Client Account Manager II, CPG Food

Pinterest

About Pinterest: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI. Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here. Pinterest is where inspiration leads to action. As a Sales Manager, Mid-Market, you will lead a team of sellers responsible for helping advertisers grow through Pinterest’s advertising solutions. This role is focused on strong frontline leadership: coaching sellers, driving day-to-day execution, and helping the team deliver against established revenue goals. This role is well suited for a newer people leader or a high-performing seller with leadership potential who is ready to step into people management. The ideal candidate brings strong sales fundamentals, credibility with clients, and the ability to coach others on core sales skills. They may be early in their people-management journey, but they are excited to develop talent, build team culture, and lead from the front. WHAT YOU’LL DO: * Lead and support a team of Mid-Market sellers focused on achieving revenue goals and delivering strong advertiser outcomes. * Drive day-to-day sales execution across pipeline management, account prioritization, opportunity progression, and customer engagement. * Coach sellers on core sales fundamentals, including prospecting or account growth, account planning, objection handling, negotiation, and consultative selling. * Reinforce clear performance expectations and help team members improve through regular feedback, inspection, and in-the-moment coaching. * Monitor key business metrics and use data to identify risks, support execution, and improve team performance. * Support accurate forecasting and pipeline hygiene by ensuring sellers maintain strong deal discipline and opportunity visibility. * Partner with cross-functional teams such as Sales Strategy, Marketing, Measurement, Operations, and Product to help remove blockers and improve advertiser outcomes. * Help onboard new team members and reinforce best practices, tools, and team operating rhythms. * Build a collaborative, inclusive, and accountable team culture where sellers can develop and perform at a high level. * Escalate client issues appropriately and partner with internal stakeholders to drive resolution. * Champion adoption of Pinterest’s ad products, tools, and measurement capabilities across the team. * Contribute feedback on what is working in the market and help improve team processes and playbooks over time. WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR: * Experience in digital advertising, media sales, platform sales, or a related customer-facing commercial role. * Demonstrated success in a quota-carrying, revenue-driving, or book-of-business environment. * Prior leadership experience, which may include direct people management, team lead responsibility, mentoring, coaching, or other informal leadership experience. * Ability to coach sellers on core sales skills and support consistent execution against defined goals. * Working knowledge of pipeline management, forecasting fundamentals, account planning, and customer relationship management. * Strong communication and collaboration skills with both clients and internal partners. * Comfort using data and reporting to identify issues, track performance, and guide action. * Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, evolving environment. * Interest in growing as a people leader and building an inclusive, high-accountability team culture. * Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as digital media or SAAS sales, or equivalent experience. * Preferred qualifications: * Prior direct people management experience. * Experience working with Mid-Market advertisers or scaled books of business. * Experience in performance advertising, brand advertising, or full-funnel platform solutions. * Familiarity with measurement, attribution, and digital media performance metrics. * Experience coaching early- or mid-career sellers. * Experience partnering with agencies or multi-stakeholder client teams. In-Office Requirement Statement: * We let the type of work you do guide the collaboration style. That means we're not always working in an office, but we continue to gather for key moments of collaboration and connection. * This role will need to be in the office or in-market 3 times per week and therefore needs to be in a commutable distance from our Chicago office. Working Expectations: * In-market focused sales team focused on velocity, expect to be traveling in market 50% of the time Relocation Statement: * This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model. #LI-HYBRID  At Pinterest we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position. The position is also eligible for equity and incentive compensation. Final salary is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise. Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here. US based applicants only $101,656—$177,739 USD Our Commitment to Inclusion: Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you require a medical or religious accommodation during the job application process, please complete this form for support.   By submitting this application, I certify that all information submitted in my application and throughout the hiring process is true, accurate, and complete to the best of my knowledge. I understand that any false statement, omission, or misrepresentation may disqualify me from employment consideration or result in termination if discovered after hire.

