Client Strategy Director - Faith

Urban Legend’s Client Strategy Director - Faith, will serve as an integral member of our sales team. You will help drive rapid growth for the company by securing high-quality partnerships with faith based non-profit organizations, brands and other advertisers.

The Client Strategy Director - Faith, must be a skilled, polished, and confident communicator with deep understanding of the evangelical, Catholic and parachurch space, who can work well in a team environment while remaining self-driven. This role is focused on identifying, pitching, onboarding new clients (advertisers), and above all, closing deals. This role will also be responsible for managing Urban Legend’s ongoing work with those advertisers and advising the creator team on faith-focused creators.

Urban Legend is a fast-paced technology startup with two goals:
1) making advocacy and brand marketing dramatically more accountable, and
2) empowering creators to advocate for causes they believe in. The Urban Legend Exchange is an invite-only platform that empowers digital creators to champion causes they care about — and get paid for it. We partner with some of the most trusted voices across social media to launch high-impact, action-based campaigns that drive real-world change.

• Build and manage a strong pipeline of faith-focused non-profit, advocacy, and brand clients through direct outreach, marketing lead follow-up, and professional relationships.
• Work both directly with clients and through PR/advertising agencies.
• Help clients understand Urban Legend’s platform to influencer marketing and approach, including our vision to make marketing dramatically more accountable and transparent. Build excitement about both.
• Serve as an ongoing relationship lead for clients (advertisers), supporting them both with specific campaigns and with bigger-picture ideation when helpful.
• Collaborate with Urban Legend’s creator and execution teams to develop campaign proposals and ensure campaigns are successful.
• Provide ongoing feedback to leadership on market reaction and needs, helping to shape the evolution of our platform.
• Closely track progress in Urban Legend’s CRM helping to forecast and project results.
• Close deals, of course!

• Comfort with and enthusiasm for identifying new opportunities and reaching out to new contacts.
• 7-10 years of experience in sales, advocacy, client strategy, or related disciplines, including at least 5 years in a senior client-facing or leadership role.
• Deep familiarity with the faith ecosystem, including theological dynamics, media, and stakeholder landscapes.
• Experience generating revenue and/or selling media, high-touch ad tech solutions, advertising placements, or brand partnerships. Urban Legend is a tech company, but our product taps into media and advertising budgets.
• Proven track record of designing and executing successful advocacy, public policy, or cause-driven campaigns on behalf of diverse clients.
• Experience managing and growing client relationships in an agency, consultancy, or nonprofit environment.

• Very competitive compensation structure that includes base salary and uncapped commission