Business Development Associate (Promoted Ads)
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Description
- The Associate, Business Development will help grow and support the business development function for Promoted Ads, Ticketmaster’s proprietary advertising platform
- This role blends prospecting, client support, business operations, and marketing coordination — keeping the pipeline accurate and moving, supporting day-to-day client and operational needs, and enabling Directors to spend more time building relationships and driving growth
- You’ll become a subject-matter expert on the Promoted Ads product, leading demos and discovery calls and serving as the voice of the client to Product
- Research, qualify, and prioritize prospective clients for the team, while onboarding self-serve users and setting them up for success
- Support initial outreach and communications to prospects
- Maintain accurate prospect, activity, and next-step information in the CRM
- Identify opportunities to improve pipeline organization, follow-up consistency, and reporting
- Become a subject-matter expert on the Promoted Ads product
- Lead product demos and discovery calls on your own, tailoring solutions to each client’s goals
- Act as the voice of the client to Product — bringing back feature requests, competitive intel, and friction points that shape the roadmap
- Support the Business Development team with beta tests, new feature launches, and go-to-market enablement
- Translate campaign performance data into recommendations and upsell opportunities for the team
- Support the monthly billing process, keeping billing documents up to date and organized for a smooth invoicing cycle
- Help draft process documentation, ensuring clarity across the team and cross-functionally
- Support the BD team in responding to routine client questions, ensuring requests are followed through to resolution
- Troubleshoot basic issues, coordinate with internal teams, and keep clients and stakeholders informed
- Work cross-functionally with Product, B2B Marketing, Ad Operations, and Finance, as well as stakeholders across the company, to support client needs and business priorities
- Keep business development materials, presentations, case studies, and other resources current and organized across resource hubs
- Support marketing initiatives, such as relevant industry events and year-end client gifting
- Prepare client-facing presentations, meeting materials, and internal updates
Benefits
- HEALTH: Medical, Dental and Vision benefits for you and your family, including Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Health Savings Accounts (HSAs)
- YOURSELF: Paid time off policy including holidays, sick time, and day off for your birthday, free concert tickets
- WEALTH: 401(k) program with company match, Stock Program Reimbursement
- CAREER: Tuition reimbursement, student loan repayment internal growth and development programs & trainings
- FAMILY: New parent programs & support including caregiver leave and baby bonus, infertility support
- OTHERS: Volunteer time off, crowdfunding network
- Passionate and motivated. Driven, with an entrepreneurial spirit. Resourceful, innovative, forward thinking and committed
- This is a strong opportunity for someone who is curious, dependable, thorough, process-minded, and client-focused, and eager to build a career in business development or sales
- Confident and polished in client-facing conversations, including preparing for and delivering product demos and presentations
- Analytical aptitude, with the ability to pull, organize, and analyze basic performance, campaign, or business data to identify trends and flag potential issues
- Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and consistent follow-through
- Familiarity with CRM and pipeline-management platforms such as Monday.com, Salesforce, or similar tools
- Comfortable managing multiple priorities, meeting deadlines, and owning recurring workflows
- 1–3 years of experience in business development, sales, account management, marketing, or a related field
- Genuine curiosity about event marketers — promoters, venues, sports teams, and arts and theater organizations — and their goals and challenges, with the ability to build trusted relationships through thoughtful listening and follow-through
- Comfortable learning new systems and working across multiple tools and platforms
- Strong problem-solving skills; comfortable asking thoughtful questions to understand issues beyond the surface level
- Interest in digital advertising, media, entertainment, and technology
- Comfortable learning the technical details of Promoted Ads’ products and the broader digital advertising/retail media landscape, and translating them clearly for different audiences
- Bonus: experience with Asana, Jira, or similar project-management tools
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Collaborative, team-first mindset with the ability to work effectively across functions
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office (especially Excel and PowerPoint) and Google Workspace (Sheets, Slides, Docs, Drive)