Senior Account Manager - Brands & Agencies

We are Outbrain.

We’re one of the world’s largest content recommendation platforms, delighting audiences with engaging, personalized content recommendations while serving as the primary engagement partner and platform for the world’s top digital media companies. 

Now, we’re evolving our business to launch a new sub-brand and product offering called Onyx by Outbrain: it’s a new branding platform designed to use our heritage in predicting engagement to help brands maximize attention across the open web. Onyx is a programmatic -first offering in a dedicated, environment of viewable, in-article placements, featuring rich video and display experiences that drive greater audience attention and impact. 

We’re looking for a highly motivated and passionate Senior Account Manager to manage and help accelerate our growing agency business.

Working at Outbrain is fun and fast paced, adapting to the rapid development of the online market. You can expect a great working environment with a committed, energetic and diverse team. 

 A day in the life

As a Senior Account Manager for the UK and Northern Europe, you will build, manage, and grow relationships and spend with key customers by helping them achieve their marketing objectives. You will partner with Outbrain sales, product, operations, and creative teams to drive customer success.

The role involves deep diving into campaign performance data to identify trends, optimizing campaigns to achieve goals, and providing recommendations for upsell opportunities.

As the product expert, you will educate brands and their agencies on Outbrain’s portfolio of advertising solutions (native, branding, and programmatic) as well as advising on best practices and bespoke campaign strategies.

What you’ll bring

• You have 5 years of client-facing experience in digital media with a focus on programmatic display and video
• Commercial awareness and a proven track record of hitting or exceeding revenue targets
• Strong inter-personal, team-working skills with experience developing customer relationships and influencing key decision-makers
• Experience managing Brand and DR campaigns, optimizing accounts to achieve performance target for top tier advertisers
• Analytically minded with very good attention to detail, able to identify trends in large data sets
• Strong understanding of the digital media landscape
• Excellent problem solving and troubleshooting skills
• Strong presentation and communication skills (written and verbal)
• Experience supporting, developing, and mentoring junior team members

More than snacks!

• Hybrid working: three days a week from the office (London) and two from home
• Be part of our success with our equity program 
• Wellbeing benefits like Medical, Life & Income Protection Insurance, enhanced pension program 
• Expand your toolbox with our mentorship program and internal learning tools
• Happy hours & office lunch once a week
• …and of course a fully stocked kitchen!

We Recommend #LifeAtOutbrain

Outbrain is an equal employment opportunity employer and committed to diversity and inclusion at all stages of recruitment and employment.

Our company culture is welcoming, dynamic, diverse, global, and built on top performance.

Did you know "trust" is one of our core values? We apply this value to our day-to-day by working collaboratively on a global scale. With managers and teammates often sitting in other countries and time zones, we value communication, patience, and open-mindedness to all cultural backgrounds. We encourage all ideas, and everyone gets a seat at the table!

Our team is made up of individuals who are approachable, resourceful, passionate, and proactive. We foster a sense of belonging through our  Employee Resource Groups –employee-led groups in which we debate topics and drive change. From OB Green (environmental), OB WE (women empowerment), OB Good (charitable initiatives) to OB4E (diversity, equity, and inclusion), you’ll be able to share your passions with likeminded people.

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