VP Growth, SEA

VP Growth, SEA (AdTech / AI)

Location: Singapore

We're working with a rapidly growing AdTech/AI company looking for an entrepreneurial leader to drive commercial growth across Southeast Asia as part of their global expansion.

As the VP of Growth, SEA, you'll own the commercial strategy and regional P&L for a variety of AdTech/AI solutions. Leading, scaling, and inspiring a high-performing regional business development and account teams. Your mission will be to capturing market share among top-tier media agencies, programmatic trading desks, and enterprise clients across key SEA markets.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Commercial Strategy & Execution

• Define and execute the GTM growth strategy for their AI capabilities across SEA.
• Take ownership of the SEA revenue target and commercial pipeline, ensuring sustainable growth quarter-over-quarter.
• Position their platform as the premium alternative to traditional targeting, educating the market on their solutions.

2. Agency Ecosystem & Brand Partnerships

• Drive high-level relationships and framework agreements with major global media holding groups and independent agencies across the region.
• Unlock net-new enterprise revenue streams by selling directly to CMOs and growth leaders in FMCG, Banking & Finance, and Pharma/Healthcare.
• Leverage existing joint ventures and major global SSP/DSP integrations to cross-sell and maximize programmatic revenue lines.

3. Team Leadership & Regional Upskilling

• Recruit, manage, and coach a world-class team of Regional Growth Managers and Account Directors across SEA.
• Cultivate a high-performance, data-driven, and consultative sales culture centered around solving complex digital marketing and identity challenges for clients.
• Collaborate closely with global product, data science, and operations teams to bridge customer feedback from SEA with platform engineering.

Required Skills & Experience

• Experience: 12+ years of commercial leadership experience within AdTech, programmatic, SaaS, and/or digital media holding agencies. At least 5+ years must be in a regional growth or commercial leadership capacity inside Southeast Asia.
• Domain Expertise: Deep technical literacy in the programmatic supply chain (DSP/SSP mechanics), contextual advertising, data clean rooms, and identity solutions in a cookie-free era.
• Network: Strong network of senior decision-makers across media agencies, programmatic desks, and tier-one consumer brands across SEA.
• Track Record: Proven success scaling an early-to-mid stage tech product from regional infancy to millions in ARR, or hitting aggressive growth targets in high-velocity operating environments.
• Culture Fit: A strong entrepreneurial mindset, and comfort within a rapidly transitioning, highly innovative AI ecosystem.

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