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SmartNews

AI-powered news aggregation and curation app

Account Manager - Industry Sales 2

Account ManagementPosted on Nov 13
Full-timeTokyo, JapanNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of digital advertising sales experience, particularly sales to advertisers.
  • Basic knowledge of digital advertising from proposal through performance verification.
  • Experience managing and directing account operations as an account manager.
  • Strong commitment to customer outcomes.
  • Ability to work in the office at least three days per week.
  • Experience using artificial intelligence to advance and improve work efficiency.
  • Native-level Japanese proficiency.

Responsibilities

  • Analyze data to maximize advertising effectiveness.
  • Propose account improvements to advertiser and advertising-agency contacts.
  • Propose key performance indicators based on business challenges and marketing strategy.
  • Build industry knowledge and provide feedback to the product team.
  • Build relationships with advertisers and advertising agencies.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience working on advertising accounts in e-commerce, recruiting, or travel industries.
  • Experience selling or proposing data-feed advertising.
  • Experience collaborating with engineers.
  • Experience operating SmartNews Ads.
  • Business-level English proficiency.

About the Company

SmartNews

AI-powered news aggregation and curation app

SmartNews operates a news aggregation app that pulls stories from a network of over 3,000 publishers. The app uses machine learning to analyze millions of articles, social signals, and user interactions to select trending and relevant news, with features like SmartView and offline reading. It earns mainly from ads and publisher revenue-sharing, and offers SmartNews+ for premium content, plus SmartView First licensing for publishers. The goal is to provide a broad, newspaper-like reading experience that helps users discover trustworthy news and reduce information overload while sustaining its business through ads and partnerships.

Company size
201-500
Company stage
Debt Financing
Total funding
$486.5M
Headquarters
Tokyo, Japan
Founded
2012

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