Manager, Influencer Relations

Responsibilities

• High-Touch Influencer & VIP Relationships - Build and maintain direct, high-touch relationships with T3’s most important creators, tastemakers, celebrity talent, hairstylists, and cultural connectors.
• High-Touch Influencer & VIP Relationships - Maintain regular, thoughtful communication with priority talent beyond campaign moments and product launches.
• High-Touch Influencer & VIP Relationships - Ensure every important relationship has a clear strategy, history, and next step.
• High-Touch Influencer & VIP Relationships - Build T3’s reputation as a brand that is thoughtful, responsive, generous, and genuinely invested in long-term relationships.
• IRL Influencer Experiences & Relationship-Building Events - Lead the strategy and execution of high-touch influencer and VIP experiences designed to deepen relationships and create cultural relevance, including intimate dinners, founder moments, salon appointments, styling experiences, cultural events, launch previews, and VIP gatherings.
• IRL Influencer Experiences & Relationship-Building Events - Develop an annual IRL eventing roadmap tied to key launches, brand moments, cultural moments, and relationship opportunities. Identify moments to show up around major cultural moments, including fashion, beauty, entertainment, and lifestyle events where T3 can credibly participate.
• IRL Influencer Experiences & Relationship-Building Events - Partner with Brand Marketing, PR, Creative, and Events to ensure experiences are both strategically meaningful and distinctly T3.
• IRL Influencer Experiences & Relationship-Building Events - Establish clear success criteria for IRL experiences, including relationship progression, organic content, earned impact, follow-up opportunities, and long-term advocacy.
• Paid Influencer Strategy - Support paid influencer strategy for priority talent and campaign moments, in partnership with Marketing team leaders.
• Paid Influencer Strategy - Identify the right creators and talent for paid partnerships based on brand fit, audience quality, content strength, cultural relevance, and commercial potential. Ensure paid influencer investments strengthen both short-term campaign performance and long-term brand equity.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in influencer relations, VIP relations, celebrity relations, talent partnerships, PR, experiential marketing, or a closely related field.
• Strong existing relationships across hair stylist, beauty, fashion creator communities.
• Demonstrated experience building meaningful, long-term relationships with high-profile and culturally relevant creators and hair stylists.
• Experience leading paid influencer partnerships, including talent selection, negotiation, deliverables, usage rights, and partnership strategy.
• Strong experience concepting and executing IRL influencer events and elevated talent experiences.
• Excellent interpersonal instincts, judgment, discretion, and relationship nuance.
• Highly organized, with the ability to manage many relationships while maintaining a personalized approach.
• Strong cultural fluency and curiosity about emerging creators, tastemakers, hair stylists, and talent.
• Collaborative working style and ability to partner across Influencer, PR, Brand, Social, Product Marketing, Creative, Events, and Paid Media.

Preferred

• Hair styling expertise is strongly preferred.
• Prestige beauty, luxury beauty, fashion, or adjacent category experience strongly preferred.

Benefits

• Competitive benefits package
• Hybrid work environment with flexibility.
• Professional development and growth opportunities.