12-11-2005, 02:23 PM
Google is looking for someone to head up and develop their classified advertising (Base, Automat, etc) efforts. A job ad was posted Friday on Monster.com:
full job posting: http://jobsearch.monster.com/getjob.asp?JobID=37323633
Quote:Google: Vertical Markets Director, Classifieds New York or Mountain View...
...As a member of Googles Vertical Markets Group, your main responsibility will be to develop and execute on a strategy for driving ad sales with all advertisers in the Classifieds category on a national/international level, working with all sales channels and resources (DSO, ISO, Online).
Specific responsibilities include:
* Developing strategic plan for accelerated long term category revenue growth.
* Identifying and assigning named accounts across all DSO regional teams in the Classifieds vertical.
* Solidifying relationships and maximizing revenue growth with top vertical-specific advertisers.
* Working closely with regional sales teams to sell and grow all vertical-specific accounts.
* Representing Google at Classifieds-targeted industry events and associations.
* Hiring and managing Specialist(s) and/or Associate(s) for the Classifieds team.
* Provide training, guidance and feedback to verticalized team members as well as Regional Sales Managers.
* Providing clients, directly and indirectly, with true consultative sales experience.
* Utilize and leverage all available resources (marketing, public relations, product and engineering, etc) to achieve non-revenue objective.
full job posting: http://jobsearch.monster.com/getjob.asp?JobID=37323633