Retail Media Account Executive

TripleLift•Chicago, IL

3d•$80,000 - $110,000

About The Position

TripleLift is looking for a Retail Media Account Executive to join their Demand Sales team. This role is responsible for turning high-priority business initiatives into measurable go-to-market programs. The Account Executive will work across various departments including Marketing, Sales, Product Marketing, RevOps, Finance, Partnerships, Design, and Events to build campaigns that drive account engagement, sales activation, product adoption, and pipeline impact. This is a high-impact role for someone who is both strategic and operational, comfortable building campaign strategies, managing cross-functional launches, aligning with Sales, working through RevOps requirements, reviewing performance data, and improving future strategies. The goal is to ensure marketing efforts create measurable revenue impact.

Requirements

Bachelors degree
A minimum of 5 years of experience at a Retail Media Network (RMN) or a combination of RMN partnerships and programmatic sales.

Responsibilities

Partner on senior-level Retail relationships across dedicated retail DSPs, commerce-focused holding company agencies, and brands, acting as the primary retail owner and resource at TripleLift.
Educate and convert shopper marketing, co-op, and brand teams to adopt premium, high-impact CTV and digital formats.
Partner with core TripleLift sellers to accelerate retail relationships within the existing sales organization and facilitate retail prospecting efforts.
Oversee the creation and optimization of high-value Retail Marketplaces with retail DSPs and custom Deal IDs.
Position TripleLift's custom, non-standard creative services as the primary vehicle to activate a retailer’s first-party data, proving that premium formats drive higher impact within brand strategy.
Advise clients and sellers on how TripleLift uses privacy-safe contextual signals and agentic capabilities (TL Spark) to future-proof retail solutions, and drive offsite impact.
Drive the retail sales pipeline, managing forecasting and revenue attribution in partnership with RevOps.
Own all internal and external executive retail media reporting, providing data-backed spend tracking and performance proof.
Collaborate with the Preferred Partnerships team to embed tailored retail growth strategies, tiered incentives, and commercial motions into enterprise contract negotiations.
Act as the ultimate product expert for TripleLift's retail capabilities, managing ongoing education, empowerment, and training for internal and external teams.
Assist in maintaining, improving, and scaling TripleLift's retail GTM strategy. Capture client feedback, build measurement-backed case studies, and deploy scalable retail playbooks.
Partner directly with the publisher, partnerships, and product teams to champion the "voice of the customer," ensuring that our roadmap reflects commercial and customer needs.