Executive Director, Brand Partnerships (UK)

Job description

Who are we? Influencer is a global creator marketing agency on a mission to shape the future of marketing by humanizing brands. By placing creators at the center, the agency delivers creator-first solutions across creative, media, and commerce that connect brands with audiences through insight-driven creator campaigns built to stop the scroll and drive measurable impact. Founded in 2015 by YouTuber-turned-entrepreneur Caspar Lee and entrepreneur Ben Jeffries, Influencer is the world’s largest independent creator marketing agency - powered by a unique ecosystem of proprietary technology, platform partnerships, and longstanding talent relationships. As an Official Global Marketing Partner of TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest, Snap, Meta, and Twitch, Influencer delivers bespoke, enterprise-level solutions powered by Waves, its AI-driven operating system. From concept to conversion, the agency blends human instinct with platform intelligence to drive measurable outcomes across the full funnel - from brand perception to performance and sales. With 200+ team members speaking 30 languages across North America, Europe, and the Middle East, Influencer has delivered 6,000+ campaigns for leading brands including Spotify, SharkNinja, Google, Nike, Disney, and Coca-Cola. Job title Executive Director, Brand Partnerships (UK) Reporting of the role This role reports to Group Director, Brand Partnerships Overview of the job As Executive Director, Brand Partnerships, you will act as the commercial lead across a defined set of verticals within the UK business. This role is responsible for driving commercial growth across your sectors through client retention, client growth, partner revenue, and new business acquisition. You will own opportunities from initial relationship development and outreach through to pitching, negotiation, and commercial progression. You will work closely with Client Services leadership and wider cross-functional teams to ensure opportunities are onboarded sustainably, scoped responsibly, and positioned for long-term success. This role is ideal for a highly commercial and entrepreneurial individual with strong growth instincts, excellent relationship management skills, and the ambition to progress into broader leadership responsibilities over time. Roles & responsibilities: Own commercial growth across defined verticals, delivering against revenue targets through client retention, client growth, partner revenue, and new business acquisition. Act as the commercial lead across your designated sectors, building Influencer’s visibility, reputation, and relationships within those markets. Build and maintain strong senior relationships across clients, platforms, agencies, and partners within your sectors. Develop and maintain clear commercial and relationship growth plans across all key clients and partners within your verticals, identifying opportunities for retention, expansion, upsell, and long-term strategic growth. Identify, develop, and convert new business opportunities through proactive outreach, networking, relationship development, and strategic prospecting. Lead commercial conversations, negotiations, pitches, and proposal development across opportunities within your verticals. Maintain strong pipeline visibility, forecasting accuracy, and opportunity management across your sectors. Work collaboratively with Client Services leadership to ensure opportunities are scoped responsibly and aligned with operational capability and delivery quality. Partner closely with Strategy, Measurement, Media, Product, and Creative teams to develop compelling and commercially viable solutions for clients. Support the growth and visibility of Influencer within your sectors through market knowledge, relationship-building, and external representation. Maintain strong understanding of changes across creator marketing, platforms, media, technology, and the wider industry landscape. Contribute positively to the wider commercial culture of the business through collaboration, mentorship, and leadership presence. What you will need: Strong commercial experience within influencer marketing, media, advertising, social, technology, or integrated agency environments. Proven track record driving revenue growth and developing senior client relationships. Strong pitching, negotiation, and commercial storytelling skills. Experience managing pipelines, forecasting, and opportunity progression. Entrepreneurial mindset with strong commercial instincts and growth focus. Strong understanding of influencer marketing, creator ecosystems, and platform trends. Excellent communication, relationship-building, and stakeholder management skills. Highly motivated, collaborative, and commercially driven approach. Ambition and capability to grow into broader leadership responsibilities over time. A few of our core benefits: Private Healthcare through Vitality Wellbeing support through Vitality including EAP & Mental Health cover 25 days of Annual Leave (+ Bank Holidays which can be flexed to your needs) For more information on our benefits, perks and what makes us unique, please visit our website here At Influencer, we’re committed to cultivating an environment that promotes diversity, equity and inclusion. We promote DEI in our workplace and are a global community who believe our unique qualities should be celebrated. We want everyone at Influencer to bring their authentic selves to work everyday, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We are committed to embedding Diversity, Equity & Inclusion into everything we do at Influencer, making it part of our culture. All we ask is that you have a passion for Influencer Marketing and a desire to be a part of one of the fastest growing companies within this exciting industry.