# Industry Manager II, Mid-Market

**Company:** [Pinterest](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/pinterest)
**Location:** Chicago, IL
**Role:** Sales Engineering
**Salary:** $102k – $178k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Sales Leadership, Pipeline Management, Forecasting, Account Planning, Consultative Selling, digital advertising, performance advertising, CRM, Data Analysis, sales coaching
**Posted:** 2026-07-22

> Lead and coach a team of Mid-Market sellers to achieve revenue goals on Pinterest's advertising platform. Requires sales leadership experience, quota-carrying track record, and strong coaching skills in digital media sales.

## Job Description

## 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.
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as digital media or SAAS sales, or equivalent experience.

## 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.

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