. Develop reusable research frameworks and proprietary points of view that sharpen the agency's strategic differentiation.
• Media Innovation Ideation. Translate audience intelligence and cultural insight into big, executional media ideas — concepts that are surprising, channel-native, and grounded in research. Develop ideas that leverage non-traditional media opportunities: talent and cultural figure integrations, IP and brand partnerships, experiential media, platform-specific formats, and tentpole cultural moments. Ensure that media channel recommendations and creative concepts are directly informed by data — articulating a clear logical bridge from insight to idea.
• New Business Pitch Leadership. Serve as a primary strategic voice in new business pitches, owning the cultural, audience, and innovation narrative within agency presentations. Write compelling briefs and strategic frameworks that elevate work from executional planning to idea-driven platforms — giving creative and media teams a clear, inspiring foundation to build from. Collaborate with agency leadership and cross-functional pitch teams to shape a compelling, differentiated strategic story from brief to final presentation. Identify prospective client opportunities and develop proactive, speculative concepts that demonstrate the agency's cultural and media capabilities. Serve as a skilled cross-collaborator across agency partners within the Meet The People family — proactively engaging sister agencies and practice areas to inform and elevate holistic campaign strategies, including creative, brand positioning, experiential, and any other element of a fully integrated advertising campaign.
• High-Profile Client Engagement. Partner with account and integrated media teams to bring senior strategic perspective to select existing client relationships at pivotal moments — annual planning, competitive reviews, campaign launches, and upsell opportunities. Develop tailored cultural intelligence and audience insight reports for high-value clients seeking to deepen their connection to a specific audience or cultural moment.
• Agency Thought Leadership & Strategic Positioning. Build and represent the agency's cultural and strategic point of view externally — through speaking engagements, published content, conference presence, and industry networking. Introduce new thinking around emerging platforms, creators, content formats, and data signals — challenging briefs and pushing teams toward more differentiated, idea-led solutions. Contribute to the agency's positioning as a culturally-intelligent, insight-driven media partner capable of moving at the speed of culture.
  
  

What Success Looks Like

• New business presentations are distinctive, insight-driven, and idea-led — with a clear through-line from audience truth to media concept.
• Internal teams and agency partners consistently seek this role out as a strategic thought partner, not just a resource.
• Clients recognize and value the agency's cultural intelligence as a differentiator in the relationship.
• Cultural moments are identified and converted into actionable client concepts quickly — before the window closes.
• Campaigns and concepts originating from this role resonate in culture and contribute to measurable business impact.

Supervisory Responsibilities - 

• No supervisory responsibilities. This is a senior individual contributor role.

Qualifications - To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• 10–15+ years of progressive experience in media strategy, brand strategy, cultural strategy, communications planning, or a closely related discipline — ideally within an agency environment. 
• Demonstrated experience contributing to or leading new business pitches with a measurable record of success. 
• Experience working across integrated media channels including digital video, paid social, out-of-home, and emerging platforms.
• Skills & Technical Proficiency: Deep proficiency with audience research and cultural intelligence tools such as MRI-Simmons, GWI, Sparktoro, Mintel, or equivalent social listening and data platforms. 
• Strong working knowledge of the media landscape — paid, earned, and owned — and how channels work together to reach specific audiences. 
• Proficiency in presentation software (PowerPoint, Google Slides, Keynote) with the ability to build and deliver compelling, visually engaging presentations. 
• Familiarity with social media platforms and their cultural dynamics across audiences and demographics.
• Traits: Executive presence with the ability to represent the agency's cultural and strategic POV at the highest levels; identifies patterns and insights that others overlook, and thinks in ideas and narratives rather than tactics and formats; instinctive cultural fluency with a proven ability to move at the speed of relevance; quick-turn agility balanced with strategic rigor; fluent in both data and creativity — able to challenge and elevate a brief rather than simply respond to it; natural connector and cross-collaborator who builds trust across creative, media, and leadership teams; highly articulate with the ability to command a room and make complex ideas feel simple and exciting; comfortable with ambiguity and energized by building in fast-moving environments; willing and able to travel for conferences, client engagements, and cultural events.

Licenses/Certifications:

• Web analytics platform training and certification required within six months; renewed annually.
• Scrum Essentials and Agile Essentials on-demand courses required within six months.

Education

• Bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university, with a degree or concentration in advertising, marketing, communications, or a related field preferred; or an equivalent combination of education and experience. 

Total Perks Package

• The chance to be a part of a growing company and the next success story
• Amazing opportunities for career development
• Recognition programs
• Employee referral bonus
• Hybrid work schedule; 3 days in the office, 2 days working from home
• Fun and collaborative work environment
• Casual dress code
• Insurance Coverage (medical, dental, vision, life, and disability)
• 401(k) retirement plan, with employer 4% match
• Work/life benefits, including mental health and wellbeing support
• Flexible Time Off Policy
• Paid holidays, including agency soft closing Christmas Eve-New Year's Day
• Paid leave options, including sick leave, medical leave for self and family, and parental leave

Open position in all True Media office locations, including Kansas City, MO, Columbia, MO, St. Louis, MO, and Minneapolis, MN; Hybrid work schedule: 3 days in the office, 2 days working from home

Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position, now or in the future. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States on a permanent basis without requiring employer sponsorship.

The Vice President, Cultural & Creative Media Innovationis a senior individual contributor who serves as the agency's foremost authority on culture, audience behavior, and media innovation. This role exists primarily to fuel new business growth (approximately 80% of responsibilities) by translating real-time cultural intelligence and audience research into bold, media-first ideas that win pitches and open doors. A smaller but meaningful portion of the role (approximately 20%) supports high-profile existing client engagements at critical moments. Reporting directly to agency leadership, this position operates with a high degree of autonomy and is expected to move quickly — identifying a culturally relevant moment one day and having a client-ready concept the following day.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities (Other duties may be assigned)

