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Senior Digital Account Executive

RR Donnelley
  • Chicago, Illinois
  • $50,000 Per Year
  • Full-time
1 day ago

Job Description

Company Description

RRD is a leading global provider of marketing, packaging, print, and supply chain solutions that elevate engagement across the complete customer journey. The company offers the industry’s most trusted portfolio of creative execution and world-wide business process consulting, with services designed to lower environmental impact. With 22,000 clients, including 93% of the Fortune 100, and 32,000 employees across 28 countries, RRD brings the expertise, execution, and scale designed to transform customer touchpoints into meaningful moments of impact.

Job Description

The Senior Account Executive is a principal sales representative for Iridio by RRD, responsible for driving business growth, securing net-new enterprise accounts, and cultivating long-term, high-value brand and agency partnerships.


This role requires a highly motivated, self-directed professional with a proven hunter mindset and an established network of industry decision-makers. The Senior Account Executive consults directly with client executives to deliver sophisticated digital media products, data targeting capabilities (e.g., Consumer Graph and Household Connect), and omnichannel strategies. Combining creative, solutions-oriented thinking with deep MarTech and AdTech expertise, you will identify untapped revenue opportunities, articulate complex value propositions, and translate client marketing challenges into successful campaigns. The Senior Account Executive collaborates seamlessly with cross-functional departments and internal sales organizations to architect and execute sophisticated, multi-faceted sales agreements, ensuring the alignment of enterprise-wide resources with complex client business objectives.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Drive Net-New Business: Proactively identify, prospect, qualify, and close new enterprise brand and agency clients across key commercial verticals (Hunter Mindset).
  • Leverage Established Relationships: Capitalize on an existing network of industry decision-makers to rapidly build a robust sales pipeline and generate revenue.
  • Consultative & Strategic Selling: Conduct sophisticated, data-driven consultative sales processes that align Iridio’s digital media solutions, data targeting, and omnichannel capabilities with client business goals.
  • Creative Solution Design: Develop innovative, customized media strategies and pitch frameworks to solve complex marketing challenges for C-suite and senior executive audiences.
  • Account Relationship Management: Serve as a trusted advisor to clients by providing strategic oversight, delivering market insights, and ensuring flawless solution execution in partnership with internal strategy and operations teams.
  • Market Expertise & Thought Leadership: Maintain expert knowledge of digital advertising ecosystem trends, retail media networks, programmatic and data privacy developments.
  • Pipeline & Revenue Management: Maintain accurate, timely sales forecasting and opportunity tracking within the company CRM.

Education:

  • Required: Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, or a related field.
  • In lieu of a formal degree, an equivalent combination of relevant education and professional sales experience will be evaluated.

Experience:

  • Required: 5+ years of direct digital media or AdTech/MarTech solution sales experience.
  • Required: 7+ years in a quota carrying sales role; demonstrated consistent success over performance. Will consider applicable RRD Account Management experience (Required).
  • Required: Demonstrated track record of consistent quota over-achievement in a net-new business acquisition (hunter) capacity.
  • Active, established network of decision-maker relationships across brand marketers and advertising agencies.
  • Proven success leading complex, multi-touch consultative sales cycles from cold prospect to contract execution.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

  • Solutions-Oriented Creativity: Ability to think out of the box to build creative, tailored media proposals that address unique client friction points.
  • Digital Ecosystem Mastery: Deep understanding of programmatic media, Connected TV (CTV), retail media networks, consumer data graphs, and identity resolution.
  • Executive Presence: Strong communication, presentation, and negotiation skills with a demonstrated ability to influence C-suite decision-makers.
  • Self-Starter Drive: High level of initiative, foresight, and independent judgment to manage multiple prospective sales cycles simultaneously.
  • Technical Proficiency: Experience using CRM systems (e.g., Salesforce), sales intelligence platforms, and Microsoft Office Suite.
  • Microsoft Office Suite: PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Outlook
  • Sales Platforms: CRM (Salesforce), LinkedIn Sales Navigator, ZoomInfo
  • Collaboration Tools: Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Slack
  • Regular strategic communication with external client decision-makers, agency partners, and internal leadership across sales, strategy, product, and operations teams.
  • Exercises broad conceptual judgment and independent decision-making to structure complex commercial proposals.
  • Recommends innovative, out-of-the-box strategies for client targeting, media planning, and campaign optimization.

