Vice President, Agency Partnerships - North America

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$221k–$250k

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Smartly.io Vice President, Agency Partnerships - North America at Smartlyio leads and grows the agency business across the region, shaping strategic partnerships and driving platform adoption. This role involves executive relationship building, cross-functional leadership, and team development.

Responsibilities

Lead Smartly's North American agency business, owning growth, adoption, and expansion across a portfolio of strategic agency partners.
Develop and execute regional agency growth strategies aligned with global priorities and company objectives.
Build trusted executive relationships across agency organizations, positioning Smartly as a long-term strategic partner.
Drive agency adoption from initial engagement through scaled deployment by identifying barriers and coordinating resources to accelerate progress.
Partner with Agency Partners, Customer Success, Technical Account Managers, Product, Sales, and Agency Activation teams to align priorities and execute growth plans.
Create accountability across cross-functional teams, ensuring strategic initiatives move efficiently from planning through execution.
Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing regional agency partnerships team, fostering a culture of collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement.
Own revenue growth across the agency portfolio by expanding Smartly's footprint across clients, teams, workflows, and product capabilities.
What We Are Looking For
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.

Qualification

Exceptional communicationExperience buildingFamiliarity with digital advertising

Required

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

Preferred

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.