• Cultural Intelligence & Real-Time Trend Monitoring. Monitor culture, media, social platforms, sports, entertainment, and current events on a continuous basis to identify timely, relevant moments that can be activated on behalf of clients or new business prospects. Operate with a quick-turn mentality — when a cultural moment emerges (e.g., an athlete's viral on-air comment, a breakout meme, an unexpected brand opportunity), rapidly assess its relevance and develop an actionable idea before the moment passes. Attend major cultural events, industry conferences (including South X Southwest and similar), and media and entertainment activations annually to stay on the leading edge of emerging trends, platforms, and consumer behaviors.
• Audience Research & Insight Development. Conduct and synthesize primary and secondary research to build nuanced audience portraits — going beyond demographics to map media habits, cultural touchpoints, platform behavior, and moments of peak receptivity. Identify non-obvious audience insights that form the strategic backbone of new business pitches and client recommendations. Develop reusable research frameworks and proprietary points of view that sharpen the agency's strategic differentiation.
• Media Innovation Ideation. Translate audience intelligence and cultural insight into big, executional media ideas — concepts that are surprising, channel-native, and grounded in research. Develop ideas that leverage non-traditional media opportunities: talent and cultural figure integrations, IP and brand partnerships, experiential media, platform-specific formats, and tentpole cultural moments. Ensure that media channel recommendations and creative concepts are directly informed by data — articulating a clear logical bridge from insight to idea.
• New Business Pitch Leadership. Serve as a primary strategic voice in new business pitches, owning the cultural, audience, and innovation narrative within agency presentations. Write compelling briefs and strategic frameworks that elevate work from executional planning to idea-driven platforms — giving creative and media teams a clear, inspiring foundation to build from. Collaborate with agency leadership and cross-functional pitch teams to shape a compelling, differentiated strategic story from brief to final presentation. Identify prospective client opportunities and develop proactive, speculative concepts that demonstrate the agency's cultural and media capabilities. Serve as a skilled cross-collaborator across agency partners within the Meet The People family — proactively engaging sister agencies and practice areas to inform and elevate holistic campaign strategies, including creative, brand positioning, experiential, and any other element of a fully integrated advertising campaign.
• High-Profile Client Engagement. Partner with account and integrated media teams to bring senior strategic perspective to select existing client relationships at pivotal moments — annual planning, competitive reviews, campaign launches, and upsell opportunities. Develop tailored cultural intelligence and audience insight reports for high-value clients seeking to deepen their connection to a specific audience or cultural moment.
• Agency Thought Leadership & Strategic Positioning. Build and represent the agency's cultural and strategic point of view externally — through speaking engagements, published content, conference presence, and industry networking. Introduce new thinking around emerging platforms, creators, content formats, and data signals — challenging briefs and pushing teams toward more differentiated, idea-led solutions. Contribute to the agency's positioning as a culturally-intelligent, insight-driven media partner capable of moving at the speed of culture.
  
  

What Success Looks Like

• New business presentations are distinctive, insight-driven, and idea-led — with a clear through-line from audience truth to media concept.
• Internal teams and agency partners consistently seek this role out as a strategic thought partner, not just a resource.
• Clients recognize and value the agency's cultural intelligence as a differentiator in the relationship.
• Cultural moments are identified and converted into actionable client concepts quickly — before the window closes.
• Campaigns and concepts originating from this role resonate in culture and contribute to measurable business impact.

Supervisory Responsibilities - 

• No supervisory responsibilities. This is a senior individual contributor role.

Qualifications - To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• 10–15+ years of progressive experience in media strategy, brand strategy, cultural strategy, communications planning, or a closely related discipline — ideally within an agency environment. 
• Demonstrated experience contributing to or leading new business pitches with a measurable record of success. 
• Experience working across integrated media channels including digital video, paid social, out-of-home, and emerging platforms.
• Skills & Technical Proficiency: Deep proficiency with audience research and cultural intelligence tools such as MRI-Simmons, GWI, Sparktoro, Mintel, or equivalent social listening and data platforms. 
• Strong working knowledge of the media landscape — paid, earned, and owned — and how channels work together to reach specific audiences. 
• Proficiency in presentation software (PowerPoint, Google Slides, Keynote) with the ability to build and deliver compelling, visually engaging presentations. 
• Familiarity with social media platforms and their cultural dynamics across audiences and demographics.
• Traits: Executive presence with the ability to represent the agency's cultural and strategic POV at the highest levels; identifies patterns and insights that others overlook, and thinks in ideas and narratives rather than tactics and formats; instinctive cultural fluency with a proven ability to move at the speed of relevance; quick-turn agility balanced with strategic rigor; fluent in both data and creativity — able to challenge and elevate a brief rather than simply respond to it; natural connector and cross-collaborator who builds trust across creative, media, and leadership teams; highly articulate with the ability to command a room and make complex ideas feel simple and exciting; comfortable with ambiguity and energized by building in fast-moving environments; willing and able to travel for conferences, client engagements, and cultural events.

Licenses/Certifications:

• Web analytics platform training and certification required within six months; renewed annually.
• Scrum Essentials and Agile Essentials on-demand courses required within six months.

Education

• Bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university, with a degree or concentration in advertising, marketing, communications, or a related field preferred; or an equivalent combination of education and experience. 

Total Perks Package

• The chance to be a part of a growing company and the next success story
• Amazing opportunities for career development
• Recognition programs
• Employee referral bonus
• Hybrid work schedule; 3 days in the office, 2 days working from home
• Fun and collaborative work environment
• Casual dress code
• Insurance Coverage (medical, dental, vision, life, and disability)
• 401(k) retirement plan, with employer 4% match
• Work/life benefits, including mental health and wellbeing support
• Flexible Time Off Policy
• Paid holidays, including agency soft closing Christmas Eve-New Year's Day
• Paid leave options, including sick leave, medical leave for self and family, and parental leave

Open position in all True Media office locations, including Kansas City, MO, Columbia, MO, St. Louis, MO, and Minneapolis, MN; Hybrid work schedule: 3 days in the office, 2 days working from home

Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position, now or in the future. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States on a permanent basis without requiring employer sponsorship.

The Vice President, Cultural & Creative Media Innovation is a senior individual contributor who serves as the agency's foremost authority on culture, audience behavior, and media innovation. This role exists primarily to fuel new business growth (approximately 80% of responsibilities) by translating real-time cultural intelligence and audience research into bold, media-first ideas that win pitches and open doors. A smaller but meaningful portion of the role (approximately 20%) supports high-profile existing client engagements at critical moments. Reporting directly to agency leadership, this position operates with a high degree of autonomy and is expected to move quickly — identifying a culturally relevant moment one day and having a client-ready concept the following day.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities (Other duties may be assigned)

