Senior Director, Head of Growth — NewsBreak Ads
Company websitenewsbreak.com (NewsBreak, opens in new tab)
Base salary $250K to $400K
Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in Mountain View, CA
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- LocationMountain View, CA
- WorkplaceWorkplace not stated
- Status at last checkSource accepting applications when checked
- Last checked (2 h ago) · observed since
About this job
About NewsBreak
Local life runs on local information. What happened down the street? Who can fix this? Where should we go tonight? NewsBreak started in 2015 to answer these questions, and today more than 40 million people a month rely on us to follow what’s going on in their zip code.
Three platforms with one vision: powering local life. Led by founder and CEO Jeff Zheng, NewsBreak is our local life and news platform; Nearby AI connects people with local businesses; and NDot AI helps publishers and creators grow and earn.
Building for the long term. A $115 million Series C made us a unicorn in 2021, and we keep investing in our people. We’re Great Place to Work® certified and named to Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators (2025) and Fortune’s Best Workplaces in the Bay Area™ (2026).
Everyone makes an impact. Whether you write code, shape products, tell our story, or run the business, we want people who own projects end to end, stay curious, and speak up. Join us.
Learn more at: NewsBreak, Nearby AI, NDot AI
About the Role
NewsBreak is building a category-defining, in-house advertising platform — and we're looking for a Senior Director, Head of Growth to own its commercial engine end to end. This is the top growth leadership role for NewsBreak Ads: you will build and scale advertiser demand across direct and agency channels, and forge the ecosystem partnerships — tracking, ad networks, attribution, and measurement — that make our platform a first-choice buy for performance and brand marketers alike.
Modeled on the growth and agency-partnership leadership functions at platforms like TikTok, Meta, and Google and performance ad networks such as MediaGo, this role blends hands-on commercial hunting with the strategic relationship-building and cross-functional leadership required to stand up a demand ecosystem from the ground up. You will lead a growing team of business development managers and account managers team, who report directly to this role — and partner deeply with Product and Engineering to turn client and market insight into platform advantage.
This is a senior, revenue-owning leadership position for someone who wants to build the demand side of a fast-growing ad platform — and own the outcome.
ResponsibilitiesDemand-Side Growth (Direct): Build and scale a direct-sales motion — source, pitch, negotiate, and close advertiser demand across performance and brand verticals, owning the pipeline from prospect to renewal.
- Agency & Holding-Company Partnerships: Establish and grow relationships with independent agencies and the major holding companies; drive sustainable revenue, product adoption, and long-term platform investment through agency channels.
- Ecosystem Partnerships: Own strategic partnerships across the digital-advertising value chain — mobile measurement partners (AppsFlyer, Adjust, Kochava), attribution and tracking companies, ad networks, DSPs/SSPs, and other adtech providers — to expand demand access, improve measurement, and strengthen platform competitiveness.
- Revenue Ownership: Own the demand-side revenue goal for NewsBreak Ads end to end — targets, pipeline, forecasting, and quarter-over-quarter growth across direct, agency, and partner-sourced demand.
- Team Leadership: Lead, hire, and develop the growth team, including the App and Local Business Development Managers; set strategy, coach for performance, and build a repeatable, scalable go-to-market org.
- Product & Platform Partnership: Partner with Product and Engineering, feeding client and campaign performance insight back into the roadmap to improve monetization, targeting, measurement, and advertiser ROI.
- Go-to-Market Strategy: Define pricing, packaging, and positioning for the platform in market; identify and prioritize the verticals, partners, and channels with the greatest demand upside.
- Reporting: Report on demand growth, pipeline health, partnership performance, and revenue to executive leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
What We're Looking For
- 8+ years in digital advertising, with a proven track record in demand-side business development, agency partnerships, and/or platform sales — including several years in a leadership or people-management capacity.
- Demonstrated ownership of a significant revenue goal at a self-service, programmatic, or performance advertising platform, DSP, ad network, or comparable adtech company.
- Established relationships across the buy side — direct advertisers, independent agencies, and holding companies — and a track record of opening and scaling those channels.
- Deep familiarity with the adtech ecosystem: mobile measurement partners (AppsFlyer, Adjust, Kochava), attribution and tracking providers, ad networks, DSPs/SSPs, and programmatic mechanics.
Benefits
We offer a competitive benefits package:
- Health, dental, and vision care for you and your family
- Top-tier 401(k) plan with company matching
- Paid time off and paid holidays
- Paid parental leave
- FSA and commuter benefits programs
- Team activity budget
The US base salary range for this full-time position is listed below. Pay may vary based on a number of factors including job-related skills, level, experience, geographic location and relevant education or training. At NewsBreak, we design our overall rewards package to attract top talents. Depending on the position, the role may also be eligible for discretionary bonus and options. Your recruiter can share more details during the hiring process.
Annual Base Pay Range
$250,000—$400,000 USD
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How this pay compares
Base floor $250,000, above 92% of the 877 Sales roles in California on this site. The employer's range is $150,000 wide, 60% of the floor. Observed open for 18 days so far (since Oct 21, 2026).
Pay in context
Among 877 Sales roles in California listed on this site, the median base floor is $150,000 and the middle half runs from $125,000 to $185,000. This role's floor ($250,000) is above 92% of them; 8 others list the same floor.
