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# Industry Lead (Advertising Sales Manager) at Taboola

- **Company:** Taboola
- **Location:** Düsseldorf, Germany
- **Posted:** 2026-10-26
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-31
- **Apply:** https://www.taboola.com/careers/job/8305529?gh_jid=8305529

## Job description

Realize your potential by joining the leading performance-driven advertising company and a proud Great Place to Work® Certified employer in Germany

As an Industry Lead on the Enterprise Sales Team in our Düsseldorf Office, you’ll play a vital role in driving commercial growth and scaling enterprise partnerships across the DACH region. You will take full ownership of acquiring new enterprise clients and strategic key accounts, positioning Taboola as their leading performance advertising partner. By managing the end-to-end sales cycle and building deep, long-term relationships with CMOs and key marketing decision-makers, you will unlock new revenue opportunities and directly expand our market footprint.

To thrive in this role, you'll need:

- 5+ years of experience in digital advertising sales, ideally within AdTech, media sales, performance marketing, or enterprise business development.
- Proven track record in new business acquisition and consistently achieving or exceeding ambitious revenue targets.
- A strong "hunter" mindset paired with excellent commercial negotiation and closing skills.
- Extensive experience building and managing robust enterprise sales pipelines and independently driving complex, multi-stakeholder sales processes.
- Fluency in both German and English (written and spoken) to successfully engage stakeholders across the DACH region.

Bonus points if you have:

- An established network of relevant brands, digital marketing decision-makers, and agency partners across the DACH region.
- A strong, technical understanding of data-driven performance marketing solutions and the programmatic digital advertising ecosystem.

How you’ll make an impact:

- Take ownership of revenue targets and drive commercial growth within your assigned industry vertical.
- Proactively identify, approach, and acquire new enterprise clients and strategic key accounts across the DACH region.
- Manage the entire sales cycle from initial prospecting and high-impact pitching to commercial negotiations, closing, and handoff.
- Build, maintain, and continuously develop a strong sales pipeline with a clear focus on high-yield, new business acquisition.
- Build and nurture strong, long-term relationships with CMOs, Marketing Directors, and senior client-side decision-makers.
- Develop compelling vertical-specific sales strategies, business cases, and tailored performance advertising solutions.
- Collaborate closely with Account Management, Product, Marketing, and international teams to ensure client success and represent Taboola at key industry events.

Why Taboola?

If you ask Taboolars what they love about working here, they’ll tell you that they’ve been empowered to realize their full potential while growing and learning from and with smart and talented people. They’ll also share more about:

- Adam Singolda, Taboola Founder and CEO says; “You can copy anything from another business but you can’t copy a company’s culture.”
- Well-being: With an office culture that’s international, social and supportive, Taboola offers very generous benefits including 30 days holiday, excellent health insurance, some flexible working, and stock options to name just a few.
- Flexibility: We offer a hybrid work schedule with 3 days in-office with an option to come in more often if desired.
- Work with some of the biggest names: Our publisher partners include Yahoo, Conde Nast, Fox Sports, NBCU, ESPN, CBS, and E! Online. Our advertiser clients include Wells Fargo, Honda, Pinterest, and Expedia.

Ready to realize your potential?

Taboola is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity in all forms. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and believe such an environment is critical for success. Employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

Learn more about #TaboolaLife onhttps://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?fetchDeterministicClustersOnly=true&heroEntityKey=urn%3Ali%3Aorganization%3A128707&keywords=taboola&origin=RICH_QUERY_SUGGESTION&position=2&searchId=dcc8bfbb-b05c-458e-a7f1-726d30e7dd80&sid=9(y&spellCorrectionEnabled=false,[Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/taboola/?hl=en),[X](https://x.com/taboola?lang=en), & the[Taboola Life Blog](https://bit.ly/41kidx9).

## About Taboola

Taboola empowers businesses to grow through performance advertising technology that goes beyond search and social and delivers measurable outcomes at scale.

Taboola works with thousands of businesses who advertise directly on Realize, Taboola’s powerful ad platform, reaching approximately 600M daily active users across some of the best publishers in the world. Publishers like NBC News, Yahoo, and OEMs such as Samsung, Xiaomi and others use Taboola’s technology to grow audience and revenue, enabling Realize to offer unique data, specialized algorithms, and unmatched scale.

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## About Taboola

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Digital advertising / Ad tech (content recommendation, native advertising, performance marketing)
- **Target customers**: B2B – publishers and advertisers of all sizes, from SMBs to large enterprises
- **Mission or purpose**: To help people discover what’s next and enable advertisers to reach audiences at scale on the open web.

## Products & Services
- **Realize**: Performance advertising platform that uses Taboola’s unique data and reach to drive high-intent conversions beyond search and social.
- **Taboola Feed**: In-feed native ad placements integrated into publisher content streams.
- **DeeperDive**: Contextual targeting solution that matches ads to article content.
- **Taboola News**: Ad placements within mobile news apps and home screens.
- **Taboola for Audience**: Audience extension and retargeting product.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: ~$1.14 billion (as of mid-2026) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/taboola)
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of $1.9 billion (2024) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/taboola)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Fidelity (led Series E), Yahoo (post-IPO equity), Evergreen Venture Partners. Key partnerships include major publishers and Yahoo.
- **Growth Signals**: 7.9% YoY employee growth (1,634 employees), 39 countries of operation, strong hiring despite market conditions, multiple Great Place to Work certifications globally.

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-driven platform**: Heavy investment in machine learning for contextual targeting and performance optimization, differentiating from legacy click-driven native ads.
- **Scale and reach**: One of the largest content recommendation networks on the open web, serving billions of recommendations daily.
- **Data moat**: Proprietary user-engagement data across a vast publisher network enables superior ad targeting.
- **Strong publisher relationships**: Long-term contracts with top media sites create a defensible supply-side advantage.

## Strategic Focus
- **Moving beyond native advertising**: Evolving into a full-fledged performance advertising platform (Realize) to compete with Google and Meta in the open web.
- **AI investment**: Continued R&D to improve ad relevance and ROI for advertisers.
- **Expansion into new verticals and geographies**: Growing presence in emerging markets and diversifying product offerings (e.g., Taboola News).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Consistently rated a top workplace – 4.2/5 on Glassdoor, certified Great Place to Work in 10 countries, Fortune Best Workplaces in NYC and Advertising & Marketing (2024, 2025), Built In Best Workplace (2024–2026). [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/taboola/faq/workplace-perception)
- **Work model**: Hybrid – 3 days in office, 2 remote (with flexibility to be in office more). Flexible Time Off (FTO) built on trust.
- **Perks**: Daily lunch credits or catered meals, stocked kitchens, wellness zones, game rooms, gender-neutral restrooms. Biannual performance reviews, internal mobility, and promotion from within.
- **Engineering culture**: 436 technical employees (21% of workforce), strong R&D presence in Israel (662 employees). Managers and specialists make up the largest seniority groups, offering clear growth paths.
- **Leadership**: CEO Adam Singolda has 91% approval on Glassdoor; monthly all-hands with transparent Q&A.

## Sources
1. [taboola.com – Careers](https://www.taboola.com/careers)
2. [linkedin.com – Taboola Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/taboola)
3. [builtin.com – Workplace Perception FAQ](https://builtin.com/company/taboola/faq/workplace-perception)
4. [taboola.com – Homepage](https://www.taboola.com/)
5. [taboola.com – Jobs Search](https://www.taboola.com/careers/jobs)

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