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 looking for an Agency Partner Manager, Scaled Growth to join our Ad Platform team and help turn our agency partnerships into a consistent and scalable source of new advertisers.
In this role, you will work with both official and pilot agency partners across the U.S. and international markets. You will identify advertisers within each agency’s portfolio that are a strong fit for NewsBreak, guide them from onboarding through launch, and stay closely involved during their early weeks to help them reach sustained spend.
You will also help pilot agencies build the knowledge, processes, and confidence needed to bring more advertisers onto NewsBreak independently. Across a large portfolio of small and long-tail advertisers, you will develop a scalable engagement model that improves activation, retention, and growth.
Once an advertiser reaches a sustained level of spend, you will transition the account to an Account Manager with a clear and complete handoff.
Beyond day-to-day account growth, you will serve as an important voice of the agency market internally, translating recurring agency needs, advertiser feedback, and growth blockers into actionable priorities for Product, Data, and other cross-functional teams.
Responsibilities
Agency & Client Onboarding
Drive a steady flow of new advertiser activations across both official agency partners and pilot agencies, against quarterly activation targets.
Partner with agency media buyers, account teams, and new business leads to identify advertisers that are a strong fit for NewsBreak.
Use vertical, performance, and market data to recommend which advertisers and use cases agencies should prioritize.
Own the onboarding journey from initial intake through first spend, including:
Business vertical and use case
Conversion event
Target CPA or ROAS
Funnel structure
Budget
Agency ownership
Account setup
Tracking and attribution
Creative readiness
Diagnose barriers preventing advertisers from launching or scaling and escalate NewsBreak-side blockers to the appropriate internal teams.
Own pilot agency activation plans, helping each pilot partner progress from first launch to a repeatable flow of new clients.
Evaluate pilot agency performance and recommend whether to expand, continue testing, or exit the partnership.
Agency Education & Enablement
Train agency teams on NewsBreak’s advertising platform, including account setup, conversion events, bidding, creative strategy, optimization, and budget pacing.
Enable agencies to launch and optimize advertisers with increasingly less hands-on support.
Provide actionable vertical and performance insights, including:
Category benchmarks
CPA ranges by conversion event
Winning creative patterns
Audience insights
Geographic insights
Help agencies use these insights to position NewsBreak effectively with additional advertisers in their portfolios.
Turn successful advertiser outcomes into repeatable agency…