Revenue Growth, Product Positioning & Customer Relations Leader

10+ years of turning conversations into revenue.

I help companies build sales processes that scale — combining a consultative, relationship-first approach with data analytics to forecast accurately and close more.

Jesse Freedman

Where I've built revenue

Flickr NBC Taboola Simon Property Group DMN Enterprise Rent-A-Car

📊 Quota attainment & growth, by engagement

206% Of quota, Taboola Q4 (195% in Q3)
140% Growth in book of business, DMNews.com
$400K Annual revenue managed, top account at DMNews.com

Every figure here is pulled straight from results delivered, not projections.

💼 Experience

A track record built on the same throughline: understand the account, remove the friction, close the deal, then do it again at scale.

2024 — 2026

Senior Partnerships Lead

Flickr

Lead direct advertising and brand partnerships for Flickr, working with the CEO to build sponsorship packages for a new photography festival — including the first-ever sponsor for the Flickr World Photography Photowalk and MyFlickrYear promotion.

3 new logos Brand partners added in the first 6 months
2022 — Present

Operations Contractor

NBC — SNL, The Tonight Show, TODAY Show

Support the prop department on live, deadline-driven productions — solving problems fast as priorities shifted in real time.

Live TV Zero-margin-for-error operations
2021 — 2022

Sales Team Lead

Taboola

Led native sales growth for DTC brands on a global B2B advertising platform — owning forecasting, reporting, and cross-functional work with Marketing and Revenue Ops.

206% Of quota, Q4 (195% in Q3)
2020 — Present

Sales Consultant, Self-Employed

Spruce Box · Convertist · LeasePilot

Partnered directly with startup clients on sales process improvements, customer service systems, and CRM data hygiene for long-term profitability.

3 clients Independent consulting engagements
2017 — 2020

Associate Account Director

DMNews.com

Main point of contact for the highest-billed accounts, including PepsiCo — managing the full sales lifecycle with C-suite clients on digital media campaigns.

$400K Annual revenue, plus 140% growth in book of business
2016 — 2017

Business Development, Advertising Manager

Simon Property Group

Directed the full sales lifecycle across two of Simon's largest markets — from cold call to renewal — for campaigns, event sponsorships, and digital media.

Largest deal In Jersey Gardens' sales history
2014 — 2015

Business Development Associate

Union Square Media Group

Managed onboarding and account growth for a portfolio of clients, tracking EPC, CPC, and conversion benchmarks to guide campaign strategy.

$600K/mo Revenue across 20 accounts
2012 — 2014

Account Executive

Mongoose Atlantic

Acting sales lead of a 15-person team selling custom ad buys in TIME, Bloomberg, The Week, and Newsweek, and coached junior AEs on closing technique.

15 reps Coached on sales tactics & closing
2009 — 2012

Assistant Branch Manager

Enterprise Rent-A-Car

Managed day-to-day branch operations, growing the location into the largest branch in the NYC market, while coaching four sales trainees on upselling and contract management.

Largest branch In the NYC market

🎯 Where I add value

The areas clients bring me in for, most often.

Client relations & retention Customer relations Product positioning Revenue optimization Sales & growth strategy Forecasting & reporting Process optimization Team leadership Coaching & training Budget development Operations & finance AI implementation AI prompt writing AI coding

🛠️ Tools I work in

Comfortable across the modern sales stack.

Salesforce HubSpot Qlik Excel ZoomInfo Mailchimp Gong Salesloft Outreach Orum Monday Jira Claude ChatGPT Framer Squarespace

🎓 Education

MBA
BBA, Marketing
Sales Growth Certificate

💬 Interview Answers

The questions that come up in every interview, answered before you have to ask.

What's your sales philosophy?+

Sales that lasts isn't about the pitch, it's about understanding what the account actually needs and building the case to match. Every quota I've hit came from treating the number as the outcome of good process, not the goal itself.

Tell me about a deal that didn't go as planned.+

Early at Taboola, I lost a self-service upsell I was sure would close. The prospect went quiet for three weeks. I followed back up with data instead of pressure, a benchmark showing what similar accounts were leaving on the table. They came back, and that became my default move for any stalled deal since.

How do you like to lead or coach a team?+

I coach the way I sell, no script, just principles. Running a 15-person team at Mongoose Atlantic, the reps who improved fastest weren't the ones I gave more calls to close. They were the ones I let sit in on my live calls, so they could hear the reasoning behind the moves, not just the outcome.

What are you looking for next?+

Somewhere I can own the full revenue picture, not just one slice of it: pipeline, forecasting, and the relationships that make the numbers real. I like building the system as much as running it.

Off the clock

A few things I'm just as invested in outside of work.

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Sports

I'm as devoted to Denver Broncos football as I am to Baltimore Orioles baseball, with a smaller but genuine soft spot reserved for the Ravens and Mets. I love attending sports of every kind — stadiums are basically my second home.

♟️
Chess

I picked the game back up as an adult and I'm chasing master-level play through chess.com's coaching program, one lesson at a time.

🤖
AI & Claude

I'm building real fluency with AI, working through Anthropic's Claude courses to go well beyond surface-level prompting.

🕍
Community

I serve on the board at my synagogue, Bay Ridge Jewish Center, running marketing and programming on a volunteer basis — community matters enormously to me.

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Movies

There's nothing like watching a film the way it was meant to be seen, so I make a point of catching movies in the theater whenever I can.

🧱
LEGO

I'm an avid LEGO builder, and lately I've moved past the instructions to start designing my own original sets.

✉️ Let's talk

Open to consulting engagements, advisory work, and full-time opportunities in sales leadership.