Key Account Manager YouTube & Social (m/w/d)

• Key Account Manager
• Customer Solutions
• Media Buying
• Business Development
• Social Media Campaigns
• YouTube Advertising
• Agency Network

Our client provides intelligent marketing solutions for the next generation of contextual safety, suitability, and performance for brands and agencies. Our platform helps marketers implement, automate, and scale their marketing programs across the world’s largest video library, YouTube, and emerging growth channels. We sit at the intersection of marketing and suitability and have a mission of enabling the world’s top brands to consciously connect with the right audience in the right context, maximizing suitability and contextual performance.

The company embodies a strong culture that values diversity, collaboration, and results. Our bias towards execution balances critical thinking, analysis, and pragmatic problem solving. We expect a lot from one another and value our thoughtful and intellectually curious company culture.

We are looking for a highly motivated

Key Account Manager – YouTube & Social (M/W/D)

based in München or Hamburg with a passion for video marketing and execution while consistently striving to exceed the expectations of clients, team members, and co-workers. You are reporting to the Lead Key Account Management / Client Solutions DACH.

You will be working with existing direct clients and media agencies in the EMEA area as well as creating new client relations and partnerships. You strive to exceed the expectations of your clients, team members, and co-workers by going above and beyond in your day to day.

Are you ready for an exciting journey on the German, Austrian and Swiss market?

Responsibilities

• Managing and expanding client partnerships from start to finish. Including strategy, brief response, media plan creation, execution, reporting and invoicing
• Owning and incrementally growing a book of business by focusing on client retention, growth, renewal, and satisfaction
• Understanding and communicating how our client’s products will assist clients in reaching their marketing goals with Senior client contacts
• Analytical and critical evaluation capability required for use in post-campaign analysis
• Responding to all client requests with urgency by using knowledge and understanding of all internal systems
• Generating and sending thorough weekly and final reporting that address overall metrics, wins, insights, and recommendations
• Working side by side with Sales to expand the business, provide brief responses and help with ad-hoc client requests
• Using Salesforce to help with forecasting and to track/manage opportunities

Requirements & Qualifications

• 3+ years of proven hands-on experience at a tech publisher or digital media agency, it would be great if you have 1+ year Google Ads Management experience as well
• Effective experience in media buying on a bidding model e.g., DBM, DSP, PMD, Programmatic platforms, and/or management of campaigns in various dashboards highly preferred
• Advanced knowledge of Excel calculations, pivot tables, graphs and Salesforce (or similar CRM) is a must
• Proven work experience as a Social Media Manager is a big plus
• Google Ads or YouTube certified, Meta and/or TikTok knowledge are a plus
• Have strong communication skills; verbal, written, interpersonal and presentation
• Client facing experience working with senior partners both at agencies and brands
• Strategic capabilities and vision, happy to work on strategy and share an opinion from planning to pricing of campaigns
• Digital and/or ad-tech background, measurement knowledge and or background is a prerequisite and determined to learn and adapt in a fast-paced digital world
• As we interact with our clients in German, business fluency in German is mandatory. All internal communication is conducted in English, so a strong command of written and spoken English is essential.
• Above all, you possess the highest levels of professionalism, integrity, and ethics.

About the Company

Founded in 2010, our client is an award-winning marketing technology company that helps top global brands and agencies maximize YouTube advertising. Recognized as a technology innovator, the company has served over three hundred of the Fortune 500 in delivering scalable, brand-safe, contextually aligned YouTube advertising software and services. By tapping into the deepest proprietary data pool on the market, the company enables highly customized, contextually aware, and dynamically optimized campaigns and provides industry-leading performance for a portfolio of clients across all industries.