Agency Development Lead (Adtech)

Location: London, UK; hybrid work with two required in-office collaboration days plus one additional office day each week

Company

hirify.global is a global adtech company powered by Persona Intelligence, helping brands and agencies activate consistent persona-based strategies across channels and improve measurable brand outcomes.

What you will do

• Own and grow partnerships with major UK agency groups, operating agencies, and independent agencies.
• Build senior relationships across executive, investment, strategy, planning, programmatic, and trading teams.
• Act as the primary contact and senior escalation partner for key agency relationships.
• Identify commercial opportunities, create strategic account plans, and manage forecasting, pipeline development, and CRM reporting.
• Coordinate engagement across Sales, Client Services, Product, Marketing, and Insights, while communicating hirify.global’s Persona Intelligence technology and advertising solutions.
• Manage, coach, and develop two direct reports.

Requirements

• Significant experience in agency development, agency partnerships, adtech sales, media sales, or strategic account management.
• Strong knowledge of the UK agency ecosystem and an established network of senior media agency relationships.
• Strong understanding of programmatic advertising and the wider digital media landscape.
• Demonstrated success developing complex commercial opportunities and executing strategic account plans in large, matrixed organisations.
• Strong commercial judgement, communication skills, entrepreneurial ownership, and cross-functional collaboration ability.
• Experience managing, coaching, or providing strategic direction to team members.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working model focused on in-office collaboration and flexibility across the remaining working days.
• Inclusive culture centered on equitable opportunities, belonging, respect, and psychological safety.
• Opportunity to work with Persona Intelligence, advertising solutions, data, platforms, and digital media.
• Collaboration with teams and agency partners across hirify.global’s international organisation.