Director, Business Development - Agency

The Trade Desk The Trade Desk · Media · Madrid, Spain · Direct Sales

This role is for a Director of Business Development at The Trade Desk, focusing on strategic agency partners in Madrid. The primary responsibilities include developing new relationships, cultivating existing ones, signing new agreements and renewals, managing revenue targets and pipelines, and representing the company at industry events. The role requires experience in online advertising, strong sales and negotiation skills, and the ability to collaborate cross-functionally to drive business growth.

What you'd actually do

  1. This is an exciting role to be a part of the TTD Business Development team with our most strategic agency partners
  2. The successful applicant will be responsibility for developing new relationships with agency partners and advertisers, while cultivating existing relationships to generate new opportunities
  3. Working alongside the current team. Devising strategy and deploying resource to maximise value for clients, partners, and TTD
  4. Core focus of the role will be signing new agreements and renewals, expanding TTD independent client base, while also driving new opportunities across our emerging client portfolio
  5. Own revenue target and management of pipeline

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s Degree or relevant professional experience
  • Experience at an online publisher, ad network, ad exchange, ad server, SEM platform, DSP, or other online advertising roles
  • Relationships with key stakeholders and technology decision-makers at agencies across the market
  • Proven thought leadership and strategy building for a business
  • Love winning / prospecting / new business / hustling
  • Strong quantitative and influential skills and negotiation ability
  • Self-starter – able to tackle new clients or territories with little mentoring
  • Quick learner – able to rapidly grasp new technology and product changes
  • Experience using sales enablement tools (Salesforce)
  • Experience in managing longer sales cycles with multiple partners
  • Comfortable working cross-functionally to collaborate and grow businesses

Nice to have

  • Experience in demonstrating and winning value propositions vs price

What the JD emphasized

  • Proven track record of exceeding revenue expectations.