Director, Agency Development & Industry Partnerships

StatSocial; New York (NY); Hybride; USD 125 000 - 200 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Medical PPO

Vision PPO

Dental PPO

401k

Remote work

Open office

Résumé du poste

StatSocial is seeking a seasoned industry relations leader to open doors across the agency and programmatic ecosystem. The role centers on building relationships with media agencies, trading desks, and DSPs to create data partnerships and pipeline, leveraging your established network for warm introductions.

Preferred candidates have deep ties to agency holding companies and programmatic buyers, and can articulate audience data, identity resolution, and activation strategies.

Qualifications

• Deep, active relationships with media agency holding companies and programmatic buyers, including DSPs and retail media networks.
• Track record of planning intimate, high-impact gatherings that senior agency leaders attend, such as private dinners and Cannes/Advertising Week side events.
• Fluency in audience segmentation, identity resolution, match rates, cookieless alternatives, and programmatic activation.

Responsabilités

• Own off-site activations, VIP suites, and invitation-only side events around major industry moments.
• Host intimate dinners in NYC, Chicago, and LA with VP/SVP-level programmatic leads.
• Organize happy hours, tastings, and salon-style discussions to connect agency leaders with our team.
• Use agency relationships to bring the team onto trading desk floors for lunch-and-learns.
• Secure speaking slots and thought leadership opportunities for StatSocial leadership.

Connaissances

Agency relationships

Programmatic buyers

DSPs

Identity resolution

Industry events

Description du poste

StatSocial delivers the industry’s leading Audience Insights Platform, empowering marketers to identify and reach the audiences that matter most to their brand. Using its patented Identity Graph, they are able to merge an individual’s interactions across a diverse set of social and community platforms into a single profile to gain a more holistic view of prospects and customers.

The Opportunity

StatSocial is seeking a well-connected industry relations leader to open doors across the agency and programmatic ecosystem. This role is focused on building relationships with media agency holding companies, trading desks, and DSPs through curated, high-impact events and warm introductions, and turning those relationships into data partnerships and pipeline.

The ideal candidate already has deep, active ties to agency holding companies and programmatic buyers (DSPs, The Trade Desk, retail media networks). You are seen as a connector, not a quota-carrier. You know how to bring senior agency leaders into the room, and you can speak fluently about audience data. You will work closely with our commercial sales leader, who will turn the relationships you build into signed data-activation agreements.

This is a greenfield role in a high-growth environment, offering the chance to make a measurable impact on StatSocial’s presence and partnerships across the agency world. In this role, you will:

• Own off-site activations, VIP suites, and invitation-only side events around major industry moments such as Advertising Week (NYC), Cannes Lions, CES, and POSSIBLE (Miami).
• Host intimate 10–12 person dinners in NYC, Chicago, and LA, seating StatSocial leadership with VP/SVP-level programmatic leads and addressable media buyers.
• Organize well-attended happy hours, tastings, and salon-style discussions that give agency leaders an easy reason to connect with our team.
• Use agency relationships to bring our team onto trading desk floors at major agency clients for lunch-and-learns that showcase our data.
• Secure speaking slots and thought leadership opportunities for StatSocial leadership through the IAB, the Ad Club of New York, Digiday, and similar forums, covering audience targeting, signal loss, and paid media data.
• Make warm, peer-to-peer introductions to Agency Heads of Programmatic, Chief Media Officers, and DSP marketplace leads, with smooth handoffs to our commercial team.
• Turn event contacts and casual conversations into qualified pipeline, helping agency connections become active test budgets and data partnerships.

Qualifications

• Deep, active relationships with media agency holding companies and programmatic buyers, including DSPs, The Trade Desk, and retail media networks.
• A track record of planning intimate, high-impact gatherings that senior agency leaders actually attend, such as private dinners, curated panels, and Cannes or Advertising Week side events.
• Fluency in audience segmentation, identity resolution, match rates, cookieless alternatives, and programmatic activation.
• Experience in field marketing, partner marketing, industry relations, or agency development at a DSP, SSP, measurement provider, data provider, ad tech platform, or industry publisher (Adweek, Digiday, AdExchanger).
• Active involvement with industry groups such as the IAB, Advertising Club of New York, She Runs It, BIMA, or CIMM is a strong plus.
• A charismatic, well-liked presence in the industry and a reputation as a connector.
• Entrepreneurial, self-starting mindset, with comfort in a fast-changing, high-growth environment.

Location

New York City preferred. Chicago and Los Angeles will also be considered.

• A base salary ranging $125-200k, plus a performance bonus tied to qualified agency introductions and pipeline influenced
• Medical, vision, and dental PPO insurance plan
• 401k
• Remote working and open office environment