Koahlabs
Founding Head of Ad Sales
San Francisco
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 100 days ago
RESTLLMsPerformance MarketingSalesOutbound Sales
About the role
- ABOUT KOAH Koah is the Adsense for the generative AI internet.
- We enable native advertising in any kind of generative surface across any digital product, whether it's an AI search / assistant, or even just generative formats on traditional web or native.
- Koah's ads adapt their layout, density, and tone to belong wherever they appear.
Responsibilities
- Own and close a pipeline of direct advertiser and agency deals
- Bring in existing relationships, and build new ones with senior buyers at brands and agencies
- Build out the ad sales team including recruiting and hiring A+ talent
- Knows how to be an IC and build out / manage a team
Requirements
- 8-15 years of experience in ad sales
- Experience closing deals of $100k+ per month in ad spend historically
- Experience selling into large brands, agencies, or performance marketing teams
- It's a requirement that you know how to use Claude etc. effectively to amplify your efforts and automate your work.
Company info
- Koah is the Adsense for the generative AI internet.
- We're using AI to make ads better everywhere, composing the right format for the right surface with the right content in real time.
- We're backed by Theory Ventures, live in AI apps serving millions of users, and we recently closed our Series A https://koahlabs.com/.
- As Founding Head of Ad Sales, you'll be setting the foundation of our ad sales team as we grow significantly in the coming months.
- You'll be our top seller, while defining the sales process, pitch, and pricing that the rest of the team will run.
- You'll sell a new ad format in a new category, which means you'll need to educate buyers, handle objections that don't have canned answers yet, and shape how advertisers think about reaching consumers inside AI experiences.
- This is a hands-on, execution oriented role where you also set the tempo for a growing sales team.
- Today, the category is incredibly interested in what we're doing, so getting meetings set up is fairly low friction.
- We'll be focused more on what and how to sell, and how to set customers up for success.
- AI is creating an entirely new interface for the internet, and ads are already quickly following the attention.
- You'll be leading the ad sales team for the most prominent company in AI adtech today and be a primary revenue driver for the business.
- This role will define how advertisers participate in that shift, and you'll be the one opening those doors.
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