Vice President, Agency Partnerships - North America

The role

You will lead and grow the North American agency business by shaping strategic partnerships with major holding companies, independent agencies, and emerging partners. You will drive platform adoption and own revenue growth across the agency portfolio.

What you will do

• Lead Smartly's North American agency business, owning growth, adoption, and expansion.
• Develop and execute regional agency growth strategies.
• Build trusted executive relationships across agency organizations.
• Drive agency adoption from initial engagement through scaled deployment.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to align priorities and execute growth plans.
• Create accountability across cross-functional teams.
• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing regional agency partnerships team.
• Own revenue growth across the agency portfolio.

Required qualifications

• Significant experience leading agency partnerships, enterprise sales, business development, or commercial leadership within adtech, martech, SaaS, media, or related industries.
• Demonstrated success growing complex strategic partnerships and delivering against revenue targets.
• Experience influencing executive stakeholders within large, matrixed organizations.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives that require alignment across multiple business functions.
• Strong commercial acumen combined with operational excellence and strategic thinking.
• Comfortable working through ambiguity while creating clarity, momentum, and measurable business outcomes.
• Exceptional communication, relationship-building, negotiation, and executive presentation skills.
• Experience building, leading, and developing high-performing teams.

Nice to have

• Experience partnering with agency holding companies and leading independent agencies.
• Experience leading organizational transformation, technology adoption, or change management initiatives.
• Familiarity with digital advertising, creative technology, media activation, or marketing technology ecosystems.
• Experience working within a high-growth technology company.

Benefits

• Five weeks paid time off (PTO)
• 11 company paid holidays
• unlimited sick days
• Generous healthcare packages & mental health benefits
• 401K plus matching
• equity grants
• Wellness benefit
• learning reimbursement opportunities
• Volunteer time off days
• company donation matching opportunities
• stock options
• medical/dental/vision insurances

About the company

Smartly is the AI-powered advertising technology company transforming ad experiences for brands and their consumers. It is a multinational and diverse team of 750+ Smartlies from 60+ nationalities, working in 13 countries.