If your idea of a great job includes loud sales pods, laughter, C-suite connections, and a built-in winter break, you’ll want to hear this one.
The Millennium Alliance designs intimate, five-star events where buyers and sellers actually sit down together behind closed doors. Jena chats with VP of HR, Victoria Albuquerque, about the company’s 12-year journey from three events to dozens each year, the “team sport” mindset that drives performance, and why they’re gearing up to double in size.
What you’ll learn:
- What The Millennium Alliance actually does for buyers and sellers at their events
- How the company grew from three events to 40–50 in the US and 10–12 in Europe
- What it’s like to work on a loud, open sales floor with leaders “in the trenches”
- How early-career salespeople build real relationships with Fortune 500 executives
- Why internal mobility, hands-on coaching, and recognition are core to the culture
- How the team is preparing to double headcount in the next 12–18 months
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The Millennium Alliance Highlights:
Founded: 2014
Team Size: <200 employees globally
HQ: New York City
Work Model: Primarily in-office with employees across the US and Europe
Culture: Supportive, fun, high-performing, “team sport environment,” ambitious and human
Unique Perks & programs:
- Heavy focus on sales and leadership training and development
- Real internal mobility: entry-level sales to running departments over time
- Daily access to senior executives and decision makers as core to the role
- Co-founders on the sales floor and leaders “in the work” with real-time coaching
- Weekly shoutouts, employee-of-the-month and year-end awards
- Team events, offsites, company outings, volunteer days
- Dedicated employee for culture and engagement
- Wellness initiative: extra 20 minutes at lunch for the gym or personal time
- Company-wide shutdown over end-of-year holidays without using PTO
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