About geekspeak Commerce
geekspeak Commerce helps businesses get found, connect with customers and grow sales. Founded in 2003, we’re a Canadian e-commerce agency with 25 specialists across product data, content, photography, syndication and media. We support brands, retailers and distributors across Canada and the US.

Our growing media practice covers paid search, paid social, programmatic advertising and retail media. We work in Amazon Ads and Amazon DSP, plus Google, Meta, Walmart Connect and Instacart Ads. We help advertisers reach audiences across search, display, streaming TV, online video, audio and retail.

The opportunity
Your main focus will be winning new business and growing client relationships. You’ll also give our media specialists day-to-day guidance as they build recommendations, manage priorities and talk with clients. You’ll work closely with our founder and executive team, who keep responsibility for business direction, pricing approvals, hiring and the wider media practice. This is a hands-on role for someone who’s comfortable leading a pitch, reviewing a media plan, coaching a specialist and discussing performance with a client.

What success looks like

- Profitable new business and growth in agency fee revenue
- Strong client relationships, retention and account expansion
- A well-supported media team with clear day-to-day priorities
- Consistent campaign delivery and useful client reporting
- Explicit sales forecasts, well-scoped engagements and effective delivery handoffs

What you will do

Win and grow business

- Build a pipeline of advertisers and agency partners through existing relationships, targeted outreach and networking
- Lead discovery conversations with marketing leaders,



media buyers and business decision-makers
- Sell media strategy, audits, paid pilots, campaign activation and ongoing management
- Write proposals with clear objectives, scope, pricing and measurement
- Lead presentations and negotiations through to signed agreements, within agreed pricing and approval guidelines
- Expand existing accounts through more channels, services and investment
- Build agency partnerships for specialist execution and complementary services

Guide the media team

- Coordinate day-to-day priorities and flag workload or resource needs to leadership
- Coach specialists in planning, campaign management, analysis and client communication
- Review media strategies, budgets and performance recommendations
- Help the team apply consistent standards for setup, optimization, reporting and QA
- Join key client conversations and help resolve delivery or performance challenges
- Identify training needs and recommend resources to executive leadership

Support practice development

- Share client and prospect feedback to help refine services, proposals and sales materials
- Scope opportunities with delivery specialists so commitments match the team’s capacity
- Improve sales handoffs, campaign workflows and account communication
- Keep CRM records and sales forecasts accurate, and keep account growth opportunities visible




- Turn successful engagements into case studies and repeatable offerings

Qualifications

- Proven record of winning new media or advertising business: prospecting, pipeline management, proposals and closing
- Established relationships with advertisers, marketing decision-makers or agency partners
- Hands-on media planning or buying experience, with strong knowledge of programmatic, paid search and paid social
- Ability to interpret campaign performance, guide optimization and tie recommendations to goals like awareness, acquisition, lead generation and sales
- Experience coaching media specialists and working across sales, delivery and account teams
- Strong presentation, writing and negotiation skills
- Commercial judgment on campaign budgets, agency fees, scope and account profitability
- Strong organizational skills, so you can manage a pipeline alongside team and client work
- A degree in Business, Marketing, Communications or a related field, or equivalent experience

Assets

- Experience with Amazon DSP and retail media
- Understanding of e-commerce and digital customer journeys, including how advertising connects with product content, landing pages and conversion

Platforms and tools (practical experience with several of these)

- Programmatic: Amazon DSP, The Trade Desk, Google DV360
- Search and social: Google Ads, Microsoft Advertising, Meta Ads Manager
- Retail media: Amazon Ads, Walmart Connect, Instacart Ads, Canadian retail media networks
- Measurement: GA4, conversion tracking, attribution and reporting tools
- Sales: HubSpot, Salesforce or similar CRM; LinkedIn Sales Navigator

Pay: $90,000.00-$110,000.00 per year

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Whitby, ON

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