Brand Sales Director (Commerce Media)
At a glance
Leadership Sales Leadership role at PubMatic. Chicago · $350,000–$375,000 OTE.
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What you'll do
- Run deals from first outreach through negotiation and close, selling to shopper agencies, CPG brands and commerce-focused agency teams
- Grow senior connections across holding-company commerce groups, agency strategists and retail media buyers, from planning through activation
- Sell audience and media offerings using grocery and retail shopper data, while building a qualified pipeline against revenue goals
- Work with product, ad solutions and leadership to improve client outcomes and guide product direction
- Represent the team in client reviews and industry discussions as a senior commerce media voice
What you bring
- At least twelve years in digital, commerce or retail media sales, with a record of senior client relationships
- A history of winning business with shopper marketing agencies or directly with CPG advertisers
- Active senior-buyer relationships for retail media and commerce audiences, particularly in grocery
- Strategic ownership of client relationships, plus a strong grasp of agency structures and commerce-media budget planning
Who this fits
This director-level sales role suits someone who can generate revenue independently and bring established senior agency and brand relationships. The Chicago role follows a hybrid schedule with three office days and two remote days each week.
From the employer
About the Role:
PubMatic is seeking an experienced Brand Sales Director, Commerce Media to drive growth across our commerce and retail media business. This role is focused on selling audience and media solutions to shopper marketing agencies, CPG advertisers, and retail media buyers. The ideal candidate brings an existing network of senior agency and brand relationships, understands how commerce media is bought and sold, and can independently own revenue generation from prospecting through close while helping shape our broader commerce media go-to-market strategy.
What You’ll Do:
- Own the full sales cycle, including prospecting, pitching, negotiating, and closing new business.
- Drive revenue with shopper marketing agencies, CPG advertisers, and commerce-focused agency teams.
- Build and expand relationships within holding company commerce centers of excellence, agency strategy leads, and hands-on retail media buyers.
- Sell PubMatic's commerce media and audience solutions aligned to grocery and retail shopper data.
- Leverage existing PubMatic relationships with HoldCo's and Independent agencies to drive both top-down and bottom-up activations to influence strategy and execution.
- Maintain and grow a pipeline of qualified opportunities to consistently exceed revenue targets.
- Partner cross-functionally with Product, Ad Solutions, and Leadership to deliver client value and inform product strategy.
- Represent PubMatic as a trusted commerce media partner in client meetings, QBRs, and industry conversations, serving as a senior voice for PubMatic in the commerce media space.
Who You Are:
- 12+ years of experience in digital media, commerce media, or retail media sales, with a track record of senior-level client relationships.
- Proven success selling into shopper marketing agencies and/or directly to CPG advertisers.
- Existing relationships with senior buyers who actively purchase retail media and commerce audiences, especially within grocery.
- Experience owning client relationships at a strategic level (not solely operating in an overlay or support role).
- Strong understanding of agency structures, including how commerce and retail media budgets are planned and activated.
- Confident, credible communicator with a consultative selling approach.
- Self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment and can operate with a high degree of autonomy.
Additional Information
Return to Office: PubMatic employees throughout the globe have returned to our offices via a hybrid work schedule (3 days “in office” and 2 days “working remotely”) that is intended to maximize collaboration, innovation, and productivity among teams and across functions.
Benefits: Our benefits package includes the best of what leading organizations provide, including paid leave programs, paid holidays, healthcare, dental and vision insurance, disability and life insurance, commuter benefits, physical and financial wellness programs, unlimited DTO in the US, reimbursement for mobile, fully stocked pantries, as well as in-office catered lunches 5 days per week.
Diversity and Inclusion: PubMatic is proud to be an equal opportunity employer; we don’t just value diversity, we promote and celebrate it. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
About PubMatic
PubMatic is one of the world’s leading scaled digital advertising platforms, offering more transparent advertising solutions to publishers, media buyers, commerce companies and data owners, allowing them to harness the power and potential of the open internet to drive better business outcomes.
Founded in 2006 with the vision that data-driven decisioning would be the future of digital advertising, we enable content creators to run a more profitable advertising business, which in turn allows them to invest back into the multi-screen and multi-format content that consumers demand.
Compensation Disclosure
In accordance with applicable law, the below salary range provided is PubMatic’s reasonable estimate of the total compensation for this role. New hires and current team members are typically compensated toward the middle of our pay range. The actual amount may vary, based on non-discriminatory factors such as location, experience, knowledge, skills and abilities. In addition to salary PubMatic also offers a bonus and a competitive benefits package.
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