• Cultural Intelligence & Real-Time Trend Monitoring. Monitor culture, media, social platforms, sports, entertainment, and current events on a continuous basis to identify timely, relevant moments that can be activated on behalf of clients or new business prospects. Operate with a quick-turn mentality — when a cultural moment emerges (e.g., an athlete's viral on-air comment, a breakout meme, an unexpected brand opportunity), rapidly assess its relevance and develop an actionable idea before the moment passes. Attend major cultural events, industry conferences (including South X Southwest and similar), and media and entertainment activations annually to stay on the leading edge of emerging trends, platforms, and consumer behaviors.
• Audience Research & Insight Development. Conduct and synthesize primary and secondary research to build nuanced audience portraits — going beyond demographics to map media habits, cultural touchpoints, platform behavior, and moments of peak receptivity. Identify non-obvious audience insights that form the strategic backbone of new business pitches and client recommendations. Develop reusable research frameworks and proprietary points of view that sharpen the agency's strategic differentiation.
• Media Innovation Ideation. Translate audience intelligence and cultural insight into big, executional media ideas — concepts that are surprising, channel-native, and grounded in research. Develop ideas that leverage non-traditional media opportunities: talent and cultural figure integrations, IP and brand partnerships, experiential media, platform-specific formats, and tentpole cultural moments. Ensure that media channel recommendations and creative concepts are directly informed by data — articulating a clear logical bridge from insight to idea.
• New Business Pitch Leadership. Serve as a primary strategic voice in new business pitches, owning the cultural, audience, and innovation narrative within agency presentations. Write compelling briefs and strategic frameworks that elevate work from executional planning to idea-driven platforms — giving creative and media teams a clear, inspiring foundation to build from. Collaborate with agency leadership and cross-functional pitch teams to shape a compelling, differentiated strategic story from brief to final presentation. Identify prospective client opportunities and develop proactive, speculative concepts that demonstrate the agency's cultural and media capabilities. Serve as a skilled cross-collaborator across agency partners within the Meet The People family — proactively engaging sister agencies and practice areas to inform and elevate holistic campaign strategies, including creative, brand positioning, experiential, and any other element of a fully integrated advertising campaign.
• High-Profile Client Engagement. Partner with account and integrated media teams to bring senior strategic perspective to select existing client relationships at pivotal moments — annual planning, competitive reviews, campaign launches, and upsell opportunities. Develop tailored cultural intelligence and audience insight reports for high-value clients seeking to deepen their connection to a specific audience or cultural moment.
• Agency Thought Leadership & Strategic Positioning. Build and represent the agency's cultural and strategic point of view externally — through speaking engagements, published content, conference presence, and industry networking. Introduce new thinking around emerging platforms, creators, content formats, and data signals — challenging briefs and pushing teams toward more differentiated, idea-led solutions. Contribute to the agency's positioning as a culturally-intelligent, insight-driven media partner capable of moving at the speed of culture.
  
  

What Success Looks Like

• New business presentations are distinctive, insight-driven, and idea-led — with a clear through-line from audience truth to media concept.
• Internal teams and agency partners consistently seek this role out as a strategic thought partner, not just a resource.
• Clients recognize and value the agency's cultural intelligence as a differentiator in the relationship.
• Cultural moments are identified and converted into actionable client concepts quickly — before the window closes.
• Campaigns and concepts originating from this role resonate in culture and contribute to measurable business impact.

Supervisory Responsibilities - 

• No supervisory responsibilities. This is a senior individual contributor role.

Qualifications - To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• 10–15+ years of progressive experience in media strategy, brand strategy, cultural strategy, communications planning, or a closely related discipline — ideally within an agency environment. 
• Demonstrated experience contributing to or leading new business pitches with a measurable record of success. 
• Experience working across integrated media channels including digital video, paid social, out-of-home, and emerging platforms.
• Skills & Technical Proficiency: Deep proficiency with audience research and cultural intelligence tools such as MRI-Simmons, GWI, Sparktoro, Mintel, or equivalent social listening and data platforms. 
• Strong working knowledge of the media landscape — paid, earned, and owned — and how channels work together to reach specific audiences. 
• Proficiency in presentation software (PowerPoint, Google Slides, Keynote) with the ability to build and deliver compelling, visually engaging presentations. 
• Familiarity with social media platforms and their cultural dynamics across audiences and demographics.
• Traits: Executive presence with the ability to represent the agency's cultural and strategic POV at the highest levels; identifies patterns and insights that others overlook, and thinks in ideas and narratives rather than tactics and formats; instinctive cultural fluency with a proven ability to move at the speed of relevance; quick-turn agility balanced with strategic rigor; fluent in both data and creativity — able to challenge and elevate a brief rather than simply respond to it; natural connector and cross-collaborator who builds trust across creative, media, and leadership teams; highly articulate with the ability to command a room and make complex ideas feel simple and exciting; comfortable with ambiguity and energized by building in fast-moving environments; willing and able to travel for conferences, client engagements, and cultural events.

Licenses/Certifications:

• Web analytics platform training and certification required within six months; renewed annually.
• Scrum Essentials and Agile Essentials on-demand courses required within six months.

Education

• Bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university, with a degree or concentration in advertising, marketing, communications, or a related field preferred; or an equivalent combination of education and experience. 

Total Perks Package

• The chance to be a part of a growing company and the next success story
• Amazing opportunities for career development
• Recognition programs
• Employee referral bonus
• Hybrid work schedule; 3 days in the office, 2 days working from home
• Fun and collaborative work environment
• Casual dress code
• Insurance Coverage (medical, dental, vision, life, and disability)
• 401(k) retirement plan, with employer 4% match
• Work/life benefits, including mental health and wellbeing support
• Flexible Time Off Policy
• Paid holidays, including agency soft closing Christmas Eve-New Year's Day
• Paid leave options, including sick leave, medical leave for self and family, and parental leave

Open position in Portsmouth, NH, St Louis, MO, Kansas City, MO, Minneapolis, MN, Columbia MO; Hybrid work schedule; 2 days in the office, 3 days working from home

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position, now or in the future. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States on a permanent basis without requiring employer sponsorship.

The Opportunity

We are seeking a SVP, Performance Marketing to lead and scale a high-impact performance team within our agency, Swell Media, part of the broader integrated media holding companies True Independent Holdings, and Meet The People. 

This role is built for a challenger-minded performance digital leader, someone who thrives in fast-moving, high-accountability environments and knows how to turn media into a true revenue engine. 

