Associate Director, Influencer & Creator Marketing

About This Opportunity

We are representing a confidential digital marketing agency seeking an Associate Director, Influencer & Creator Marketing to provide strategic and operational leadership across a diverse portfolio of client accounts. This role combines deep influencer expertise with team leadership, quality control, and senior client counsel—ensuring programs deliver measurable business impact.

You'll serve as the go-to resource for complex strategy, campaign planning, measurement, and executive-ready storytelling. You'll also manage select enterprise-level clients, staying close enough to the work to provide senior guidance when accounts require stabilization or escalation support.

This is a remote-first opportunity within the United States, with optional office hubs available for collaboration and professional development.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic oversight and quality control across a portfolio of influencer and creator accounts, ensuring strategy, execution, measurement, and client communication meet the highest standards
• Coach and lead team members through account guidance, campaign quality assurance, and support navigating complex client and executional challenges
• Potentially directly manage team members, including performance conversations, development planning, and career pathing
• Manage a select book of enterprise-level clients directly, serving as a senior strategic partner and building trusted relationships with client stakeholders
• Lead the development of full-funnel influencer and creator strategies rooted in business objectives, audience insights, cultural relevance, and measurable KPIs
• Stay hands-on across the campaign lifecycle, guiding creator discovery and vetting, outreach, negotiation, contracting, briefing, content review, approvals, launch, optimization, and reporting
• Oversee onboarding of new accounts and major campaign workstreams, ensuring thoughtful staffing, clear processes, and smooth transitions
• Interface directly with clients on complex or escalated needs, collecting feedback, articulating value, presenting recommendations, and strengthening relationships
• Use creator, content, audience, media, and business-performance data to identify insights, optimize programs, and translate results into executive-ready stories
• Partner with paid social, creative, analytics, search, programmatic, affiliate, and other teams to integrate influencer marketing into broader plans
• Guide paid amplification and creator-content integration strategies, including usage rights, allowlisting, partnership ads, and creative testing
• Support operational and financial health of assigned accounts, including scopes, budgets, forecasting, billing inputs, and staffing
• Help evolve best practices, QA processes, measurement approaches, campaign workflows, and documentation
• Lead trainings and internal discussions, contribute to thought leadership, and participate in speaking opportunities
• Partner with sales and client-growth teams on audits, pitches, and expansion opportunities

What We're Looking For

Required Qualifications:

• 5-7 years of influencer and creator marketing experience within an agency and/or in-house environment, including hands-on ownership of complex client programs
• At least 1 year of people-management experience, with demonstrated ability to coach, develop, and motivate team members
• Deep experience developing and executing influencer strategies across awareness, consideration, conversion, retention, content production, and paid amplification objectives
• Experience leading enterprise-level programs across multiple brands, business lines, regions, or stakeholder groups
• Strong command of end-to-end campaign operations, including creator discovery, vetting, audience analysis, outreach, negotiation, contracting, usage rights, content review, FTC compliance, launch, optimization, and reporting
• Experience managing relationships with creators, talent managers, agencies, platforms, and vendors, including complex negotiations
• Strong measurement and analytical skills, including ability to establish KPIs, interpret creator and content performance, and connect program results to business objectives
• Experience with influencer marketing platforms such as CreatorIQ, GRIN, Aspire, Tagger, Fohr, or similar, plus web and social analytics tools
• Strong understanding of major and emerging platforms, including TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, Pinterest, Snapchat, LinkedIn, Reddit, Amazon, Twitch, and X
• Working knowledge of paid social and creator media integration, including allowlisting, partnership ads, paid usage, content testing, and performance optimization
• Excellent client-service, presentation, and executive communication skills
• Strong project-management and organizational skills with ability to prioritize competing needs
• Experience contributing to account growth, scope development, strategic audits, and/or new-business pitches
• Strong working knowledge of Google Workspace, Excel or Google Sheets, Google Slides, Asana, or similar tools
• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Advertising, Public Relations, Business, or related discipline, or equivalent practical experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with creator-led commerce, affiliate programs, TikTok Shop, Amazon, or other social-commerce ecosystems
• Experience integrating influencer marketing with experiential, brand creative, performance creative, retail media, lifecycle/email, SEO, or cross-channel planning
• Working knowledge of advanced measurement approaches such as brand lift, conversion lift, incrementality testing, or media-mix analysis
• Experience with UGC production, creator content systems, and iterative creative testing for paid media
• Experience using AI-enabled research, workflow, reporting, or creative-analysis tools
• Experience leading programs in regulated industries or across multiple markets with nuanced compliance requirements

Important Note: This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.

How We Work with You

Our talent team at Get A Job.ai partners with leading organizations to connect exceptional candidates with career-defining opportunities. When you apply through our platform:

• A dedicated recruiter will review your application and screen qualified candidates
• We'll prepare and submit your profile to our client for consideration
• We'll guide you through each stage of the interview process
• Please do not contact the client directly—all communication should flow through Get A Job.ai to ensure the best candidate experience

Pay

The anticipated annual salary range for this role is $92,000–$100,000, based on consideration of skill set, years and depth of experience, education, certifications, competitive benchmarks, scope of responsibility, market dynamics, and geographic location.

Our client offers a comprehensive benefits package including remote-first culture, unlimited PTO, extended holiday break, flexible schedules, work-from-anywhere options, 100% paid parental leave, 401(k) matching, medical/dental/vision/life/pet insurance, short-term disability insurance, annual wellness credits, and more.

Equal Opportunity

Get A Job.ai is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment. We are an equal opportunity employer and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, family or parental status, disability, age, veteran status, or any other protected status. We believe that diverse perspectives make us stronger and drive better outcomes for the clients and candidates we serve.