Account Executive

Taiv transforms awareness ads into performance marketing. Our computer vision algorithms are able to replace live TV commercials in bars and restaurants with targeted and measurable ads. We work with over 1,000 venues and many fortune-1000 advertisers like AbInBev, Coke, Pepsi, ESPN, and more.

Taiv makes businesses more fun, engaging, profitable, and easier to manage for patrons, business owners, and advertisers.

Our product is free for venue owners - we cover the cost of the hardware, install, and maintenance. They get to promote their own house advertisements, automate their TV systems, and access our streaming, trivia, and automation. We also give them control, for the first time ever, over which brands are allowed to advertise on their TVs. Whenever we run an ad, we share some of the revenue with the venue owner. We send a check to thousands of small businesses each month to help them generate incremental revenue.

We partner with bars and install custom hardware, which attaches to their cable box and uses computer vision to detect commercials in real-time (more about that below). When it cuts to commercial break, we dynamically insert ads that are perfect for that environment. We're also able to measure sales results based on point-of-sale data to provide closed-loop attribution - a first in our industry.

• TechCrunch
• Demo video

We’re a 40-employee in-person team who genuinely enjoy working together. We look for smart, passionate, and driven people who want to build something amazing. We have a fun culture and strive to create an easy-going work environment. We’ve raised a Series A and are one of the fastest growing companies in Canada.

Taiv is a fast-growing tech startup located in Winnipeg, Canada. Taiv uses AI to make business TV more fun, engaging, profitable, and easier to manage, starting with bars and restaurants. We've built proprietary tech that uses computer vision to watch live TV and improve the content with contextually-aware commercials, content, and games. Our tech also automates the manual AV tasks that venues have to do every day, to make bar management easier, standardized, and more profitable. We're venture-capital backed and graduated from Y Combinator, the world's top tech accelerator, in winter 2020. Program alumni include Airbnb, Instacart, DoorDash, etc. (www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies).

We are looking for an Account Executive to join our sales team!

At Taiv, we’re transforming how bars and restaurants engage their guests through smarter, more interactive TV powered by AI. We’re looking for a driven, outgoing sales professional to join us as an Account Executive. In this role, you’ll be on the front lines of our growth, building relationships with venue owners, and showing them how Taiv can make their business more engaging and profitable. Your work will directly fuel our expansion and help shape the future of in-venue entertainment. To show us that you're a serious candidate, please include the phrase sales is the best somewhere in your application.

• You love talking to people and building relationships
• You’re social with an outgoing nature
• You thrive in fast-paced, startup environments
• You’re self motivated, organized, and competitive
• You’re comfortable cold-calling and finding creative ways to connect
• 1-2 years of direct sales or customer-facing experience (hospitality or tech sales preferred)
• Located in Winnipeg or willing to relocate

• Employee stock options
• 100% employer-covered health benefits
• Flex-time & unlimited paid vacation
• Gym membership
• Catered lunches 3x per week
• Dog-friendly office
• Free parking on-site
• Hybrid work model

• Job Type: Full-time
• Salary: $40,000 base + uncapped commission (OTE $60,000 – $90,000) + stock options. Further breakdown on compensation takes place during the interview process.
• Schedule: Monday to Friday
• Ability to commute: can reliably commute to the office (required)

We have really cool tech - we build our own hardware and use a heuristics-based computer vision approach for classification. We’re the first (and only) company in the world that can detect TV commercials accurately.

Our detection algorithm runs on our custom-designed TV box that we manufacture in-house. We have hundreds of boxes deployed and are installing more every day.

We also have several web apps built in React that are used by our customers, as well as for internal operations.

Our stack:

• Android (Java, c, c++)
• Opencv
• React / React Native
• Firebase
• Google Cloud Functions
• AWS (S3, Cloudfront)
• Bash
• Circleci

You don't need to know all of these, but what you don't know, be ready to learn quickly!