Agency Lead

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We’re looking for a Regional Agency Lead to help grow Pinterest’s agency business globally. You’ll be 1 of a dynamic team of 3 agency leads in France. You’ll leverage executive relationships and your Pinterest ad platform expertise to inspire agencies to become Pinterest ad experts. Scaling education and product knowledge will be a big part of the role, as you will help transform our agency partners into advocates by educating them on how to leverage Pinterest’s paid and organic solutions to meet their clients’ goals. In doing so, you’ll play a key role in scaling one of the fastest growing advertising platforms in history through your agency partnerships.

What you'll do:

Drive incremental and new business revenue with top agencies (WPP and France’s largest Independents)

Build relationships at the c-level and educate agencies to master the Pinterest ad platform and maximize success for their partners

Partner closely with Pinterest Sales Managers and leadership to execute the agency strategy in conjunction with the Enterprise and SMB sales teams’ priorities

Working closely with our Global Agency team to identify local market opportunities.

Build, negotiate and close annual commercial partnerships with assigned agency networks following central guidelines and policies in collaboration with our Commercial team.

Prove demonstrable impact of the agency team’s work using an effective combination of metrics and market feedback

Continually keep agencies updated with new Pinterest ad offerings so they can present new offerings to partners

Track, analyze, and communicate key quantitative metrics and business trends as they relate to agency relationships

Work cross-functionally to help Pinterest build a world-class advertising platform

What we’re looking for:

10+ years Digital advertising agency and agency sales experience, working specifically with media agencies to deliver quarterly revenue targets

Deep knowledge of the French market and ideally the Independents ecosystem

Demonstrative capabilities in implementing sales strategies into the holdco and opco level of a media agency network, showing a strong understanding of agency operating models and structures

Experience working with executive-level business and marketing leaders within agency organizations with a customer focus. An existing network of senior agency contacts is preferred.

Proven track record of managing commercial partnerships, ensuring accountability from internal xfn and agency stakeholders to deliver on annual goals

An independent, business-focused creative thinker who is excited to work with leading agency partners

Demonstrated experience using AI to improve speed and quality in day-to-day work such as analysis, documentation and reporting, with a clear approach to validating accuracy and quality

Strong track record of critical evaluation and verification of AI-assisted work, including testing, source-checking, data validation and peer review where appropriate

Excellent communication and presentation skills, attention to detail, and a bias for proactively resolving issues

Bachelor’s degree in business, advertising or marketing, a related field or equivalent experience.

Relocation Statement:

This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.

In-Office Requirement Statement

We let the type of work you do guide the collaboration style. That means we're not always working in an office, but we continue to gather for key moments of collaboration and connection.

This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times per week and therefore needs to be in a commutable distance from our PARIS office.

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At Pinterest we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position. The position is also eligible for equity and incentive compensation. Final salary is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise.

Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.

Location based applicants

€83.956 - €159.517 EUR

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