You will own a portfolio of ecommerce and lead generation clients, driving measurable growth through full-funnel strategy, advanced platform execution, and a relentless focus on efficiency (ROAS, CPA, LTV). Internally, you will lead, mentor, and scale teams. Externally, you will serve as a trusted partner to senior client stakeholders, shaping both strategy and business outcomes.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities (Other duties may be assigned)

Client Leadership & Commercial Growth

• Own performance outcomes across a portfolio of ecommerce and lead generation clients, with direct accountability to revenue, CAC/CPA, and ROAS targets
• Build senior-level client relationships, positioning the agency as a strategic growth partner, not just an executional vendor
• Lead new business pitches, RFP responses, and organic account growth, with a focus on expanding performance-driven services
• Identify and unlock growth opportunities across the broader holding company’s capabilities (brand, creative, analytics, CRM)

Performance Strategy (Ecommerce & Lead Gen Focus) 

• Architect and oversee full-funnel, audience-led strategies tailored to:
• Ecommerce (feed-driven media, conversion rate optimization, LTV optimization, retention signals)
• Lead Generation (funnel optimization, lead quality, offline conversion tracking, sales alignment)
• Ensure seamless integration between upper-funnel investment and lower-funnel efficiency, driving scalable, sustainable growth
• Push beyond platform defaults, developing differentiated approaches to audience strategy, creative, and bidding
• Serve as the ultimate technical escalation point for the agency, conducting rigorous audits on high-stakes accounts to identify and resolve performance plateaus
• Develop proprietary testing frameworks that push beyond standard A/B testing into sophisticated incrementality and lift studies

Channel & Platform Leadership

• Oversee execution across all core performance channels:
• Primary - paid search, paid social
• Secondary - programmatic, affiliate, CTV, and emerging platforms
• Maintain deep expertise across key platforms:
• Google Ads (Search, YouTube, Performance Max, Shopping, Merchant Center)
• Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, and programmatic ecosystems
• Lead advanced capabilities across:
• Feed optimization and automation (critical for ecommerce scale)
• Creative testing frameworks and iteration velocity
• Signal development, audience modeling, and incrementality

Data, Measurement & Martech

• Own the measurement framework and marketing technology ecosystem, including:
• GA4, Google Tag Manager, CRM integrations (e.g., HubSpot)
• Attribution models, incrementality testing, and offline conversion tracking
• Reporting and visualization (e.g., Looker Studio)
• Build closed-loop measurement systems that connect media investment to revenue, pipeline, and customer value
• Drive a culture of testing, experimentation, and continuous optimization

Team Leadership & Challenger Culture 

• Build, lead, and mentor high-performing, performance-driven teams across levels
• Instill a challenger mindset, pushing teams to question platform best practices, test aggressively, and innovate beyond standard approaches
• Act as a player-coach, balancing strategic leadership with hands-on expertise where it matters
• Develop scalable frameworks, playbooks, and training to elevate team performance and consistency

Operational & Financial Leadership

• Oversee portfolio-level performance, including budget allocation, pacing, and forecasting
• Drive accountability to client KPIs, SLAs, and agency revenue/margin targets
• Partner with executive leadership on resource planning, staffing, and operational efficiency
• Build systems that enable scalable growth without sacrificing performance quality

Holding Company Integration

• Collaborate across the broader media organization to deliver fully integrated, cross-channel strategies
• Act as a bridge between performance marketing and brand, creative, analytics, and investment teams
• Ensure performance media is fully aligned with brand strategy, creative direction, and broader media planning
• Help position the agency as a modern, performance-first leader within the holding company ecosystem

Qualifications - To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• 8+ years of experience in performance marketing, with leadership roles in an agency environment
• Proven success scaling ecommerce and/or lead generation businesses through paid media and conversion optimization
• Deep expertise across paid media platforms, analytics, and marketing technology
• Mastery of advanced scripts, API integrations for automated bidding, and sophisticated CRM-to-platform data loops (e.g., Salesforce, HubSpot, and Offline Conversion Tracking at scale)
• Proven ability to troubleshoot complex tracking and attribution discrepancies in a post-cookie landscape
• Femonstrated ability to manage high-growth client portfolios and drive measurable business outcomes
• Strong track record in new business, client growth, and senior stakeholder management
• Experience operating within or alongside integrated media organizations or holding companies preferred
• Exceptional leadership, strategic thinking, and communication skills

Total Perks Package

• The chance to be a part of a growing company and the next success story
• Amazing opportunities for career development
• Recognition programs
• Employee referral bonus
• Hybrid work schedule; 2 days in the office, 3 days working from home
• Fun and collaborative work environment
• Casual dress code
• Insurance Coverage (medical, dental, vision, life, and disability)
• 401(k) retirement plan, with employer 4% match
• Work/life benefits, including mental health and wellbeing support
• Flexible Time Off Policy
• Paid holidays, including agency soft closing Christmas Eve-New Year's Day
• Paid leave options, including sick leave, medical leave for self and family, and parental leave

Open position in Portsmouth, NH, St Louis, MO, Kansas City, MO, Minneapolis, MN, Columbia MO; Hybrid work schedule; 2 days in the office, 3 days working from home

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position, now or in the future. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States on a permanent basis without requiring employer sponsorship.

The Opportunity

We are seeking a SVP, Performance Marketing to lead and scale a high-impact performance team within our agency, Swell Media, part of the broader integrated media holding companies True Independent Holdings, and Meet The People. 

This role is built for a challenger-minded performance digital leader, someone who thrives in fast-moving, high-accountability environments and knows how to turn media into a true revenue engine. 

You will own a portfolio of ecommerce and lead generation clients, driving measurable growth through full-funnel strategy, advanced platform execution, and a relentless focus on efficiency (ROAS, CPA, LTV). Internally, you will lead, mentor, and scale teams. Externally, you will serve as a trusted partner to senior client stakeholders, shaping both strategy and business outcomes.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities (Other duties may be assigned)

Client Leadership & Commercial Growth

• Own performance outcomes across a portfolio of ecommerce and lead generation clients, with direct accountability to revenue, CAC/CPA, and ROAS targets
• Build senior-level client relationships, positioning the agency as a strategic growth partner, not just an executional vendor
• Lead new business pitches, RFP responses, and organic account growth, with a focus on expanding performance-driven services
• Identify and unlock growth opportunities across the broader holding company’s capabilities (brand, creative, analytics, CRM)

Performance Strategy (Ecommerce & Lead Gen Focus) 

• Architect and oversee full-funnel, audience-led strategies tailored to:
• Ecommerce (feed-driven media, conversion rate optimization, LTV optimization, retention signals)
• Lead Generation (funnel optimization, lead quality, offline conversion tracking, sales alignment)
• Ensure seamless integration between upper-funnel investment and lower-funnel efficiency, driving scalable, sustainable growth
• Push beyond platform defaults, developing differentiated approaches to audience strategy, creative, and bidding
• Serve as the ultimate technical escalation point for the agency, conducting rigorous audits on high-stakes accounts to identify and resolve performance plateaus
• Develop proprietary testing frameworks that push beyond standard A/B testing into sophisticated incrementality and lift studies

Channel & Platform Leadership

• Oversee execution across all core performance channels:
• Primary - paid search, paid social
• Secondary - programmatic, affiliate, CTV, and emerging platforms
• Maintain deep expertise across key platforms:
• Google Ads (Search, YouTube, Performance Max, Shopping, Merchant Center)
• Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, and programmatic ecosystems
• Lead advanced capabilities across:
• Feed optimization and automation (critical for ecommerce scale)
• Creative testing frameworks and iteration velocity
• Signal development, audience modeling, and incrementality

