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Help shape high-impact partnerships at the intersection of iconic media brands and the luxury marketplace. Hearst Magazines is seeking an entrepreneurial Temporary Sales Director to provide maternity coverage for our East Coast territory, strengthening key client relationships while uncovering new opportunities for growth.
About Hearst Magazines (Why Us?)
Hearst Magazines is one of the largest publishers in the world, with 30 brands, including Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Women’s Health, Esquire, Men’s Health, Good Housekeeping, Harper’s BAZAAR, Popular Mechanics, and Oprah Daily. We reach more than 150 million people every month in the United States alone.
We engage our audience across all mediums and channels—digital, video, social and print—with sophisticated content creation, distribution, and data capabilities. We create, package, and sell products with cutting-edge technology and proprietary platforms. Together, we are reinventing publishing for the 21st century.
Key Responsibilities (What You Are Doing)
- Lead the day-to-day management and growth of an East Coast account portfolio, with a primary focus on assigned Luxury Retail & Jewelry clients.
- Cultivate strong relationships with key client and agency partners, serving as a trusted point of contact throughout the coverage period.
- Drive revenue opportunities by understanding client priorities and developing thoughtful solutions across Hearst Magazines’ portfolio and capabilities.
- Identify and pursue new business opportunities through proactive prospecting, outreach, and relationship development across assigned accounts.
- Build and maintain a consistent pipeline of prospective opportunities while strategically advancing conversations toward revenue.
- Develop opportunities spanning digital, social, programmatic, co-branded content, and other relevant advertising solutions.
- Partner closely with internal teams to manage pre- and post-sale execution, ensuring programs are delivered effectively and client expectations are met.
- Maintain timely, accurate communication and account activity while effectively managing multiple priorities, deadlines, meetings, and client needs.
Qualifications (What We’re Looking For)
- 5+ years of relevant sales, advertising, media, account management, or business development experience, with Luxury Retail experience strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to manage and grow client relationships while identifying and developing new business opportunities.
- Strong understanding of digital, social, programmatic, and co-branded content solutions; familiarity with affiliate marketing is a plus.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to build credibility and productive relationships with clients and internal partners.
- Proactive, entrepreneurial approach to sales, with the ability to work independently and take ownership of opportunities from prospecting through execution.
- Strong organizational skills and follow-through, with the ability to effectively manage multiple accounts, priorities, and deadlines.
- Willingness and ability to travel within the territory as needed for client meetings and appointments.
- This role is based in New York City and requires working in the office four days per week.
The pay rate for this temporary role is $75 per hour. This position is not eligible for bonus or commission compensation. Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, skills, qualifications, and location.
Hearst Magazines is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of relevant sales, advertising, media, account management, or business development experience
- Luxury Retail experience
- Experience managing and growing client relationships while developing new business opportunities
- Understanding of digital, social, programmatic, and co-branded content solutions
- Affiliate marketing familiarity
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Ability to work independently and take ownership of opportunities from prospecting through execution
- Strong organizational skills and follow-through while managing multiple accounts, priorities, and deadlines
- Willingness and ability to travel within the territory for client meetings and appointments
- Ability to work in the New York City office four days per week
Hearst Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Hearst and has not been reviewed or approved by Hearst.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive, including medical plan choice, full in-network preventive coverage, dental and vision, telemedicine, prescription coverage, and fertility resources. Mental-health resources and other wellbeing services (e.g., therapy sessions, crisis support, virtual physical therapy, and chronic-condition programs) further strengthen the health offering.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is positioned as meaningful through a 401(k) plan with company matching and Hearst covering plan administration fees. Performance bonuses are also noted as available in some roles, adding an additional rewards component beyond base pay.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off benefits include paid holidays, paid sick days, and vacation time with a commonly cited annual range, alongside paid parental leave and family medical leave. A remote work program and flexibility signals are also included as part of the overall rewards experience.
Hearst Insights
What We Do
Hearst is a leading global, diversified media, information and services company with more than 360 businesses. Its major interests include ownership in cable television networks such as A&E, HISTORY, Lifetime and ESPN; global financial services leader Fitch Group; Hearst Health, a group of medical information and services businesses; transportation assets including CAMP Systems International, a major provider of software-as-a-service solutions for managing maintenance of jets and helicopters; 33 television stations such as WCVB-TV in Boston and KCRA-TV in Sacramento, California, which reach a combined 19 percent of U.S. viewers; newspapers such as the Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle and Times Union (Albany, New York); more than 300 magazines around the world, including Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Men's Health and Car and Driver, and digital services businesses such as iCrossing and KUBRA; and investments in emerging digital entertainment companies such as Complex Networks.
