About the job
The Opportunity
$200M+ LA-based branding agency that serves as a creative and strategic partner to organizations across industries, including consumer, technology, entertainment, higher education, and more.
The Mandate
Three things, in one seat: lead the sales team nationwide day-to-day, diagnose, coach, and train on gaps, and help design the programs that close those gaps.
What Success Looks Like
Within 90 days, you've met the team, diagnosed the gaps, and earned enough trust to be worth listening to. By 6 months, you're coaching a defined group one-on-one with visible results, and pipeline discipline is improving through influence, not mandate. By 12–18 months, the numbers show it (quota attainment, forecast accuracy, tier progression), and you're a credible voice with executive leadership.
Apply If
- Your career has been in branding, brand activations, marketing, advertising, media sales, or a related B2B environment.
- You currently manage a sales team. (Actual direct reports.)
- You’ve delivered training at scale.
- You have executive presence. You’re as sharp presenting to a room as you are one-on-one. You haven’t necessarily given a TED Talk, but you could.
- You’re proficient with sales data and forecasting, and you know how to use tools like a CRM to understand what’s happening in the business and where attention is needed.
- Bachelor's Degree
- 8 years of Sales Management Experience (Separate from experience as an individual contributor.
Compensation & Logistics
$150,000–$200,000 plus bonus. Onsite. Some overnight travel.
Skills Required
- Experience in branding, brand activations, marketing, advertising, media sales, or a related B2B environment
- Currently managing a sales team with direct reports
- Experience delivering training at scale
- Executive presence and strong presentation skills
- Proficiency with sales data, forecasting, and CRM tools
- Bachelor's degree
- Eight years of sales management experience, separate from individual contributor experience
What We Do
True Talk Advisors partners with organizations across industries to solve their most critical hiring challenges. We do this by defining roles with precision, designing the right assessments, and identifying the signals that predict success, even when a candidate doesn't check every direct experience box. Recruiting is an important part of what we do. But it's a subset of an overall design. And when that design is right, interviewers ask better questions, candidates have a better experience, and everyone involved knows exactly what they're evaluating and why. Our services include: Executive Search: Design-led search for middle managers to senior leaders who will actually move the needle. Professional Search: The same rigorous standard applied to mission-critical individual contributor roles. Custom Training and Facilitation: Programs built around what your team actually needs, not off-the-shelf content. Consulting and Special Projects: We work alongside CHROs and people leaders to navigate organizational changes, from redesigns to cultural transformation. Individual Coaching: For professionals ready to make a move. Whether you're pivoting industries, navigating a specific situation, or mapping out your next chapter, we work with you on both the overall strategy and the specific tactics to get there, and the self-awareness to navigate it well. We believe the best outcomes come from genuine collaboration. We work with you as a partner, learning, iterating, and arriving at the right answer together. Humans before algorithms. If this sounds like the partnership you've been looking for, let's talk.
