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Sr. Account Manager

Viant logoViant$95,000–$105,000/yrNew York, New York, United StatesListed 1mo ago

Taken at the midpoint of its range, $100,000/yr, this role pays less than the middle Account Management & Renewals opening on the board today ($130k/yr); the usual band for that kind of seat is $97.5k–$268k/yr.

Against the 1,417 open roles on Media sales jobs (typical pay $125k/yr, band $71k–$261k/yr), this one's $100,000/yr sits below the middle. How posted pay is measured.

The posting

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Viant is seeking a talented Senior Account Manager to join our Sales Team. In this dynamic role, the Senior Account Manager owns the client-facing relationship, ensuring superior service through pre-sales support, campaign management, relationship development, account retention and upsell activities. This is a tremendous opportunity to gain experience in generating revenue alongside a territory sales team.

Our Senior Account Managers are enthusiastic, outgoing self-starters charged with supporting pre-sales activities to help win accounts and managing ongoing client relationships. With excellent communication and interpersonal skills, the ideal candidate works well with cross- functional team members in order to help our clients navigate changes in the media landscape and leverage Viant’s platform and data services to grow their business.

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Support RFI/RFP process to land new accounts across all service models in assigned territory
  • Craft effective responses to RFPs and RFIs, including feasibility scoping, campaign design, and supporting documentation
  • Manage and grow a roster of assigned accounts in territory or segment to maximize client satisfaction, retention, and growth
  • Work as liaison between client and internal departments to onboard new customers, coordinate campaign updates, upsell opportunities, and troubleshoot delivery and performance issues
  • Manage the campaign launch process from start to finish, inclusive of client kick off call, strategy recommendation, asset collection, optimization, and delivery of performance reporting
  • Utilize Salesforce to ensure all campaign information is accurate
  • Deep understanding of Viant’s entire product offering and best practices for campaign effectiveness and cross-selling
  • Proactively use data, trends, market insights, and logic to develop tailored campaign recommendations and opportunities for continued success
  • Tasked with supporting growth goals QoQ and YoY, and being primary point of contact for the customer on day-to-day account needs

QUALIFICATIONS

  • 3-5 years digital media/programmatic/ad tech account management or client service experience
  • 1+ year of hands-on-key campaign management experience
  • Strong understanding and enthusiasm about the latest in digital media, ad tech, data targeting, 1st party data, platform sales, programmatic, behavioral targeting and optimization strategies
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced work environment, while being able to quickly gain product efficiency across our broad set of offerings
  • Smart, articulate, polished, self-driven, highly motivated team player with excellent problem-solving skills, as well as superb organizational, written, and verbal communication skills
  • A consultative, strategic thinker with great energy and enthusiasm for account growth, upsell/cross sell, and customer success
  • Proficient in MS Office, including PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook; Exposure to Salesforce.com or similar CRM; and Aptitude for working with custom software systems
  • Bachelor’s degree required

LIFE AT VIANT

Investing in our employee’s professional growth is important to us, but so is investing in their well-being. That’s why Viant was voted one of the best places to work and some of our favorite employee benefits includefully paid health insurance, paid parental leave and unlimited PTO and more.

Base compensation range: $95,000 - $105,000

In accordance with California law, the range provided is Viant’s reasonable estimate of the compensation for this role. Final title and compensation for the position will be based on several factors including work experience and education.

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About Viant

Viant Technology (NASDAQ: DSP) is an exclusively buy-side, AI-powered advertising platform purpose-built for CTV. Viant uniquely combines proprietary content intelligence, household-level identity resolution, and person-level attention signals to connect advertisers with real customers and drive measurable outcomes across the open internet. Through its award-winning AI solutions, Viant is building the future of autonomous advertising, where AI doesn't just assist the campaign, it delivers real results. Learn more at viantinc.com.

Viant is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. Viant prohibits unlawful discrimination against employees or applicants based on race (including traits historically associated with race, such as hair texture and protective hairstyles), religion, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, reproductive health decision making, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, military status, veteran status, uniformed service member status, sexual orientation, transgender identity, citizenship status, pregnancy, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws. Viant also prohibits unlawful discrimination based on the perception that anyone has any of those characteristics, or is associated with a person who has or is perceived as having any of those characteristics.

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Taken from Viant's own posting, last seen live on 4 Nov 2026.

The application

Your details and CV, then 6 questions.

Have readyCVCover letter (optional)LinkedIn (optional)Website (optional)
  1. 1.
    Will you now or in the future require Viant to commence (“sponsor”) an immigration case in order to employ you (for example, H-1B or other employment-based immigration case)? This is sometimes called “sponsorship” for an employment-based viYes or no
  2. 2.
    Are you authorized to work lawfully in the United States for Viant?Yes or no
  3. 3.
    What is your desired salary in this role?Short answer
  4. 4.
    What coding languages do you have experience working with?Short answer · optional
  5. 5.
    Do you have prior AdTech experience?Yes or no · optional
  6. 6.
    Are you able to meet the in office requirements of this role?Yes or no · optional

From Viant's apply page, checked 4 Nov 2026.

About Viant

A demand-side platform, with household identity, data onboarding and measurement built in, that ad agencies and brands use to buy connected TV, audio, display, digital out-of-home and in-game advertising.

Pay schedule: A stated base salary, with territory sellers measured against a revenue quota; the postings list fully paid health insurance, paid parental leave and unlimited PTO.

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