SHADOW is seeking a diligent and charismatic Manager for its growing Influencer Division. The ideal candidate must have 3-6 years of agency or in-house experience working on talent and influencer-based initiatives, and possess excellent relationships with talent, managers, agents, stylists, and assistants.
What You Bring:
- Relationships: You have rich relationships with talent, influencers, managers, agents, stylists and assistants.
- Operational Experience: You have direct experience in talent booking and contract negotiation. (Bonus consideration for those with experience dressing talent.)
- Dynamic Approach: You can perform seamlessly within a fast-paced, multi-priority setting, and galvanize the team beneath you to deliver under the same set of conditions.
- Social media fluency: Extensive experience working across all social media platforms, with an obvious passion for the entertainment industry and pop culture.
What You Do:
- Strategy: Develop celebrity and influencer strategies for SHADOW’s full client roster, thoughtfully tailoring each strategy to the unique needs and market position of that particular brand.
- Execute: You carry out your strategies to fruition, ideating, pitching, selling-in and executing influencer and brand ambassador campaigns. You negotiate deals autonomously.
- Measure Success: You always track and deliver results
- Manage: You are mentoring and managing a junior team within the influencer division, but you are also working closely with account teams across the agency. You must know how to delegate, manage and inspire teams agency-wide.
- Relationship Building: You are expected to continue cultivating relationships with talent, influencers, managers, agents, stylists and assistants.
A quick note: This job description is meant to provide an overview of the role and its core responsibilities, but it’s not a complete list of everything the position may involve. As our teams and business continue to grow, responsibilities may shift and evolve based on company and client needs.
Annual Compensation
$75K - $95K (commensurate with experience)
What We Provide:
- Medical + dental + vision insurance
- Generous PTO and paid holidays
- Dedicated mental health days
- Unlimited sick time
- Give Back. We want SHADOWs to extend their hearts and give back to their various communities and interests, on the clock! We offer 40 hours of paid VTO annually (voluntary time off)
- 401(k) retirement plan with matching
- Pre-tax commuter and healthcare benefits
- 12 weeks paid leave for new parents
- Individualized career mapping
- Summer Fridays (early close Fridays Memorial Day - Labor Day)
- Hybrid work schedule (1-3 days in office per week, depending on role)
While SHADOW intends to maintain these employee benefits, the Company reserves the right to modify, amend or terminate these benefits at any time and for any reason.
Additional Information
SHADOW promotes a diverse and high performing company culture. SHADOW is dedicated to providing equal opportunities to all qualified persons, and to recruit, hire, train, promote, and compensate persons in all jobs without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or sexual orientation.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Skills Required
- 3-6 years agency or in-house experience working on talent and influencer initiatives
- Established relationships with talent, influencers, managers, agents, stylists, and assistants
- Direct experience in talent booking and contract negotiation
- Ability to ideate, pitch, sell-in and execute influencer and brand ambassador campaigns autonomously
- Experience mentoring and managing junior staff and collaborating with cross-agency teams
- Proven ability to track, measure, and report campaign results
- Fluency and extensive experience across social media platforms and passion for entertainment/pop culture
- Experience dressing talent
- Ability to perform in fast-paced, multi-priority settings and delegate effectively
What We Do
SHADOW is a creative marketing and communications agency with integrated disciplines across media relations, influencer marketing, experiential and event production, social media management and content development. Using these services, we shape insights and ideas into stories, animate stories into moments and engineer moments into movements. We are also connectors – we create inter-client synergies to maximize opportunity as well as leverage industry relationships for introductions, partnerships, business development and more. With a robust portfolio of brand campaigns, cross-categorical experience, and a deep rolodex of industry relationships, we have captured the loyalty of some of the world’s most prestigious companies, including luxury and lifestyle brands, retailers, tech start-ups, publishers, personalities, non-profit organizations and hospitality groups. We are a New York-based agency, with a west coast presence made possible through our SHADOWest suite of services.