Data, Measurement & Martech

• Own the measurement framework and marketing technology ecosystem, including:
• GA4, Google Tag Manager, CRM integrations (e.g., HubSpot)
• Attribution models, incrementality testing, and offline conversion tracking
• Reporting and visualization (e.g., Looker Studio)
• Build closed-loop measurement systems that connect media investment to revenue, pipeline, and customer value
• Drive a culture of testing, experimentation, and continuous optimization

Team Leadership & Challenger Culture 

• Build, lead, and mentor high-performing, performance-driven teams across levels
• Instill a challenger mindset, pushing teams to question platform best practices, test aggressively, and innovate beyond standard approaches
• Act as a player-coach, balancing strategic leadership with hands-on expertise where it matters
• Develop scalable frameworks, playbooks, and training to elevate team performance and consistency

Operational & Financial Leadership

• Oversee portfolio-level performance, including budget allocation, pacing, and forecasting
• Drive accountability to client KPIs, SLAs, and agency revenue/margin targets
• Partner with executive leadership on resource planning, staffing, and operational efficiency
• Build systems that enable scalable growth without sacrificing performance quality

Holding Company Integration

• Collaborate across the broader media organization to deliver fully integrated, cross-channel strategies
• Act as a bridge between performance marketing and brand, creative, analytics, and investment teams
• Ensure performance media is fully aligned with brand strategy, creative direction, and broader media planning
• Help position the agency as a modern, performance-first leader within the holding company ecosystem

Qualifications - To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• 8+ years of experience in performance marketing, with leadership roles in an agency environment
• Proven success scaling ecommerce and/or lead generation businesses through paid media and conversion optimization
• Deep expertise across paid media platforms, analytics, and marketing technology
• Mastery of advanced scripts, API integrations for automated bidding, and sophisticated CRM-to-platform data loops (e.g., Salesforce, HubSpot, and Offline Conversion Tracking at scale)
• Proven ability to troubleshoot complex tracking and attribution discrepancies in a post-cookie landscape
• Femonstrated ability to manage high-growth client portfolios and drive measurable business outcomes
• Strong track record in new business, client growth, and senior stakeholder management
• Experience operating within or alongside integrated media organizations or holding companies preferred
• Exceptional leadership, strategic thinking, and communication skills

Total Perks Package

• The chance to be a part of a growing company and the next success story
• Amazing opportunities for career development
• Recognition programs
• Employee referral bonus
• Hybrid work schedule; 2 days in the office, 3 days working from home
• Fun and collaborative work environment
• Casual dress code
• Insurance Coverage (medical, dental, vision, life, and disability)
• 401(k) retirement plan, with employer 4% match
• Work/life benefits, including mental health and wellbeing support
• Flexible Time Off Policy
• Paid holidays, including agency soft closing Christmas Eve-New Year's Day
• Paid leave options, including sick leave, medical leave for self and family, and parental leave

About the Opportunity

This isn't a traditional sales role; it's a chance to build and operate a hyperlocal magazine in your community, backed by the support of an established national company. You'll build something of your own: developing your market, your client relationships, and working to grow a recurring revenue stream.

If you're a relationship-driven seller ready to invest in building a business, this role blends sales, ownership, and community leadership into one unique opportunity.

Position Summary

We're seeking a Senior Account Executive (known to N2 as Area Directors) to launch, grow, and lead a Stroll publication in your local market. If accepted, you'd operate as a local publisher: driving revenue, building partnerships with business owners, and shaping a magazine that reflects the heart of your community.

Your first months will focus on establishing your territory and building your client base. From there, you grow an asset you own.

This hybrid position involves a blend of in-person community engagement and work performed from your home office.

Who You Are

• Entrepreneurial and self-directed: you're energized by building something, not just maintaining it
• A natural relationship-builder with consultative sales instincts
• Motivated by helping local businesses grow and succeed
• Confident enough to trust N2's proven system and make it your own

What You'll Do

• Conduct consultative meetings with local business owners to establish long-term advertising partnerships
• Build meaningful relationships within the community using a proven engagement model
• Connect local businesses with their ideal customers through your publication
• Engage with homeowners to capture authentic, community-driven content
• Manage your territory, sales pipeline, and publication operations
• Partner with N2's national team for design, production, training, and ongoing support
• Lead your publication's growth as the face of Stroll in your market

What You’ll Love

• Ownership, Not Just Employment – Build and manage a local publication business in your market
• Flexible Schedule – Design your workday around your life
• Comprehensive Training – Proven, repeatable systems to guide your success
• Award-Winning Culture – Supportive, nationally recognized team behind you
• Community Impact – Become a connector and leader in your local area

Income Snapshot

The average yearly commission earned among the top 10% of Reporting Publications (the 39 highest earning publications out of 394 total) was $177,692. Within this group, the median was $160,913, the highest was $336,214, and the lowest was $132,096.

Your financial results may differ. Important assumptions and qualifiers relating to this information can be found in Item 19 of our October 10, 2025 franchise disclosure document.

About The N2 Company

The N2 Company helps small- to mid-sized businesses connect with affluent homeowners through high-quality monthly publications, targeted digital advertising, and creative community events. Our portfolio includes 800+ custom publications across brands including Stroll, BeLocal, Greet, Real Producers, and more.

About Stroll Magazine

Stroll delivers hyper-local content to desirable, affluent communities. Residents value Stroll because the content comes from the community itself. Local businesses benefit by connecting directly with these engaged homeowners.

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED
• US Resident
• Hybrid (local community engagement + home office)

In this role, you will…

• Lead Strategic Change: Drive the end-to-end change management strategy for enterprise-level marketing operations initiatives, ensuring successful service delivery and high user adoption.
• Apply Change Management Frameworks: Evaluate and apply the most effective organizational psychology and behavioral frameworks to architect customized transition strategies that meet the unique needs of each client environment.
• Engage Executive Stakeholders: Act as a strategic advisor to senior marketing leadership, translating complex operational shifts into clear business value and organizational readiness.
• Manage and Mentor: Lead a high-performing team of direct reports, fostering a culture of professional growth and excellence in change management execution.
• Bridge Strategy and Execution: Partner with technical architects and technologists to ensure that system implementations (e.g., Workfront, Martech) are supported by robust human-centric transition plans.
• Measure Impact: Define and track success metrics related to service delivery excellence, employee engagement, and platform proficiency to demonstrate ROI.
• Drive Iterative Change: Implement agile change management methodologies, utilizing real-time adoption data and user feedback loops to pivot strategies and ensure continuous alignment with evolving marketing objectives for our clients.
• Strengthen Change Maturity: Establish proactive change readiness assessments and resiliency training programs that equip our clients employees at all levels to navigate high-frequency operational transitions with minimal friction.
• Lead AI Workshops and Assessments: Facilitate client-facing sessions focused on the cultural and organizational shifts required for AI adoption, including leadership alignment, stakeholder buy-in, change readiness, and overcoming resistance to new ways of working.

