Regional Partnerships Manager, SEA

Cosmose, Inc.; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Flat structure

Global scale

Job summary

Cosmose, Inc. is seeking an experienced Regional Partnerships Manager to accelerate growth across Southeast Asia from Singapore.

You will own strategic relationships with advertisers, agencies, and ad tech partners, combining direct sales, programmatic partnerships, and market development to drive new revenue for KaiKai’s mobile lockscreen platform. You’ll collaborate with product, ad ops, and supply teams to shape innovative advertising solutions, leveraging a flat structure and stock options

Qualifications

• 5+ years of digital advertising sales experience
• Proven experience selling mobile media, high-impact formats, or OEM/lockscreen inventory
• Existing relationships with agencies, trading desks, DSPs, or SSPs in Singapore/SEA
• Experience engaging executive leaders with a customer focus
• Proven revenue pipeline management with forward-looking predictability
• Independent, business-focused thinker with agency/tech partners
• Strong understanding of the ad tech ecosystem: OpenRTB, PMPs, eCPM, supply-path dynamics
• Excellent English communication; regional language skills are a plus

Responsibilities

• Drive incremental and new business revenue with brands, agencies, and mobile channel partners across the region
• Own direct sales cycles end-to-end — prospecting, pitching, negotiating, and closing lockscreen media deals
• Build and manage relationships with SSPs, DSPs, and ad tech partners to expand programmatic demand for KaiKai inventory
• Educate agencies and clients on KaiKai's ad formats and performance optimization for lockscreen
• Keep partners updated with new KaiKai ad offerings and solutions
• Identify and develop mobile channel partnerships for distribution and creative opportunities
• Track, analyze, and communicate key metrics and trends across your partner portfolio
• Collaborate with product, ad ops, and supply teams to build a world-class ad solution

Skills

Digital ad sales

Agency sales

Programmatic partnerships

OpenRTB PMPs

English communication

Negotiation

Presentation

Client relationships

Job description

We make smartphones smarter. Cosmose is integrated by eight phone makers, capturing first-screen real estate and first-party data to drive over 2 billion daily user interactions in 60+ countries.

Why Join Cosmose AI?

• Global Scale: Build a product natively integrated across eight major OEMs with access to first party data from millions of phones in over 60 countries.
• Elite Talent Density: Work alongside IOI and ACM-ICPC champions.
• High Autonomy, Fast Velocity: Take complete ownership with rapid deployment cycles and a flat org chart.
• Real Ownership: Earn stock options that directly tie your upside to our global growth and success.

KaiKai is redefining how brands connect with consumers through the mobile lock screen. We are looking for an experienced Regional Partnerships Manager to accelerate our growth across Southeast Asia. In this role, you'll own strategic relationships with advertisers, agencies, and ad tech partners while driving new revenue opportunities for one of the world's most innovative mobile advertising platforms. You'll combine direct sales, programmatic partnerships, and market development to help shape the future of lockscreen advertising and expand KaiKai's presence across the region.

TL;DR Why us:

• Big Scale & Startup Culture:Join a company that combines the scale of a major player with the agility and innovation of a startup
• Exceptional Team:Collaborate with a team of former employees from tech giants like Google, Meta, ByteDance, and Microsoft, as well as ACM ICPC programming champions
• Stock Options:As we grow and succeed together, you'll have the chance to benefit from it
• Flat Structure:Enjoy a flat organizational structure that promotes collaboration and provides opportunities to learn from seasoned technical leadership

What you’ll do:

• Drive incremental and new business revenue with brands, agencies, and mobile channel partners across the region
• Own direct sales cycles end-to-end — prospecting, pitching, negotiating, and closing lockscreen media deals
• Build and manage relationships with SSPs, DSPs, and ad tech partners to expand programmatic demand for KaiKai inventory
• Educate agencies and clients on KaiKai's high-impact creative formats and how to maximize performance on lockscreen
• Continually keep partners updated with new KaiKai ad offerings so they can bring fresh solutions to their clients
• Identify and develop mobile channel partnerships that unlock new distribution and creative opportunities
• Track, analyze, and communicate key quantitative metrics and business trends across your partner portfolio
• Work cross-functionally with product, ad ops, and supply teams to help Cosmose AI build a world-class innovative advertising solution

What you’ll need:

• 5+ years of digital advertising sales experience, ideally spanning both direct client/agency sales and programmatic partnerships
• Proven experience selling mobile media, high-impact creative formats, or OEM/lockscreen inventory
• Existing relationships with agencies, trading desks, DSPs, or SSPs in Singapore and the wider SEA market
• Experience working with executive-level business and marketing leaders with a strong customer focus
• Proven track record of managing revenue pipeline with forward-looking predictability
• An independent, business-focused creative thinker who is excited to work with leading agency and technology partners
• Strong understanding of the ad tech ecosystem — programmatic, OpenRTB, PMPs, eCPM, and supply-path dynamics
• Excellent communication skills in English; additional regional languages (Bahasa, Mandarin, Thai, Vietnamese) a plus
• Strong presentation and negotiation skills, attention to detail, and a bias for proactively resolving issues
• Ability to celebrate both Success & Failure — rejoicing in the wins but also reflecting, learning & improving proactively when there are setbacks
• Always Dream Big: Ambitious, passionate and achieve MASSIVE goals

We’re building something big - and we’re just getting started.

If you’re excited about shaping thefuture of AI-powered mobile content and working with a team that’s pushing boundaries, we’d love to meet you.