Brand Partnerships Director, UK
Position Summary & Responsibilities
Who We Are
Verve has created a more efficient and privacy-focused way to buy and monetize advertising. Verve is an ecosystem of demand and supply technologies fusing data, media, and technology together to deliver results and growth to both advertisers and publishers–no matter the screen or location, no matter who, what, or where a customer is. With offices across the globe and with an eye on servicing forward-thinking advertising customers, Verve’s solutions are trusted by more than 90 of the United States’ top 100 advertisers, 4,000 publishers globally, and the world’s top demand-side platforms. Learn more at verve.com.
Verve For Advertisers is a technology company that empowers brands and agencies to target audiences based on declared intent, following them from initial curiosity to ultimate decisioning, to drive measurable outcomes.
We've unified the company's demand-side offering under the VFA name, bringing together the largest on-site search-intent dataset outside of walled gardens — built on data partnerships with 3M+ websites, LLM chat signals, and survey data — and premium inventory grounded in our direct SDK integrations. Our technology captures both what consumers do and why they do it, delivering high-fidelity audiences, insights, and outcomes across premium omnichannel inventory.
About the team
Verve is building a Brand Direct function — a small, senior team that sells and services select brand accounts directly, alongside our existing agency relationships, rather than replacing them. The goal is to get Verve's data, formats, and capabilities into brand planning conversations earlier, and to prove that dedicated brand-side support grows accounts faster than agency coverage alone.
This is a new team and a founding hire. You'll help define what “brand direct” looks like at Verve in practice, working closely with the Global VP of Brand Partnerships from day one.
The role
As Brand Partnerships Director, UK, you'll own a portfolio of named brand accounts in the UK, working as a generalist across categories rather than a single vertical. This is a senior individual contributor role — not a people-management role in the first instance — designed for someone who wants to build something and has the option to grow into managing a local team as the function s
Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights
Evaluating high-performance ad-tech acumen, programmatic ecosystem mastery, and data-driven revenue growth.
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