Influencer & Partnerships Manager

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Awe Inspired Partnerships Manager plays a pivotal role within the Awe team, managing the activation of our brand architecture across key marketing tentpoles: brand collaborations and partnerships, ambassador and influencer programming and celeb seeding. With a strong emphasis on brand building and deepening our audience reach and resonance, this role will amplify our brand awareness, engagement, and conversion through innovative brand storytelling and impactful initiatives. 

This position is integral to the growth of our brand. The Partnerships Manager has both the aptitude for seamless brand communications and commands a natural elevated taste, behaving as our brand ambassador throughout all collaborations. This team member remains at the forefront of cultural, consumer, and category trends in fashion, wellness, luxury, and spirituality.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Leading the production and execution of all brand, partnership, and influencer campaigns in collaboration with the marketing team and external agencies;
• Working closely with product leads in the development of brand campaigns and all ambassador and influencer seeding in collaboration with social, merch, and fulfillment teams;
• Executing a strategic plan to rapidly scale our TikTok affiliate channel;
• Partnering with our PR agency for all product pulls, managing product loans and building relationships with celebrities and talent;
• Modeling best practices for communicating the brand, leading internal and external teams in the creation of brand forward and consumer first experiences;
• Overseeing analytics for all brand marketing, setting the go-forward partnerships, influencer, and experiential strategy including market & budget optimization. Comfortable presenting findings in weekly cross-functional team meetings;
• Managing gifting strategy and execution for any experiential supporting brand & studio partners, including branded merchandise.

QUALIFICATIONS: 

• Required: 4-6 years of experience in partnerships or influencer marketing at a luxury accessories, fashion, beauty, or wellness brand. DTC brand experience a huge plus;
• Required: a deep LA network of VIPs, fashion influencers, stylists, publicists, and peers at other brands;
• Required: fluency with influencer and creator recruiting platforms like Aspire (our current partner); 
• Organized, self-starter, collaborative, team player; 
• Social media native, fluent in fashion and wellness influencer content creation; 
• Experience managing marketing budgets;
• Deadline driven, can work under pressure and under tight deadlines;
• You’ll be working 2-3 days a week out of our Hollywood office and must live within easy commuting distance.

BENEFITS: 

• Attractive base salary 
• Generous healthcare benefits;
• 50% off all Awe products;
• Opportunity to create products that bring meaning and strength to women and minorities and supports those in need through our charity give back program;
• Trajectory and history of success at a brand that is profitable and operates in a fast-growing, highly-attractive market segment;
• Collaboration opportunity with enthusiastic founder team;
• Caring environment that values the societal impacts of its operations as much as financial gain.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER: 

Awe is an equal opportunity employer; applicants are considered for all roles without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, national origin, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, marital, parental, veteran or military status, unfavorable military discharge, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state or local law.