Base floors of 877 Sales roles in California
Table
| Floor band | Share | Postings |
|---|---|---|
| $100K to $125K | 24.9% | 218 |
| $125K to $150K | 21.8% | 191 |
| $150K to $175K | 21.3% | 187 |
| $175K to $200K | 12.5% | 110 |
| $200K to $225K | 8.2% | 72 |
| $225K to $250K | 4.1% | 36 |
| $250K to $275K | 2.9% | 25 |
| $275K and up | 4.3% | 38 |
How this is calculated
- Statistic
- Base floor distribution of the cohort
- Formula
- count of cohort postings in each $25K band of published base floor / postings in the cohort
- Denominator
- 877 open postings with this job family in California
- Sample size
- 877
- Hidden when
- needs at least 30 postings in the cohort
- Calculation version
- jobpage-analysis-v1
- Data as of
- 2026-11-08
- Employer set
- Open jobs on this site that publish a base salary of $100,000 or more
Only jobs on this site count, and each one publishes a base salary of $100,000 or more, so this compares six-figure jobs with each other, not with the whole market. Computed Nov 8, 2026.
State against nationwide
Median base floor in California vs nationwide
Table
| Value | postings | |
|---|---|---|
| Sales, California | $150K | 877 |
| Sales, all states | $141,450 | 4,310 |
| This job's base floor (marked) | $250K |
How this is calculated
- Statistic
- Median floor, state vs nationwide
- Formula
- median published base floor of each cohort
- Denominator
- open postings of this job family
- Sample size
- 877 in California; 4310 nationwide
- Hidden when
- needs at least 30 postings in both cohorts
- Calculation version
- jobpage-analysis-v1
- Data as of
- 2026-11-08
- Employer set
- Open jobs on this site that publish a base salary of $100,000 or more
How NewsBreak pays
This is the highest base floor among NewsBreak's 49 live roles on this site. Across them the median floor is $146,000; the middle half runs from $118,000 to $175,000.
Base floors of NewsBreak's 49 live roles
Table
| Floor band | Share | Roles |
|---|---|---|
| $100K to $125K | 38.8% | 19 |
| $125K to $150K | 12.2% | 6 |
| $150K to $175K | 18.4% | 9 |
| $175K to $200K | 20.4% | 10 |
| $200K to $225K | 4.1% | 2 |
| $225K to $250K | 4.1% | 2 |
| $250K to $275K | 2.0% | 1 |
How this is calculated
- Statistic
- Employer base floor distribution
- Formula
- count of the employer's open roles in each $25K band of published base floor / its open roles
- Denominator
- 49 open public roles at this employer
- Sample size
- 49
- Hidden when
- needs at least 5 roles
- Calculation version
- jobpage-analysis-v1
- Data as of
- current
- Employer set
- Open jobs on this site that publish a base salary of $100,000 or more
Similar pay elsewhere
Other employers' Sales roles in California with the nearest published base floor to $250,000, one per employer.
- Partnerships Lead, AI Infrastructure & Post-Training Mercor · base floor $250,000
- Head of Entertainment GTM Higgsfield AI · base floor $250,000
- Director, OEM & Strategic Partnerships Waabi · base floor $250,000
- Head of GTM Strategy and Planning Fireworks AI · base floor $250,000
- Enterprise Account Executive incident.io · base floor $250,000
This listingSenior Director, Head of Growth — NewsBreak Ads$250K to $400K
Founding Product Director, NDot AI$235K to $345K
Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Recommendation & AI Platform$230K to $300K
Lead PM — Product Innovation$200K to $300K
Senior PM — Core Experience$200K to $300K
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Recommendation & AI Applications$195K to $230K
Machine Learning Engineer, Local Search & Marketplace$190K to $300K
Chart as a table
| Role | Published base |
|---|---|
| Senior Director, Head of Growth — NewsBreak Ads (this listing) | $250K - $400K |
| Founding Product Director, NDot AI | $235K - $345K |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Recommendation & AI Platform | $230K - $300K |
| Lead PM — Product Innovation | $200K - $300K |
| Senior PM — Core Experience | $200K - $300K |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Recommendation & AI Applications | $195K - $230K |
| Machine Learning Engineer, Local Search & Marketplace | $190K - $300K |
Observed changes
No changes to the pay or listing since we first observed this role on Oct 21, 2026 (18 days ago).
- First observed on the employer's board, already publishing a qualifying base salary
- Observed since
- Employer-stated posting date
- 2026-08-07
Where this pay comes from
Location as the employer wrote it: Mountain View, California, United States
USD 250,000 – 400,000 · interval unstated · pay_input_range · Annual Base Pay Range
- Method
- Structured pay field published by the employer
- Checked
- Rule set
- us-base-v2
The employer's job board publishes this pay as a dedicated data field. We read the field directly; no interpretation was needed.
What we verified
- The pay figures come from the employer's own listing, quoted exactly above.
- The pay is an annual base salary in US dollars with a minimum of at least $100,000.
- The role was publicly listed on the employer's job board when last checked.
We do not verify what the employer will actually offer, whether the employer is still recruiting for the role, or anything beyond what the employer published. Full methodology.