Associate Director, Influencer & Creator Marketing

USA (Remote)

$92K/yr – $100K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 9 hrs ago

Job Summary

Lead and scale enterprise influencer and creator programs end-to-end, owning strategy, governance, and client relationships while guiding a growing team to deliver measurable business impact.

  • Directly manage senior accounts and cross-functional teams
  • Develop full-funnel influencer strategies aligned with client objectives and KPIs
  • Improve processes, playbooks, and tooling to boost speed and scalability

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Providing strategic oversight and quality control across a portfolio of influencer and creator accounts, ensuring strategy, execution, measurement, and client communication meet Wpromote's standards.
  • Coaching and leading by example, supporting with other team members through account guidance, campaign QAs, and support navigating complex client and executional challenges.
  • Potential to directly manage team members, including regular performance conversations, development planning, and career pathing.
  • Managing a select book of enterprise-level clients directly, serving as a senior strategic partner and building trusted relationships with client stakeholders.
  • Leading the development of full-funnel influencer and creator strategies rooted in client business objectives, audience insights, cultural relevance, creative opportunity, platform behavior, and measurable KPIs.
  • Staying hands-on across the campaign lifecycle and stepping in when needed to guide or troubleshoot creator discovery and vetting, outreach, negotiation, contracting, briefing, content review, approvals, launch, optimization, and reporting.
  • Overseeing the onboarding of new accounts and major campaign workstreams, ensuring thoughtful staffing, clear ways of working, strong strategic foundations, and a smooth transition into ongoing management.
  • Interfacing directly with clients on complex or escalated needs; collecting feedback, articulating value, presenting recommendations, and strengthening account relationships.
  • Using creator, content, audience, media, and business-performance data to identify insights, optimize programs, forecast opportunities, and translate results into clear executive-ready stories.
  • Partnering with Paid Social, Performance Creative, Brand and Experiential, Client Strategy, Analytics, Paid Search, Programmatic, Affiliate, and other teams to integrate influencer and creator marketing into broader plans.

Requirements

  • 5-7 years of influencer and creator marketing experience within an agency and/or in-house environment, including hands-on ownership of complex client programs.
  • At least 1 year of people-management experience, with a demonstrated ability to coach, develop, and motivate team members while maintaining accountability and high standards.
  • Deep experience developing and executing influencer and creator strategies across awareness, consideration, conversion, retention, content production, and paid amplification objectives.
  • Experience leading enterprise-level programs across multiple brands, business lines, regions, or stakeholder groups, with a strong understanding of how to bring clarity to complex scopes.
  • Strong command of end-to-end campaign operations, including creator discovery and vetting, audience analysis, outreach, negotiation, contracting, usage rights, content review, FTC compliance, launch, optimization, and reporting.
  • Experience managing relationships with creators, talent managers, agencies, platforms, and vendors, including complex negotiations and enterprise scopes.
  • Strong measurement and analytical skills, including the ability to establish KPIs, interpret creator and content performance, identify meaningful insights, and connect program results to broader business objectives.
  • Experience with influencer marketing platforms such as CreatorIQ, GRIN, Aspire, Tagger, Fohr, or similar, plus working knowledge of web and social analytics tools.
  • A strong understanding of major and emerging platforms, including TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, Pinterest, Snapchat, LinkedIn, Reddit, Amazon, Twitch, X, and creator-commerce ecosystems.
  • Working knowledge of paid social and creator media integration, including allowlisting/partnership ads, paid usage, content testing, and performance optimization.

Preferred

  • Experience with creator-led commerce, affiliate programs, TikTok Shop, Amazon, or other social-commerce ecosystems.
  • Experience integrating influencer and creator marketing with experiential, brand creative, performance creative, retail media, lifecycle/email, SEO, or broader cross-channel planning.
  • Working knowledge of advanced measurement approaches such as brand lift, conversion lift, incrementality testing, matched-market testing, or media-mix analysis.
  • Experience with UGC production, creator content systems, and iterative creative testing for paid media.
  • Experience using AI-enabled research, workflow, reporting, or creative-analysis tools.
  • Experience leading programs in regulated industries or across multiple markets with nuanced compliance requirements.

Benefits

  • Remote-first culture
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Extended Holiday break (Winter)
  • Flexible schedules
  • Work from anywhere options*
  • 100% paid parental leave
  • 401(k) matching
  • Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Pet Insurance
  • Sponsored life insurance
  • Short Term Disability insurance and additional voluntary insurance
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Wpromote

Wpromote is a top independent marketing agency that challenges convention to accelerate growth for brands. We believe every client, including legacy enterprise brands like Whirlpool, category leaders like Spanx, and fast-growing DTCs like Vuori, can maximize the business impact of media with the right outcomes-driven partner. Our holistic total commerce approach drives transformative results for retail brands across channels and purchase points, powered by our Challenger culture, deep business intelligence, and predictive Polaris platform. To stay ahead of the rapid evolution of commerce and consumer behavior, we put data-driven testing and experimentation at the heart of our organization and delivery model so our clients can outsmart instead of outspend the competition and move fast to capitalize on opportunities in an ever-changing media ecosystem

Founded in 2001
El Segundo, CA, US
694 employees (281 in marketing)

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