Sales + Partnerships Associate (Full-Time)

@The Local Girl Media Group Email Job

Job Detail

  • Job ID 123354
  • The City Hoboken
  • Amount of Hours Full-Time
  • Virtual / Remote Yes
  • Industry Advertising / Marketing

Job Description

(Junior / Mid-Level: Revenue Driver)

Overview

The Local Girl Media Group is looking for a Sales + Partnerships Associate to help grow our advertising and partnership pipeline across our local media brands (Hoboken Girl, Montclair Girl, Jersey Shore Girl, Bergen Girl, Catskills Girl, and beyond).

This is a high-output, growth-focused role for someone who is excited about outreach, relationship-building, and turning local + regional businesses into long-term partners, along with building and maintaining the relationships of our current clients.

You will not be sitting around waiting for inbound leads, you’ll be helping create them with our awesome team! 

What You’ll Do

  • Conduct daily outreach to brands via email, Instagram, LinkedIn, and other channels
  • Identify and research new potential partners aligned with our audience
  • Follow up consistently with warm and cold leads, both outbound and inbound
  • Set up calls and help move deals through the pipeline
  • Assist with proposals, media kits, and campaign ideas
  • Track all outreach and conversations in our CRM / internal systems
  • Manage house clients and recurring clients in system in tandem with marketing team
  • Share analytics with clients to build relationships
  • Surface upsell opportunities within existing clients
  • Collaborate with leadership on sales strategy and priorities

What Success Looks Like

  • Consistent pipeline of new leads weekly
  • Increased number of qualified calls booked
  • Faster follow-up times 
  • Revenue generated from sourced deals
  • Organized client structure of current house clients and client retention

Ideal Candidate

  • 1–3 years of experience in sales, partnerships, media, or a startup environment
  • Familiarity with G-Suite, Slack, Asana, WordPress a plus
  • Understand Google Analytics (or wiling to learn!)
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills 
  • Knows how to work remotely and is a self-starter who can move quickly/take initiative
  • Comfortable with cold + inbound outreach and not afraid of rejection
  • Highly organized and detail-oriented
  • Has experience with client relationships
  • Interest in media, marketing, or local business ecosystems is a plus
  • Knowledge of local New Jersey businesses and regions we cover a must
  • Must live in New Jersey and love NJ!!

What It’s Like to Work Here:

The Local Girl Media Group is a woman-led, fast-growing media company powered by a small but highly collaborative team of editors and marketing professionals. We’re living IN the communities we cover, and genuinely live, eat, and breathe New Jersey (and beyond!).

This is a fun, fast-paced, creative environment where ideas move quickly and everyone contributes. You’ll have real ownership over your work, visibility into the bigger picture, and the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on brands that reach millions of readers each month.

While we work remotely day-to-day, we stay closely connected through regular team check-ins, meetings, and collaboration (fun stuff, too!). We also make it a priority to get together in person for quarterly team gatherings, local events, content shoots, and community activations (and always welcome new ideas or ways to do that).

COMPENSATION

$50K-$65K DOE, plus commission structure

Benefits include:

  • 401K, Life/Vision/Dental, Health Insurance 
  • Summer Fridays, Unlimited Sick Leave, 2 additional full-team shut-down weeks off during holidays (beyond annual employee PTO), Pet Bereavement Leave

Position Type:

100% remote position, however must be New Jersey-based!