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Principal Account Executive, Exchange Platforms

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Compensation
$176–255K/yr
Location
Detroit, MI
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Principal Account Executive will capture new media budgets from brands and potentially agencies, build advertiser opportunity pipelines, and develop client relationships. The role sits within Global Partnerships Sellside and focuses on connecting advertising demand to publisher inventory while supporting a transparent, safe, and sustainable ads ecosystem. The position may be based in New York or Detroit, with the preferred working location selected during application.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Business DevelopmentPartnership ManagementManagement ConsultingInvestment BankingConsumer ElectronicsAutomotiveTelecommunicationsE-CommerceRetailAppsAdvertisingGamingTechnologyExecutive RelationsCross-Functional CollaborationAgreement ManagementComplex Partnership LeadershipIndustry AnalysisStrategic PartnershipsNegotiationLeadershipCommunicationPresentation

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Practical Experience10 Years Relevant Experience or 8 Years With Advanced DegreeMBA or Related Master's Degree

Full job description

Principal Account Executive, Exchange Platforms

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XNote: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: New York, NY, USA; Detroit, MI, USA .

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

  • 10 years of experience in business development, partnerships, management consulting, or investment banking, or 8 years with advanced degree.

  • Experience in the Consumer Electronics, Auto, OEMs, Telecom, E-Commerce/Retail, Apps, Ads, Gaming, or Technology industries.

  • Experience working with C-level executives and cross-functionally across multiple levels of management.

  • Experience managing agreements or partnerships.

Preferred qualifications:

  • MBA or Master's degree in a related field.

  • Extensive experience leading complex partnership initiatives that have significantly impacted business outcomes.

  • Deep understanding of the [relevant industry/vertical/market] landscape, including key trends, competitive dynamics, and emerging technologies.

  • Demonstrated ability to identify, structure, negotiate, and execute strategic partnerships with key industry players.

  • Strong leadership skills, with experience influencing and collaborating with cross-functional teams to achieve shared objectives.

  • Excellent communication and presentation skills, with experience communicating complex information to senior executives and external stakeholders.

About the job

Connect the world's advertising demand to publisher inventory, and protect user experience and privacy, so that publishers grow in a transparent, safe, and sustainable ads ecosystem. As a part of the Exchange Platforms team, your mission is to fund the world’s information. As a member of Global Partnerships Sellside, you will connect the world's advertising demand to publisher inventory and protect user privacy so that publishers grow in a transparent, safe and sustainable ads ecosystem.

As a Principal Account Executive, Exchange Platforms, you will be responsible for capturing new media budgets from media teams at brands, and potentially, agencies. In this role, you will generate and maintain a robust pipeline of advertiser opportunities across a number of accounts, establish strong relationships, and demonstrate thought leadership/industry expertise to solve business problems for clients.The Global Partnerships organization is responsible for exploring new opportunities with Google's partners. Google’s Global Partnerships team works with a wide range of partners to bring the best of Google to power their business. The Global Partnerships team supports Google’s own Product teams with essential partnerships to help Google’s user experiences in advertising, Search, Assistant, Maps, Travel, Shopping, Payments and more. Teams create product-enabling partnerships, go-to-market strategies and incubate business growth for a variety of products.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $176000 - $255000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) .

Responsibilities

  • Understand, build, and manage relationships with key decision makers and budget holders across the advertising buyer landscape, at executive and operational levels.

  • Develop sales strategies to capture new demand from media teams across a variety of groups including Programmatic, Investment, Planning and Strategy.

  • Work to secure, conduct and win client prospect meetings and manage deals from initiation to close.

  • Analyze market trends and client needs to create and pitch unique/customized media plans to high profile programmatic and digital media buyers.

  • Influence programmatic agreement setup decisions and establish a preferred relationship with each account.

Information collected and processed as part of your Google Careers profile, and any job applications you choose to submit is subject to Google'sApplicant and Candidate Privacy Policy (./privacy-policy) .

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. See alsoGoogle's EEO Policy (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/eeo/) ,Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal (https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/EEOC\_KnowYourRights\_10\_20.pdf) ,Belonging at Google (https://about.google/belonging/) , andHow we hire (https://careers.google.com/how-we-hire/) .

If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing ourAccommodations for Applicants form (https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2) .

Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.

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Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also https://careers.google.com/eeo/ and https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/OFCCP_EEO_Post.pdf If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form: https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2.

How this job compares

Set against the 11,687 open Account Executive jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$176–255K/yr
  • Michigan median$100–140K/yr103 salary ranges
  • US median$115–160K/yr8,489 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $216K, is 72% above the Michigan median midpoint ($125K) — in the top quarter of Account Executive salary ranges in Michigan.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 151 open Account Executive jobs in Michigan and 11,687 across the US. 16% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Michigan
Experience
This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience — more than three in four Account Executive postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 8,963 postings).
Education
1,767 of the 11,687 open Account Executive jobs (15%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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