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Sales Manager - SEA

Location:

Singapore

Reports to:

 GM, APAC

About Us

Nova is revolutionizing digital advertising by helping media organizations capture their share of the $280B brands spend on social media annually. Our AI-powered platform transforms social content into high-performing ads across mobile, desktop, CTV, and DOOH—delivering better outcomes in a fraction of the time. We serve 100+ leading media organizations globally including NBC, NewsCorp, The Telegraph, Google, and The Trade Desk.

Summary

We are looking for a high-energy Account Executive based in Singapore to lead our commercial charge across Southeast Asia. This role is for a true hunter–someone who thrives on opening doors, crafting deals, and building partnerships with agencies, brands, publishers, and other partners.

Key Responsibilities

Prospecting:

  • Own the region: Drive new business across Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand
  • Represent Nova: You’ll be our boots on the ground. You’ll be the face of Nova in market, working autonomously while staying connected to our global team
  • Prospect and pitch: Identify opportunities, build prospect lists, conduct customer research, drive outbound contact, and close new deals across agency, brand, and publisher landscapes
  • Onboarding: identify growth plans for signed accounts, walk them through initial set up, conduct training sessions with partner sales teams
  • Shape the solution: You’ll work with clients to uncover opportunities, provide feedback to our product team, build custom responses as required
  • Drive new partnership: identify and grow scalable distribution or integration opportunities with publishers, other wholesale partners or tech partners

Job Breakdown:

  • 70% New Business Development: signing new accounts
  • 20% Account Management: develop plans to grow wallet share
  • 10% Market Development: identify strategic partnership, gather market intelligence

Qualifications:

  • 2-5 years’ experience in media, digital, or adtech sales
  • Strong SEA market knowledge and solid book of contacts
  • Proven new business track record - you live for the chase
  • Entrepreneurial mindset - you’re resourceful, independent and get things done
  • Proven track record of $300K+ USD annual quota attainment
  • A love for all things related to adtech, media and creative innovation

Success Metrics:

  • $500K USD annual new business quote (Year 1: $200K ramp)
  • 15+ new partner onboardings annually

    Why Nova?

    Impact: Work in a dynamic, innovative company where your contributions directly drive success and growth.

    Culture: Join a close-knit, collaborative team where everyone’s input is valued and innovation is at the heart of what we do.

    Flextime: Nova puts a tremendous amount of its trust in its employees to define their own work schedules with their managers with a codified flex-time program.

    Unplug: We have made an explicit commitment to take responsibility in doing our part to support our team’s mental health and emotional wellbeing at work. Our minimum vacation policy is four weeks per year.

    Competitive Compensation:     We offer a competitive salary along with a performance-based annual bonus

    Work from Home Support: Nova provides an annual allowance to cover home office needs and work-from-home expenses.

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