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# Director, Client Sales at Vevo

- **Company:** Vevo
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-19
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/vevo/3a64e483-12a2-4b68-b6fd-213a0acb231d

## Job description

About Vevo:

Vevo is the world's leading music video network, connecting an ever-growing global audience to high quality music video content for more than a decade. Founded by Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment in 2009, Vevo offers fans worldwide a vast array of premium content to choose from, showcasing official music videos alongside a constantly developing lineup of live performances and innovative original programming. From top superstars to rising new talents, Vevo brings incomparable cross-promotional support to artists across the musical spectrum, at every stage of their careers.

Vevo has consistently evolved over the past decade to lead within today's ever-changing media landscape, embracing partnerships with a number of leading distribution platforms to deliver extraordinary content within ad-supported environments. With 22 billion views across television, desktop and mobile devices each month, Vevo brings music videos to the world – when, where, and how fans want them.

Vevo is available on YouTube, Samsung, Samsung TV Plus, Roku, The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, Amazon Prime Video, VIZIO WatchFree+, Foxtel, Hulu + Live TV, Sling Freestream, and Rakuten TV.

About the role: As Director, Client Sales in the UK based commercial team, you will be responsible for leading and developing the relationships with advertisers directly. You will be tasked with maximising advertising revenue across Vevo in both the UK and other international territories directly from clients whilst partnering with the agency sales team where relevant to ensure a collaborative and partner first approach.

As the world of streaming, TV and Video continues to converge, Vevo presents advertisers a quality, culturally powerful, global opportunity. Premium content, broadcast size audiences and a cross platform distribution that has, in recent years accelerated into the Living room via CTV makes this an incredibly exciting time for our business.

We're looking for a senior, passionate and brave sales leader to help clients understand and realise the opportunity that Vevo represents as consumption fragments and user behaviours continue to shift whilst the power of our content continues to thrive.

As part of a dynamic sales team you will need to have a significant influence on the working culture, ensuring positivity, proactivity and a collaborative approach with clients, partners and all internal teams and stakeholders.

This role reports to the Senior Vice President, International Sales and Partnerships with a dotted line to the Vice President, UK and International Sales.

In this role, as a member of our team, you will:

- Work closely with leadership to develop the best strategies and approach to maximise revenue through client direct relationships and representation.
- Be responsible for delivering against specific revenue targets - both growth of existing and incremental business.
- Provide first class sales representation, developing Vevo’s positioning, service and relationships with key advertisers across all levels.
- Work in partnership with the agency sales team to optimise our client direct relationships and drive collaboration and success where appropriate.
- Drive Vevo’s prominence within the specific customer base, ensuring value proposition and opportunity is understood across all levels within our target clients.
- Develop and build a healthy and accurate pipeline of new business in order to deliver against revenue targets.
- Provide accurate weekly and monthly revenue projections as requested.
- Collaborate with all internal teams in the UK and US to support our sales efforts and ensure effective service and delivery of revenue.
- Enjoy working as part of an ambitious and dynamic sales team.

This describes you:

- You have a positive and solutions orientated approach to your work.
- You have great client direct contacts and relationships within the UK/Global advertising market.
- You are comfortable talking to and influencing senior decision makers.
- You are ambitious and enjoy being challenged.
- You are creative and strategic in your approach.
- You are fearless, tenacious and determined to succeed.
- You are comfortable and adept in presenting to both small and large groups.
- You love working as part of a team and enjoy the camaraderie that comes with it.
- You are positive, optimistic and have fun at work.

Requirements:

- Have proven experience in client direct advertising sales and be able to demonstrate this through significant revenue generation and growth.
- Have strong and deep client relationships with UK advertisers and ideally their international/global teams where relevant.
- Established contacts and a track record of success within the centralised media hubs such as Amsterdam a big plus.
- Be a great communicator and presenter with the ability to influence and persuade successfully in both 1 on 1, and bigger group environments.
- A strong understanding and grasp of the Video/AV advertising landscape and how that fits within the broader media market - both UK and Internationally.
- A solid understanding of the programmatic marketplace and an ability to translate the different and evolving opportunities to clients.
- Organised with a focused approach and an ability to prioritise in order to maximise outcomes.
- Be able to demonstrate the ability to work within a team and to support and collaborate with others to get the job done.

Interested? Great! You might like to know:

- We're a fun, energetic, and tight knit team.
- We really enjoy music and technology.
- We have premier access to music content and new releases of original media content.
- We offer competitive compensation including a match up to 6% of your pension contributions.
- We offer private health insurance, life insurance and a range of other health and wellbeing benefits.
- We are in a new and recently renovated office space with a 3 days a week in office hybrid working model.

