Steve Sarner
Chief Revenue Officer
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Board Member
2023 - Current
Advanced Amazon Advertising is a fast growing specialized non fiction author marketing service.
Advanced Amazon Ads is a digital marketing agency that offers digital books and ongoing marketing services for authors.
Board Member
2013
Member of the Board of Directors for sf.citi - representing San Francisco tech companies in conversation with local policymakers and organizing volunteer opportunities and social impact partnerships for tech companies and their employees to serve the San Francisco community.
Connecting tech & community, sf.citi strengthens San Francisco’s reputation as a leader in technological innovation & social responsibility.
Vice President Sales and Marketing
2023 - 2024
VP Ad Sales and Program Management
2019 - 2023
Head of Sales and Ad Solutions - Goodreads (an Amazon company)
2016 - 2019
Goodreads, an Amazon Company, is the world's largest site for book readers and recommendations. I'm responsible for our advertising sales and advertising solutions globally.
Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
Raised $8,108,000,000.00 from DBS Bank and Mizuho Bank.
Vice President Marketing
2011 - 2015
If(we): Acquired by The Meet Group. if(we) - formerly known as Tagged Inc. - was a successful social products company and technology incubator focused on connecting people. if(we) owned and operated two of the world's most popular social networks, Tagged and hi5, which make over 100 million monthly new friends connections. It also launched numerous social discovery and communication apps as well. The company was acquired by Meet Group in early 2017 and continues to operate Tagged and hi5 in its brand portfolio.
Vice President Sales
2009 - 2011
Recruited to lead advertising sales for Tagged including brand sponsorships and network sales and successfully transitioned all ad revenue to 100% programmatic.
if(we) is a social media company that incubates social products to enable meaningful connections between people.
Raised $28,701,975.00 from Employee Stock Option Fund.
Advisor
2007 - 2013
Charter sales & marketing advisory role from pre-revenue start-up stage through successful acquisition by Amazon.com (AMZN)
Goodreads is a mobile and web app that allows its users to find, share, recommend, read, and review the books they like.
Raised $2,750,000.00 from TenOneTen Ventures.
Director Integrated Sales
2007 - 2009
Led integrated performance / brand sales efforts across News Corp. Fox Interactive properties including MySpace, American Idol.com, Photobucket, IGN, Scout and other FIM sites.
News Corp is a media and information services company that creates and distributes engaging content and other products and services.
Raised $512,500,000.00 from Liberty Media.
Vice President National Sales Director
2000 - 2007
Joined Tickle.com (originally Emode) pre-revenue and helped to build the site to over $30MM in revenue becoming the world's leading testing, assessment and quiz online destination. Tickle.com was acquired by Monster Worldwide for ~$100 million in May 2004. Appointed to lead Monster's social network advertising vertical representing sites including but not limited to Bebo, hi5, and Tickle.com. Directly and indirectly led a national sales team of 30+ responsible for all facets of ad revenue generation, advertising product development marketing and operations.
Monster.com is an online network that enables jobseekers to find jobs and employers to access jobseekers in India.
VP Marketing
1998 - 2000
Real Age was the leading personal health assessment site. Joined pre-revenue responsible for marketing including user acquisition and brand sales development. RealAge was subsequently successfully acquired by The Hearst Corporation.