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# Senior Enterprise Account Executive - Retail & Finance at Smartly

- **Company:** Smartly
- **Location:** London England, United Kingdom
- **Posted:** 2026-07-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/smartlyio/jobs/6105850004

## Job description

Senior Account Executive will be reporting to the Director of Northern Europe, you will own and shape Smartly's Retail & Finance strategy across the UK market. This is more than a new business role - the Senior Account Executive will become the face of Smartly within the UK Retail & Finance industry, leveraging your executive network and market expertise to establish Smartly as the partner of choice for leading Finance & retailers.

While Retail & Finance is the clear primary focus, experience and relationships within Financial Services and Automotive will be highly valued, enabling you to identify opportunities across adjacent enterprise verticals.

The Senior Account Executive be empowered to operate with a high degree of autonomy while partnering closely with Product, Solution Consulting, Onboarding, Customer Success, Marketing, and Leadership to deliver exceptional customer outcomes.

## About Smartly

Smartly is the AI-powered advertising technology company transforming how brands create, manage, and optimize digital advertising. Our platform unifies media, creative, and intelligence to help the world's leading brands achieve exceptional business outcomes across today's largest digital channels.

We're looking for an exceptional Senior Account Executive to become Smartly's Retail & Finance Industry Lead in the UK—a highly strategic role responsible for accelerating our growth within one of our most important verticals.

## What You'll Do

- Lead Smartly's go-to-market strategy for the UK Retail & Finance sector, building our presence and reputation across enterprise Finance & retailers.
- Develop and execute a strategic territory plan focused on acquiring and growing relationships with leading UK Retail & Finance brands.
- Leverage an established network of senior decision-makers across Retail & Finance , with additional relationships in Financial Services and Automotive viewed as a significant advantage.
- Build trusted relationships with C-level executives and senior leaders across Marketing, Digital, Finance , Media, and Technology.
- Lead complex, consultative sales engagements from prospecting through negotiation and close.
- Work seamlessly with cross-functional teams—including Product, Solution Consultants, Onboarding, and Customer Success—to ensure customers realise value throughout their journey.
- Represent Smartly at industry events and become a recognised voice within the UK Retail & Finance ecosystem.
- Deliver accurate forecasting and maintain a healthy pipeline across strategic enterprise accounts.

## What We're Looking For

Required

- Significant experience driving enterprise sales and strategic customer growth within the UK market.
- A well-established network of senior relationships across leading UK Retail &/or Finance organisations.
- Experience gained within a high-growth SaaS company, advertising technology or marketing technology business, or at a leading digital or social media platform (such as Meta, TikTok, Snap, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Google, or similar)
- Demonstrated success navigating complex enterprise buying cycles and engaging executive stakeholders.
- A highly autonomous, self-directed approach, with the ability to build pipeline and execute independently.
- Exceptional collaboration skills, with a proven track record of partnering cross-functionally across Sales, Product, Solutions Consulting, Onboarding, and Customer Success.
- Outstanding commercial acumen, executive presence, and consultative selling skills.

## Preferred

- Additional experience or executive relationships within the Financial Services and/or Automotive sectors
- Strong understanding of digital advertising, commerce, retail media, and the evolving AI-driven marketing landscape.

Success in This Role

You are recognised as a trusted advisor within the Retail & Finance industry and bring credibility with senior decision-makers across the UK's largest brands. You thrive in an entrepreneurial environment where you have the freedom to shape strategy, build executive relationships, and influence outcomes.

Equally comfortable working independently and collaborating across functions, you'll help position Smartly as the leading AI-powered advertising platform for UK Finance & retailers while unlocking growth opportunities across complementary sectors such as Financial Services and Automotive.

## About Smartly

Smartly is the AI-powered advertising technology company transforming ad experiences for brands and their consumers. Our comprehensive advertising platform seamlessly integrates the capabilities of media, creative, and intelligence to power more than 800 billion impressions and generate more than 300 billion creatives annually, delivering tangible business outcomes for brands and advertisers.

Smartly is the only company in the industry recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Creative Advertising Technologies with PwC validating the results it delivers for brands. We manage creative and media for 700+ brands worldwide and $6B in ad spend across the largest media platforms, including Facebook, Google, Instagram, Pinterest, Snap, and TikTok. Our end-to-end technology, unmatched access to media platforms and exceptional customer service help Fortune 500 brands to reach and engage consumers and learn what performs best.Smartly is a multinational and diverse team of 750+ Smartlies from 60+ nationalities, working in 13 countries. Together, we want to create and maintain an inclusive environment where everyone feels respected and heard. Our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion approach is at the heart of it.

Visit [Smartly](http://smartly.io/) to learn more.

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## About Smartly

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Smartly is an AI-powered advertising technology company that provides a cross-channel platform integrating media, creative, and intelligence to help brands and agencies create, optimize, and scale ad campaigns.
- **Entity Type**: Private (backed by Providence Equity Partners; previously raised venture funding)
- **Headquarters**: Helsinki, Finland
- **Founded**: 2013
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Advertising technology (AdTech), AI-powered marketing
- **Target customers**: B2B – brands, agencies, performance teams, creative teams (Fortune 500 and mid-market)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Make online advertising easy, effective, and enjoyable across platforms.” (from the Smartly Culture Handbook)

## Products & Services
- **Smartly AI Advertising Platform**: A SaaS platform that unifies creative production, media buying, cross-channel performance analytics, and AI-driven optimization. Supports major media channels including Facebook, Google, Instagram, Pinterest, Snap, and TikTok.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (acquired by Providence Equity Partners in December 2019 for ~$222M)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of $150M (as of recent data) | Total Funding: $222.8M (including a $200M private equity round in 2019)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Providence Equity Partners (parent company), Highland Europe, Lifeline Ventures. Partners with major media platforms (Meta, Google, TikTok, Snap, Pinterest).
- **Growth Signals**: 800+ employees (10.3% YoY growth), 700+ brands served, $6B in annual ad spend managed, 800B+ impressions and 300B+ creatives generated annually. Recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Creative Advertising Technologies.

## Competitive Advantages
- Only company recognized as a Leader in Forrester’s Creative Advertising Technologies Wave with PwC-validated results.
- End-to-end platform that bridges creative and media, reducing fragmentation for advertisers.
- Deep, direct integrations with all major social and search platforms, providing unmatched access and speed.

## Strategic Focus
- Continue to expand AI capabilities across creative production, cross-channel orchestration, and real-time performance measurement.
- Grow presence in connected TV (CTV) and programmatic advertising.
- Scale global operations and deepen partnerships with enterprise brands and agencies.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: Grounded in Nordic values of trust, autonomy, and work-life balance. Emphasizes ownership, radical candor, and continuous learning.
- **Remote/hybrid policy**: Hybrid/office-based depending on location; offices in Helsinki, New York, London, Berlin, Mexico City, Sydney, Manila, and more.
- **Notable perks**: Early career programs (New Grad, Internships, Launchpad for engineers), global collaboration, and a focus on impact from day one.
- **Engineering culture**: Strong technical teams (227 in technical roles), active in machine learning and platform engineering. Opportunities to work on high-scale systems (800B impressions).

## Sources
1. [smartly.io](https://www.smartly.io/)
2. [Smartly Careers](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/smartlyio)
3. [LinkedIn – Smartly](https://www.linkedin.com/company/smartly-io)
4. [Smartly Culture Handbook](https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/1570479/Culture%20Handbook/Smartly.ioCultureHandbook.pdf)

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