WLKY Account Executive
Louisville, KYFull-time$7.25/hrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
WLKY, the CBS affiliate in Louisville, is seeking an Account Executive to sell advertising to local businesses and negotiate impressions and rates with ad agencies. The role includes soliciting new TV and web advertisers, developing client partnerships, and growing revenue across available platforms. The Account Executive reports to the Local Sales Manager and contributes to the station’s sales team.
Skills & qualifications
Skills
Qualifications
Benefits
Full job description
Experience Required
1 - 20 years
Minimum Education Required
High School Diploma/G.E.D.
Compensation
$7.25 / hourly
Hours Per Week
40
Number Of Positions
1
Work Schedule and Shift Requirements
First (Day)
Job Description
WLKY, the CBS affiliate in Louisville, KY is looking for an Account Executive. An Account Executive sells advertising to local businesses and negotiates impressions and rates with ad agencies. You will also solicit new businesses to advertise TV and web. If you are motivated by an excellent product, great compensation, and working with a talented team of professionals, look no further. We will provide the tools for powerful multi-platform marketing solutions to create partnerships to retain and grow our client base. You will report to the Local Sales Manager. If you want to work for the best, we want to hear from you today!
Responsibilities
Produce revenue across all available platforms
Prospect, contact and present to new businesses
Develop new revenue through local business development
Form strategic and market partnerships
Manage an active account/client list
Conceptualize, create, and deliver sales proposals that are consistent with station strategies
Achieve individual sales goals while contributing to ((station)) dynamic sales team
Requirements
1+ years in media or digital sales, or similar sales field
Experience with the development of new business/non-traditional business
Have strong negotiation skills
Experience in a consultative customer-focused business atmosphere
Accountability within a goal-structured organization
Must be a team player
Experience selling to business owners
Understand and use qualitative research to further sales effort
Related military experience will be considered
Values in Action
At Hearst Television we tell stories every day. Stories about people of all backgrounds, perspectives, and identities. That's why, behind the scenes, we believe in being an organization that fosters collaboration and open communication, ensuring that the content we create is authentic, accurate, and connected to the communities we serve.
Benefits
Hearst's benefit programs are modern, flexible and designed to focus on you. As a Hearst employee, you and your spouse or partner or dependents would have access to the following benefits.
Medical | Dental | Vision
401(k) matching
Emotional Wellness Support
Paid Time Off
Paid Parental Leave
LGBTQ+ Health Services
Additional benefits to meet your and your family's needs
Job Type
Full time
Benefits Offered
Not specified
Veteran Preference
No
Place of Work
On-site
Requisition ID
2026925
How this job compares
Set against the 11,915 open Account Executive jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$7.25/hr
- US median$32–51/hr261 hourly ranges
This rate, $7.25/hr, is 82% below the US median midpoint ($41/hr) — in the lowest quarter of Account Executive hourly ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 115 open Account Executive jobs in Kentucky and 11,915 across the US. 16% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Kentucky
- Oracle29 open
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- Verint Systems, Inc.5 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience — less than three in four Account Executive postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 9,043 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a high school diploma; 2,369 of the 11,915 open Account Executive jobs (20%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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