--- title: 'Advertising Sales Associate (Contractor) at Baidu USA' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/advertising-sales-associate-contractor-baidu-usa-mountain-view-amsc7h2p4tmv' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-12' --- # Advertising Sales Associate (Contractor) at Baidu USA - **Company:** Baidu USA - **Location:** Mountain View, CA - **Posted:** 2026-04-17 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/baidu/jobs/7826971 ## Job description Job Title: Advertising Sales Associate
(Contractor) Job Location: Mountain View, CA Job Type: Contractor, Onsite, Monday – Friday About the Role: We are seeking a highly motivated and proactive individual for the position of Advertising Sales Associate (Contractor). As a key member of our US Sales Team, you will focus on expanding the footprint of MediaGo innovative digital advertising platform. The successful candidate will be a "hunter" at heart, responsible for independently building a robust pipeline of leads and engaging with brand and agency partners to drive revenue through direct response and native advertising solutions. We’re looking for a motivated and ambitious individual who is eager to learn, grow, and make an impact. This role is perfect for someone with a proactive, hunter mentality, a passion for building strong relationships, and a proven ability to deliver results. While experience is a plus, we prioritize potential—someone with exceptional communication skills, a drive to exceed targets, and a collaborative mindset. As a key team player, you’ll take ownership of your goals while contributing to our shared vision of success. If you’re ready to embrace challenges, push boundaries, and thrive in a culture of excellence, we want you on our team. Key Responsibilities: - Independently build a large pipeline of leads to drive Insertion Orders - Build relationships with brand and performance focused agency contacts and explain the power of MediaGo's native, choice-based advertising platform - Manage a robust pipeline and accurately forecast new business closure rate and revenue - Interact with the Account Management team to effectively manage client expectations, ensure successful campaign delivery and help set the expectation for future potential growth - Pipeline & Activity Reporting: Work with Sales Director to manage weekly and monthly performance reports for the North American Sales team, tracking key metrics such vertical and key client penetration, conversion rates, pipeline generated, and quota attainment. - CRM Hygiene & Management: Act as the internal champion for CRM data integrity (Salesforce), ensuring the team accurately logs activities for flawless reporting. Qualifications: - 2+ years of experience in advertising / marketing sales, operations roles with a focus on performance and on new business - Demonstrated experience of consistently meeting or exceeding target goals, hunting for deals, navigating organizational hierarchies and engaging decision makers to close business - Strong analytical skills to collect business intelligence by conversing with clients and monitoring/identifying trends in data and in generated reports - Collaborative team player with the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams. - Attention to detail and a commitment to delivering high-quality work - Ability to work on-site 5 days a week. Culture Fit: - Hungry to learn: We are eager to see you learn new skills and grow. But learning is hard work and this is something we hope you want to do. - Mission alignment: If you want to be part of a team to accomplish this great mission, we will provide you the best possible platform to do that. - Self­-directed: We work best with people that are driven, motivated, and aspire to greatness. Are you the sort of person that, if you had time on your hands, will independently find interesting and useful things to do? - Team orientation: We work in small, fast­-moving teams. We don't believe in lone wolves. We watch out for each other and go after big goals together as a team. Hourly rate range: $30-$50, negotiable ## About Baidu USA ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Baidu USA is the Silicon Valley R&D center of Baidu, China’s largest search engine, focused on cutting-edge AI research, autonomous driving, and global business development. - **Entity Type**: Public subsidiary of Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU) - **Headquarters**: Mountain View, California, USA (with additional offices in Bellevue, WA and Sunnyvale, CA) - **Founded**: 2014 - **Founders**: Baidu was founded by Robin Li and Eric Xu; Baidu USA operates as a wholly owned subsidiary. ## Core Business - **Primary Industries**: Artificial intelligence, autonomous driving, cloud computing, digital advertising, and hardware design (CPU/GPU/SoC). - **Target Customers**: B2B (advertisers, enterprise AI solutions), B2C (through Baidu’s consumer products), and internal R&D for Baidu’s global ecosystem. - **Mission**: “To make a complicated world simpler through technology.” ## Products & Services - **Baidu Research US**: Conducts fundamental AI research in deep learning, computer vision, speech recognition, and NLP. - **Intelligent Driving Group (IDG) US**: Develops Apollo autonomous driving platform and related hardware/software. - **Baidu Global Business Unit**: Manages **MediaGo** (AI-powered advertising platform for global app advertisers) and other international ad sales. - **Xingyun US**: Silicon Valley hardware design center focused on CPU/GPU/SoC architecture for AI and autonomous driving. - **Baidu AI Cloud**: Cloud services with AI capabilities (noted as a category, though US-specific offerings may be limited). ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Baidu, Inc. market cap ~$30–40 billion (as of mid-2025); Baidu USA is a subsidiary with no separate public valuation. - **Key Metric**: Headcount of 77 employees (+2.1% YoY); active job postings increased 180% YoY (14 current openings). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Baidu, Inc. (parent); partnerships with global advertisers, automotive OEMs, and hardware vendors. - **Growth Signals**: Rapid expansion in hardware engineering roles (CPU/GPU/SoC), 40% quarterly increase in job postings, new office in Bellevue, WA, and growing global advertising business (MediaGo). ## Competitive Advantages - Access to Baidu’s massive data, compute resources, and decades of AI expertise—combined with the agility of a small Silicon Valley team. - Strong talent pipeline from top universities (Stanford, UC Santa Barbara) and alumni network at Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and ByteDance. - Unique position bridging US innovation with Baidu’s vast Chinese market and ecosystem. ## Strategic Focus - **AI Hardware**: Building custom CPU/GPU/SoC designs for machine learning and autonomous driving. - **Autonomous Driving**: Advancing Apollo platform through US-based R&D and partnerships. - **Global Advertising**: Scaling MediaGo to capture international app advertiser spend. - **Talent Acquisition**: Aggressively hiring hardware architects, AI researchers, and business development managers to expand US footprint. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: “Nimbleness of a startup” with resources of a global tech giant; elite researchers and engineers work on “change-the-world” AI projects. - **Work Environment**: Hybrid/office presence across three US locations (Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Bellevue). Specific remote policy not disclosed. - **Impact**: Work on AI systems deployed to hundreds of millions of users (Baidu’s core products) and cutting-edge hardware that powers next-gen AI. - **Notable Perks**: Not explicitly listed, but typical for a global R&D center includes competitive compensation, equity (via Baidu), and exposure to cross-border technology development. ## Sources 1. [usa.baidu.com](https://usa.baidu.com/) 2. [usa.baidu.com/about](https://usa.baidu.com/about) 3. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/baidu](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/baidu) 4. 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