
Director, Travel East
New York, NYJob$230–320K/yrSeen 4 days agoSeen in employer's feed 4 days ago
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Job overview
The Director will lead Google’s partnerships with travel and hospitality brands and set strategy for the Travel East business. The role leads a matrixed sales organization, develops senior client relationships, and helps clients use Google solutions across the full funnel. It also represents market insights to Google leadership and product teams while building and developing a collaborative team.
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Minimum qualifications:
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Bachelor's degree in Business, related field ,or equivalent practical experience.
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15 years of sales experience, including 8 years of people management experience and experience managing managers or leading multi-layered organizations.
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Experience selling advertising or media solutions to large enterprise clients.
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Experience in digital marketing channels, consumer mobile products, online products, and online advertising technologies.
Preferred qualifications:
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Experience leading and building distributed, dynamic sales teams supporting a portfolio of highly advanced advertisers.
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Experience meeting or exceeding annual business goals with sales management in a media sales environment, such as a digital platform, agency, or brand.
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Experience working with C-suite executives and leading multi-year joint business plans with large advertisers.
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Experience in performance marketing across search, display, and video, using data and measurement to unlock incremental budgets.
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Experience in travel, hospitality, or another complex, performance-driven consumer category.
About the job
As Director, you will lead Google's partnerships with recognized and sophisticated brands in travel and hospitality. With AI reshaping how people discover, plan, and book travel, you will serve as a strategic partner to their leadership teams, helping them drive growth across the full funnel, from performance to brand. You will lead a high-performing, matrixed vertical sales organization, direct macro-level business strategy for the Travel East vertical, engage directly with clients on important opportunities, and orchestrate cross-functional partnerships, to bring the best of Google to the travel industry.
Our Large Customer Sales teams partner closely with many of the world’s biggest advertisers and agencies to develop digital solutions that build businesses and brands. We enjoy a bird’s eye view on the massive transformation occurring as advertising shifts to mobile and online platforms. We're uniquely situated to help shape how companies grow their businesses in the digital age. We advise clients on Google's broad range of products across search, video and mobile to help them connect instantly and seamlessly with their audiences.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $230000 - $320000 (USD) + 80% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) .
Responsibilities
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Set the outlook and strategy for the Travel East business, establishing operating excellence and aligning quarterly and annual business planning to clients' most important objectives.
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Develop and strengthen C-level client relationships, leading challenging pitches and initiating high-level strategic conversations.
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Drive business growth and product adoption by helping clients put Google's AI-powered solutions to work across Search, YouTube, and Travel Ads, using measurement to prove impact and unlock incremental investment.
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Establish yourself as a thought leader in travel, offering clear insights to clients and Google leadership, and serve as an advocate of the market to product and cross-functional teams.
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Hire, coach, and develop a team, fostering a collaborative culture built on transparency and agility
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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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How this job compares
Set against the 1,878 open Sales Leadership jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$230–320K/yr
- New York median$200–270K/yr121 salary ranges
- US median$160–249K/yr1,344 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $275K, is 18% above the New York median midpoint ($233K) — in the middle half of Sales Leadership salary ranges in New York.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 203 open Sales Leadership jobs in New York and 1,878 across the US. 18% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in New York
- salesforce.com, inc.17 open
- Amazon5 open
- ElevenLabs4 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 15 years of experience — more than three in four Sales Leadership postings that state a minimum ask for (median 8 years, across 1,533 postings).
- Education
- 444 of the 1,878 open Sales Leadership jobs (24%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 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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