Careers/Sales & Sponsored Links Coordinator
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Wikia is a collaborative publishing platform that enables communities to discover, create, and share content on any topic in any language. Community-created wikis cover everything from the latest games, anime, music and TV shows to eco-friendly living and the world's best chocolate chip recipes.
With 275,000 enthusiast communities attracting more than 45 million global unique visitors each month, Wikia is the largest user-generated media company and is a Top 50 site, according to Quantcast. Wikia was founded in 2004 by Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley, and is headquartered in a brightly colored SOMA office in San Francisco, CA.
Do you want a chance to grow a nascent business within a profitable private company? Are you good at making things happen? Do you want to work in a fast paced, ever-evolving environment? Do you want a shot to stand out and show that you can deliver meaningful results?
If yes to all of the above....please read on.
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Business Development Coordinator
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The Business Development Coordinator will report to the Senior Director of Business Development. This person will be responsible for the daily management and growth of our Self-Service advertising business - Wikia Sponsored Links. A large part of the success of this role will be dependent on growing the Self-Service advertising business into a meaningful and scalable source of revenue. Additionally, this individual will research and prospect other business opportunities with significant monetization opportunities.
ResponsibilitiesEdit
- Build a plan to effectively manage and scale the Sponsored Links business
- Prospect and cold call / email prospective advertisers
- Sell new advertisers into the Sponsored Links program and gain valuable insight from new advertisers’ experience
- Manage the day to day aspect of the Sponsored Links business including, but not limited to, approving new ads, working with customers to understand their feeling about the product, resolving billing disputes, and building out a list of prohibited ad categories (porn, deceptive ads, malware, etc.)
- Track daily revenue and provide visibility into strengths and weaknesses of the overall forecast
- Gather and present requirements to augment the Sponsored Links product with an eye focused on revenue growth
- Research and prospect new business opportunities that can grow overall company revenue
RequirementsEdit
- Bachelor’s degree from top tier university
- Self-starter with a lot of energy
- Enjoy working independently as well as part of a larger Sales team
- Comfortable working within a newly defined role in a maturing start-up environment
- Hard worker who can juggle multiple responsibilities and who isn’t afraid of cold calling potential advertisers
- Experience with online advertising
- Familiarity and comfort with Excel and PowerPoint preferred
ApplyingEdit
This is a full time position based in our SOMA office in San Francisco.
Send your resume and cover letter to hiring@wikia-inc.com and include 'Business Development Coordinator' in the subject line.
