Agency Partner Manager, Scaled ; Global

Position: Agency Partner Manager, Scaled Growth (Global)
About News Break Founded  in 2015, News Break is the Content Intelligence platform shaping the future content economy. With over 40 million monthly active users, our flagship platform delivers highly personalized local news and information powered by advanced AI, recommendation systems, and adtech.

Recognized by Fast Company as #32 on the Top Workplaces for Innovators, we're proud to be Great Place to Work certified and home to a dynamic team of technologists, product innovators, and business leaders who are passionate about solving meaningful challenges ether, we reached unicorn status in 2021, and we remain committed to continuing this high-growth trajectory with the right team to fulfill our mission: building the infrastructure layer for content intelligence.

If you’re inspired to dream big, innovate fast, and make a difference, we’d love to hear from you! For more information, visit About the Role News Break  is looking for an Agency Partner Manager, Scaled Growth to join our Ad Platform team and help turn our agency partnerships into a consistent and scalable source of new  this role, you will work with both official and pilot agency partners across the U.S. and international markets.

You will identify advertisers within each agency’s portfolio that are a strong fit for News Break, guide them from onboarding through launch, and stay closely involved during their early weeks to help them reach sustained spend.

You will also help pilot agencies build the knowledge, processes, and confidence needed to bring more advertisers onto News Break independently. Across a large portfolio of small and long-tail advertisers, you will develop a scalable engagement model that improves activation, retention, and growth.

Once an advertiser reaches a sustained level of spend, you will transition the account to an Account Manager with a clear and complete handoff.

Beyond day-to-day account growth, you will serve as an important voice of the agency market internally, translating recurring agency needs, advertiser feedback, and growth blockers into actionable priorities for Product, Data, and other cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities Agency & Client Onboarding Drive a steady flow of new advertiser activations across both official agency partners and pilot agencies, against quarterly activation targets.

Partner with agency media buyers, account teams, and new business leads to identify advertisers that are a strong fit for News Break.

Use vertical, performance, and market data to recommend which advertisers and use cases agencies should prioritize.

Own the onboarding journey from initial intake through first spend, including:

Business vertical and use case Conversion event

Target CPA or ROASFunnel structure

Budget

Agency ownership

Account setup

Tracking and attribution

Creative readiness

Diagnose barriers preventing advertisers from launching or scaling and escalate News Break-side blockers to the appropriate internal teams.

Own pilot agency activation plans, helping each pilot partner progress from first launch to a repeatable flow of new clients.

Evaluate pilot agency performance and recommend whether to expand, continue testing, or exit the partnership.

Agency Education & Enablement Train agency teams on News Break’s advertising platform, including account setup, conversion events, bidding, creative strategy, optimization, and budget pacing.

Enable agencies to launch and optimize advertisers with increasingly less hands-on support.

Provide actionable vertical and performance insights, including:

Category benchmarksCPA ranges by conversion event

Winning creative patterns

Audience insights

Geographic insights

Help agencies use these insights to position News Break effectively with additional advertisers in their…