Business Development Director, Media Solutions

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

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

What You'll Do:

• Maintain and grow existing client and agency relationships
• Respond to RFPs with creative solutions
• Execute campaigns and analyze performance with the assistance of your dedicated Account Manager
• Continue to embody the successful brand presence of POLITICO in the market

What You'll Need:

• Passion for journalism: individual who reveres and respects the art, science and creativity involved in journalism and its impact on our democracy
• Knowledge of political influencer market: individual who understands the dynamic and complex ecosystem that drive public affairs decisions
• Creativity: individual who wants to think outside of turnkey solutions for clients and is willing to dig deep into their initiatives and KPIs to create campaigns that will move the needle
• Initiative: individual who has a desire to grow within their role and not only take on but create new opportunities
• Collaboration: individual with the ability to collaborate across departments and work closely with POLITICO's marketing and product development team to balance the company's editorial integrity with client goals
• BA/BS degree required
• 3-5 Years of experience in sales, digital advertising or marketing
• Communication Skills: excellent oral and written communication skills to be used in presentations and written memos
• Experience with Keynote, Microsoft Suite, especially PowerPoint to be used in presentations and written memos
• Note that this is a hybrid role where you'll be expected to work out of our Arlington, Virginia headquarters

We are driven by our values. We are relentless contributors, disruptors of the status quo, collaborators, talent cultivators and DEI stewards. Our culture is defined by grit, total integrity and a prioritization on innovation.

We value our people. We offer a competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits package, including health and wellness benefits, commuter and cell phone reimbursements, retirement plans, as well as work-life balance flexibility and opportunities for career development. Click here for more on what we offer and what it's like to work for POLITICO.

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