Head of Industry, Financial Services

Los Angeles, CA (On-site)

$225K/yr – $250K/yrSenior Level15+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

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Job Summary

Own and scale Viant's Financial Services business by expanding strategic relationships and leading a category-specific go-to-market, while partnering with Product, Sales, and agencies to navigate privacy and measurement challenges.

  • Directly grow brand-direct demand and accelerate agency adoption in Financial Services.
  • Lead category GTM strategy, executive presence, and cross-functional collaboration with Product and Sales.
  • Build and mentor a high-performing Financial Services GTM team to achieve revenue and adoption goals.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • 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.
  • Serve as the executive face of Viant's Financial Services business at client meetings, executive briefings, and industry events.
  • Partner closely with Product and Business Development teams to influence new Financial Services solutions, strategic partnerships, measurement capabilities, and data offerings that strengthen Viant's competitive position.

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.

Preferred

  • 15+ years of advertising experience, including at least 5+ years supporting Financial Services marketers.
  • Deep expertise across banking, insurance, credit cards, fintech, wealth management, lending, or related Financial Services verticals.
  • Strong understanding of programmatic advertising, including CTV, Online Video, Display, Mobile, Streaming Audio, and Digital Out-of-Home.
  • Proven success building executive brand-direct relationships and expanding programmatic investment within Financial Services organizations.
  • Experience hiring, developing, and leading high-performing go-to-market teams within ad tech, digital media, or enterprise technology.
  • Ability to collaborate cross-functionally across Sales, Product, Marketing, Business Development, and Client Services.
  • Strategic, analytical mindset with the ability to translate complex industry challenges into measurable advertising solutions.
  • Exceptional communication and executive presentation skills with experience representing organizations at industry events and client engagements.

Benefits

  • Life at Viant Investing in our employees' professional growth is important to us, but so is investing in their well-being. That's why Viant was voted one of the best places to work, and some of our favorite employee benefits include fully paid health insurance, paid parental leave, unlimited PTO, and more.
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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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