Responsibilities

• Strategy: Develop and continuously refine Later’s point of view on creator talent across categories, platforms, and cultural trends.
• Strategy: Identify emerging and high-impact creators aligned to client objectives and brand positioning.
• Strategy: Stay ahead of industry shifts, pricing trends, and platform dynamics to inform recommendations.
• Strategy: Proactively surface agile talent and culture-driven strategic opportunities, pitching to the appropriate parties in alignment with customer business needs.
• Technical/Execution: Source and secure creator talent for campaigns, balancing quality, speed, and strategic fit.
• Technical/Execution: Build and maintain strong relationships with creators, agents, and managers to unlock priority access to talent.
• Technical/Execution: Lead sourcing, negotiations, and contracting for high-tier talent, ensuring talent and agreements meet client strategy, brand safety, and compliance standards.
• Technical/Execution: Continuously improve workflows and processes to increase scalability and efficiency in talent sourcing and trend identification.
• Technical/Execution: Organize recurring touch bases with talent representatives to unlock access for the Customer Team to major talent relationships and milestones.
• Team / Collaboration: Partner with cross functional teams including SMM, Product, Strategy, Campaign Management, Research, and Creator teams, to embed a creator and culture-first approach is at the forefront of everything we are building across the org.

Requirements

• 4-5+ years of experience in influencer marketing, creator partnerships, or talent management, with a proven track record of building and scaling high-impact creator programs; agency background preferred.
• Experience working with athletes in the professional and NIL space.
• Demonstrated success in sourcing, negotiating, and managing high-profile influencer, athlete and celebrity relationships across multiple partnership models.
• Strong network of creator, agent, and manager relationships across key verticals and platforms.
• Strong strategic and analytical skills with experience managing scalable systems that improve efficiency and outcomes.
• Deep understanding of social platforms, creator economics, and cultural trends.
• Experience implementing AI and workflow to increase operational efficiencies.
• Exceptional negotiation and relationship management skills, with the ability to cultivate trust and secure competitive agreements.
• Experience collaborating cross-functionally with cross-departmental teams.
• Strong understanding of FTC guidelines, brand safety standards, and compliance requirements.

Preferred

• Agency background preferred.

Benefits

• Additionally, all permanent team members are eligible to participate in various benefits plans as part of their overall compensation package.