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Design Squad Media is a dynamic and innovative media company specializing in digital marketing, video production, and web design services for small businesses. Our mission is to empower businesses with creative solutions that drive growth and success.
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Senior Account Executive
Base Salary + Uncapped Commission | High-Income Earning Potential
Location: Lansing, Michigan
Are You a Proven Closer Ready for Your Next Opportunity?
Design Squad Media is growing, and we are looking for an experienced Senior Account Executive to help drive our next stage of growth.
This is not an entry-level sales position.
We are looking for a proven sales professional who is competitive, confident, highly motivated, and financially driven. Someone who likes to win. Someone who knows how to create opportunities instead of waiting for opportunities to come to them.
Someone who can sit across the table from a business owner or executive, ask the right questions, identify opportunities, confidently present a solution, overcome objections, and ask for the business.
| If this sounds like you: If you have built a successful career in sales and are looking for an opportunity where your earning potential can grow with your performance, we want to talk to you. |
The Opportunity
As a Senior Account Executive at Design Squad Media, your primary responsibility will be to generate new business and revenue.
This is a full-cycle sales position.
You will prospect, build relationships, develop opportunities, conduct sales meetings, present solutions, follow up, negotiate, and close new clients.
You will have the opportunity to sell a broad portfolio of marketing, advertising, media, technology, and lead-generation services. You will not be limited to selling one product. You will be representing an entire marketing team.
What You’ll Be Selling
Our goal is not simply to sell advertising. We help businesses generate leads, strengthen their brand, improve their marketing, create better customer experiences, and grow revenue.
That gives our Senior Account Executives the ability to have larger, more meaningful conversations with business owners about where their company is today, where they want to go, and how Design Squad Media can help them get there.
What You’ll Do
- Generate new business opportunities for Design Squad Media.
- Build and maintain a strong pipeline of qualified prospects.
- Prospect through phone calls, email, networking, referrals, social media, community involvement, in-person meetings, and other business-development strategies.
- Identify businesses that are a strong fit for Design Squad Media’s services.
- Build relationships with business owners, CEOs, executives, and key decision-makers.
- Conduct discovery meetings to understand a prospect’s business, goals, challenges, competition, and current marketing.
- Develop and present customized marketing solutions.
- Sell recurring monthly marketing agreements and additional marketing services.
- Present proposals and confidently communicate value.
- Handle objections and negotiate agreements.
- Follow up consistently and professionally.
- Ask for the business and close new accounts.
- Maintain accurate opportunities, notes, follow-ups, and sales forecasts within our CRM.
- Meet and exceed monthly, quarterly, and annual sales goals.
- Work closely with our internal marketing and creative teams to successfully transition new clients.
- Build long-term relationships that create additional sales, referrals, and account-growth opportunities.
Who We’re Looking For
We are looking for an experienced salesperson who already knows how to sell.
The ideal candidate has 5+ years of successful professional sales experience, although highly accomplished candidates with at least 3 years of proven B2B sales success will be considered.
Previous experience selling marketing, advertising, media, digital services, or technology solutions is highly preferred.
We are especially interested in professionals coming from backgrounds such as:
You May Be a Great Fit If You…
This opportunity may be a strong fit for:
- Are highly competitive and enjoy winning.
- Are financially motivated and want your income to reflect your performance.
- Have confidence speaking with successful business owners and executives.
- Have a strong presence and know how to build credibility quickly.
- Know how to prospect and are not afraid to pick up the phone, introduce yourself, network, or open a new door.
- Understand that great salespeople do not simply wait for leads.
- Know how to ask intelligent questions and uncover a prospect’s real business challenges.
- Can sell value instead of immediately competing on price.
- Are comfortable discussing meaningful marketing investments with business owners.
- Know how to handle objections without losing control of the conversation.
- Understand the importance of persistent, professional follow-up.
- Do not become discouraged after hearing “no.”
- Know how to move a sales opportunity forward.
- Know when to stop presenting and ask for the business.
- Take ownership of your pipeline and your results.
- Enjoy measurable goals and accountability.
- Want to be part of a growing company where your individual performance can have a meaningful impact.
- Want an opportunity where there is no artificial ceiling on what a high performer can earn.
What Success Looks Like
We believe sales performance should be measurable. Your success will be evaluated by your ability to consistently produce:
- Qualified opportunities
- Strong sales pipeline
- New clients
- New recurring monthly revenue
- Total new revenue
- Long-term client relationships
Results matter.
Ultimately, we are looking for someone who can consistently bring profitable new business into Design Squad Media. We are not looking for someone who simply stays busy. We are looking for someone who produces results.
Compensation & Benefits
| Base Salary | Based on experience |
| Uncapped Commission | High-income earning potential with no commission ceiling |
| Paid Time Off | PTO |
| Paid Holidays | Included |
| Weekends Off | Standard schedule |
| Advancement | Opportunities for advancement as the company grows |
This position is designed for a high-performing sales professional who wants the stability of a base salary with the opportunity to significantly increase their income through performance.
