Director, Brand & Agency Sales (Chicago)

The Director, Brand and Agency Sales will lead our sales efforts with agency and client direct prospects to drive net new revenue. As an individual contributor, they will be challenged to evangelize CivicScience's offerings and capabilities to sell through display, OLV, CTV, and Native advertising as well as be able to position our added value solutions such as custom audiences, brand lift studies, and various research and intent studies. While this role is work from home you must reside in the greater Chicago area.

Key Responsibilities

• Must have established relationships with agencies and brands in the area across investment, strategy, and programmatic teams.
• Partner with internal and external stakeholders to create and lead an account plan that will exceed our revenue goals for your territory.
• A strong understanding of business challenges and market dynamics across the AdTech/MarTech landscape.
• Work with the internal client activation team to manage ad campaigns to ensure we deliver on campaign goals and exceed client expectations.
• Drive a positive customer experience and nurture relationships that create new and incremental upsell opportunities.
• Develop and manage territory forecasts that accurately project revenue throughout the entire sales cycle.
• Provide management with client feedback and industry knowledge that enable us to invest in product development to meet the future needs of our clients.

Qualifications & Experience

• 5+ years experience with a proven track record of success selling to agencies and advertisers across multiple sectors.
• Ad Tech experience in first and third-party audience targeting and technology, DSPs, online measurement and/or delivery and measurement platforms.
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple client/stakeholder deadlines simultaneously.
• Experience using CRM and prospecting tools such as Hubspot and Linkedin.
• Effective time-management skills.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

Benefits & Expectations
Join a company that values innovation and creativity that's working with cutting-edge ad tech, influencing major business decisions, shaping the future of advertising, and making a real-world impact. Benefits include:

• Company paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for you and your legal dependents
• Company paid life insurance plus short- & long-term disability coverage
• Flexible spending accounts for medical and dependent care
• Employee assistance programs
• Unlimited PTO
• 401(k)
• Travel and educational opportunities

This is a remote (work from home) role with flexibility, autonomy, and a preference for candidates in the C entral Time Zone.

Working at CivicScience
CivicScience has a vibrant, high-energy work culture with ambitious, innovative, and forward-thinking team members. Our three business units - Media Partnerships, CivicScience Intelligence, and Advertising Solutions - work together to fuel CivicScience's goals and objectives.
We've been recognized in the Inc. 5000, Pittsburgh Top Workplaces 2022, Pittsburgh Business Times Fast 50, GRIT Top 50 Innovative Supplier, Pittsburgh Technology Council's Tech 50 (winner), and Mental Health America’s Bell Seal program (Gold winner, 2024 & 2025).

More about CivicScience
CivicScience is a consumer analytics and advertising platform. Our proprietary, always on, data collection engine captures over 1M survey responses daily, creating the most dynamic, real-time understanding of consumer wants, needs, and intentions in a constantly changing world. Powered by our premium media partnerships, our attitudinal database helps brands and media companies retain and grow existing customers while reaching and acquiring new ones.

Our clients use CivicScience's unique dataset to inform advertising, communications, product, and financial strategies that drive superior business outcomes. Join the conversation .