Senior Associate, Influencer

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

$59K/yr – $65K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 3 weeks ago

Job Summary

Own the end-to-end influencer program lifecycle from talent discovery and outreach to negotiations, onboarding, and performance optimization, while aligning with paid media and cross-functional teams for integrated campaigns.

  • Owned influencer strategy and talent vetting across celebrity, mid-tier, and micro segments
  • Managed contracting, onboarding, and performance reporting
  • Coordinated with paid, social, creative, PR, and production teams to drive integrated programs

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Support development of influencer strategy across multiple tiers (celebrity, mid-tier, micro)
  • Discover, vet, and recommend influencer talent aligned to client goals and campaign objectives
  • Manage influencer outreach, negotiations, contracting, and onboarding processes
  • Support content production, asset management, and timeline tracking across influencer programs
  • Coordinate approvals across client, legal, and integrated agency teams
  • Collaborate with paid social team to optimize influencer content for amplification
  • Monitor cultural trends, social media behaviors, and emerging creators to keep our work ahead of the curve
  • Proactively identify process improvements, contribute ideas to evolve our influencer approach, and bring new opportunities to the table
  • Help manage reporting, performance tracking, and learnings for ongoing optimization
  • Ensure seamless collaboration with social, creative, PR, and paid teams to maintain an integrated approach

Requirements

  • 2 years’ experience working in influencer marketing, preferably at an agency or in-house at a brand
  • Fluent in social platforms (Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, emerging platforms) and adept at identifying talent trends
  • Understanding of the relationship between influencer content and paid media; experience coordinating with paid teams
  • Comfortable supporting influencer contracting and negotiations
  • Sharp project management skills — you’re highly organized, detail-oriented, and deadline-driven
  • Culturally curious — you stay plugged into what’s trending, what’s next, and who’s shaping conversations
  • Self-starter who takes initiative, problem-solves independently, and isn’t afraid to bring fresh thinking to the table
  • Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with multiple workstreams and stakeholders
  • Team player who thrives in a collaborative, integrated environment
  • Be a driver of culture: Must have true passion and understanding of pop culture and are part of the community (be it music, gaming, fashion, food, internet culture, etc) This job is the intersection of creative, strategy, marketing, technology, content creation and production; your energy must be driven by your lifestyle. You must influence creative ideations: from the ideas presented, to the influencers selected, to the content created, all the way down to the language used in post copy.
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Weber Shandwick is the earned-first global communications agency. Led by world-class strategic and creative thinkers and activators, Weber Shandwick has won some of the most prestigious awards in the industry, including being named #1 in the Public Relations and Brand Strategies category on Fast Company’s 2024 Most Innovative Companies list, one of Fast Company’s Best Workplace for Innovators in 2023, PRWeek’s 2024 Global Agency of the Year, ranked #1 on PRovoke’s Global Creative Index in 2024 and honored on Ad Age’s A-List in 2024 & 2020 and Best Places to Work in 2019, in addition to being awarded Campaign Global’s PR Agency of the Year in 2023. Weber Shandwick was the most awarded PR agency at the 2023 and 2024 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, including earning the PR industry’s first-ever idea-led Cannes Grand Prix in the Brand Experience & Activation category and cumulatively earning more than 225 Cannes Lions. Weber Shandwick has also been named PR Agency of the Year by Campaign US in 2021, honored as PRovoke’s Global Agency of the Decade in 2020 and ranked #1 on PRovoke’s Global Creative Index in 2021 and 2022. Additionally, the firm was named PRWeek’s Global Agency of the Year in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 and was awarded PRWeek’s Purpose Agency of the Year in 2020 and 2021. Weber Shandwick also received Honorable Mention on the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Global Marketing Agencies in 2021, as the only PR agency featured.  Part of the Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG), Weber Shandwick is the anchor agency within The Weber Shandwick Collective – the strategic communications and consulting network. For more information, visit https://www.webershandwick.com/. Social Media Community Guidelines: http://bit.ly/wssocialterms

Founded in 2001
New York, NY, US
4.4K employees (1,170 in marketing)

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