Smartly is looking for a Vice President, North America Agency Partnerships to lead and grow our agency business across the region. In this role, you'll shape strategic partnerships with major agency holding companies, leading independent agencies, and emerging partners while driving adoption of Smartly's platform at scale. Working closely with the SVP, Global Agency Partnerships, you'll bring together cross-functional teams to deliver measurable business outcomes and strengthen one of Smartly's most important growth areas.
What You Will Do- 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.
- 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 qualifications:
- 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.
- Five weeks paid time off (PTO), 11 company paid holidays, unlimited sick days
- Generous healthcare packages & mental health benefits
- 401K plus matching & equity grants for all new Smartlies
- Wellness benefit & learning reimbursement opportunities
- Volunteer time off days & company donation matching opportunities
- And so much more…
The base pay range for this position is as mentioned below per year, plus an quarterly target bonus based on revenue target attainment. We take into consideration an individual's background, expertise, and experience in determining final salary. In addition to annual salary, Smartly's total rewards provide employees with stock options, medical/dental/vision insurances, retirement savings benefits, parental leave, 5 weeks vacation, unlimited sick days, life insurance, and disability benefits. This information is provided in accordance with applicable law. Base pay information is based on market location.
Salary in USD: $221,000–$250,000
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Smartly is the AI-powered advertising technology company transforming ad experiences for brands and their consumers. Our comprehensive advertising platform seamlessly integrates the capabilities of media, creative, and intelligence to power more than 800 billion impressions and generate more than 300 billion creatives annually, delivering tangible business outcomes for brands and advertisers.
Smartly is the only company in the industry recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Creative Advertising Technologies with PwC validating the results it delivers for brands. We manage creative and media for 700+ brands worldwide and $6B in ad spend across the largest media platforms, including Facebook, Google, Instagram, Pinterest, Snap, and TikTok. Our end-to-end technology, unmatched access to media platforms and exceptional customer service help Fortune 500 brands to reach and engage consumers and learn what performs best.Smartly is a multinational and diverse team of 750+ Smartlies from 60+ nationalities, working in 13 countries. Together, we want to create and maintain an inclusive environment where everyone feels respected and heard. Our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion approach is at the heart of it.
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Skills 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 requiring 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.
- 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.
What the Team is Saying
Smartly Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Five weeks of paid vacation, company holidays, wellness days, and localized 25–30 day annual leave are prominently highlighted. Short‑term work‑from‑anywhere allowances complement PTO by making time off and location flexibility easier to use.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision coverage are offered with immediate start in some markets, alongside global mental‑health support through Auntie. These benefits are positioned as part of a strong baseline that is localized by country.
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Flexible Benefits — Hybrid/remote setups and work‑from‑anywhere options (e.g., up to 60 days from another Smartly location or 30 days from a non‑Smartly location) expand where and how work gets done. Stipends for fully remote setups are also referenced in employer materials.
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What We Do
We solve for advertising campaign and creative complexities - both key elements to the time/money savings and performance that brands, agencies and businesses seek. Our unified platform combines media, creative, and intelligence, offering end-to-end workflows powered by AI across the open and closed web. With over 700 brands and advertisers, we've proven that dynamic and personalized creative makes advertising impactful. We are on a mission to transform the advertising experience for brands and their consumers. ⚡️
Why Work With Us
As a fast-paced growth company, we offer opportunities to maximize learning and amplify impact. Our culture and values have always been the secret sauce of our growth. They define how we aspire to build our adtech product, whom we hire and reward, and how we work towards a shared vision. Join us in moving advertising forward.
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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
We are a hybrid workplace where Smartlies have the flexibility of hybrid work combining office and work from home. We also offer programs for short-term remote work globally.
