Working/Functional Title

Ticket Sales, Account Executive

Position Summary

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Sell a full menu of ticket products for all ticketed events, via outbound phone calls and face-to-face presentations including, but not limited to, season tickets, group tickets, premium tickets, and premium hospitality packages.
• Must be able to work evenings and weekends, as required.
• Build relationships and expand business with current ticket holders and call new prospects and referrals to drive revenue.
• Work in the assigned onsite location on a daily basis as well as go on in person meetings out in the community. 
• Contact businesses in the local area via outbound phone calls, appointment and event-based selling.
• Build out, plan, prospect and execute large scale group sales initiatives.
• Deliver superior customer service to all current and future fans.
• Represent Michigan State University with the highest level of character and integrity.
• Build superior internal relationships with the organization
• Achieve and exceed annual sales goals established by leadership team.
• Other related duties as assigned.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, age, disability or protected veteran status.

Required Degree

Bachelors -Sports Marketing or a related field

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree with concentration in Sports Marketing or a related field.
• Comfort with making outbound phone calls in a professional and friendly manner.
• Strong work ethic, positive attitude and desire and ability to learn in a fast paced, highly competitive industry.
• Experience and proven success in an inside sales program or ticket sales role preferred.
• Strong drive to learn the sales process and grow your career rapidly.

Required Application Materials

• Resume
• Cover Letter

Review of Applications Begins On

03/02/2026

Website

www.msuspartans.com

MSU Statement

Michigan State University has been advancing the common good with uncommon will for more than 160 years. One of the top research universities in the world, MSU pushes the boundaries of discovery and forges enduring partnerships to solve the most pressing global challenges while providing life-changing opportunities to a diverse and inclusive academic community through more than 200 programs of study in 17 degree-granting colleges.

About Michigan State University

Spartans work every day to advance the common good in uncommon ways.Together, we tackle some of the world?s toughest problems to find solutions that make life better?from alternative energy to better food safety to breakthrough medical and environmental applications achieved through rare isotope research.We teach. We explore and we discover. We collaborate and lead. We innovate, inspire, and empower. We achieve our potential and create circumstances that help our students and others achieve theirs.We're good at it, and we've been at it for more than 150 years.The nation?s pioneer land-grant university, MSU began as a bold experiment that democratized higher education and helped bring science and innovation into everyday life. The revolutionary concept became a model for the nation.Today, MSU is one of the top research universities in the world?on one of the biggest, greenest campuses in the nation. Home to nationally ranked and recognized academic, residential college, and service-learning programs, we?re a diverse community of dedicated students and scholars, athletes and artists, scientists and leaders.In ways both practical and profound, we work to create a stronger, more sustainable, and more hopeful future for all.

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