Sales Representative

Are you a persuasive, enthusiastic, driven person interested in an inside telephone sales position selling print and digital advertising for a media and publishing company?


The New York Times newspaper, the nation’s largest and most respected daily national newspaper, has openings for inside telephone salespersons.


You should be articulate, tenacious, persuasive, prepared, meticulous, organized, energetic, and a graduate of an accredited 4 year college or university. Preferably, you should be familiar with selling display advertising, writing sales proposals, using MS Excel and MS Word, and applying rate cards and syndicated research data to further the sales process. A knowledge of a contact management software application is a plus.

You must be a team player, willing and ready to work in a diverse environment. You will be expected to meet and exceed sales goals, make cold calls, prospect for new customers, and build upon and service existing advertisers in your assigned territory or category. When calling prospects, you will need to identify the key advertising placement decision makers and initiate and pursue productive, consultative relationships.

Your composure, and your oral and written presentation skills should be excellent.

The inside display advertising sales team is an excellent place to enhance your career in advertising sales, manufacture a series of successes, gain notice, and be promoted to higher levels of responsibility. In the past 12 months, over eleven inside sales team members were promoted to roles in Account Management. Currently, three SVP/VP’s at The Times, generating over $1 Billion in advertising revenue each year, began their careers as inside salespeople at The Times.

The New York Times is an Equal Opportunity Employer.