Head of Industry, Financial Services

New York City, NY (On-site)

$225K/yr – $250K/yrDirector/Executive15+ years expFull time

Posted 23 hrs ago

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Job Summary

Own and scale Viant\'s Financial Services business by building executive relationships, expanding brand-direct demand, and aligning cross-functional teams to drive revenue, adoption, and growth.

  • Lead category strategy and go-to-market initiatives across financial services to accelerate revenue and adoption.
  • Develop and mentor a high-performing sales leadership team while partnering with Product, Marketing, and BD to strengthen Viant\'s competitive position.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Viant has established strong momentum across Financial Services and is seeking a Head of Financial Services to accelerate growth within one of our most strategic industry verticals.
  • This executive leader will expand brand-direct demand, deepen agency adoption, and strengthen Viant's position as the leading AI-powered programmatic platform for financial marketers across banking, credit cards, insurance, wealth management, fintech, and lending.
  • Scale Viant's Financial Services business by expanding strategic relationships with leading financial brands across banking, credit cards, insurance, fintech, wealth management, and lending.
  • Position Viant as the premier AI-powered programmatic platform for retail marketers by evangelizing our identity, content, attention and omnichannel advertising capabilities.
  • Drive industry awareness through thought leadership, executive presentations, industry conferences, and customer education.
  • Own and grow brand-direct demand while partnering with the broader sales organization to accelerate agency adoption across the Financial Services category.
  • Develop and execute a category-specific go-to-market strategy that increases Viant's presence within key Financial Services marketing organizations.
  • Partner with agencies and enterprise clients to navigate evolving privacy, identity, and measurement challenges while positioning Viant as the preferred programmatic partner.
  • Recruit, mentor, and scale a high-performing team of Financial Services-focused sales leaders and account professionals.
  • Define category success metrics and lead execution against ambitious revenue, adoption, and growth objectives.

Requirements

  • 15+ years of advertising experience and a minimum of 5+ years supporting Financial Services marketers in a brand-direct, agency, or ad technology environment.
  • Working cross-functionally with Sales, Product, Business Development, Marketing, and Measurement, this leader will help shape Viant's Financial Services strategy while driving innovation and long-term category growth.
  • The ideal candidate has a proven ability to build executive relationships, grow category revenue, and develop high-performing go-to-market teams.
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Benefits

  • fully paid health insurance
  • paid parental leave
  • unlimited PTO
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Viant Technology

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Viant Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: DSP) is a leader in AI-powered programmatic advertising, dedicated to driving innovation in digital marketing. Our omnichannel platform built for CTV allows marketers to plan, execute and measure their campaigns with unmatched precision and efficiency. With the launch of ViantAI, Viant is building the future of fully autonomous advertising solutions, empowering advertisers to achieve their boldest goals. Viant was recently awarded Best Demand Side Platform by MarTech Breakthrough, Great Place to Work® certification and received the Business Intelligence Group’s Innovation award for AI Advancements.

Founded in 1996
Irvine, California, USA
420 employees (48 in marketing)
66% recommend to a friend
70% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
51.7K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$48
Traffic Source Mix
Search
34.4%
Direct
55.1%
Referral
7%
Social
2.6%
Paid
0.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~420

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
41 (10% of company)
Median Career Experience
11 years
Median Tenure
4.8 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
5

Funding

Last Raise
Private Equity, 27 years ago

Funding History

  • Nov 1998
    Private Equity

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