Agency Partner Manager, Scaled Growth (Global)

The role

The Agency Partner Manager, Scaled Growth will turn agency partnerships into a scalable source of new advertisers. You will work with official and pilot agency partners across the U.S. and international markets to identify, onboard, and grow advertisers.

What you will do

• Drive new advertiser activations across official and pilot agency partners.
• Partner with agency media buyers and account teams to identify suitable advertisers.
• Own the onboarding journey from initial intake through first spend.
• Diagnose and escalate barriers preventing advertisers from launching or scaling.
• Own pilot agency activation plans and evaluate their performance.
• Train agency teams on the advertising platform, including bidding and creative strategy.
• Provide actionable vertical and performance insights to agencies.
• Manage a high-volume portfolio using a tiered engagement model.
• Transition advertisers that reach sustained spend to Account Managers.
• Translate agency market feedback into actionable priorities for Product and Data teams.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in ad sales, agency partnerships, agency development, advertising account management, or a related role at an ad platform, ad network, publisher, or performance agency.
• 2+ years of direct experience working with advertising agencies.
• Experience managing agencies of different sizes across multiple markets, including international partners and cross-time-zone collaboration.
• Success in onboarding and developing new agency partners.
• Success in increasing the number of advertisers brought in by agency partners.
• Success in taking advertisers from initial engagement through launch and sustained spend.
• Hands-on experience supporting performance advertisers in App / Web-to-App, eCommerce, or Lead Generation.
• Strong working knowledge of digital advertising platforms, conversion tracking, and attribution.
• Experience training or enabling partner teams through workshops, playbooks, or coaching.
• Experience managing a high-volume portfolio of 100+ advertisers.
• Strong CRM and pipeline management discipline.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.

Nice to have

• Previous experience as an Agency Partner Manager, Agency Development Manager, Account Manager, or similar role within an SMB or scaled organization at a major advertising platform such as TikTok, Goog
• Previous experience at a performance marketing agency, affiliate network, or media buying organization.
• Deep expertise in at least one performance advertising vertical: App / Web-to-App, eCommerce, or Lead Generation.
• Experience designing or managing agency pilot programs.
• Experience working at a new or emerging advertising platform.
• Working proficiency in an additional language used by NewsBreak’s international agency partners.

Benefits

• Discretionary bonus
• Options

About the company

NewsBreak is a local life and news platform with more than 40 million monthly users. The company includes NewsBreak, Nearby AI, and NDot AI.