Senior Agency Development Manager – Global Brands APAC

SpaceX Super Intelligence; Singapore; Vor Ort; SGD 120.000 - 180.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

SpaceXSI is seeking a senior agency development leader to architect and drive APAC partnerships across Singapore and India. You will structure commercial deals, educate agencies on X products, and guide live campaigns with multi-market commitments.

You will build strategic relationships with agencies, navigate holdco/opco structures, and travel regularly to Southeast Asia and India to unlock revenue opportunities.

Qualifikationen

• Strong negotiation, communication, and presentation skills.
• Existing APAC agency partnerships network.
• Ability to navigate multi-stakeholder environments.
• Willingness to travel across Southeast Asia and India.

Aufgaben

• Build and run the agency development plan for Global Brands across APAC — Singapore and India hubs.
• Structure and negotiate commercial deals with agencies: trading agreements, partnership frameworks, incentives, joint business plans.
• Navigate complex agency structures — holdco vs. opco, regional vs. local P&Ls, media vs. creative vs. social specialists.
• Act as the primary trusted advisor to priority agencies and educate teams on X products, audiences, creative, brand safety, and measurement.
• Partner with Client Partners to convert agency relationships into live campaigns and multi-market commitments.
• Identify whitespace: agencies and pods that should be recommending X and create a path to revenue.
• Represent X at agency town halls, leadership forums, holding-company reviews, industry events, and in-market sessions.
• Track partnership health and performance and course-correct quickly.

Kenntnisse

Negotiation

Communication

Presentation

Relationship building

Jobbeschreibung

SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today, SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of making life multiplanetary and expanding consciousness to the stars.
SpaceXSI is building Super Intelligence to help humanity understand the universe. Our teams are building the full Super Intelligence stack: from our Colossus supercomputers, to Grok models, to our suite of applications, including Grok Bot, Grok Build, Grok Imagine, Grok Voice, and X. We’re creating a powerful flywheel where more compute trains better models, better models power more useful products, and what we learn from people using those products shapes what we build next.

SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today, SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of making life multiplanetary and expanding consciousness to the stars.
SpaceXSI is building Super Intelligence to help humanity understand the universe. Our teams are building the full Super Intelligence stack: from our Colossus supercomputers, to Grok models, to our suite of applications, including Grok Bot, Grok Build, Grok Imagine, Grok Voice, and X. We’re creating a powerful flywheel where more compute trains better models, better models power more useful products, and what we learn from people using those products shapes what we build next.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

Agencies decide what gets planned, pitched, and bought. This role exists to make X the default recommendation inside those rooms.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Build and run the agency development plan for Global Brands across APAC — covering holding companies, regional hubs in Singapore and India, operating companies, and key independents.
• Develop strategic relationships at two levels, both required:
• Structure and negotiate commercial deals with agencies: trading agreements, partnership frameworks, incentives, joint business plans, and other constructs that lock in commitment and unlock spend.
• Navigate complex agency structures — holdco vs. opco, regional vs. local P&Ls, media vs. creative vs. social specialists, and split decision rights between Singapore regional teams and in-market India / SEA offices. Know who decides, who influences, who executes, and how a regional recommendation dies or ships in-market.
• Act as the primary trusted advisor to priority agencies. Educate teams on X products, audiences, creative, brand safety, and measurement. Arm them to recommend X to their brand clients without you in the room.
• Partner with Client Partners and market teams to convert agency relationships into live campaigns, larger statements of work, and multi-market commitments.
• Identify whitespace: agencies and pods that should be recommending X and currently are not. Open those doors and create a path to revenue.
• Represent X at agency town halls, leadership forums, holding-company reviews, industry events, and in-market working sessions.
• Track partnership health and commercial performance. Course-correct quickly. Do not wait for a quarterly review to find out a key agency has gone quiet.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• A self-starter who runs independently. You do not need a playbook handed to you. You build one, socialize it, and execute.
• 10–12+ years in media sales, agency development, or senior agency-side commercial / client leadership, with a clear record of driving revenue through agency partnerships in APAC.
• An existing network you can use immediately — not a list you hope to build. It must already include:
• Proven experience structuring commercial deals and working through layered agency decision-making (holding companies, operating companies, local markets, specialist units).
• Strong negotiation, communication, and presentation skills. Credible with a regional CEO and useful to a Business Director running a global brand the same week.
• Deep understanding of how media, creative, social, and performance agencies plan and buy in APAC.
• Comfortable with ambiguity, competing stakeholders, and a fast-moving product environment.
• Willingness to travel regularly across Southeast Asia and India.

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Southeast Asian language skills preferred — this will materially increase effectiveness in key markets.
• Time spent inside a holding-company network (WPP, Publicis, Omnicom, IPG, Dentsu, Havas) or a major independent, plus platform-side agency development.
• Direct experience standing up or resetting an agency partnership in a market where the platform was under-indexed.
• Working fluency in how global brands brief regional and local agencies across SEA and India.
• Experience with both brand and performance agency models.

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