Careers at StrikeAd
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Mobile advertising is a rapidly growing industry. So we're always on the look out for qualified, experienced and passionate people to join our worldwide offices.
Current vacancies
Account Executive | New York | Los Angeles | London | Singapore
Salary: Competitive
Closing date: Open
StrikeAd is the world's first Dedicated Mobile Demand Side Platform. A unique agency planning, buying and reporting and optimisation tool for mobile advertising.
This is a great opportunity for an experienced mobile ad operations executive wishing to increase their responsibilities and move to an exciting new mobile advertising media business.
Role Purpose
We're looking for a star Account Executive to drive sales of both the Strikead Fusion and StrikeAd Engage products, helping to deliver performance and scale of our Global Mobile Ad Platform business.
Specifically, candidates will be responsible for generating revenues by negotiating a broad range of mobile advertising deals with top-tier advertising agencies & mobile specific planning & buying specialists. A consultative selling style is desired, coupled with the structure and organizational skills needed to drive a long sales cycle. Candidates must feel comfortable prospecting, and negotiating in person and via phone on both transactional and high value/exposure deals. An ability to identify, develop and manage a valuable prospect list based on the StrikeAd offerings is crucial. In addition to having excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong attention to detail, and good follow-through, the ideal candidates will be self-motivated and highly goal-oriented in order to achieve ambitious targets.
Team/Department Mission
You would report to the Sales Director (and in his absence the Group CEO, Alex Rahaman) and focus on campaign delivery, agency deployment and product development
Key Accountabilities
- Assisting the Sales Director on development of major client pitches
- Acting as a strong subject matter expert and evangelist and contributing to market visibility through industry events
- Business performance responsibilities:
- Driving to exceed mobile advertising P&L goals and path to profitability.
- Plan and execute strategies in partnership with operations to grow client and supply base effectively and profitably.
- Build and manage an active sales pipeline to ensure revenue targets are met
- Present and sell all StrikeAd products, including Engage and Fusion to market
- Grow and deepen the agency relationships and your understanding of the clients and industries they service
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
- The candidate should have an excellent track record and knowledge of internet advertising and/or mobile advertising to step into a key position accelerating StrikeAd's mobile advertising business.
- The ideal candidate will have excellent business judgment and expertise in mobile advertising, online advertising, and/or mobile products and services. S/he will also have a strong track record of execution results, and the ability to lead key initiatives from incubation to scale. This is a high-impact, high-visibility opportunity to help build and scale a significant Global Business
1) Essential Experience
The ideal candidate should have media sales experience. S/he should have a deep understanding of online and mobile advertising products or other interactive media experience with an ideal emphasis on mobile.
2) Personal Attributes/Interpersonal Skills
- Energetic self-starter - takes on big challenges, ambitious, driven to succeed
- Team player and leadership skills or potential - leads by example and contributes to others' success.
- Commercial and business acumen - able to quickly grasp new technologies and define business models/opportunities for market success.
- Relationship-builder and driver - proven aptitude to connect with large partners, startups, executives.
3) Special Requirements/Additional Information
- Relevant online advertising sales experience - familiarity and knowledge of the media landscape is essential.
- Demonstrated ability to close sales and generate revenues
- Working knowledge of both PowerPoint & Excel
- Ability to interact at all levels and presenting both over the phone and in person
This is a demanding role and the candidate will need to work well under pressure and have the ability to manage your own work load as well as working as part of a team.
Ad Operations Executive | New York | Los Angeles | London | Singapore
Salary: Competitive
Closing date: Open
StrikeAd Fusion is a proprietary technology platform created to answer the ever growing need for media planning and advertising agencies to manage their mobile campaigns effectively through a single platform which allows agencies to plan, execute, and evaluate hundreds of mobile campaigns, globally on minute-by-minute basis.
This is a great opportunity for an experienced mobile ad operations professional wishing to increase their responsibilities and move to an exciting new mobile advertising media business.
Responsibilities
- Daily management of setup, pacing, optimization, and reporting of ad campaigns; manage, and be accountable for setup and operations quality metrics; review and test creative, to understand and QA varying rich media creative types from numerous vendors ( ie Celtra, Crisp, etc).
- Develop understanding and work with StrikeAd Mobile DSP Technology for the technical ad implementation of new campaigns including mobile, video and custom ad executions.
- Setup and troubleshoot all ad products into the demand-side platform. Provide QA for the Account Management team on technical ad work.
- Modify proposals for new and existing campaigns, optimizations, and cancellations.
- Report and understand third party vendor delivery and implementation across all media campaigns.
- Review banner ad submissions and ensure they adhere to technical specifications.
- Provide continuous internal and external customer service (client and team inquires, requests).