## About Vevo

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Vevo is the world's leading music video network, connecting global audiences to premium music video content across YouTube, connected TV, and mobile platforms.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Privately Held LLC; joint venture founded by Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment)
- **Headquarters**: New York, NY, United States (4 Times Sq, New York, 10036)
- **Founded**: 2009
- **Founders**: Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Entertainment / Media — music video distribution, advertising-supported streaming, and original programming
- **Target customers**: B2B (advertisers, labels, distribution partners) and B2C (music fans); operates in ad-supported environments across TV, desktop, and mobile
- **Mission**: "To maximize the commercial and promotional value of music video"

## Products & Services
- **Vevo YouTube Network**: The largest network of music channels on YouTube, with more than 1 million videos from artists of all levels and genres.
- **Vevo CTV & Streaming Apps**: Premium music video content distributed across Samsung TV Plus, Roku, The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, Amazon Prime Video, VIZIO WatchFree+, Foxtel, Hulu + Live TV, Sling Freestream, and Rakuten TV.
- **Vevo Originals**: Innovative original programming, including live performances and artist-focused content, complementing official music videos.
- **Vevo For Advertisers**: Ad-supported content environment offering brands and advertisers scaled reach across premium music video inventory, including programmatic TV sales and partnerships.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue — USD $321.7M (latest reported)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, YouTube, Samsung, Roku, Pluto TV, Amazon Prime Video, VIZIO, Hulu, Sling, Rakuten TV, Foxtel
- **Growth Signals**: 22 billion views per month and 1.5 billion hours viewed per month; workforce grew +5.1% YoY to 334 employees; talent pipeline draws heavily from Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, NBCUniversal, Viacom, and Discovery; alumni frequently go on to Spotify, Amazon, Google, Apple, and Roku.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Scale & Reach**: 22B monthly views and 1.5B monthly hours viewed give Vevo one of the largest premium music video audiences in the world.
- **Founding Backing**: Jointly founded by Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment, giving it deep, privileged relationships with the world's largest music labels.
- **Unmatched Catalog**: More than 1M videos spanning superstars to emerging artists, with cross-promotional support across every career stage.
- **Distribution Breadth**: Presence across YouTube plus a growing list of CTV and streaming partners — capturing audiences "when, where, and how fans want them."
- **First-Mover Legacy**: More than a decade of continuous operation in the ad-supported music video space, evolving with the shift to connected TV.

## Strategic Focus
- **CTV Expansion**: Growing premium content distribution across connected TV environments to build incremental audiences and revenue for labels and artists.
- **Ad-Supported Growth**: Deepening advertiser partnerships, including programmatic TV sales, to monetize the shift to streaming TV.
- **Original Programming**: Scaling Vevo Originals to differentiate content beyond official music videos.
- **Data & Distribution Operations**: Investing in revenue, distribution, and data operations leadership to optimize platform performance.

## Why Work Here
- **Hybrid Work**: Open roles in New York and Los Angeles are listed as Hybrid — Full-time.
- **Culture**: Employer rating of 3.6/5.0 (174 reviews), with Culture at 3.9 and Work-Life Balance at 3.9; described as a "team-first mentality" committed to fostering an inclusive workplace.
- **Values**: Shared adoption of five core values, including "Be Agile," guiding global teams.
- **Global Footprint**: Offices in "musical meccas" — New York, London, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Sydney — offering international mobility and exposure.
- **Engineering & Product Leadership**: Dedicated SVP of Engineering & Product (Scott Anderson) signals a strong product-led organization; technical team currently represents ~20 employees across engineering and product functions.
- **Industry Talent Flow**: Strong pedigree — employees frequently come from Universal Music Group, Sony Music, NBCUniversal, Viacom, and Hulu, and alumni move on to Spotify, Amazon, Google, and Apple.
- **Hiring Transparency**: Vevo discloses that AI tools may support parts of the hiring process (resume review, response analysis) but that final decisions are made by humans.
- **Compensation Benchmarks** (from LinkedIn data): Marketing Coordinator ~$64K, Consumer Insights Analyst ~$84K, Account Manager ~$99K annually.

## Sources
1. [jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/vevo)
2. [hq.vevo.com](https://www.hq.vevo.com/)
3. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/vevo)
4. [hq.vevo.com/people](https://www.hq.vevo.com/people)
5. [craft.co](https://craft.co/vevo)

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