Head of Global Travel, Sales

Travel vertical. Reporting to the VP of Global Enterprise Sales, this role will build and lead a global sales team tasked with driving revenue and activation across our travel advertising solutions. The role requires a deep understanding of the travel industry, programmatic ecosystem, and strong relationships with enterprise travel and toursim brands.

StackAdapt is a Remote First company. For this role, we’re specifically looking for individuals with relationships at some of the major holding company agencies and leading advertising brands in the United States.

What you’ll be doing:

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

What you’ll bring to the table:

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
Curious and eager to learn

StackAdapters enjoy:

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
A friendly, welcoming, and supportive culture

Our social and team events!

StackAdapt is a diverse and inclusive team of collaborative, hardworking individuals trying to make a dent in the universe. No matter who you are, where you are from, who you love, follow in faith, disability (or superpower) status, ethnicity, or the gender you identify with (if you’re comfortable, let us know your pronouns), you are welcome at StackAdapt. If you have any requests or requirements to support you throughout any part of the interview process, please let our Talent team know.

About StackAdapt

We’ve been recognized for our diverse and supportive workplace, high performing campaigns, award-winning customer service, and innovation. We’ve been awarded:

Ad Age Best Places to Work 2024

G2 Top Software and Top Marketing and Advertising Product for 2024

Campaign’s Best Places to Work 2023 for the UK

2024 Best Workplaces for Women and in Canada by Great Place to Work®

#1 DSP on G2 and leader in a number of categories including Cross-Channel Advertising

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