Sr. Agency Development Manager, Global Brands APAC

The role

You will build and run the agency development plan for Global Brands across APAC. You will structure commercial deals with agencies and act as a trusted advisor to priority agencies, helping them recommend X to their brand clients.

What you will do

• Build and run the agency development plan for Global Brands across APAC
• Structure and negotiate commercial deals with agencies: trading agreements, partnership frameworks, incentives, joint business plans
• Navigate complex agency structures across holding companies, regional hubs, operating companies and independents
• Act as primary trusted advisor to priority agencies on X products, audiences, creative, brand safety and measurement
• Partner with Client Partners and market teams to convert agency relationships into live campaigns and larger commitments
• Identify agencies and pods that should recommend X but currently do not, and open those doors
• Represent X at agency town halls, leadership forums, holding-company reviews and industry events
• Track partnership health and commercial performance and course-correct quickly

Required qualifications

• 10+ years in media sales, agency development, or senior agency-side commercial or client leadership
• Must be willing to travel regularly across Southeast Asia and India
• Hiring requirement: working-level relationships with Business Directors, Client Directors and Account Directors, not only C-suite network

Nice to have

• Clear record of driving revenue through agency partnerships in APAC
• Proven experience structuring commercial deals and working through layered agency decision-making
• Strong negotiation, communication and presentation skills
• Deep understanding of how media, creative, social and performance agencies plan and buy in APAC
• Southeast Asian language skills
• Time inside a holding-company network or major independent, plus platform-side agency development
• Experience standing up or resetting an agency partnership in a market where the platform was under-indexed
• Experience with both brand and performance agency models

Before you apply

• Hiring requirement: working-level relationships with Business Directors, Client Directors and Account Directors

About the company

SpaceXSI is building Super Intelligence, including Colossus supercomputers, Grok models and applications such as Grok Bot, Grok Build, Grok Imagine, Grok Voice and X. The company is part of a mission to make life multiplanetary.