Be Accountable and Responsible

• The Change Blueprint: Architect and execute comprehensive change management frameworks that allow our enterprise clients to transition seamlessly through complex transformations.
• AI Change Readiness: Develop and maintain a repeatable workshop curriculum for AI enablement and adoption that can be tailored to client maturity levels, covering cultural readiness, mindset shifts, and skills development planning.
• Stakeholder Alignment: Secure active and visible sponsorship from executive leaders to mitigate resistance and accelerate adoption.
• Team Performance: Oversee the workload and output of Architects and Technologists, ensuring all Change Management deliverables meet MERGE quality standards
• Risk Mitigation: Proactively identify and manage potential points of resistance or "change fatigue" within client organizations, providing clear mitigation strategies.
• Continuous Improvement: Standardize change management playbooks and documentation to ensure scalability and repeatability across the Marketing Operations department.

Qualifications We’re Looking For

• Experience: 5+ years of experience in change management or organizational development, with at least 3 years in a leadership role managing direct reports.
• Executive Presence: Exceptional communication skills with the ability to influence and build deep trust with CMOs and C-suite stakeholders.
• Analytical Mindset: Ability to use data and feedback to pivot strategies and demonstrate the tangible impact of change initiatives.
• AI Fluency: Working familiarity with AI tools and their organizational implications; experience facilitating technology adoption programs involving emerging or rapidly evolving platforms is strongly preferred.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.

At MERGE, we’re committed to fostering an environment where our team members can thrive in both their careers and personal lives, ensuring they feel supported and empowered to succeed.

MERGE believes in transparency and equity. In accordance with state regulations, we’re proud to include salary ranges in our job postings to ensure fair compensation practices.

The salary range for this role is $114,000 - $137,000, based on the individual’s skills, experience, qualifications, location, and other relevant factors. The salary pay range is subject to change and may be modified at any time.  

MERGE is proud to invest in benefits that include meaningful Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, 401K, Lifestyle Spending Account, Employer Paid Life & Disability Insurance, Flexible Time off & Holidays plus many other benefits and rewards.

Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States.

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BarkleyOKRP PR believes that modern consumers are guided and inspired by trusted sources. We believe brands win with stakeholders when they lead with purpose inside their organizations and share relevant stories that build and protect their reputations. From sustainability and culture to marketing ideas and actions, we create integrated ideas and communication strategies that bring a brand's purpose to life. We are searching for someone who is passionate about building relationships with media to create authentic endorsements and content. We desire detail-oriented team members who believe in collaboration and client service.

Responsibilities:

· Serving as PR lead on agency account

· Strategic communication planning and direction

· Client relationship management and counsel

· Event planning and management

· Integrated marketing communications collaboration across the agency

· Crisis and risk management consultation

Qualifications:

· Bachelor’s degree or equivalent industry experience required

· 10+ years public relations experience or related experience and/or training

· Deep agricultural communication experience required specifically in the row and specialty crops space and crop protection

· Knowledge of the ag trade media landscape and contacts

· Experience leading client relationships and accounts

· Experience in developing strategies to secure national and trade media coverage

· Experience in executive interview coaching and training, as well as counsel

· Excellent communication and persuasion skills, both written and oral

· Impeccable attention to detail and stellar organizational skills

· Creative problem solver with strong critical thinking skills

· Familiarity with sustainability practices and trends

As our Supervisor for Emerging/SMB Accounts you will…

Manage a defined portfolio of customers, serving as a trusted advisor responsible for ensuring delivery of MERGE solutions, value realization, retention, and growth across the Emerging/SMB Accounts within your portfolio. You will develop deep knowledge of each customer’s business objectives, industry landscape, and success metrics, aligning MERGE solutions to deliver measurable impact.

This is a highly consultative role requiring strong executive presence, strategic thinking, and cross-functional collaboration. You will collaborate closely with clients and internal teams to plan, execute, manage, and analyze detailed project plans, ensuring all work is delivered on time, on budget, and to agency and client standards, with a focus on measurable results.

You are responsible for the ongoing customer relationship post-sale and be accountable for ensuring customers achieve their desired outcomes while identifying opportunities to expand MERGE solutions within these clients over time.

What You’ll Do

• Own the post-sale relationship for a defined portfolio of customers, ensuring long-term retention and growth.
• Be responsible for the overall success and health of your portfolio
• Develop and execute tailored success plans aligned to each customer’s strategic objectives and measurable business outcomes.
• Build and maintain strong, multi-threaded relationships across business and technical stakeholders, including executive sponsors.
• Lead strategic business reviews (Account Engagement/Project Delivery Reviews) to demonstrate value realized, track performance against goals, and align on future priorities.
• Drive adoption and value realization by identifying gaps, recommending best practices, and aligning solutions to evolving customer needs.
• Proactively monitor customer health, usage trends, and engagement signals to mitigate risk and address challenges before they escalate.
• Partner closely with Partner Solutions Team on account planning, renewals, and expansion strategy, contributing to forecasting and long-term growth plans.
• Serve as the voice of the customer internally, synthesizing feedback and collaborating with Solution Consultants and MERGE SME’s within the Technology Solutions Group to improve customer experience and outcomes.
• Navigate complex customer environments, aligning multiple stakeholders and driving consensus toward shared success goals.
• Develop project briefs, initiate upsell initiatives of MERGE solutions as applicable 
• Ability to understand the client’s point of view along with our internal teams and know how to express those perspectives, concerns and requirements to the other party.  
• Negotiate scopes of work and drive in-line/organic growth; oversee burn reports and change of scope discussions as necessary 
• Act as a leader for the client as much as a communicator, advocate and mentor as dictated by the relationship, engagement and circumstances. 

What You Need to Succeed

• Bachelor’s Degree and/or relevant work experience
• 7+ years of experience in Customer Success, Account Management, Consulting, or a related customer-facing role in a SaaS or technology environment
• Technical working knowledge of platforms (Adobe, Salesforce, Sitecore, Google, Optimizely) is required
• Proven experience managing a portfolio of accounts with responsibility for retention and growth
• Strong executive presence and the ability to influence and build credibility with senior stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to develop account strategies and align solutions to business outcomes
• Experience conducting business reviews and presenting to leadership audiences
• Strong analytical skills and comfort interpreting customer usage data, adoption trends, and performance metrics
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
• Ability to prioritize, multi-task, and manage multiple complex customer relationships simultaneously
• Self-starter with a proactive, ownership mindset and passion for delivering exceptional customer experiences
• Knowledge of marketing technology, digital marketing, digital media, data platforms, content management, or customer journey solutions is a plus
• Flexibility to travel (approximately 10%)

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At MERGE, we’re committed to fostering an environment where our team members can thrive in both their careers and personal lives, ensuring they feel supported and empowered to succeed.

