Sales Planner

Flipboard is the world's first social magazine, designed to inform and inspire the world. Available on web, iOS, and Android, Flipboard offers the world important and influential articles, videos, podcasts and products shared by the greatest publishers and our vibrant Flipboard community to advance conversation, keep people informed, and inspire them to engage, learn, and lead.

The Sales Planner will be a major contributor to the success of Flipboard. You will support the Flipboard Sales team, mainly in pre-sale efforts but ultimately through the entire campaign life-cycle from the RFP stage to campaign renewal. You will partner cross-functionally with Account Management, Sales, Inventory, Ad Operations, Product Marketing, and Design teams as well as directly build client relationships, growing our advertising accounts.

The Flipboard team is currently working remotely. Join our team and work from the US or Canada.

Role & Responsibilities

• Be the primary pre-sale point-of-contact, serving as the "owner" for the entire proposal process
• Team closely with Sales Directors and Account Executives to build meeting materials for client pitch presentations
• Be a core contributor to strategic kick-off meetings with Sales Directors, Inventory, and Account Management teams
• Have strong ability to pull data from Comscore, Oracle, GWI, etc. to develop key insights in support of RFP proposals required
• Design and produce core proposal materials including media plans and proposal decks
• Build out media plans and fill out specs sheets in Excel format
• Identify key audience targeting solutions within Oracle and GAM
• Work closely with Product Marketing and Design teams to create materials in support of bespoke, bigger ideas
• Collaborate with Sales and Account Management to gather data points and Flipboard positioning in response to client requests
• Attend weekly Sales Operations and Account Management team meetings to stay informed on campaign insights and product updates to inform future proposals

Required Skills & Experience

• 1-2 years minimum experience in a Digital Media role
• Previous experience with mobile applications, mobile advertising, or media agencies is a plus
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
• Proficiency in Keynote, PowerPoint and Microsoft Office
• Excel and basic media math knowledge
• Outstanding organizational and multitasking abilities
• Desire and ability to wear many hats and learn quickly in a challenging and adaptive environment

Nice to Haves

Experience with Order Management Systems preferred (Boostr is a plus)

Benefits & Perks

Our benefits include medical, dental, vision and life insurance; flexible and generous "out of office time" for holidays, vacations, sick leave, relaxation and wellness, in addition to a mid-year and end of year break, totaling 10 days. We also offer an employee assistance program, plus eligibility to participate in pension (CAN) or 401k (US) plans with an employer contribution.

Why Join Flipboard?

• Our vision: At a time when society could really benefit from being more informed and inspired, we are enabling great stories to reach passionate communities around the world.
• Our team: Led by experienced CEO, Mike McCue, the Flipboard team is a positive, respectful, and diverse group of bright and highly capable people who work collaboratively with strong purpose and vision.
• Our culture: We value an environment and culture that encourages people's voices and perspectives to be heard. We believe that leveraging our team will lead us to create better products and services for all our users and partners. We value diverse backgrounds, beliefs and experiences of our team members, and we are committed to fostering an inclusive environment for all.
• Our value: We are fully funded and making steady, meaningful progress on a premium, high margin business within a $600B, highly strategic market. Our business model is tightly aligned with our values, our partners and our user experience which makes our company both valuable and unique.
• Our product: Millions of people truly love Flipboard and rely on it regularly. Flipboard is a standard bearer for great mobile design, innovation, and we deeply value craftsmanship.
• Our platform: Our platform selects the best content from thousands of publishers around the world, organizes it into highly personalized feeds, and presents it for further curation by the community. We are driven by hard technical challenges and we value pioneering new technology to continually increase the power, efficiency and scale of our platform.

Flipboard is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Flipboard is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected characteristics.