Associate Director, Influencer

Knoxville, TN (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level4+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own and shape influencer programs across client accounts by educating internal teams and partners, building creator strategies, and driving end-to-end campaign execution with an emphasis on impact measurement and relationship leverage.

  • Influencer Program Leadership: Build education initiatives, develop creator POVs, and pioneer new platform opportunities to keep campaigns innovative and aligned with business goals.
  • Relationship and Campaign Management: Establish yourself as the influencer authority across accounts, manage partnerships from vetting to contracting, and drive execution from briefing to retrospective insights.
  • Team and Process Leadership: Mentor staff, define scalable processes, and collaborate with New Business and Accounts to keep influencer work front-and-center while pursuing growth opportunities.

Job Description

Responsibilities-focused influencer leadership and education across client accounts, prioritizing cross-functional collaboration, relationship-building, and campaign execution to drive innovative influencer programs.

  • Client and Internal Education: Monitor digital media and influencer landscape for relevant industry and competitor news to educate internal peers and clients on an ongoing basis
  • Client and Internal Education: Lead influencer/content creator POVs for internal and client needs
  • Client and Internal Education: Continuously explore new social platforms, functionalities, and emerging talent to drive innovation in the space across categories
  • Client and Internal Education: Build ongoing education opportunities for partners that help advance the influencer offering in and outside the walls of Tombras
  • Relationship Building: Become the go-to source of all things influencer across your accounts, fielding questions from both client and internal teams
  • Relationship Building: Build rapport with key stakeholders and understand how they work and how best we can work collaboratively
  • Relationship Building: Conduct outreach and build relationships with known agencies, managers, etc.
  • Relationship Building: Mentor team members to help roadmap their professional development and combat obstacles to help them reach goals
  • Campaign and Partner Management: Be accountable for the overall success of your influencer programs
  • Campaign and Partner Management: Build and execute creator strategies specific to campaigns for a wide range of clients, refine current success metrics, and introduce new success metrics

Note: Additional sections such as requirements and benefits are listed below for reference.

  • Campaign and Partner Management: Compile research and trend forecasting that lead to insightful creative approaches, laddering back to business objectives and program goals
  • Campaign and Partner Management: Research and recommend creators to bring to life content creator campaigns/activations, including influencer vetting to confirm brand alignment
  • Campaign and Partner Management: Lead outreach initiatives and oversee contracting
  • Campaign and Partner Management: Collaborate with business affairs team to review contracts and talent agreements, as well as in-house creatives, community managers, brand strategists, project managers, account teams, and analysts
  • Campaign and Partner Management: Oversee campaign management and execution from briefing to launch, including client communication, running briefing calls, trafficking concepts and asset delivery, content monitoring, and insights/reporting

Leadership: Mentor and inspire a team to create best-in-class influencer programs

  • Leadership: Help identify, create, and implement new processes that evolve the influencer practice
  • Leadership: Establish ways of working with the New Business and Accounts teams to put influencer front and center to help acquire new clients and grow current clients
  • Leadership: Be the influencer expert in every room to create ongoing value and guidance for internal teams and clients alike

Note: The main responsibilities have been condensed to fit within the 10-bullet maximum for display.

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Tombras

Tombras is a 450+ person, full-service agency with a digital mindset. We are one of the top independent agencies in North America. We are united by our philosophy: Connecting Data & Creativity for Business Results.®2023 AdAge A-List Standout 2022 ADWEEK US Agency of the Year (Finalist)2021 Fast Company World Changing IdeasClients include Orangetheory Fitness, MoonPie, BUSH's Beans, Rolls-Royce, Pernod Ricard, Frito-Lay, Zaxby's

Founded in 1946
Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
475 employees (220 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
8.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
31.9%
Direct
52.5%
Referral
6.3%
Social
8%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~475

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
154 (32% of company)
Median Career Experience
9.5 years
Median Tenure
4.9 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

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