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Buyer Development Sr Director DACH

Openx
Full-Time On-site
LeadershipForecastingAccount Management

Job description


Key Responsibilities:
  • Own Revenue Growth

  • Take direct responsibility for generating and growing buyer-led revenue across agencies, holdcos, and clients / brands in DACH.

     

  • Build and manage a qualified pipeline across PMP, curation, SPO, CTV, data-led activation, OpenX Select, premium supply, AI-led solutions, and direct buyer partnerships.

     

  • Convert senior relationships into commercial outcomes through consultative selling, strategic account planning, business cases, QBRs, joint business plans, and deal progression.

  • Maintain strong commercial discipline around pipeline, forecasting, revenue progression, and opportunity prioritisation.

     

  • Build the Market
  • Establish OpenX’s Buyer Development presence in DACH as the first dedicated in-market hire.
  • Create a clear map of priority buyers, agencies, holdcos, brands, DSPs, data partners, senior decision-makers, trading models, and commercial pathways.
  • Identify where OpenX can create the most meaningful and scalable impact in the region.
  • Build the foundations for a future regional team, including account prioritisation, pipeline discipline, market feedback loops, and cross-functional ways of working.
  • Work Cross-Functionally
  • Work closely with Sales, Account Management, Product, Marketing, global Buyer Development, DSP Strategic Partnerships, and the Data Partner function to shape, activate, measure, and scale DACH opportunities.
  • Partner with DSP Strategic Partnerships to improve buyer access, support SPO conversations, and ensure agency and client demand can be activated efficiently through priority DSP routes.
  • Partner with the Data Partner function to identify relevant data-led opportunities for DACH buyers, including curated marketplaces, audience-led activation, and strategic client solutions.
  • Build OpenX’s Market Presence
  • Represent OpenX as a credible senior voice in the DACH programmatic market.
  • Support OpenX’s visibility through senior meetings, client education, industry events, roundtables, and thought leadership.
  • Position OpenX around key buyer priorities including transparency, sustainability, premium supply, curation, data quality, supply path optimisation, and a healthier digital advertising ecosystem.

  • Requirements:
  • 7+ years of experience as a senior commercial individual contributor with deep knowledge of the DACH programmatic advertising ecosystem and a strong network across agencies, holdcos, brands, DSPs, and strategic partners.
  • The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of revenue ownership, opening senior relationships, building pipeline, and converting strategic opportunities into commercial outcomes.
  • They should be credible with senior clients and partners, highly self-motivated, commercially disciplined, and comfortable building a market from an early-stage position.
  • Fluency in German and English is required.
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