Client Partner - Enterprise Ads UK

#TeamNextdoor

Nextdoor is where you connect to the neighbourhoods that matter to you so you can belong. Our purpose is to cultivate a kinder world where everyone has a neighbourhood they can rely on.

Neighbours around the world turn to Nextdoor daily to receive trusted information, give and get help, get things done, and build real-world connections with those nearby — neighbours, businesses, and public services. Today, neighbours rely on Nextdoor in more than 335,000 neighbourhoods across 11 countries.

Meet Your Future Neighbours

Nextdoor’s Sales team is a diverse, hungry and strategic group of neighbours focused on partnering with enterprise brands to connect them with our community of members through our growing portfolio of advertising products. The team culture mirrors the larger business focus, relying on building trusted connections both internally as well as with our partners in order to drive campaigns and executions that add value to our members lives while simultaneously driving results for our brand partners. We believe that in order to succeed we must attract and develop smart, coachable, problem solvers; while also creating an environment where they can thrive and grow.

At Nextdoor, we offer a warm and inclusive work environment that embraces a hybrid employment experience, providing flexibility for our valued employees.

The Impact You’ll Make

Nextdoor’s Sales team partners with media agencies and enterprise brands to connect them with our community of neighbours across the UK through our native advertising product, Sponsored Posts. You will develop and build a pipeline and drive new business through the full sales cycle (from prospecting to closing). To succeed in this role, you will need a deep understanding of brand storytelling, comfort with measurement, data, and insights creation, experience with social and native advertising, and an extensive network of media agencies and national brands. You are ambitious and thrive in a startup environment, with a demonstrated ability to build detailed sales and revenue generation plans, while also being able to roll up your sleeves and execute tactically.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Develop integrated brand campaigns that clearly achieve brand objectives
• Self sufficient problem solver who can use existing tools and solutions in unique manners to drive differentiated value for our partners
• Consistently meet or exceed revenue quotas
• Effectively manage client expectations and work with campaign operations team to ensure successful performance and client retention
• Provide thoughtful feedback to internal marketing, product and engineering teams to drive product innovation
• Aggressively pursue new prospects and sales opportunities. Be a hunter
• Build relationships with key decision-makers across complex national corporations and agency partners
• Manage a robust pipeline and accurately forecast new business revenue
• Participate in in-person Nextdoor events, trainings, off-sites, volunteer days, and other team building exercises
• Build in-person relationships with team members and contribute to the KIND culture that Nextdoor values

What You’ll Bring To The Team

• 5+ years of experience in digital advertising sales, specifically working with Enterprise level brands and top Agency HoldCo’s. Selling to social buying teams a bonus!
• Consistent high performer against revenue targets
• A hunter mentality with a history of securing new business partners
• Demonstrated ability to identify value driving opportunities for brands and a track record of creating solutions that address those revenue driving opportunities
• Experience with Salesforce and prospecting tools (e.g., LinkedIn, WINMO)
• Advanced sales, communication, and presentation skills
• Deep understanding and experience with social and native advertising
• Comfort and familiarity with data driven targeting, insights, and measurement solutions for retail, QSR, and CPG advertisers
• Successful track record of developing strategic relationships with media agencies, marketers and brands, with an active client list of large national and regional brands
• Strong understanding of both branding, and performance marketing campaigns aimed delivering on measurable advertiser success metrics
• Established relationships with top marketing decision-makers at leading brands and advertising agencies, selling digital advertising
• Excellent planning and organisational skills
• A passion for community building, to inspire a more inclusive team and diversity of thought, both at Nextdoor and in your own neighbourhoods

Rewards

Compensation, benefits, perks, and recognition programs at Nextdoor come together to create one overall rewards package.

Importantly, the compensation for this role also includes a variable incentive component, which will vary depending on your achievement of sales-related goals and objectives.

We also expect to award a meaningful equity grant for this role. With equal quarterly vesting, your first vest date would be within the first 3 months of your start date.

Overall, total compensation will vary depending on your relevant skills, experience, and qualifications.

When it comes to benefits, we have you covered! We cover 100% of your personal monthly premium for health, dental, and vision.

At Nextdoor, we empower our employees to build stronger local communities. To create a platform where all feel welcome, we want our workforce to reflect the diversity of the neighbours we seek to serve. We encourage everyone interested in our purpose to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, or any other trait that unfairly targets a group of people.

For information about our collection and use of applicants’ personal information, please see Nextdoor's Personnel Privacy Notice, found here.

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