About PhonePe Limited:

Headquartered in India, its flagship product, the PhonePe digital payments app, was launched in Aug 2016. As of April 2025, PhonePe has over 60 Crore (600 Million) registered users and a digital payments acceptance network spread across over 4 Crore (40+ million) merchants. PhonePe also processes over 33 Crore (330+ Million) transactions daily with an Annualized Total Payment Value (TPV) of over INR 150 lakh crore.

PhonePes portfolio of businesses includes the distribution of financial products (Insurance, Lending, and Wealth) as well as new consumer tech businesses (Pincode - hyperlocal e-commerce and Indus AppStore Localized App Store for the Android ecosystem) in India, which are aligned with the companys vision to offer every Indian an equal opportunity to accelerate their progress by unlocking the flow of money and access to services.

Culture:

At PhonePe, we go the extra mile to make sure you can bring your best self to work, Everyday!. And that starts with creating the right environment for you. We empower people and trust them to do the right thing. Here, you own your work from start to finish, right from day one. PhonePe-rs solve complex problems and execute quickly; often building frameworks from scratch. If youre excited by the idea of building platforms that touch millions, ideating with some of the best minds in the country and executing on your dreams with purpose and speed, join us!

Role Overview

As the Ad Sales Leader for Large Clients, you will carry the P&L responsibility for driving ad revenue from India's largest brands in the Ecommerce, Retail, D2C, Food, Travel and AI sector. This is a foundational leadership role. You will not just manage a book of business; you will architect the zero-to-one setup for new publisher surfaces (including the Indus Appstore), design scalable monetization strategies, and build a high-performing merchant/client partner team from scratch.

Key Responsibilities

1. Revenue Ownership & Strategic Growth

P&L Management: Own and deliver the annual revenue mandate for large enterprise clients across assigned verticals
Joint Business Planning (JBPs): Establish and institutionalize strategic, long-term partnerships and JBPs with C-level executives and marketing heads of top-tier brands and media agencies.
Multi-Publisher Monetization: Drive ad adoption across both the PhonePe Consumer Payments App (high-intent transaction traffic) and the Indus Appstore (app discovery and distribution traffic) along with a suite of external publishers in the near-term

2. Business Setup & Scaling (0 to 1)

Go-To-Market (GTM) Strategy: Define the value proposition, ad product positioning, and pricing strategies tailored for large enterprise clients.
Product Collaboration: Work closely with the Ad Product and Engineering teams to feed market insights back into the roadmap, helping build scalable ad tech solutions (branding, performance, and programmatic).
PhonePe Ads Penetration: Drive larger share of digital marketing spends of top clients across both Brand & Performance marketing for Direct as well as Agencies
Leadership Relationships: Build strong multi-tier relationships with CXOs across Direct & Agency base

New Revenue Initiatives: Scope & build new revenue opportunities that leverages the PhonePe groups strength

3. Team Leadership & Capability Building

Team Building: Recruit, mentor, and retain a world-class team of Sales/Client Partners, and Account Managers.
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Senior Manager - Ads Sales

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