Description
As PayPal continues its mission to revolutionize commerce, we're looking for an Account Executive, PayPal Ads to join our PayPal Ads team in Germany.
In this role, you'll develop relationships with new merchant customers, partner with our Account Management teams to convert opportunities, collaborate with Product to onboard merchants to the PayPal Offers platform, and contribute directly to shaping the future of PayPal Ads in the German market.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Manage mid-sized to large client accounts
- Develop and present strategic advertising proposals
- Collaborate with internal teams to execute and optimize campaigns
- Analyze performance data and provide actionable insights
- Identify upsell and renewal opportunities
- Leverage ad platforms and attribution tools to measure ROI and advise on optimization
Your Way to Impact The opportunity is to drive sales, increase market share, and demonstrate clear ROI on merchants' advertising investments. We're looking for a high-performing sales professional who brings a positive, solutions-oriented mindset and thrives in a highly collaborative environment. You'll use data-driven insights and a consultative sales approach to create compelling pitches that deliver results.
In Your Day-to-Day You Will
- Leverage your sales experience and network to meet and exceed revenue targets.
- Prospect and develop new business opportunities, from initial outreach through pitch and close.
- Build a strong pipeline across key brand verticals including Retail, Home & Garden, Beauty, Travel, Electronics, Grocery, and Dining.
- Build effective, long-term relationships with senior brand-side stakeholders, becoming a trusted commercial advisor.
- Work cross-functionally with AdOps, Sales, Marketing, Product, and other key teams.
- Partner with PayPal's merchant-facing teams to identify opportunities to grow merchant businesses and drive PayPal transaction volume.
- Share merchant and market feedback with PayPal Ads teams to help inform product performance and future development.
What You Need to Succeed
- 6+ years of experience in performance-focused digital advertising sales, offers sales, affiliate sales, or a related commercial environment, with a track record of meeting or exceeding revenue targets.
- Experience identifying and growing new business through long-term strategic partnerships.
- Strong data-driven selling skills and confidence working with business and media performance metrics.
- Experience using CRM tools to build and manage an accurate, actionable sales pipeline.
- Strong listening, communication, presentation, and influencing skills, with the ability to engage stakeholders at different levels.
- Professional fluency in German, with the ability to communicate effectively with merchants and business stakeholders, and professional proficiency in English.
- Experience with card-linked offers, loyalty, affiliate marketing, or similar performance-based advertising solutions is a plus.
Benefits At PayPal, we're committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. And we can't do this without our most important asset-you. That's why we offer comprehensive, choice-based programs, to support all aspects of personal wellbeing,physical, emotional, and financial,delivering meaningful value where it matters most. We strive to create a flexible, balanced work culture with a holistic approach to benefits, including generous paid time off, healthcare coverage for you and your family, and resources to create financial security and support your mental health.