Director, Sales (People Manager)

Senior Sales Leader

At Morning Brew Inc., we mix what you need to know with our unique brand of wit to attract, and build real relationships with, the next generation of business leaders. We speak to them like people, ensuring they get the context and insight needed to make decisions every day. Loyalty and trust are our most valuable currencies.

Whether scrolling, reading, watching, or listening, our audience trusts us for credible, entertaining business content that makes an impact on their personal and professional lives.

The Morning Brew team is clever, creative, and growing fast. Want in? Read on.

We are recruiting a senior sales leader to oversee the Enterprise segment within Morning Brew Inc.'s B2B sales team, reporting to VP, Sales. The B2B business is growing steadily year-over-year, making this a compelling opportunity to lead a high-performing team responsible for some of the company's largest, most strategic advertiser relationships.

Working closely with the VP, Sales and cross-functional leadership, this leader will oversee a growing portfolio of large and enterprise advertisers (1000+ employees) and manage a high-performing team responsible for driving retention, expansion, and new business growth across Morning Brew Inc.'s multimedia portfolio. This includes integrated partnerships spanning newsletters, social, video, custom content, onsite activations, events, podcasts, and data products across 20+ owned and operated media brands.

This role requires a highly strategic and commercially-minded operator who can effectively support and guide complex enterprise sales motions while also remaining deeply engaged in the day-to-day business. While this leader will not carry an individual quota, success in this role requires a willingness to "get in the trenches" alongside the team by supporting account strategy, participating in key client and agency conversations, navigating internal stakeholders, and helping drive forward high-priority opportunities across the business.

The ideal candidate brings deep fluency in digital advertising, media or adtech/martech sales, with experience navigating sophisticated client organizations, agency ecosystems, procurement processes, and large-scale partnership negotiations. This leader should be highly effective at account mapping, executive relationship building, multithreading across large organizations, and helping teams drive strategic, long-term growth within complex books of business. The ideal candidate will also have the ability to travel and entertain clients regularly alongside their team.

This is a highly cross-functional role requiring strong internal influence and relationship management skills. This leader will partner closely with teams across Account Management, Pricing, Creative/GTM, Marketing, Events, Editorial, and Operations to help deliver best-in-class partnership experiences for some of Morning Brew Inc.'s most important advertisers.

We are seeking a builder and proactive leader who can balance strategic thinking with operational execution. The right candidate will lead by example, establish strong commercial rigor across the team, and help evolve the enterprise sales motion, account planning processes, forecasting discipline, and overall go-to-market strategy alongside VP, Sales. Importantly, this leader will inherit an already high-performing with steady growth, requiring someone who can thoughtfully scale and elevate an established enterprise business while maintaining the entrepreneurialism, autonomy, and commercial intensity that have driven the team's success to date.

What You'll Bring

• 810+ years of sales experience, including 2+ years of people management experience leading high-performing and/or senior talent
• Experience in digital advertising, media, ad tech, marketing, or related industries
• Deep experience leading full-cycle enterprise sales motions across retention, expansion, and net new business to large and enterprise businesses (1000+ employees)
• Proven success managing and growing large enterprise and strategic accounts, including navigating complex sales cycles, procurement processes, executive stakeholders, and six- and seven-figure partnerships
• Strong strategic account planning, org mapping, and cross-functional leadership capabilities
• Strong internal and external executive communication, coaching, presentation, and negotiation skills
• Metrics-driven, operationally strong, and highly proactive with a modern approach to sales leadership and pipeline management

Bonus Points

• Strong understanding of agency and client-side advertising ecosystems; existing agency and/or brand relationships are a major plus
• Experience selling into Marketing, Brand, Content, Communications, PR, and/or Paid, Media organizations
• Experience managing complex, multi-product media and/or marketing partnerships
• Experience scaling sales organizations and improving forecasting and operational rigor
• Familiarity with and enthusiasm for Morning Brew Inc. and its portfolio of media brands

Tools/ Operation & Technical Competencies

• Fluency in Salesforce, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, ZoomInfo, Outreach, and related sales tools
• Strong operational and organizational management skills
• Experience navigating highly cross-functional environments and coordinating across multiple stakeholders
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution
• Comfortable operating in fast-paced, evolving, high-growth environments

Additional Details

• Travel up to 20%

Compensation

$160,000 - $175,000 base + variable DOE *Final offers for this job will be made within the parameters of the salary range provided, commensurate with experience. Total offer package to include benefits highlighted under our perks section below.

How We Treat Each Other

Respectful Candor -- We believe that engaging in timely, constructive, and open discourse is an act of respect that makes for a more transparent and productive work environment.

Empathy -- We establish a strong partnership of trust with our co-workers and partners. We build human connections in order to understand each other.

Inclusivity -- Morning Brew Inc is deeply committed to fostering a transparently inclusive workplace environment, and people of color, women, people with disabilities, veterans, and LGBTQIA+ candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

How We Treat Our Work

Curiosity -- We learn every day through deliberate inquiry and exploration. We re-examine assumptions to be a better company, offer better products, and become better colleagues.

Accountability -- We celebrate our successes and own our failures. Taking responsibility for our actions allows us to learn from our experiences.

Bias Toward Action -- We know speed matters in business so we embrace quick and calculated risk-taking. We understand that many actions are reversible and therefore we are solutions-oriented, even when facing obstacles and challenges.

Challenger Mentality -- We don't allow ourselves to be comfortable with our success. We are hungry to become the best and create more value for our audience.

Clarity of Purpose -- We understand the "why" in our work, which helps us to operate at our highest level of performance and efficiency.

Perks

While being surrounded by a bunch of cool people who look great in crewnecks is its own reward, we have plenty more to offer.

Brew's HQ: Pick an adjustable standing desk or cozy corner and load up on free coffee (duh) and snacks at our new two-story office space in NYC's Flatiron District.

401(k) employer match: We want to help you prepare for the future, now.

Premium health, vision, and dental plans: Your health matters!

Mental health benefits: Personalized plans and programs to promote your mental well-being.

Extra help when you need it: Including a care concierge, plus free access to One Medical and the Calm app.

Family planning: Want to join #brewparents? Generous paid parental leave and fertility coverage for eligible employees.

Employee Resource Groups: Black Coffee, LGBTQ Brew, AAPI Brew, Cafe Con Leche, and Grounded

Gym and workout class reimbursements: It pays to be healthy.

Annual learning credit: Want to learn something new? We'll reimburse you.

Brief Brew History

Morning Brew Inc. was founded in 2015 by two entrepreneurial college students who noticed their peers were not consuming legacy media resources about business and finance news, but had a high desire to learn about those topics. What started as a small on-campus email has since evolved into a multi-channel media company that operates 20+ unique content franchises. All while maintaining our witty, honest and engaging tone that millions of loyal MBI audience members rely upon daily to better navigate the world.

In 2020 a majority stake in MBI was acquired by Axel Springer SE