Pinterest

About Pinterest: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI. Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here. As a Client Partner at Pinterest, you will manage and grow relationships with Mid-Market advertisers, helping them achieve business results through Pinterest’s advertising solutions. You will be responsible for driving revenue, identifying account growth opportunities, and delivering thoughtful, performance-focused recommendations across a velocity-based book of business. Success in this role requires strong sales execution, relationship management, and analytical problem-solving. You should be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, using data to guide recommendations, and partnering with clients and internal stakeholders to improve outcomes. What you’ll do: * Manage, retain, and grow a book of Mid-Market advertiser relationships to drive Pinterest revenue. * Build strong relationships with clients, agencies, and internal partners. * Understand advertiser goals and develop recommendations that align Pinterest solutions to business needs. * Use data and campaign insights to optimize performance and guide client strategy. * Identify upsell and growth opportunities across accounts. * Demonstrate the value of Pinterest by highlighting campaign performance and business impact. * Resolve client issues and collaborate cross-functionally to support advertiser success. * Operate effectively in a high-volume, velocity-based sales environment. What we are looking for: * Experience in digital advertising, media sales, SaaS sales, or a related commercial role. * Track record of managing client relationships and achieving revenue goals. * Performance ad sales background preferred, especially lower-funnel experience. * Strong analytical skills and ability to turn data into actionable recommendations. * Strong communication and relationship management skills. * Ability to succeed in a fast-paced, collaborative, high-performance environment. * Bachelor’s degree in Digital Media, SaaS Sales, or related field, or equivalent experience. * AI Enthusiast: Demonstrates curiosity for and practical application of AI to improve productivity, streamline workflows, and strengthen client communications and recommendations. In-Office Requirement Statement: * We let the type of work you do guide the collaboration style. That means we're not always working in an office, but we continue to gather for key moments of collaboration and connection. * This role will need to be in the office or in-market 3 times per week and therefore needs to be in a commutable distance from our Chicago office. Working Expectations: * In-market focused sales team focused on velocity, expect to be traveling in market 50% of the time. Relocation Statement: * This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model. #LI-HYBRID #LI-CD1 At Pinterest we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position. The position is also eligible for equity and incentive compensation. Final salary is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise. Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here. US based applicants only $62,096—$108,669 USD Our Commitment to Inclusion: Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you require a medical or religious accommodation during the job application process, please complete this form for support.   By submitting this application, I certify that all information submitted in my application and throughout the hiring process is true, accurate, and complete to the best of my knowledge. I understand that any false statement, omission, or misrepresentation may disqualify me from employment consideration or result in termination if discovered after hire.

Pinterest

About Pinterest: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI. Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here. As a Client Account Manager I, you will be in charge of driving a sophisticated book of business featuring some of the largest advertisers at Pinterest. You’ll work directly with some of our key advertisers as a trusted consultant to their business. Your strategic advice, analytical skills and sales skills are core to bringing to life the value we deliver as a platform. In the Retail vertical, this means guiding some of the world's most recognized shopping brands through the full advertising funnel; from building seasonal brand awareness and inspiring discovery at the top, to driving measurable product sales and online conversions at the bottom. Retail advertisers operate in a fast-moving, highly competitive landscape, and Pinterest is uniquely positioned as the platform where consumers actively plan purchases across categories like apparel, home goods, beauty, and more. You'll be a critical partner in helping Retail brands connect with high-intent shoppers at every stage of their path to purchase. We invite passionate candidates to join our US Enterprise Sales team, where we have open positions across several business sectors, in various locations. By applying for the Client Account Manager position, your application will be considered for all available roles that match your skills and experience. Submit your resume once, and it will be considered by multiple hiring teams.   What you'll do: * Manage and grow client accounts, collaborating with partners to optimize campaigns and identify new opportunities. * Translate partner goals and data into clear, actionable insights for effective media strategies. * Advise clients on Pinterest ad products, targeting, bidding, creative, and measurement best practices. * Participate in client meetings to understand needs, solve challenges, and promote Pinterest solutions. * Clearly explain complex products and processes, serving as a trusted advisor to clients and agencies. * Build strong partner relationships and proactively expand opportunities to drive revenue growth.   What we're looking for: * Experience in digital advertising sales, preferably with performance advertisers. * Proven ability to manage mutually beneficial client accounts independently. * Strong knowledge of digital ad technologies across Search, Shopping, Display, and Social. * Effective at managing multiple priorities and achieving goals in a fast-paced environment. * Excellent written and verbal communication; skilled at building lasting partnerships. * Demonstrates curiosity and a willingness to explore AI tools to improve day-to-day productivity, including campaign setup, performance reporting, client communications, and research. Leverages AI to work more efficiently, whether it's streamlining optimizations, preparing for client meetings, or surfacing insights from campaign data, while maintaining attention to detail and a high bar for accuracy. * Bachelor’s degree in Business or a related field, or equivalent experience.   In-Office Requirement Statement: * We let the type of work you do guide the collaboration style. That means we're not always working in an office, but we continue to gather for key moments of collaboration and connection. * This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 2/ week and therefore needs to be in a commutable distance from one of the following offices: Chicago, IL.   Relocation Statement: * This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model. #LI-KP3 #LI-HYBRID At Pinterest we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position. The position is also eligible for equity and incentive compensation. Final salary is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise. Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here. US based applicants only $60,048—$105,085 USD Our Commitment to Inclusion: Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you require a medical or religious accommodation during the job application process, please complete this form for support.   By submitting this application, I certify that all information submitted in my application and throughout the hiring process is true, accurate, and complete to the best of my knowledge. I understand that any false statement, omission, or misrepresentation may disqualify me from employment consideration or result in termination if discovered after hire.