Director, Creator & Influencer Growth

USA (Remote)

$145K/yr – $175K/yrDirector/Executive10+ years expFull time

Posted 5 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the core creator pipeline from discovery to activation while expanding a trusted ecosystem in regulated financial services. Focus on three areas: scalable sourcing and onboarding, creator network growth, and close partnership with category teams to scale performance campaigns.

  • Growth Infrastructure: Build scalable sourcing and onboarding for creators across finance-focused channels, driving early trust and activation.
  • Creator Ecosystem: Expand diverse creator access, onboarding, and program participation for performance campaigns.
  • Internal Partnerships: Align creators to campaigns with category teams, establishing best practices for regulated-finance partnerships.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Build a Scalable Creator Acquisition Engine
  • Identify and recruit creators across platforms including Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, podcasts, newsletters, and emerging social channels.
  • Develop scalable sourcing strategies to consistently identify high-potential creators in personal finance, lifestyle, and consumer decision categories.
  • Build a structured pipeline of creators aligned to QuinStreet’s financial services marketplace.
  • Grow QuinStreet’s Creator Ecosystem
  • Expand and diversify our network of influencers, creators, and content publishers.
  • Identify creators capable of driving trust, education, and conversion in complex financial decisions.
  • Establish onboarding processes that enable creators to participate in performance-driven campaigns.
  • Partner with Internal Category Leaders
  • Collaborate with marketing teams across insurance, credit cards, banking, loans, and debt solutions.
  • Match creators to campaigns and transition partnerships to category teams for execution, optimization, and scaling.
  • Help define best practices for creator-driven acquisition in regulated financial services categories.
  • Bring Market Intelligence
  • Monitor trends in the creator economy, social platform algorithms, and emerging distribution channels.
  • Evaluate creator partnerships using engagement data, audience quality, and conversion performance.
  • Identify new partnership formats including affiliate creator programs, sponsored integrations, and performance partnerships.
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QuinStreet

3.7 Glassdoor

Powering Performance Marketplaces In Digital MediaQuinStreet is a pioneer in powering decentralized online marketplaces that match searchers and “research and compare” consumers with brands. We run these virtual and private-label marketplaces in one of the nation’s largest media networks.Our industry leading segmentation and AI-driven matching technologies help consumers find better solutions and brands faster. They allow brands to target and reach in-market customer prospects with pinpoint segment-by-segment accuracy, and to pay only for performance results.Our campaign-results-driven matching decision engines and optimization algorithms are built from over 20 years and billions of dollars of online media experience.We believe in:- The direct measurability of digital media.- Performance marketing. (We pioneered it.)- The advantages of technology.We bring all of this together to deliver truly great results for consumers and brands in the world’s biggest channel.

Founded in 1999
San Mateo, California, USA
1K employees (137 in marketing)
78% recommend to a friend
84% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
89K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
14.9%
Direct
51.6%
Referral
15.9%
Social
16.8%
Paid
0.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~1K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
118 (12% of company)
Median Career Experience
11 years
Median Tenure
5.2 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$190M
Last Raise
$150M
Post IPO Debt, 2 months ago

Funding History

  • Jan 2026
    Post IPO Debt • $150M
  • Mar 2007
    Series Unknown
  • Dec 2000
    Series B • $40M

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