Senior Director, Global Head of Expansion

Shutterstock, Inc; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 220,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Generous benefits package

Job summary

Shutterstock, Inc. seeks a Senior Director, Global Head of Expansion for its Data Licensing division in New York.

You will drive strategic expansion across a portfolio of large, complex enterprise customers, penetrating organizations, building executive relationships, and turning initial contact into durable multi-year partnerships. You will lead a team to own revenue growth, develop growth strategies, and guide multi-stakeholder negotiations with a strong commercial instinct and executive

Qualifications

• 12+ years of enterprise sales, strategic accounts, business development, or strategic partnerships.
• 5+ years of leadership and people-management experience leading enterprise or strategic account teams.
• Experience in navigating complex enterprises, growing large accounts, and hitting multi-year revenue targets.

Responsibilities

• Own strategy for expanding revenue across a portfolio of large enterprise Data Licensing customers globally.
• Develop multi-year growth plans, identify whitespace, and build executive relationships.
• Lead negotiations involving large contract values and complex commercial structures.

Skills

Enterprise sales

Strategic accounts

Leadership

Negotiations

Forecasting

Account planning

AI/Data tech

Job description

About the opportunity:

Shutterstock’s Data Licensing division is driving the next wave of company growth by powering AI model training, content intelligence, and data-driven innovation for some of the world’s largest and most sophisticated technology companies. Shutterstock’s Data Licensing division is driving the next wave of company growth by powering AI model training, content intelligence, and data-driven innovation for some of the world’s largest and most sophisticated technology companies. As our customer base continues to grow, we are looking for an exceptional Senior Director, Global Head of Expansion to lead the team responsible for retaining and growing Shutterstock’s most strategic Data Licensing relationships globally. This leader will own the strategy for expanding revenue across a portfolio of large, complex enterprise customers spanning multiple business units, product teams, geographies, and use cases. The mandate goes well beyond account management: deeply penetrate our customers, uncover new opportunities, build executive relationships, and establish Shutterstock as a long-term strategic data partner. The ideal candidate is a world-class enterprise sales leader who knows how to navigate complex global organizations, identify whitespace, build relationships across multiple levels and functions, and turn initial customer relationships into broad, durable, multi-year partnerships. This is a senior, highly visible leadership role responsible for building the strategy, operating model, and team that will maximize the long-term value of Shutterstock’s Data Licensing customer base.

What you will bring to the role:

• 12+ years of experience in enterprise sales, strategic accounts, business development, or strategic partnerships, including significant experience with large, complex global organizations.
• 5+ years of leadership and people-management experience, ideally leading enterprise or strategic account teams.
• Highly commercially driven and energized by owning a significant revenue quota, with a track record of delivering millions in annual growth and a strong personal orientation toward closing business and exceeding revenue targets.
• Proven success growing large enterprise accounts, expanding relationships beyond initial products or use cases, and consistently delivering against significant revenue targets.
• Demonstrated expertise navigating complex organizations, identifying whitespace, multi-threading relationships, and developing multi-year account growth strategies.
• Experience leading sophisticated enterprise negotiations involving large contract values, multiple stakeholders, complex commercial structures, and long sales cycles.
• Strong commercial instincts and executive presence, with the ability to build trusted senior-level relationships while balancing customer partnership, revenue growth, and long-term value creation.
• Experience developing high-performing enterprise sellers, supported by strong forecasting, pipeline management, account planning, and operating discipline.
• Experience in enterprise technology, cloud infrastructure, SaaS, AI, data, or related technology environments preferred, with strong curiosity about the evolving AI and data ecosystem.

Compensation:

The base salary range for this role is $220,000–$240,000 per year in New York.

Why Shutterstock:

You have a direct impact on the success of the company. Your team’s work matters and is essential to the evolution of our core business! Executive leadership cares personally. They prioritize growth and planning your career path with your goals and passions in mind. Flexibility to work between home and office with everything you need to be successful in both A generous and competitive benefits package. #LI-SQ1 #LI-hybrid Shutterstock connects diverse artists and creative professionals around the globe with the agencies, brands and people who need their work and services. It’s a place where creators come to be inspired and discover new ways to produce their best work. Shutterstock enables its employees to drive culture and tap into the world around them to develop the toolbox and solutions that help others share their world views. At Shutterstock, your ideas will be welcomed, your uniqueness will be celebrated, and you will be supported in presenting your view of the world as you experience it. We’re champions of resiliency; quickly learning from our shortcomings in our pursuit of continuous growth. Diverse teams are critical to our success. We encourage people from different backgrounds to apply and we commit to creating and maintaining a culture where employees know they belong and have equal opportunities to succeed.

Shutterstock Values

We are one team collectively focused on creating an unrivaled experience for our Customers and Contributors. Our Values represent the mindset of the employee who will thrive at Shutterstock.

Shutterstock is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Suitably qualified and eligible candidates are encouraged to apply regardless of age, color, disability, national origin, ancestry, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law.

Shutterstock ensures that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

Persons with disabilities who anticipate needing accommodations for any part of the application process may contact, in confidence, [e-mail].

Shutterstock, Inc. (NYSE: SSTK), directly and through its group subsidiaries, is a leading global provider of high-quality licensed photographs, vectors, illustrations, videos and music to businesses, marketing agencies and media organization around the world.

Working with its growing community of over 1 million contributors, Shutterstock adds hundreds of thousands of images each week, and currently has more than 340 million images and more than 19 million video clips available.

Headquartered in New York City, Shutterstock has offices around the world and customers in more than 150 countries.

The company’s brands also include Bigstock, a value-oriented stock media offering; Shutterstock Custom, a custom content creation platform; Offset, a high-end image collection; PremiumBeat, a curated royalty-free music library; and Shutterstock Editorial, a premier source of editorial images for the world's media.

For more information, please visit http://www.shutterstock.com and follow Shutterstock on Twitter and on Facebook.

Shutterstock is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Suitably qualified and eligible candidates are encouraged to apply regardless of age, color, disability, national origin, ancestry, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law.

Shutterstock ensures that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

Persons with disabilities who anticipate needing accommodations for any part of the application process may contact, in confidence, [e-mail].

Equal Opportunity Employer, M/F/D/V