Sales Director
New York City, NY - USA
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Job Summary
About the Role
The advertising ecosystem is undergoing a fundamental shift. Signal loss is accelerating third-party identifiers are disappearing and publishers are under increasing pressure to rebuild addressability and reclaim control of their monetization.
Permutive is the platform enabling that transformation.
We are hiring a Sales Director to drive net new enterprise growth across digital media app and gaming publishers. This is a true hunting role focused on breaking into new accounts generating pipeline from scratch and closing complex high-value deals.
You will sell a strategic visionhelping publishers unlock the full value of their first-party data modernize their infrastructure and drive stronger direct revenue outcomes in a privacy-first world.
About the Team
Our commercial team is a group of high-performance enterprise sellers who operate with ownership urgency and accountability.
We dont rely on inbound pipeline. We build it.
The team partners closely with product marketing and customer teams but each Sales Director is expected to own their territory their pipeline and their number. This is a team for sellers who want autonomy high impact and the opportunity to win strategic category-defining deals.
What Youll Do
Own and close net new ARR (typical deal sizes $250K)
Generate your own pipeline (PG) through outbound prospecting and strategic account development
Identify engage and break into enterprise publisher accounts across web app and gaming
Lead multi-threaded sales cycles (46 months) across CROs CDOs CTOs and Heads of Ad Ops
Sell a data and monetization transformation narrative:
Solve signal loss and declining addressability
Unlock first-party data value
Improve direct-sold revenue performance
Displace legacy DMPs and outdated data infrastructure
Build strong relationships with senior commercial and technical stakeholders
Maintain high standards across pipeline management deal progression and forecasting discipline
What Youll Bring
5 years of SaaS sales experience with a focus on enterprise net new acquisition
Proven track record of self-sourcing pipeline and consistently exceeding quota
Experience in one or more of:
Adtech (SSP DSP identity measurement)
Data platforms (CDP DMP clean rooms)
Publisher monetization or revenue strategy
Strong understanding of the modern advertising landscape including:
Signal loss and identity challenges
First-party data strategy
Direct vs programmatic revenue dynamics
Experience selling into enterprise publishers including app and gaming companies
Ability to engage both technical and commercial stakeholders
Highly disciplined in pipeline generation deal management and forecastingA high-performance ownership-driven mindset with no reliance on inbound pipeline
What We Are Offering
We take a structured objective approach to salary-setting which is based on market data our compensation strategy and your experience and capability assessed through our interview process. For a typical candidate who meets our requirements we pay a base salary of $160000 $180000.
Additional Compensation
If you join Permutive as a Sales Director with a base salary of $160000 and reach 100% quota attainment in a year your OTE will be around $320000.
Your earning potential is uncapped and 100% quota attainment is the minimum expectation for our Sales Directors.
Permutive Benefits
US Benefits
In this together: As a full-time employee youll become a shareholder with stock options sharing in our collective success.
Family Comes First: Primary caregivers receive up to 6 months of fully paid leave and secondary caregivers receive 3 months of fully paid leave.
Your Time Your Way: Flexible hours allow you to work in a way that fits your life.
Upgraded Workspace: A $450 budget to create your ideal home office.
Recharge & Refocus: Unlimited paid time off (minimum 25 days public holidays).
Work Your Way
Permutive trusts you to manage your time and deliver results. Our hybrid model allows you to choose where you work best whether in your own productive space or our London (Farringdon) or New York (Union Square) offices. That said none of us work alone; we are part of a team.
To foster collaboration and connection teams in these locations come together in person at least once a week and are encouraged to benefit from being in our offices to meet with teams more often. Commercial and customer-facing teams are encouraged to embrace in-person interactions to build lasting relationships with clients and colleagues.
Every Permutive employee gets together in person at the companys Annual Kick Off for a week in February. Each years event promises to be an exciting opportunity for us to come together reconnect with colleagues and align on our shared vision for the year ahead.
Diversity Equity & Inclusion
At Permutive were taking a thoughtful intersectional long-term approach to diversity equity & inclusion. We care deeply about creating an inclusive work environment that allows everyone to flourish and we are taking continual action to progress in that direction.
Were committed to hiring people regardless of race religion colour national origin sex (including pregnancy childbirth and related medical conditions) sexual orientation gender identity age neurodiversity status disability status or otherwise.
Required Experience:
Director
Key Skills
About Company
Discover Permutive’s Audience Activation Platform. Monetize Data, Privacy-Safe Advertiser Targeting, Grow Direct & PMP Yield & Decrease CPA.