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Freelancer Account Director, Influencer

New York, New York, United States

 

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Weber Shandwick is more than a leading global PR agency – we’re an engagement agency and we’re working in and around the cutting edge of the new media landscape. We’re storytellers, content creators, and we engage people IN the story. Our success is built on a deep commitment to client service and to our people. We embrace creativity and collaboration, and we engage stakeholders in new and creative ways to build brands and reputations.

Account Director, Influencer Strategy

Responsibilities:

  • Build social influencer strategies cross-functionally to align strategic efforts and priorities, and able to develop strategic outputs with little to no oversight
  • Collaborate closely with strategy, creative, paid and larger integrated agency teams to deliver program initiatives
  • Effectively knows how to drive an influencer marketing program forward and manage a team to ensure influencer contracts are negotiated and content is delivered swiftly and on time
  • Lead end-to-end influencer procurement process from influencer recommendations, content reviews, content posting and reporting
  • Maintains strong connections with talent and management agencies to ensure quality relationships, reliability and quick turn asks
  • Spearhead high profile activations and campaigns for some of our top tech, consumer, and CPG clients
  • Provide expert counsel to clients and colleagues on social/digital/influencer best practices
  • Lead a high-performing team; mentor and develop junior team members

Qualifications:

  • 8+ years of experience, preferably within an agency environment
  • Is comfortable working in a team setting, is not an independent contributor
  • Strong understanding of the overall media and social landscape, with an emphasis on digital experience
  • Excellent communication and negotiation skills, with ability to develop relationships with influencers, creators, agencies, and other partners
  • Deep expertise in managing influencer programs
  • Strong knowledge of social platforms, including paid amplification and campaign optimization
  • Strong understanding of marketing funnel analytics & KPIs
  • Familiarity with a broad set of social, media and influencer analytics tools
  • Detail-oriented, multi-tasker with excellent time-management skills
  • Strong written, verbal communication, negotiation and presentation skills
  • Experience leading a team is an asset
  • Bonus if you have experience in the B2B and LinkedIn influencer space

Is this you?

Be a driver of culture: Must have true passion and understanding of pop culture and are part of the community (be it music, gaming, fashion, food, internet culture, etc) This job is the intersection of creative, strategy, marketing, technology, content creation and production; your energy must be driven by your lifestyle. You must influence creative ideations: from the ideas presented, to the influencers selected, to the content created, all the way down to the language used in post copy.

Have high cultural competencies: Understand the role and importance of diversity, equity & inclusion (DE&I) You must be culturally vigilant with the ability to understand, communicate with and effectively interact with people across cultures. 

Have “Gravitas” in the influencer space and skin-in-the-game:  Deep understanding of the influencer landscape is required. Proven ability to build, speak and grow relationships with change agents and cultural makers (celebrities, influencers, artists, thought leaders) directly or via their agents. You must be open to a public-facing role; willingness to speak publicly about influencer trends when opportunities present itself to the WS Influencer Team.

Know how to identify and manage diverse vendors and partners: in an industry where technologies (saas platforms, AI, managed services, etc) are popping on the daily, at high volume, no less, you must have experience working with RFPs and meeting with leading tech companies to understand their services and identify their uniqueness (and keep up with their ongoing changes in our WS influencer database)

Be ready to lead at any moment: working with your leads, you will learn to “step up to the plate” and lead effectively in the client’s and agency’s best interests while also helping to cultivate, mentor and coach mid to junior staff members on the influencer team.

Hustle: identify influencer opportunities (organic or new) to ensure influencer marketing continues to be a strong marketing discipline and revenue driver on your assigned account or at Weber Shandwick.

Think like a lawyer: you understand how important it is to be in compliance with best practices (FTC updates, platform requirements), continuously build our excellence by

partnering with DXTRA legal and finance to ensure risk and liabilities are reduced and tamed for every campaign you touch.

Have experience building engaged audiences: on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, Clubhouse and other distribution platforms.

Know how to build a story: you will build client presentations that tell smart, compelling stories, never “rinse and repeat” which requires you to be highly motivated, energetically-charged and inspired at all times.

Be curious, always: You are willing to learn a little bit of everything, and open to take on anything.

Hourly range: $100 USD - $125 USD

Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position; market considerations; budgetary considerations; tenure and standing with the company (applicable to current employees); as well as the employee’s/applicant’s background, pertinent experience, and qualifications.

Weber Shandwick is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Weber Shandwick recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, protected veteran status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or citizenship status.

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