FM is growing, and we are looking for a seasoned pro to help us and our authors keep growing. Here is the job description - if you know of anyone or are interested, please contact Jennifer at jcharette@federatedmedia.net.
Director of Business Development
Federated Media Publishing is a fast-growing startup in the Internet media space backed by JP Morgan, the New York Times, and Omidyar Network, among others. FM’s business is part agency, part advertising representation, part publisher, and part technical services. We represent the highest quality independent sites on the web, sites like Digg, Boing Boing, Dooce, ProTrade, Real Travel, and scores of others.
Federated Media seeks an experienced media professional with experience developing partner, channel sales and syndication relationships for on-line media properties.
The Director of Business Development will be directly responsible for establishing partner relationships with complimentary services to enable Federated Media to quickly enter markets or offer services with a minimum investment in development resources and time. Some relationships will be revenue focused and others will be purely to provide services or capabilities to our client publishers. Example relationships would be with 3rd party ad networks, video, rss and other content distribution and monitoring services, services and products that enable social networking on our client sites, etc. The Director will be responsible for taking these relationships through contract, with minimal support; candidates should be comfortable developing relationships, developing business models and pro forma financials, contracts and implementation plans. This role will also be responsible for coordinating the launch of any such partnerships and ensuring they perform to the forecasted targets.
This role will also be responsible for developing syndication agreements with other online media groups to increase the visibility and audience of our Publisher and Author partners.
The Director of Business Development will be based our of FM’s Sausalito Office and report directly to the COO.
Candidates will have a minimum of 3-5 years experience as a Director of Business Development or Director of Sales in the on-line media market.
Compensation will be, in part, based on performance.
