Sales Executive - Client Direct in London

About Teads

Teads is a leading omnichannel advertising platform focused on driving outcomes for brand and performance advertisers across screens. With a focus on meaningful business outcomes for branding and performance objectives, Teads drives value by leveraging predictive AI technology to connect quality media, beautiful brand creative, and context-driven addressability and measurement. Teads is directly partnered with more than 10,000 publishers and 20,000 advertisers globally. The company is headquartered in New York, New York with a global team of around 1,700 people in 30+ countries.

About the opportunity

Teads is seeking a highly motivated, entrepreneurial Sales Executive to join the Client Direct commercial team in London. This role is responsible for driving revenue growth by identifying new business opportunities and managing strategic relationships with advertisers across the UK. The successful candidate will navigate the transition of the "New Teads" ecosystem, leveraging both branding and performance capabilities to meet client KPIs.

What will you do?

• Revenue Generation: Identify and prospect a targeted list of client-direct advertiser accounts within the UK to meet or exceed quarterly and annual revenue targets.
• Strategic Planning: Assist the sales team in developing bespoke proposals, sales materials, and data-driven client presentations.
• Market Analysis: Utilize internal analytical tools to identify publisher network trends and translate them into actionable commercial opportunities.
• Relationship Management: Establish and maintain long-term, mutually beneficial partnerships with key stakeholders and decision-makers.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Account Management and Creative Lab teams to ensure seamless campaign execution, renewal, and incremental growth.
• Brand Representation: Represent Teads at industry events, conferences, and meet-ups to enhance market presence and business development.

What will you bring to the team?

Your skills and experiences:

• Professional Experience: Proven track record in digital media sales or campaign management, with specific experience in branding and performance marketing.
• Industry Knowledge: Deep understanding of the native advertising landscape, the digital media ecosystem, and programmatic buying.
• Performance Expertise: Familiarity with landing page optimization (LPO) and performance-driven marketing strategies.
• Technical Proficiency: Prior experience with ad-tech platforms and media-buying tools is highly preferred.
• Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; ability to articulate complex value propositions to diverse audiences.
• Attributes: Highly organized, results-oriented, and capable of thriving in a fast-paced, evolving scale-up environment.

You connect with our values:

• Relentless Customer Focus: You put customers at the heart of everything, building strong relationships, understanding customers needs, and making decisions that keep their perspective front and center.
• Act Today, Not Tomorrow: You make smart decisions quickly, prioritize action over perfection, and keep things moving forward, even when things aren’t 100% clear.
• Obsess About Outcomes: You’re outcome-driven, take ownership of your results, and work through challenges to deliver what really matters.
• Evolve Through Change: You’re adaptable, curious, and see change as a chance to learn and improve. You evolve your skills to keep up and push ahead.
• Human-driven, Powered by AI: While we use AI to drive performance, it’s our people who make the real difference. You bring empathy, collaboration, and a love of learning to everything you do.

Please submit your CV in English.

Life at Teads

At Teads, we don’t just offer new roles - we blend creativity, technology, and data to shape the future of media. You’ll work with smart humans, meaningful brands, and cool tools, all while helping redefine how advertising works in a world that demands more transparency, better insights, and smarter strategies. As a Teadster, you’ll play a critical role in shaping our future success in the region.

Here’s why Teads stands out:

• We've merged two open internet category leaders—Outbrain and Teads—to create the ‘new’ Teads, a unified omnichannel platform that drives results from branding to performance across all screens, including CTV, mobile, and web.
• As part of our team, you’ll thrive in a collaborative and forward-thinking environment that fosters innovation, creative problem-solving, and continuous learning.
• Teads is committed to your success, offering the support, tools, and development opportunities you need to excel in your role.

Our company culture is welcoming, dynamic, diverse, global, and built on top performance. Teads is an equal employment opportunity employer and committed to diversity and inclusion at all stages of recruitment and employment. Our team is made up of individuals who are approachable, resourceful, passionate, and proactive. We foster a sense of belonging through our Employee Resource Groups – employee-led groups in which we debate topics and drive change: environmental, women empowerment, charitable initiatives to diversity, equity, and inclusion, you’ll be able to share your passions with likeminded people.