Director of EMEA Marketplaces, Criteo
Classified & Emerging Sectors Strategy & Strategic Accounts
+ Performance-based rewards + Equity for eligible roles
Global commerce media platform
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Global commerce media platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
+ Performance-based rewards + Equity for eligible roles
1001+ employees
Company mission
To bring richer experiences to every consumer by powering the world’s marketers and media owners with trusted and impactful advertising.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of experience in digital media, ecommerce, or performance advertising, with proven success in driving strategic and commercial growth
- Strong understanding of marketplace and platform dynamics, and how advertisers scale across multi-sided ecosystems
- Demonstrated leadership and relationship-building skills, able to influence senior stakeholders internally and externally
- Strategic and analytical mindset — able to translate data and market trends into concrete growth actions
- Comfortable operating in a matrix, fast-paced environment, balancing strategic priorities with executional rigor
- Curious, pragmatic, and impact-driven — you combine market insight, collaboration, and accountability to deliver results
- We acknowledge that many candidates may not meet every single role requirement listed above
- If your experience looks a little different from our requirements but you believe that you can still bring value to the role, we’d love to see your application!
What the job involves
- As Director, EMEA Marketplaces, Classified and emerging sectors Strategy & Strategic Accounts , you will be accountable for the revenue and growth of the Marketplaces, Classified and emerging verticals
- You will strength of Criteo's largest and most strategic verticals
- You’ll oversee a team of Client Partners managing our top accounts in these categories, guiding them to deliver measurable results, identify new opportunities, and scale Criteo’s impact across markets
- You will lead the strategy and development of Marketplace and Classified advertisers across the region, ensuring strong business outcomes and lasting partnerships
- In addition to leading existing verticals, you will explore and assess new emerging sectors with high growth potential, shaping where Criteo should expand next
- This role combines strategic focus and commercial leadership — turning insight, execution, and collaboration into impact at scale
- Deliver revenue targets and growth according to AOP for strategic accounts across your verticals
- Own the vertical strategy and growth agenda for Marketplaces, Classifieds, and Emerging Verticals across EMEA, aligning plans with Criteo’s broader commercial priorities
- Lead and develop a team of Client Partners, ensuring they drive client success, revenue growth, and strategic depth across their portfolios
- Partner with New Business teams to identify and win high-potential advertisers, building the next generation of strategic accounts
- Work cross-functionally with Product, Analytics, and Marketing to ensure our solutions continue to meet the evolving needs of marketplace and platform advertisers
- Evaluate and shape opportunities in new emerging sectors, assessing market potential and defining actionable growth strategies
- Represent the voice of Marketplace, Classified, and Emerging advertisers within the organization, bringing forward insights and opportunities that influence go-to-market and product evolution
- Ensure consistent excellence in execution, fostering collaboration, focus, and accountability across markets
Our take
Commerce marketing is a huge business with billions of pounds spent every year on adverts. Companies that help businesses create and deliver more targeted adverts can command a lot of value. Criteo is one company operating in this space.
Criteo is a personalized retargeting company connects 22,000+ marketers and media owners through its Commerce Media Platform, delivering richer consumer experiences. Criteo uses machine-learning technology and data to drive performance, helping marketers and media owners reach their goals.
As marketers are increasingly looking for commerce media solutions, Criteo is operating in a sought-after space. Further, around 73% of media owners seek to optimise media performance as a way to both generate awareness and drive revenue, meaning the company has a significant potential client base. Criteo has continued to make headway here, driving 5 billion ads per day, and is well set to see further adoption of its platform.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Sep 2012
$38.6m
SERIES D
May 2010
$7m
SERIES C
Total funding: $59.6m
Company benefits
- Flexible Work and WFH Opportunities
- Learning & Development
- Best-in-Class Health and Wellbeing Benefits & Perks Across Regions
Company HQ
New Athens, Paris, France
Leadership
Megan Clarken
(CEO, not founder)Held multiple senior-level roles at Nielson, having joined as a Product Specialist and being promoted to Chief Commercial Officer.
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