Head of Industry, Financial Services

This role leads media sales efforts, building relationships with media agencies and brands, developing a sales pipeline, and growing existing advertiser partnerships. The Associate Director collaborates with sales development, media strategy, and client services teams on campaign planning and execution, while mentoring junior team members. Requires 5+ years of experience and a proven track record in digital media sales.

This Director of Global Accounts leads enterprise client growth and retention for a retail media platform, owning revenue expansion, upsell, and net revenue retention across a multi-region portfolio. The role requires strategic account leadership, executive sponsorship, and commercial fluency in SOWs, pricing, and billing negotiations, with up to 50% travel.

Lead brand strategy for VMS (vitamins, minerals, supplements) clients, driving marketplace growth and brand positioning. Manage client relationships and deliver strategic guidance to maximize performance.

This role leads the investment/buying team, managing budget allocation, negotiating deals with media partners, and ensuring KPIs are met. The Business Director will oversee campaign evaluation, channel performance, and annual deal creation, while also mentoring senior managers and collaborating with EssenceMediacom. Requires 8-10 years of media investment/buying experience and strong negotiation skills.

This Senior Software Engineer role builds distributed systems and data infrastructure for TVision's audience measurement platform, which uses computer vision and audio recognition to measure viewing behavior. Responsibilities include developing backend services, cloud-native data pipelines, and processing frameworks for large-scale analytics. Requires 3+ years of backend experience, Python proficiency, and experience with big data technologies.

This Senior Applied Scientist role applies reinforcement learning and decision-making methods to improve ad selection, ranking, and bidding in Viant's programmatic advertising platform. Responsibilities include developing and evaluating RL and contextual bandit models, designing experiments, and partnering with engineers for production deployment. Requires 3-5 years of ML experience, strong Python skills, and expertise in RL or sequential decision-making.

This is a Summer 2027 engineering internship at Viant's Irvine headquarters, offering hands-on experience in real-world projects. Interns will be embedded within teams, participate in learning events and networking, and receive performance feedback. The role is open to motivated UCI students passionate about engineering and technology.