TikTok

New Business Activation Account Executive - Global Business Solutions - Canada

TikTok$78K — $105K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of professional sales or business development experience
  • 4+ years of new business acquisition selling experience
  • Challenger Mindset: consultative selling approach with ability to reframe customer problems
  • Strong prospecting skills and 'hunter' mentality for pipeline development
  • Experience managing complex sales cycles with multiple stakeholders across departments

Responsibilities

  • Manage and nurture a dedicated account list with comprehensive business plans
  • Own the end-to-end sales process from prospecting to closing deals
  • Generate a sales pipeline through proactive outreach via phone and email
  • Foster relationships with C-level executives to navigate complex sales cycles
  • Consult with stakeholders to align TikTok Ads strategies with marketing objectives
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to lead product workshops and analyses
  • Drive innovation in sales processes to create scalable models for engagement
  • Onboard new clients onto the TikTok Ads Platform for growth and retention

Benefits

  • Access to extended health and dental care from day one
  • Group registered retirement savings plan (RRSP) with company match
  • Paid parental leave and disability coverage
  • Comprehensive life insurance and wellbeing benefits
  • Paid holidays, vacation, and sick time
Full Job Description
Responsibilities

About the Team: TikTok's Global Business Solutions team aims to help businesses and brands of all sizes unleash their creative side, connect with our audience, and engage with new and existing customers. From designing scaled sales and service delivery programs to ensuring our customers have best-in-class tools and products at their fingertips, our team combines operational expertise with a customer-centric mindset to help businesses achieve their marketing goals on TikTok, no matter how big or small. This position is for an existing vacancy. About the Role: As an Account Executive, you will own the full sales cycle for a dedicated book of high-potential Enterprise and Mid-Market prospects. You will be responsible for strategically prospecting, qualifying, pitching, and closing advertisers, utilizing a value selling mindset to teach prospects about new market opportunities. By orchestrating multi-threaded sales cycles with C-level stakeholders, you will help them understand the transformative value of the TikTok Ads Platform and define a strategic roadmap for platform adoption. You will collaborate closely with internal teams to develop best-in-class acquisition strategies, building a high-velocity pipeline focused on long-term revenue potential and market expansion. Responsibilities: - Target & Nurture: Directly manage and nurture a named account list; develop comprehensive account plans for winning and expanding business with Middle Market and Enterprise companies. - Full-Cycle Execution: Own the end-to-end sales process - from dedicated outbound prospecting to closing - while consistently meeting and exceeding quantitative and qualitative acquisition targets. - Strategic Outbound: Generate a robust sales pipeline through high-activity outbound efforts, including phone, email, and 3rd party tooling, driving urgency in interactions. - Executive Orchestration: Build and maintain key relationships with C-level executives, managing complex multi-threaded cycles and ensuring the right executive touchpoints are leveraged at the right time. - Consultative Value: Strategically consult with external stakeholders to align TikTok Ads strategies with their specific marketing objectives and business KPIs. - Cross-Functional Leadership: Work with leaders from Business Operations, Product, and Finance to lead complex product workshops and financial analyses, maintaining a strong feedback loop to drive platform strategy. - Process Innovation: Lead and contribute to team projects that refine our sales process, helping build repeatable, scaled engagement models for the broader team. - Seamless Onboarding: Onboard new clients onto the TikTok Ads Platform, setting them up internally for long-term growth and sustainable spend.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualification(s): - 5+ years of professional sales or business development experience. - 4+ years of dedicated acquisition (new business) selling experience. - Challenger Mindset: Demonstrates a consultative, insight-led approach to selling - able to challenge assumptions, reframe how customers think about their problems, and build a compelling case for change. - Activity Driven: A track record of high-volume prospecting and a "hunter" mentality; not afraid to hit the phones to build a pipeline from scratch. - Stakeholder Mastery: Experience managing multi-threaded sales cycles involving multiple decision-makers across Legal, Finance, and Marketing. - Communication: Excellent verbal and written English with the ability to present complex data to executive audiences. Preferred Qualification(s): - Ad Sales Experience: Previous experience in Ad Sales or Media Sales is highly preferred. - Strategic Acumen: Ability to think independently and strategically to develop acquisition tactics in an ever-evolving market. - Negotiation: Strong negotiation and closing skills with a proven track record of exceeding performance targets.

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Toronto Compensation Description (Regular)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is CAD$ 78858- CAD$ 105715

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, restricted stock units and benefits.

Employees have day one access to extended health, dental, a group registered retirement savings plan (RRSP) with company match issued through a deferred profit sharing plan (DPSP), paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive paid holidays, vacation, and sick time.

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs from time to time, with or without notice subject to compliance with local laws.

About TikTok

TikTok is a social media app that allows users to create and share short videos. The app was launched in 2016 by Chinese tech company ByteDance. TikTok has become one of the most popular social media apps in the world, with over 1 billion active users. The app has been downloaded over 2 billion times worldwide. TikTok has faced controversy over its data privacy practices and its potential ties to the Chinese government. In 2020, the app faced a potential ban in the United States, but a deal was reached with Oracle and Walmart to create a new company called TikTok Global.
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2012

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