Other:

  • Travel: Business travel required as needed for client meetings, industry conferences, and company events (approximately 20–30%).
Qualifications

Education

  • High School Diploma or GED (Required)
  • Bachelor's Degree (Required)
  • In lieu of the above education requirements, a combination of experience and education will be considered.

Experience

  • 7+ years in a quota carrying sales role; demonstrated consistent success over performance. Will consider applicable RRD Account Management experience (Required)
  • 5+ years of experience selling digital media client solutions (IAB or any others) in the Programmatic Digital Media space
    • Selling programmatic vs. platforms for specific publishers (Required)
  • Agency Business Development experience is a plus, particularly with exposure to selling data management/customer data management and creative solutions.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

  • Ability to educate and influence stakeholders/audiences resulting in closed/won business.
  • Ability to handle more complex/strategic accounts; typically interacting with client/prospects higher level executives
  • Ability to manage multiple clients while seeking new opportunities
  • Demonstrates leadership qualities.
  • Effective use of data and insights as a solution selling tool.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills.
  • Exercises independent judgment in methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results
  • Knowledge of the Digital MarTech Ecosystem.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office and CRM software, with aptitude to learn system
  • Microsoft office; Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook
  • Internal systems: sales forecasting, order tracking, contracts, etc
  • Videoconferencing
  • Communication with clients and internal co-workers – all levels of management, business leadership, customers, suppliers and other internal/external entities as required.
  • Ability to make recommendations and bring out-of-box recommendations to clients and areas that support sales (ie: targeting, marketing and pricing).
  • Requires broad conceptual judgment and ability to deal with complex factors.
  • Travel required.
  • Perform additional responsibilities as assigned.


Additional Information

This is a salary plus commission program eligible role and the current RRD salary range is $50,000 to
$150,000 / year with unlimited commission potential. The salary range may be adjusted based on the applicable geographic location of the hired employee, and the range, as well as the commission program, may change in the future. At RRD, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions may vary based upon, but not limited to education, skills, experience, proficiency, performance, shift and location. RRD’s benefit offerings include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, disability insurance, 401(k) with company match, life insurance and other voluntary supplemental insurance coverages, plus parental leave, adoption assistance, tuition assistance and employer/partner discounts.

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RRD is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability/veterans

At RRD, we value innovation, authenticity, and integrity. To uphold the security and fairness of our hiring process, we ask that candidates refrain from using AI tools during interviews to ensure an authentic and secure experience. We appreciate your cooperation as we work to maintain a transparent and equitable hiring process.

All employment offers are contingent upon the successful completion of both a pre-employment background and drug screen.

Numbers & Facts

LocationChicago, Illinois
Job TypeFull-time
IndustryPrinting and Publishing
Company Size10,000 employees or more
Year Founded1864

About Company

Our people make a difference every day - working with customers, in production or behind the scenes in a support role. They know how to manage the job and exceed expectations! Through our dedicated and talented employees we are creating, managing and executing marketing and business communications that are connecting people around the world with the power of words and images.

With a long and rich history, RR Donnelley (NYSE: RRD) is a Fortune 500 company employing more than 44,000 people worldwide. We assist customers in developing and executing multichannel communication strategies that engage audiences, reduce costs, drive revenues and increase compliance.

We’re not only committed to innovative technologies. We’re committed to high standards of corporate social responsibility across our global footprint. For details please click here to view the report “making a difference starts with ourselves.” You’ll find out how RR Donnelley defines its values, how we work to ensure our employees feel valued, and how our company efforts add value for our stakeholders.

RR Donnelley is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. The company’s policy is to select, place and deal with all its employees without discrimination based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender identity or expression, age, disability, perceived disability, sexual orientation, protected Veteran status, genetic information or on the basis of any other status protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

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