Qualifications
- Minimum of 1-2 years ad setup (trafficking) / operations experience
- Attention to detail with a high level of accuracy in completing tasks
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines
- Experience with ad-serving technologies, including DoubleClick (DART), Atlas, Pointroll, Fluent, and Eyeblaster
- Strong aptitude for determining the optimal ways to deliver, traffic, troubleshoot, and QA campaigns
- Knowledge of basic CRM systems
- Familiarity with computer coding languages, specifically HTML, HTML5, Java, Flash
- Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Excel skills with a strength in analysing data
- Must be fluent in English and Other Languages a plus
More information is available from the sources outlined below.
Website: http://www.strikead.com/about
Contact: Aaron Kaufman Email: aaron.kaufman@strikead.com
Digital Media Placement | New York | Los Angeles | London | Singapore
Salary: Duration 3-6 months
Closing date: Open
This is a great opportunity for a student or graduate wishing to work in industry to gain experience in an exciting new mobile advertising media business.
About StrikeAd
StrikeAd Fusion is the worlds first mobile demand side platform (DSP) and real time bidding solution built for mobile by experts in the mobile field.
This is a great opportunity for an experienced mobile ad operations executive wishing to increase their responsibilities and move to an exciting new mobile advertising media business as its expands across the globe.
This is a varied role and you will be exposed to a wide range of areas within the company. Below is a brief outline of some of the areas the role will cover:
Sales Liaison
- Managing follow ups from sales meetings, ensuring meetings, contracts are followed up.
- Contact potential clients directly in order to source, compile & qualify sales leads. Strong communications skills a must!
- Work with Managing Director to help identify incremental areas of commercial growth
- Harness your Excel knowledge to formulate coherent reporting & targeting templates
- Raise Insertion Orders, communicating with top-tier advertising agencies and chasing all outstanding IO's.
- Correlate & distribute weekly sales updates to all staff.
- Managing client expectations, ensuring all outstanding queries are being dealt with, and new ones can be met.
- Establishing and maintaining strong client relationships through regular and close contact through regular telephone, email and face to face meetings.
- Daily communication with both sales and campaign management to ensure smooth account management.
Marketing
- Leverage your creative & PowerPoint skills in order to help build bespoke sales decks
- Ensuring that all sales/marketing material up to date - ready for clients on request
- Be available at short notice to help entertain key contacts from global advertising agencies
- Consume daily updates from all relevant trade sites & blogs
Campaign Management
Working with client services on logins, trafficking, product support queries
Although we do not require any experience for this position, an interest in mobile, media and digital advertising would be an advantage.
This is a demanding role and you will need to work well under pressure and have the ability to manage your own work load as well as working as part of a team. For the successful candidate who perfoms well during this placement, there will be the offer of a full time appointment.
Contact careers@strikead.com.
Finance Manager
Salary: Competitive
Closing date: Open
Reports to Head of EMEA and US Financial Controller
Job Purpose
Management, supervision and improvement of the day-to-day activities of the Finance department; preparation of management accounts on a monthly basis, including profit and loss account and balance sheet, together with commentary and variance analysis, work closely with senior management team to assess and control financial risks, supporting senior management team to develop appropriate new/enhanced business KPIs.
The Ideal Candidate
- Proven track record as a Management Accountant
- Self starter with outstanding attention to detail, strategic with a hands-on ability to get things done
- Strong interpersonal skills, demonstrate empathy and commitment to internal clients, proven ability to manage expectations
- Excellent verbal/written/oral communication skills
- Advertising industry experience would be desirable
- BA/BSC degree
Job Functions
- Smooth running of the finance function and implementation of necessary financial controls
- All bookkeeping functions on Quickbooks including accounts payable, accounts receivable, accruals, prepayments, VAT returns, expenses, journals, bank reconciliations, balance sheet reconciliations, fixed asset register and trial balance
- Cash management and cash flow forecasting, managing bank accounts and maintaining relationships with the company bankers
- Preparation of management accounts on a monthly basis, including profit and loss account and balance sheet, together with commentary and variance analysis
- Preparation of weekly commercial information, sales analysis and key performance indicators
- Monitoring of aged creditors and ensuring payments to suppliers, regularly review all supplier agreements to minimise operating costs and obtain best value for money.
- Responsible for preparation and dispatch of accurate and timely client statements and invoices to be sent to advertisers
- Ensure all client invoices are chased up in an appropriate and timely manner to maximise cash flow and minimise risk of bad debts.
- Assist in the production of annual budgets and forecasts in line with the needs of the business
- Assessment of suppliers, assisting with the development of company purchasing policy
- Liaison with external auditors, and preparation of relevant schedules for the annual audit
- Oversee payroll (including calculation of bonuses and commissions), PAYE, VAT, corporation tax and other regulatory obligations ensuring that relevant returns are submitted on time.
- Oversee all aspects of office management and administration, ensuring office operates efficiently and cost-effectively at all times.
- Negotiate with, and manage, suppliers to secure best value for money office services/products, eg landlord, equipment suppliers, telecoms suppliers, local authorities, insurance contracts, cleaning contractor, building contractors, etc.
