Associate Vice President of Sales, Teads
$390-410k
OTE
Video advertising platform
Job no longer available
Video advertising platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$390-410k
OTE
1001+ employees
Company mission
Teads is dedicated to making ad experiences better for brands, publishers, and consumers.
Role
Who you are
- 15+ years of experience selling media, with a strong emphasis on video/mobile
- Deeply entrenched in the Chicago and Midwest ad communities with high level relationships across agencies and brands
- Previous experience managing a senior commercial team
- Previous technology platform experience a plus
- Excellent communication skills: listening, verbal, written and presentation skills
- Driven, passionate, and a team player
- Experience at a DSP, trading desk, or ad tech company a plus
- Deep understanding of the digital video marketplace is required
- Passionate – high energy and enthusiasm
- Hands-on approach – will have good examples of personally leading critical negotiations
- Digital media expert – able to act as a trusted strategic advisor to advertiser clients across the digital media landscape including programmatic, CTV, data and audiences, research and measurement
- Driven, passionate, and an ultimate team player
- People management and empathy is required
What the job involves
- Teads is seeking an Associate VP, Sales to join our team in Chicago. As the AVP of Sales, your primary focus will be to lead a senior sales team, reach and exceed sales goals and promote the sale of our platform to key agencies and brands
- Manage a growing commercial sales team. Set and hit revenue targets, monitor and manage performance, provide strategic direction, manage profit & loss, attract hire & train top talent
- Drive the end-to-end sales process, develop strategic accounts and joint business plans. Identify top growth prospects, scale client solutions, and help negotiate and close large deals across client direct and agency
- Represent Teads in the digital marketplace and become an active brand advocate
- Work closely with Studio, Account Management, Insights, and Media Strategy teams, to ensure client campaign expectations are communicated internally
- Join sales executives on strategic meetings with clients
- Ensure that goals are communicated effectively and that sales performance is monitored and achieved
- Defacto office and workplace lead for Chicago market
Our take
Teads operates a cloud-based end-to-end technology platform that enables programmatic digital advertising across a global ecosystem of quality digital media. The modular platform allows partners to leverage buy-side, sell-side, creative, data and AI optimization technologies.
The company partners with marketers and agencies, and has a mass reach for advertisers across some of the most well-known publishers in the world, such as Vice, CNN and BBC. After newly hiring talent into some senior roles, the company has enabled itself to switch focus towards providing more resources and service across some of the fastest-growing verticals such as automotive, retail, technology, telecoms, FMCG, travel, and luxury.
In 2025, it was announced that Teads had been acquired by Outbrain for $1 billion. This represents a significant step up for the two companies, which, combined, make the largest open internet business in the world. With an expanded reach of 2.2 billion customers, Teads and Outbrain will merge two of the richest contextual and interest data sets on the open internet.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2015
$13.2m
SERIES B
Oct 2013
$5.2m
SERIES A
Total funding: $49.6m
Company benefits
- Teads Summit - Every two years, all global team members come together to reflect on the previous year and plan for the upcoming.
- Training Program - Our training platform is available for everyone who wants to learn more about our products and offering. Mentorship and Buddy programs are in place in main regions.
- Wellness - A balanced approach to work and health is crucial in building a successful team, so we offer Teadsters gym memberships and healthy snacks at the office to support all aspects of working life.
- Work Hard, Play Hard - We’re not only friends in the office, Teads encourages all members to go to team activities outside of the office.
- Flexible Hours
Company HQ
Greenwich Village, New York, NY
Leadership
Bertrand Quesada
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Executive Director of Golog, and CEO of Ebuzzing.
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