This role offers the opportunity to join the industry pioneer and leader in video advertising, one of the most high-growth areas of the digital media industry, and one that is experiencing rapid growth across multiple markets. The Industry Director will be tasked with developing existing and new relationships and partnerships with the largest Tech clients.

The Industry Director will also work closely with the Agency Sales team to manage senior level agency relationships.

===== Key Responsibilities ======

• Develop opportunities, build, and grow strategic relationships with major customers and agencies in the Tech vertical.
• Serve as an industry expert in order to drive vertical and client success by developing thought leadership within the Tech vertical.
• Drive local revenue growth by partnering with our frontline sales team.
• Oversee the campaign performance, budget spent, and the revenue recognition
• Seek, identify and initiate new consultative sales presentations using industry knowledge, market trends, and Teads's video solutions.
• Drive external and internal market knowledge and insights.
• Proactive engagement with industry committees and conferences.

 ===== Experience / Background ======

• 8+ years of advertising experience, marketing, media sales or project management.
• Strong knowledge of and existing relationships within the Tech industry.
• Ability to build relationships with top marketing decision makers.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Knowledge of video space preferred.
• Proven leadership ability to influence, develop, and empower colleagues to achieve objectives with a team approach.
• Ability to convert business from other media channels.

 ===== Personal Attributes =====

• Passionate – high energy and enthusiasm.
• A self-starter – creative, resourceful and adaptable, able to find solutions to problems
• Hands-on approach – will have good examples of personally leading critical negotiations.
• Digital media expert – able to act as a trusted strategic advisor to advertiser clients on digital media.
• Ambitious and hungry – excited and motivated to identify and close deals.
• Excellent communication skills: listening, verbal and written.

 ===== About Teads =====

Teads operates a leading, cloud-based, omnichannel platform that enables programmatic digital advertising across a global ecosystem of quality digital media.As an end-to-end solution, Teads’ modular platform allows partners to leverage buy-side, sell-side, creative, data and AI optimization technologies. For advertisers and their agencies, Teads offers a single access point to buy the inventory of many of the world’s best publishers and content providers.Through exclusive global media partnerships, Teads enables advertisers and agencies to reach billions of unique monthly users in brand safe, responsible advertising environments, while improving the effectiveness and efficiency of digital ad transactions.Teads partners with the leading marketers, agencies and publishers through a team of 1,200+ people in 50 offices across more than 30 countries.We're committed to creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity and inclusion, and represents employees across a variety of skill sets. We embrace contributions from all ages, sexes, races, ethnicities, religions, sexual orientations and gender identities.