We’ve never done an episode like today’s… instead of covering a specific data science-related topic, in today’s episode I’m letting you know about a critical role that we’re hiring for on the SuperDataScience Podcast. Perhaps you are the person we’re looking for or you know the person we are looking for!
For a bit of context, over the years, we’ve had tons of great sponsors who have allowed this show to be possible, including huge, global data-science brands like Amazon Web Services, Oracle, Anaconda, Intel, HP, Posit, JetBrains, Udemy and Gurobi. All of our content is 100% free and we publish 104 high-quality episodes every year, meaning that we require sponsorship revenue to pay the team that supports that high volume of content output.
We’ve published over 850 episodes, with one coming out every Tuesday and every Friday all year ‘round.
We’ve been running for over eight years and monetizing through sponsorship (with modest profitability) for three years.
We’re the world’s most listened-to podcast in data science, amongst the top tech podcasts, and in the top half-percent of podcasts across all genres.
Many of the best-known names in A.I. and machine learning have been our guests on the show.
So what’s the role that we’re looking to fill? Well, as the world’s most listened-to data-science podcast, we have a lot of reach. We’re now looking for a kind of sales expert called an Account Executive to join us and help us grow our revenue to match all that exposure. More revenue will allow us to invest even more in the production of the show and make the podcast better than ever. For example, it’d be amazing to eventually get to a point where we can record all of our episodes in-person with guests like they do on shows like the Joe Rogan Experience.
What we’re looking for in our Account Executive:
Critically, to start, we’re only seeking applicants based in Canada 🇨🇦, ideally in or near the Eastern timezone.
We expect that you’d need to have at least 5 years of full-time sales experience to excel in this role.
You will lead all aspects of sponsorship sales, including owning revenue targets, shaping strategy, creatively solving our clients’ marketing needs and helping us steer our podcast’s growth.
27% of our revenue came from returning sponsors in 2024 so managing relationships long-term (as opposed to solely seeking new business) could be fruitful.
Manage and collaborate with an existing employee that has been leading partnerships with a portion of her time for the past two years.
If you have a strong technical background (particularly in A.I. and/or data science), that could be a great asset because our clients typically offer highly technical products (that are ideally suited to our data-scientist audience).
Why this is a super exciting opportunity:
Highly competitive base salary and uncapped commissions!
We have strong product-market fit, resulting in a typically quick and painless sales cycle.
Other podcasts with comparable listenership have 10x the revenue we do, suggesting we’re nowhere near realizing our revenue potential today.
In the past year, I’ve hosted six slick, high-value ads for television (see links to examples below ⬇️)... there’s no reason why we couldn’t be producing ads of that quality with podcast sponsors. Each one of these ads would be associated with large deal sizes that could dramatically accelerate revenue growth for the podcast overall.
Two examples of my slick TV ads, which serve as inspiration for high-value ads we could be creating with podcast clients, here:
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