Agency Development Director - SEA

Realize your potential by joining the leading performance-driven advertising company!  

As an Agency Development Director - SEA on our Agency team in our Bangkok office, you’ll play a vital role in paving the path for Taboola’s sales and partnership efforts with agency holding companies and large independent media agencies in Singapore, Thailand and other SEA markets. You will uncover & develop sales opportunities, as well as lead & sign partnerships with holding companies, large independent agencies and/or their subsidiaries. In this role, you will collaborate with and be heavily supported by our Sales, Account Management, Product, Finance, and Legal teams.

To thrive in this role, you'll need:

• 5+ years of experience working within or alongside holding group agencies.
• Positive reputation and relationships across senior leaders at agency holding groups. The successful candidate will hold strong agency relationships in Singapore.
• Vast knowledge of the SEA media industry landscape, with a digital specialisation.
• Proven track record of obtaining and closing high value sales opportunities.
• Outstanding persuasive communication and presentation skills, with strong ability to communicate complex solutions to a range of audiences.
• A win-win-win mindset of exceptional collaboration, positive engagement, and focus on success through high value partnership sales.
• Deep understanding of the tools used by agencies to trade digital campaigns: data, brand safety, brand lift, DSPs, measurement, targeting and more.
• This role requires regular travel across SEA to meet with agencies face to face.
• The successful candidate will be fluent in English.

How you’ll make an impact:

As Agency Development Director, SEA, you will: 

• Be the custodian of Taboola’s relationships and sales success with holding company and major independent agencies.
• Nurture and maintain positive, productive relationships with leaders of holding company and major independent agencies.
• Plan and execute partnership programs with holding company and major independent agencies to influence and motivate advertisers’ business strategies.
• Build programs to educate agency teams on Taboola’s solutions, and deliver these programs to inspire and motivate agency teams to include Taboola in their media plans.
• Discover and unlock new sales opportunities for Taboola’s Enterprise sales teams within holding company and major independent agencies.
• Support, coach, mentor and guide Taboola’s Enterprise sales teams’ toward their sales success within holding company and major independent agencies.
• Expertly collaborate across Taboola to communicate and inspire progress toward the needs of holding company and major independent agencies.

Why Taboola?

If you ask Taboolars what they love about working here, they’ll tell you that they’ve been empowered to realize their full potential while growing and learning from and with smart and talented people. They’ll also share more about:

• Adam Singolda, Taboola Founder and CEO says; “You can copy anything from another business but you can’t copy a company’s culture.
• Well-being: Enjoy comprehensive benefits (health, 401k, etc.), a fully stocked kitchen, and location-specific perks (gym partnerships, parking).
• Flexibility: We offer a hybrid work schedule with 3 days in-office with an option to come in more often if desired.
• Work with some of the biggest names: We work with some of the biggest names in the business. Our publisher partners include Yahoo, Conde Nast, Fox Sports, NBCU, ESPN, CBS, and E! Online. Our advertiser clients include Wells Fargo, Honda, Pinterest, Expedia and Honda.

Ready to realize your potential?

Taboola is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity in all forms. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and believe such an environment is critical for success. Employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.-

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About Taboola

Taboola empowers businesses to grow through performance advertising technology that goes beyond search and social and delivers measurable outcomes at scale.

Taboola works with thousands of businesses who advertise directly on Realize, Taboola’s powerful ad platform, reaching approximately 600M daily active users across some of the best publishers in the world. Publishers like NBC News, Yahoo, and OEMs such as Samsung, Xiaomi and others use Taboola’s technology to grow audience and revenue, enabling Realize to offer unique data, specialized algorithms, and unmatched scale.

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