Industry Manager II

What you’ll do

• Lead and support a team of Mid-Market sellers focused on achieving revenue goals and delivering strong advertiser outcomes.
• Drive day-to-day sales execution across pipeline management, account prioritization, opportunity progression, and customer engagement.
• Coach sellers on core sales fundamentals, including prospecting or account growth, account planning, objection handling, negotiation, and consultative selling.
• Reinforce clear performance expectations and help team members improve through regular feedback, inspection, and in-the-moment coaching.
• Monitor key business metrics and use data to identify risks, support execution, and improve team performance.
• Support accurate forecasting and pipeline hygiene by ensuring sellers maintain strong deal discipline and opportunity visibility.
• Partner with cross-functional teams such as Sales Strategy, Marketing, Measurement, Operations, and Product to help remove blockers and improve advertiser outcomes.
• Help onboard new team members and reinforce best practices, tools, and team operating rhythms.
• Build a collaborative, inclusive, and accountable team culture where sellers can develop and perform at a high level.
• Escalate client issues appropriately and partner with internal stakeholders to drive resolution.
• Champion adoption of Pinterest’s ad products, tools, and measurement capabilities across the team.
• Contribute feedback on what is working in the market and help improve team processes and playbooks over time.

What we’re looking for

• Experience in digital advertising, media sales, platform sales, or a related customer-facing commercial role.
• Demonstrated success in a quota-carrying, revenue-driving, or book-of-business environment.
• Prior leadership experience, which may include direct people management, team lead responsibility, mentoring, coaching, or other informal leadership experience.
• Ability to coach sellers on core sales skills and support consistent execution against defined goals.
• Working knowledge of pipeline management, forecasting fundamentals, account planning, and customer relationship management.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with both clients and internal partners.
• Comfort using data and reporting to identify issues, track performance, and guide action.
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
• Interest in growing as a people leader and building an inclusive, high-accountability team culture.

Preferred qualifications:

• Prior direct people management experience.
• Experience working with Mid-Market advertisers or scaled books of business.
• Experience in performance advertising, brand advertising, or full-funnel platform solutions.
• Familiarity with measurement, attribution, and digital media performance metrics.
• Experience coaching early- or mid-career sellers.
• Experience partnering with agencies or multi-stakeholder client teams.