Creative Partnerships Manager

Responsibilities

• Identify relevant US interior designers, creatives and potential collaboration partners.
• Proactively approach and pitch potential partners.
• Build strong relationships and negotiate collaboration agreements.
• Manage multiple collaborations and external relationships simultaneously.
• Brief partners and keep concepts, feedback and approvals moving to deadline.
• Help turn sketches, references and ideas into compelling visual concepts using AI and other creative tools.
• Coordinate internal reviews and product testing.
• Communicate feedback and results clearly to partners.
• Coordinate the handover of successful concepts to the relevant internal teams.
• Track the collaboration pipeline and commercial performance.

Requirements

• Strong sales, business development or partnerships skills.
• Excellent relationship-building and communication ability.
• Strong project-management and organisational skills.
• Comfortable proactively approaching and pitching people you do not already know.
• Creative eye and ability to improve visual presentation.
• Comfortable using or learning AI image-generation and other modern creative tools.
• Commercially minded and comfortable working with targets and performance data.
• Highly proactive and able to manage many moving projects.
• Comfortable working as a hands-on individual contributor.
• Experience in furniture or interiors is useful, but not required.