Account Specialist, Influencer Marketing

Phoenix, AZ (Remote)

$55K/yr – $65K/yrMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own influencer program execution by recruiting and vetting partners, guiding content strategy, and auditing performance to deliver compliant, scalable growth for client campaigns.

  • Own influencer recruitment, onboarding, and negotiations to secure authentic, aligned partnerships.
  • Manage content strategy, timelines, and reviews to ensure FTC compliance and campaign success.
  • Audit, report, and optimize campaigns using social and conversion data to drive client growth.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • INFLUENCER RECRUITMENT, NEGOTIATING & ONBOARDING – Sources new partnership opportunities and creates influencer casting lists. Diligently vets opportunities to ensure brand alignment, authenticity and relevancy prior to presenting to client for approval. Conducts outreach to approved partners and skillfully garners their engagement and participation in the campaign, negotiating when necessary. Supports influencers through campaign onboarding by developing and providing resources to streamline processes.
  • INFLUENCER PARTNERSHIPS MANAGEMENT – Crafts program-wide influencer communications and vital creator resources. Guides influencers on content strategy and creation. Works with influencers to develop content timelines and ensures influencers stay on track with the schedules discussed. Collects content drafts and leads the content review process, including screening to ensure FTC guidelines are met. Closely works with influencers to adjust content strategy as needed, troubleshooting any signs of poor performance to optimize campaign towards goals and objectives.
  • AUDITING, REPORTING & ANALYSIS – Accountable for auditing program content to ensure compliance with FTC regulations and brand guidelines. Ensures content is tracked accurately and regularly shared with client, along with placement insights, partner insights, and campaign pace towards KPI goals. Performs robust analysis of influencer campaigns using both social analytics and conversion metrics to identify performance trends and areas of opportunity. Proactively provides actionable recommendations to client backed by data and continuously refines strategy to drive growth at scale. Supports team in creation of customized strategy plans, detailed campaign performance summaries and comprehensive hindsight presentations that are delivered to clients.
  • CLIENT SERVICE & COMMUNICATION - Consistently provides superior client service and escalates issues or key risks as appropriate. Works to ensure client develops trust in our team by delivering client outputs and communications in the AP way, consistently maintaining quality, accuracy, and precision. Develops and nurtures excellent relationships, supports team in promoting very high client satisfaction and retention rates, and an average 8.5 client rating.
  • PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT - Own and manage client tasks with minimal supervision, ensuring deadlines are met and tasks are completed accurately. Manages multiple campaigns with solid organizational skills and the ability to focus on and prioritize tasks based on client objectives, flagging any potential delays and keeping the team informed. Has full grasp of each client’s scope of work, delivering what is due under terms; maintains ability to identify new opportunities to drive client success while conjunctively identifying possible goal misalignments, getting to the root of an issue, and working with their team to bring solutions to resolve.

Requirements

  • 2+ years working for an influencer marketing agency and experience executing influencer campaigns and managing both client and influencer relationships
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
  • Ability to travel up to 15%
  • Advanced Excel capabilities and comfortable with formatting, formulas, customizing reports, etc.
  • Working knowledge of attribution in digital marketing
  • Strong understanding of how influencer and affiliate marketing can work together

Preferred

  • Tools (CreatorIQ, Grin, Izea) experience preferred, not required
  • Knowledge of Affiliate Networks or SaaS platforms (Impact, ShareASale, Commission Junction, etc.) experience preferred, not required
  • A genuine interest in AI tools, including hands-on experience integrating AI into your work and an appetite to keep improving.

Benefits

  • 100% remote work for everyone
  • Group medical, dental, and vision coverage insurance (with opt-out benefits)
  • 401K with matching
  • Open Paid Time Off
  • Summer & Holiday company-wide shut-down weeks in July and December
  • Volunteer and Birthday Time Off
  • Focus Fridays
  • Paid Parental Leave Benefits
  • Wellness, Technology & Education Allowances
  • Paid sabbatical leaves, donation matching, and more!!
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Acceleration Partners is the world’s largest and first-to-market Partnership and Marketing Agency creating and nurturing partnerships that drive exceptional measurable outcomes for their clients. Managing clients in 40+ countries, their global team of 300+ focuses on data-driven strategies that help connect brands to the right consumers through performance partnerships, traditional affiliate, influencer, performance PR, content and B2B partnership marketing. Serving over 200 brands with household names like Amazon, Target, Google, Warby Parker, Crocs, Reebok (to name a few) their diversified staff is creating what’s next in the industry by building balanced portfolios of high-performing partnerships. As the only truly integrated global partnerships agency, Acceleration Partners prides themselves on being on the cutting edge of new industry developments, and leveraging their proven expertise to bring unique solutions to the most complex challenges for brands who aim for growth.

Founded in 2007
Boston, MA, US
296 employees (63 in marketing)
74% recommend to a friend
81% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
42.9K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$94.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
37.5%
Direct
45.3%
Referral
11.8%
Social
4%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~305

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
59 (19% of company)
Median Career Experience
10 years
Median Tenure
3.1 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Last Raise
Private Equity, 5 years ago

Funding History

  • Dec 2020
    Private Equity