Qualifications
Required:
- 3+ years of successful professional B2B sales experience
- Proven ability to generate and close new business
- Experience managing a full sales cycle from prospecting through close
- Strong business-development and prospecting skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong presentation and negotiation ability
- Confidence communicating with business owners and senior executives
- Ability to independently manage a pipeline and follow-up process
- CRM and sales-pipeline experience
- Strong personal accountability and self-motivation
- Demonstrated history of achieving measurable sales results
Highly Preferred:
- 5+ years of successful B2B sales experience
- Previous marketing, advertising, media, digital marketing, or agency sales experience
- Experience selling recurring monthly services or retainers
- Experience selling multiple solutions rather than a single product
- Existing relationships with business owners and decision-makers
- History of exceeding quota or receiving top-performer recognition
- Experience developing your own pipeline and closing self-generated opportunities
We Want to Hear About Your Numbers
If you are applying for a senior sales position, you should know your numbers. Be prepared to talk with us about:
- What have you sold?
- Who did you sell to?
- What was your annual quota?
- Did you hit it – and did you exceed it?
- How much new business did you personally generate?
- How much of your pipeline did you create yourself?
- What was your average deal size?
- What was the largest account you personally closed?
- What made you successful?
- What are you looking to accomplish next?
Ready to Bet on Yourself?
Maybe you are already successful but have reached the income ceiling at your current company. Maybe you are selling one advertising product and want the ability to offer clients significantly more. Maybe you are ready to join a growing organization where your individual performance can have a noticeable impact. Or maybe you simply know you are capable of more.
If you are confident in your ability to prospect, develop relationships, communicate value, and close business, we want to meet you.
If you are competitive and motivated by building a substantial income, we want to meet you.
And if you want the opportunity to become one of the top revenue producers inside a growing marketing company, we definitely want to meet you.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Design Squad Media is an equal opportunity employer. We value professionalism, accountability, strong work ethic, and people who are motivated to grow with the company.
Independent Sales Development Representative (SDR)
Flexible, High-Commission Sales Opportunity
Design Squad Media is expanding our network of Independent Sales Development Representatives across Michigan and throughout the United States. This flexible, commission-based opportunity is for motivated people who are skilled at starting conversations, building professional relationships, and connecting businesses with services that can help them grow.
This is not a traditional nine-to-five position. You can pursue this opportunity alongside your current job, business, or existing sales career. You determine your schedule, the amount of time you commit, and the industries or geographic markets you want to serve.
This opportunity may be especially attractive to manufacturing sales representatives, manufacturer representatives, industrial sales professionals, and others who already work directly with business owners, plant managers, operations leaders, and company decision-makers.
About Design Squad Media
Design Squad Media is a growth-focused digital marketing agency based in St. Johns, Michigan. We help small businesses grow through strategic marketing, creative media, lead-focused websites, CRM tools, AI-powered solutions, paid advertising, content, and client-centered service.
Our agency is built around partnership, clear communication, and helping business owners turn attention into leads, stronger systems, and real growth.
What You Will Do
Flexible Work Structure
- Work part-time or develop the opportunity into a larger source of income.
- Pursue opportunities alongside another job, company, or independent sales role.
- Work remotely from anywhere in the United States.
- Develop relationships within your local community or an established professional territory.
- Focus on the industries, geographic markets, or types of businesses you know best.
- Use your current professional network or build new relationships through prospecting and outreach.
Services You Will Represent
Who This Opportunity Is For
This opportunity may be a strong fit for:
- Experienced Sales Development Representatives and Appointment Setters
- B2B Sales ProfessionalsManufacturing and Manufacturer Sales Representatives
- Independent Manufacturer Representatives
- Industrial, Territory, Equipment, and Industrial-supply Sales Representatives
- Independent Consultants and Business Coaches
- Real Estate and Insurance Professionals
- Printing and Promotional-product Representatives
- IT, Technology, Merchant-services, Payroll, and Business-service Representatives
- Photographers, Videographers, Freelancers, and Marketers Who Work With Business Owners
- Retired or Semi-retired Sales Professionals
- Well-connected Individuals Seeking an Additional Source of Income
Marketing experience is helpful, but it is not required. Training, scripts, service information, promotional materials, and sales support will be provided to approved representatives.
The Right Person for This Role
This opportunity is for someone who enjoys starting conversations, building relationships, and being rewarded for results.
You should be motivated by activity, qualified appointments, closed business, and the opportunity to help companies grow. You must be organized enough to follow up consistently and detail-oriented enough to make sure leads, conversations, appointments, and important client information don’t fall through the cracks.
The strongest representatives will be comfortable working independently, managing their own schedules, and taking initiative without constant supervision.
Compensation
This is an independent, commission-based sales opportunity. It does not include a guaranteed base salary, hourly wage, guaranteed appointments, guaranteed sales, or guaranteed income.
There is no cap on earning potential. Actual income will depend on activity, appointment quality, prospect attendance, follow-up, closed sales, and the value of completed client agreements.
Specific commission rates, eligibility requirements, payment terms, bonuses, and performance incentives will be explained during the application and onboarding process.
How to Apply
Interested applicants should submit a resume and a short summary of their sales, networking, prospecting, or relationship-development experience.
Please include examples of previous sales success or professional relationships you have developed. Applicants are also encouraged to identify the industries, geographic markets, or professional networks they may be interested in serving.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Design Squad Media is an equal opportunity employer. We value professionalism, accountability, strong work ethic, and people who are motivated to grow with the company.
