Advertising Sales Manager - Shenzhen
At a glance
Mid-level Account Executive role at taboola. Shenzhen.
Pay not stated
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What you'll do
- Build new business with brands and agencies across Greater China, taking deals from prospecting through close
- Sell multiple advertising products by finding the right client stakeholders and keeping the message coherent
- Maintain a strong pipeline, predict closure rates, and report expected booked revenue accurately
- Present solutions, negotiate contracts, and develop relationships with brand and performance agency contacts
- Share advertiser feedback with product teams and coordinate with account management on campaign delivery
What you bring
- At least four years selling digital media or advertising solutions in China, with clear new-business results
- A track record of planning sales strategy, managing pipeline health, and forecasting revenue accurately
- Experience presenting, negotiating, and closing complex advertising agreements with brands and agencies
- Comfort using AI tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude in research and sales workflows
Who this fits
You’ll suit a Greater China seller who can win new business, handle complex advertising negotiations, and use data to shape client plans. The role involves close coordination with account management, marketing, legal, and product teams. It is based in Shenzhen with a hybrid schedule requiring three days in the office.
From the employer
Realize your potential by joining the leading performance-driven advertising company!
As an Advertising Sales Manager on the Greater China Advertising Sales Team in our Shenzhen office, you'll play a vital role in driving new business growth by building strategic partnerships with brands and agencies across Greater China. You'll own the full sales cycle—from prospecting to closing—helping advertisers achieve their marketing goals through Taboola's performance-driven advertising solutions while expanding our market presence.
To thrive in this role, you'll need:
- 4+ years of experience selling digital media or advertising solutions in the China market, with a proven track record of driving new business.
- Experience developing and executing strategic sales plans, managing a healthy pipeline, and accurately forecasting revenue.
- Demonstrated success presenting, negotiating, and closing complex advertising deals with brands and agencies.
- Experience using data and insights to identify opportunities and shape client strategies.
- Comfortable leveraging AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude) to improve research, prospecting, proposal creation, and daily sales workflows.
- Team player – the advertising sales manager will engage with stakeholders across the business including but not limited to account management, marketing, legal and product.
Bonus points if you have:
- Experience selling DTC e-commerce advertising or e-commerce related products
- Hands-on experience with market/competitive research tools such as SimilarWeb to support prospecting and account planning.
- Bonus points if you've built or customized AI agents to automate lead generation, research, or other sales tasks — we love resourceful, tech-savvy sellers who use AI to work smarter.
How you'll make an impact:
- Sell multiple products to clients by finding the right stakeholders for each product, without digressing from a coherent product message and overall strategy.
- Build relationships with brand and performance focused agency contacts and explain the power of Taboola’s native, choice-based advertising platform.
- Manage a robust pipeline and accurately forecast new business closure rate and revenue booked.
- Interact with the Greater China Advertiser Account Management team to effectively manage client expectations and ensure successful campaign delivery.
- Convey field intelligence to product management teams in regards to development of features.
- Manage presentations, build relationships and negotiate contracts within the Greater China market.
Why Taboola?
If you ask Taboolars what they love about working here, they’ll tell you that they’ve been empowered to realize their full potential while growing and learning from and with smart and talented people. They’ll also share more about:
- Adam Singolda, Taboola Founder and CEO says; “You can copy anything from another business but you can’t copy a company’s culture.
- Well-being: Enjoy comprehensive benefits, a fully stocked kitchen, and location-specific perks.
- Flexibility: We offer a hybrid work schedule with 3 days in-office with an option to come in more often if desired.
- Work with some of the biggest names: We work with some of the biggest names in the business. Our publisher partners include Yahoo, Conde Nast, Fox Sports, NBCU, ESPN, CBS, and E! Online. Our advertiser clients include Wells Fargo, Honda, Pinterest, Expedia and Honda.
Ready to realize your potential?
Taboola is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity in all forms. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and believe such an environment is critical for success. Employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
Learn more about #TaboolaLife on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X, YouTube, & the Taboola Life Blog.
About Taboola
Taboola empowers businesses to grow through performance advertising technology that goes beyond search and social and delivers measurable outcomes at scale. Taboola works with thousands of businesses who advertise directly on Realize, Taboola’s powerful ad platform, reaching approximately 600M daily active users across some of the best publishers in the world. Publishers like NBC News, Yahoo, and OEMs such as Samsung, Xiaomi and others use Taboola’s technology to grow audience and revenue, enabling Realize to offer unique data, specialized algorithms, and unmatched scale.
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