MERGE is proud to invest in benefits that include meaningful Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, 401K, Lifestyle Spending Account, Employer Paid Life & Disability Insurance, Flexible Time off & Holidays plus many other benefits and rewards.

Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States.

***We are hiring multiple outside sales reps in many Midwest cities including: Chicago, IL, Milwaukee WI, Minneapolis MN, Columbus OH, Madison WI, Detroit MI, Indianapolis IN, Omaha NE, Cleveland OH, Wichita, KS, Kansas City, MO. 

Who we are:

We dream big. We love food. We’re building the next generation of marketing software and our mission is to help the lifeblood of our communities, small businesses, specifically local restaurants and bars.

Launched in 2015, SpotHopper has quickly become the leading all-in-one marketing and operations platform for in-house teams to use at bars and restaurants. We work with nearly 20,000 restaurants and are one of the fastest growing tech companies in the country.

SpotHopper's all-in-one marketing and operation technology helps independent restaurants tackle the challenges they face online from one easy-to-use platform, saving them time and money. The industry-leading solution enables operators to elevate their online image, increase exposure, bring in more customers, attract more qualified employees, and keep up with national chains.

Who we are looking for:

• Results and goal oriented individuals with a competitive hunter mindset
• Growth minded
• Thrive when given freedom and autonomy
• Proven track record of exceeding your quota in a high velocity environment, please include quotas/ KPIs, quota attainment, and any achievements (president club, summit club, highest sales of the year, etc.) on your resume
• Passionate about food and people
• Go-getter mentality with ability to innovate and get things done
• Enjoy working collaboratively with management and other team members throughout the sales process
• Confident go getters who are not afraid to pick up the phone or drop in the restaurant to speak with prospective clients
• Dedicated to contributing to the growth of your community and the SpotHopper brand
• Those who have worked in the service industry before, please include this on your resume

What you’ll do:

• The Account Executive position is perfect for those who have experience in sales, specifically in SaaS, marketing, full cycle, hunter oriented roles that incorporates cold outreach. AEs start their time with SpotHopper world class training process and then quickly jump into the field, meeting with owners, and making sales. 

  This role offers a built in progression path as well as endless opportunities to move into management, training, and new roles that open within the company. 

  • Own the full cycle, from cold outreach to close
  • Work closely with our amazing Customer Success team as they handle the majority of the post sale work 
  • Focus on bringing new business, selling to locally owned bars and restaurants using a consultative approach 
  • Get into the field, meeting in person with owners demonstrating the SpotHopper platform and all our offerings, working with them to fill their needs
  • Hold 1-4 meetings per day, in person at the bar or restaurant with the owner 
  • Cover a territory of roughly 45-1 hours radius (this is subject to change, and is territory dependent)  

What we offer:

• Compensation when starting as an  Account Executive: year one $100-125k OTE (Base $68-80k)
• Many of our full AEs are in the $150-$200k+ range by year two.
• Performance based equity options
• Monthly stipend for operational expenses
• Healthcare, vision, dental, and life insurance
• 401K matching
• Unlimited time off
• Flexible hours and ability to do much of your work from home
• All sales reps receive a monthly stipend to spend on any and all local restaurants. We want our employees to be experts in the service industry and their market, and continue to help these small businesses any way we can.
•  AEs receive $500 per month

We are seeking a Project Manager to join our Private Equity and M&A team! A focal point of the IMA Next growth strategy is the creation and development of industry vertical and product specialty practice areas.  Within the Private Equity and M&A specialty practice, IMA will align the IMA resources needed to deliver superior services tailored to meet the specific needs of private equity investors and corporate clients contemplating a merger or acquisition. This role leads the due diligence process from initial engagement through deal close, working with various departments across the IMA enterprise to complete and deliver the diligence report. 

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Support and demonstrates IMA’s core values
• Values and understands the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion among all IMA associates
• Independently access and analyze due diligence data site content: review, download, and organize due diligence matters; and distribute relevant information to internal teams and industry specialists for comprehensive analysis.
• Participate in client presentations and fund stewardship reports with minimal oversight.
• Maintain consistent, high-quality client services according to set expectations.
• With minimal oversight, conduct an overall evaluation of target company’s existing and historical insurance programs to determine adequacy of coverage and identify potential post-close needs.
• With minimal oversight, collaborate with product line specialists to assess transaction-specific exposures, analyze coverage, conduct actuarial assessments of self-funded costs, identify potential uninsured risks.
• Estimate pricing for recommended, transaction-specific, and post-close coverages.
• Evaluate and project estimated annual cost of risk for target-company’s insurance program.
• Work with IMA client advantage partners to identify insurance-related considerations (e.g. Claims, Risk Control, Legal).
• Ensure a smooth and thorough handoff to the IMA service team post-transaction.

Required skills and experiences:

• 5-7 years of professional insurance experience preferred.
• Property & Casualty (P&C) license (must be obtained within the first 3 months of hire).
• Basic understanding of the P&C insurance due diligence process.
• Foundational knowledge of the private equity sector and corporate acquisitions.
• Ability to assess the financial impact of P&C insurance in acquisition scenarios.
• Flexibility and responsiveness to meet the fact-paced demands of the private equity space.
• Some experience working with C-suite executives.
• Strong technical skills to support client service and deliverables.
• Proven ability to build and maintain strong relationships with clients, carriers, and partners.
• Bachelor’s degree required, advanced degree a plus.

Overview:

Are you a high-performing sales professional with a proven track record of crushing quota and a passion for helping people unlock their potential? Nerdy is seeking experienced Sales Representatives who combine consultative selling expertise with competitive drive to help thousands of families invest in their academic success.

