Sr. Agency Development Manager, Global Brands APAC

Maven Ventures; Singapore; On-site; SGD 230,000 - 307,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceXSI is seeking a Sr. Agency Development Manager to lead Global Brands APAC partnerships. You will own the agency development plan, structure commercial deals, and navigate complex agency networks across Singapore, India, and Southeast Asia.

The role reports to the Head of Global Brands, APAC and requires extensive regional experience and a robust current network. You will collaborate with market teams and clients to convert relationships into multi-market campaigns, while traveling

Qualifications

• 10+ years in media sales, agency development, or senior agency-side leadership
• Clear record of driving revenue through agency partnerships in APAC
• A self-starter who runs independently
• An existing network you can use immediately
• 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
• 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
• Southeast Asian language skills preferred
• 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

Responsibilities

• Own and run the agency development plan for Global Brands across APAC.
• Structure and negotiate commercial deals with agencies and frameworks.
• Navigate complex agency structures across holding companies, opcos, and local markets.
• Act as primary trusted advisor to priority agencies on X products, audiences, brand safety, and measurement.
• Partner with Client Partners to convert agency relationships into live campaigns and multi-market commitments.
• Identify whitespace and open doors to revenue with key agencies.
• Represent X at agency town halls, leadership forums, and industry events.
• Track partnership health and course-correct as needed.

Skills

Agency partnerships

Independent self-starter

Negotiation & presentation

APAC stakeholder network

Strategic deals

Cross-market collaboration

Brand & agency dynamics

Education

10+ years in media sales/agency leadership

Job description

SR. AGENCY DEVELOPMENT MANAGER, GLOBAL BRANDS APAC

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.

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

You own the agency system and the commercial architecture for Global Brands across APAC. That means holding-company and regional leadership in Singapore and India — and, as a hiring requirement, the Business Directors, Client Directors, and Account Directors who write the plans and clear the buys. A C-suite network without working-level relationships is not sufficient for this role. You will structure commercial deals, navigate complex agency structures, and create the conditions for the sales tea to win more spend.

This is a senior individual-contributor role. You will operate independently, set your own map, and be accountable for agency-sourced revenue influence and partnership quality. You will work as a peer with the Global Brand sales team — close partnership, distinct ownership. This role reports to the Head of Global Brands, APAC.

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
• 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:

• 10+ years in media sales, agency development, or senior agency-side commercial/client leadership

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Clear record of driving revenue through agency partnerships in APAC
• A self-starter who runs independently. You do not need a playbook handed to you. You build one, socialize it, and execute
• An existing network you can use immediately — not a list you hope to build
• 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
• 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.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Must be willing to travel regularly across Southeast Asia and India

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