Agency Sales Manager
Win and grow the agencies that run creator campaigns on CognitivaOS, making agencies our main channel to brands and creators.
Reference
REF-SAL-01Team
Sales, Creator BusinessLocation
Dubai · New York · Houston · Sarajevo · RemoteType
Full-timePosted
16 October 2026Status
Open
What you would own.
Your mission: sign agencies that bring their brand clients and creator rosters onto CognitivaOS, and grow each account by users and campaign volume.
The role owns the full agency sales cycle, from first contact to an expanding, referenceable account.
You will
- Pipeline: build and own a target list of agencies in each launch market; prospect through outreach, referrals and industry events.
- Sales cycle: run discovery, demos, pilots with test campaigns, proposals, negotiation and closing.
- Channel growth: turn each signed agency into a channel, onboarding its brand clients and creator rosters onto CognitivaOS.
- Expansion: grow users and campaign volume per agency; agree multi-market rollouts with agency groups.
- Handover: hand signed accounts to onboarding and customer success with a clear success plan.
- Expert support: bring in legal, tax and product colleagues on country-specific compliance questions.
- Product feedback: report what agencies ask for, lose on or object to, so it reaches the product roadmap.
- Forecast and CRM: keep the CRM current and give a monthly forecast of signings and campaign volume.
- Representation: speak for Cognitiva at agency and creator-industry events in the launch markets.
You bring
- 5+ years of B2B SaaS sales, with 3+ years selling to marketing, media or influencer agencies.
- A track record of closing deals with several decision makers (founder, operations, finance, legal).
- An agency network in at least one of UAE / GCC, India or USA, and willingness to sell across regions.
- Working knowledge of the creator economy: influencer campaigns, creator contracts, disclosure rules, payouts.
- Fluent business English.
What you will sell
CognitivaOS takes the legal, tax and payment work out of cross-border creator campaigns, so an agency can run more campaigns with the same team.
- Advertising and disclosure rules differ by country: compliance checks built in, with a separate legal framework per country.
- Creator contracts drafted case by case: ready contracts in English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Hindi and Arabic, including dual-language versions.
- Cross-border tax on creator fees: cross-border taxation handled in the platform.
- Unclear usage rights on creator content: global IP rights management.
- Creators waiting weeks to be paid: secure creator payment within days.
Who you will sell to
The best-fit agency runs creator campaigns across borders, for several brands, with creators in more than one country.
- Influencer and creator marketing agencies: the highest campaign volume; compliance and payouts are daily pain. Typical buyer: Founder / MD, Head of Operations.
- Talent and creator management agencies: contracts, IP rights and fast payment for their roster. Typical buyer: Founder, Head of Talent.
- Full-service creative and digital agencies: a growing creator practice without in-house legal or tax staff. Typical buyer: Head of Social / Influencer, CFO.
- Media and PR agencies with creator programmes: multi-market campaigns for global brands. Typical buyer: Head of Influencer, Legal / Compliance lead.
Selling follows the launch: UAE and GCC agencies first, then India and the USA, then Europe. Agencies with offices in several of these markets are priority accounts.
Nice to have
- Arabic, Hindi, German, French, Spanish or Portuguese (CognitivaOS contract languages).
- Experience selling compliance, legal-tech, fintech or payments software.
- Startup experience as an early sales hire, building a playbook from scratch.
- Relationships with agency holding groups.
You have a hunter mindset, are consultative on legal and tax topics, self-directed, and comfortable with 30–40% travel.
Location, travel and start
You are based at any Cognitiva office (Dubai, New York, Houston or Sarajevo) or remote. You will travel 30–40% of your time, following the launch markets: the UAE first in January 2027, then India and the USA, then Europe.
You start before the January 2027 UAE launch.
Pay
Base salary plus quarterly variable pay on the first-year contract value of the agencies you sign, with accelerators above target, an expansion bonus for agencies that add a second market or double their campaign volume, and optional stock options (subject to the cap table and board approval). Amounts are set per hiring location.
About Cognitiva Systems
Cognitiva Systems builds CognitivaOS, the cognitive record of the creator industry. Our platform brings creator compliance, cross-border taxation, global IP rights and secure creator payments into one system, so creators are paid in days, not weeks.
Founded in 2026, we have invested more than USD 8 million in product development. CognitivaOS runs a separate legal framework for each country it serves, with contracts in seven languages. We launch in the UAE in January 2027, followed by India and the United States.
We work from Houston, New York, Washington DC, Dubai, Sarajevo and Singapore.
Apply. Talk. Meet. Decide.
Four steps. A clear answer within two weeks.
- 01
Apply
Send your CV and a few lines on what you would own.
- 02
Talk
A first conversation with the hiring lead.
- 03
Meet
A working session on a real problem from the role.
- 04
Decide
A clear answer within two weeks.
Send your CV and a few lines on the agencies you have sold to and the markets you know.
We log your application and reply with a private link, so you can follow it from Apply to Decide.
Cognitiva Systems Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from veterans. We assess every candidate on skills, experience and potential.