Performance Agency Lead

Minimum qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
- 10 years of experience in an account management or analytical role, solving customer problems
- Experience with Google Ads

Preferred qualifications:

- Experience presenting to large audiences.
- Media planning and buying experience (e.g., Search, mobile).
- Established relationships within the performance agency marketplace and working closely with Search / Performance Agencies / Performance Media Groups within Media Agencies.- Excellent track record of working with and/or for major digital/search/performance agencies, substantial experience in sales, business development and/or client relationship management.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

**About the job**:
Businesses that partner with Google come in all shapes, sizes and market caps, and no one Google advertising solution works for all. Your knowledge of online media combined with your communication skills and analytical abilities shapes how new and existing businesses grow. Using your relationship-building skills, you provide Google-caliber client service, research and market analysis. You anticipate how decisions are made, persistently explore and uncover the business needs of Google's key clients and understand how our range of product offerings can grow their business. Working with them, you set the vision and the strategy for how their advertising can reach thousands of users.

Our Large Customer Sales teams partner closely with many of the world’s biggest advertisers and agencies to develop digital solutions that build businesses and brands. We enjoy a bird’s eye view on the massive transformation occurring as advertising shifts to mobile and online platforms. We're uniquely situated to help shape how companies grow their businesses in the digital age. We advise clients on Google's broad range of products across search, video and mobile to help them connect instantly and seamlessly with their audiences.

**Responsibilities**:

- Contribute and deliver against ambitious goals and product objectives by providing strategic advice to drive Agency performance growth and establishing trusted relationships at B+/C level,
- Own a portfolio of agencies by understanding performance growth drivers, identifying opportunities for growth, providing strategic advice, leveraging Google resources, managing risks and building multi-quarter plans for achievement
- Shape the agency program by being a thought partner for the Agency Leads on strategic performance initiatives and agency-level planning
- Work towards long term strategic goals on new and existing business consistently, while prioritizing and delivering outstanding sales experiences to Google's agency partners and enabling collaboration internally
- Deep-dive into the client’s business objectives and lead a holistic Performance strategy. Be the Search evangelist to drive performance for them and investment in Google

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