As a Sales Representative, you’ll own the full sales cycle—from initial outreach through close—guiding prospective students and families toward personalized learning solutions. This is a SALES position that demands a consultative approach and relentless execution. Success in this role comes from:

• Conducting high-volume, high-quality discovery calls with prospective families
• Applying consultative selling techniques to uncover needs and recommend tailored learning solutions
• Building trust and urgency through value-driven conversations
• Consistently meeting and exceeding daily, weekly, and monthly sales targets

Location: Fully Remote Position

Upcoming Start Dates/Training: 

• Paid Training Schedule (Virtual | 6 weeks total):
• Weeks 1–3: Monday–Friday 8:00 AM–5:00 PM CT
• Weeks 4–6: Monday–Friday 8:00 AM–12:00 PM + 4:00 PM–8:00 PM CT (split shift with a mid-day break)
• Post-Training Schedule: After successful completion of training, your permanent schedule will remain on a split shift (8:00 AM–12:00 PM + 4:00 PM–8:00 PM CT). Exact days will be reviewed during the interview process. 

Availability Requirement: You must be able to work all training hours and the permanent split-shift schedule after training.

About Nerdy:

At Nerdy (NYSE: NRDY) -  the company behind Varsity Tutors - we’re redrawing the blueprint of learning. Our Live + AI™ platform fuses real-time human expertise with proprietary generative-AI systems, setting a new bar for measurable academic impact at global scale. 

We recruit the kind of technologists and operators you’d bet on as solo founders - people who turn ambiguous problems into shipping code, iterate faster than markets move, and compound their advantage with every data point. In an era where great employees can deliver 10-times the leverage of the merely good, we back those who play to win.

Fortune favors the bold. Join us.

How we compete:

• AI-Native at every level
  From the CEO to day-one hires, everyone builds and ships with generative AI. If you’re not wielding AI, you’re not done.
• Entrepreneurial velocity
  Move at founder speed, prototype in hours, and measure in real user outcomes. Slow teams die.
• Free-market rigor
  Ideas rise or fall on merit and results - no committees, no politics, no cap on upside.
• Full-stack ownership
  You design, build, and run what you ship; accountability is a feature, not a bug.
• Reward for contribution
  Pay rises with impact, not years. Outstanding results earn outsized rewards. We evaluate both what you achieve and how you achieve it: living our leadership principles and using AI effectively are formally measured and rewarded.
• Relentless exploration
  Push the frontier of generative AI in live learning and - because only the paranoid survive - questioning every legacy assumption along the way.
• Is Apolitical
  You stay focused on mission-aligned outcomes, not distractions or unrelated causes.

If you’re a technically minded builder who thrives on open competition, personal responsibility, and the chance to redefine how the world learns - while continually stretching the limits of what generative AI can do - come do the most ambitious and rewarding work of your career here. Learn more at nerdy.com.

Nerdy’s shareholder letters below explain our latest products and strategy:

• Q4-2025 Shareholder Letter
• Q3-2025 Shareholder Letter
• Q2-2025 Shareholder Letter

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• 3+ years of sales, business development, or account management experience strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated success in quota-carrying roles with a track record of meeting or exceeding targets.
• Experience in consultative, solution-based, or needs-based selling environments
• Ability to work a FULL-TIME schedule, including evenings and weekends
• Strong technical aptitude and ability to learn new systems and CRM tools quickly
• Stable, distraction-free remote work environment with reliable high-speed internet

Our Most Successful Sales Representatives Typically Bring

• Proven history of exceeding sales quotas and revenue targets in B2C or high-volume sales environments.
• Experience in phone-based or inside sales with strong conversion metrics.
• Career progression showing increased responsibility, larger books of business, or leadership roles.
• Expertise in needs assessment, objection handling, and closing techniques.
• Background in industries such as edtech, SaaS, insurance, financial services, real estate, home services, or other consultative B2C sales.
• Comfort with CRM platforms, pipeline management, and data-driven performance tracking.
• Commitment to continuous learning and professional development.

Career Growth & Development:

This role offers clear pathways for advancement based on performance:

• Structured promotion track from Sales Representative to Senior Sales Representative and other career progression opportunities (training, management, operations).
• Merit-based advancement opportunities into training, management, and other business areas.
• Comprehensive paid training program focusing on educational consulting and sales excellence.
• Mentorship and leadership development opportunities.

Unlock Your Full Potential at Nerdy:

At Nerdy, we’re not just transforming how people learn—we’re transforming your life. Our benefits package is built with a forward-thinking, “focus on you” mindset, so you can be your healthiest, happiest, and yes, most super-human self. Here’s a snapshot of what we offer:

• Competitive Compensation: $41,600 ($20/hour) base salary plus $12,000 annual variable compensation target (after training). Also, performance-based advancement opportunities with increased earning potential.
• Comprehensive Healthcare: Choose from top-tier medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans designed to keep you and your family covered.
• Retirement Made Simple: Benefit from our 401(k) plan with an immediate company match—no vesting delays!
• Family First: Generous maternity, paternity, and adoption leave ensure you have the support you need at life’s big moments.
• Equipment: Company-provided MacBook and headphones, as well as the latest technology and software programs to help make you successful.
• Continuous Learning: Get an all-inclusive learning membership for you and your household—including 1-on-1 tutoring hours, unlimited on-demand classes, and access to our full suite of learning products and services.
• Supercharge with AI: Gain exclusive access to cutting-edge AI tools that boost your productivity, making you feel almost super-human (cape not included).

ESSENTIAL JOB RESPONSIBILITIES include but are not limited to:

• Supports and demonstrates IMA’s core values
• Values and understands the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion among all IMA associates
• Responsibility for design and implementation of International Programs and CMPs
• Under minimal guidance, prepares and markets global renewal submissions, including gathering information and markets and/or delivers submissions to underwriters
• Coordinates strategy meetings and participates in client account review meetings, marketing meetings, and/or client proposal presentations
• Responsibility for completing the Global Risk Insurance Manuals on specified accounts
• Provides input in the development and implementation of department policies and procedures, as well as operating and strategic plans within area of specialty
• Manages the Global Account Coordinator and/or the Account Manager to input client data in the WBNet3.0 system or other partner systems for select international reverse flow accounts
• Manages Global Account Manager and/or Account Coordinator regarding the account review information and the bind coverage information in conjunction with workflow standards
• Responds to and finalizes RFP requests
• Researches and understands international industry trends, product development, and government regulations globally
• Assists Director of Global Risk & Benefits in training, mentoring of IMA associates, and department projects and initiatives

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS include but are not limited to:

• 5 to 10 years of similar or related experience
• Bachelor’s degree preferred or equivalent experience
• Attains and/or maintains professional designation or license: CIC and/or CPCU required
• Preferred: intermediate EPIC Applied Systems experience
• Experience with MS Office products required (specifically Teams, PowerPoint, Outlook, Word and Excel)
• Moderate travel required (25-50%)
• Required: strong written and oral communication skills
• Required: strong analytical and insurance interpretation skills

COMPETENCIES & TRAITS:

• Business Acumen
• Professionalism
• Building relationships
• Problem Solving
• Communicating

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