Account Executive, Strategic Agency Sales

SmartNews

Sales

Account Mgr

About this role

This Account Executive role sits on the Strategic Agency Sales team and focuses on expanding SmartNews Ads adoption and revenue through advertising agencies. It manages long-term agency relationships, develops senior-stakeholder trust, and contributes to growth across assigned accounts.

The work includes account planning around customer issues, KGI/KPI, and commercial flows; creating proposal opportunities; and defining SmartNews Ads’ role in integrated media plans alongside Google, Meta, LINE, and Yahoo!. The role also analyzes delivery results and market or competitor trends, then designs improvement strategies across operations, product, measurement, and creative, using AI tools. It coordinates internal and external stakeholders and shares repeatable sales practices with the team.

Applicants must have at least five years of digital advertising sales or account-management experience. They also need end-to-end experience identifying customer needs, making proposals, closing business, and expanding accounts at an advertising agency, media company, or platform. The posting requires a record of planning and executing toward revenue or KPI goals while coordinating multiple stakeholders, along with the ability to construct logical proposals based on integrated marketing, media characteristics, and commercial flows.

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