Head of Global Travel

Summary

Join StackAdapt, a self-serve advertising platform, as the Head of Global Travel to lead sales efforts across the Travel vertical. This role requires a deep understanding of the travel industry and strong relationships with enterprise travel brands.

Requirements

• 15+ years experience working in advertising sales, business development or strategy within the Travel digital advertising ecosystem
• Existing, strong relationships with decision-makers at hold-co advertising agencies and large travel and tourism brands
• Ability to foster relationships internally across product, engineering and sales, as well as with key customer decision makers and industry leaders
• A deep understand of the programmatic ecosystem and DSP dynamics
• Strong communication and presentation building skills

Responsibilities

• Partner with cross functional stakeholders in devising a strategy to win in travel and tourism; including product ideation, GTM development, sales enablement, and marketing
• Selling through programmatic travel solutions to enterprise brands and agencies
• Build travel playbooks for all sales segments to increase our market penetration across all segments of travel customers
• Hire and train a team of travel-specific sellers globally, calling on enterprise brands, and operate as player-coach to sell to key accounts
• Meet with customers and partners in order to evaluate market needs, keep up to speed on trends, and conduct real-time customer feedback loops
• Partner closely with Client Services peers to ensure the teams build a world-class customer operating model to service the global travel accounts
• Design, communicate, and execute against a sales strategy that motivates the team to effectively operate in a fast paced, high growth environment, and hit their quotas.This includes driving operational rigor of the business including forecast and pipeline development, joint business plans, and business case analysis as we go after new opportunities

Benefits

• Highly competitive salary + commission structure
• 401K matching
• 3 weeks vacation + 3 personal care days + 1 Culture & Belief day + birthdays off
• Access to a comprehensive mental health care platform
• Health benefits from day one of employment
• Work from home reimbursements
• Optional global WeWork membership for those who want a change from their home office
• Robust training and onboarding program
• Coverage and support of personal development initiatives (conferences, courses, etc)
• Access to StackAdapt programmatic courses and certifications to support continuous learning
• An awesome parental leave policy