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Business Development Director, Media Business

POLITICO, New York

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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.
Who You Are

  • You’re skilled at cultivating long-term relationships with clients and agencies, earning trust through transparency, responsiveness, and results.
  • You thrive on uncovering client needs and developing thoughtful, creative solutions that align with their goals.
  • You possess a strong understanding of the public affairs ecosystem, including the key players, policy dynamics, and how to influence is shaped across sectors.
  • You’re motivated by outcomes and how to measure success- whether through campaign performance, client satisfaction, or revenue growth.
What You’ll Do
  • Identify new potential clients and execute creative outreach strategies
  • Maintain and grow existing client and agency relationships
  • Respond to RFPs with creative solutions
  • Execute campaigns and analyze performance with the assistance of your dedicated Account Manager
  • Continue to embody the successful brand presence of POLITICO in the market
What You'll Need
  • Passion for journalism: individual who reveres and respects the art, science and creativity involved in journalism and its impact on our democracy
  • Knowledge of political influencer market: individual who understands the dynamic and complex ecosystem that drive public affairs decisions
  • Creativity: individual who wants to think outside of turnkey solutions for clients and is willing to dig deep into their initiatives and KPIs to create campaigns that will move the needle
  • Initiative: individual who has a desire to grow within their role and not only take on but create new opportunities
  • Collaboration: individual with the ability to collaborate across departments and work closely with POLITICO’s marketing and product development team to balance the company’s editorial integrity with client goals
  • BA/BS degree required
  • 3+ Years of experience in sales, digital advertising or marketing
  • Communication Skills: excellent oral and written communication skills to be used in presentations and written memos
  • Experience with Keynote, Microsoft Suite, especially PowerPoint to be used in presentations and written memo
The anticipated OTE range for this role is up to $170,000.00 USD. The final salary offered to a successful candidate will be dependent on several factors that may include but are not limited to the type and years of experience within the job, type of years of experience within the industry, etc.
We value our people. Click here for more on what we offer and what it’s like to work for POLITICO.
Let’s keep in touch. You can view our list of open positions here and email us We hope to see your application soon!

Seniority level

  • Seniority level

    Director

Employment type

  • Employment type

    Full-time

Job function

  • Job function

    Sales and Business Development
  • Industries

    Online Audio and Video Media

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