The Role
The VP, Talent + Influencer will lead the Talent Services and Influencer Partnerships at DMM, drive innovative marketing strategies, mentor teams, and collaborate with clients to secure new business.
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Digital Media Management (DMM), a Keywords Studios company, is a full-service social media agency that specializes in 360 campaigns for the entertainment, games, and consumer brands industries. DMM creates groundbreaking social-first marketing campaigns rooted in innovative strategy, and provides clients with community management, creative, video production, influencer, talent, and performance marketing capabilities.
We are currently seeking a VP, Talent + Influencer in our Los Angeles office to join our expanding leadership team. This role is responsible for overseeing and uniting two key pillars of DMM services: Talent Services and Influencer Partnerships. The VP, Talent + Influencer will act as a senior thought leader on the DMM Senior Leadership team - collaborating across departments, creating strategic partnerships with our roster of clients and helping develop and evolve the Talent & Influencer solutions.
Successful candidates must have eight to ten years of experience in the social media space.
Your Impact
- Bring a deep knowledge and understanding of social marketing across landscape and industry with particular focus in Entertainment, Gaming and Sports
- Act as a strategic thinker, understanding Talent and Influencer's intrinsic and measurable value while knowing how to seamlessly weave that value into campaigns and pitches
- Ability to evangelize these services and sell value to clients in person and within pitches
- Entrepreneurial mindset with passion for creating, packaging and selling innovations within the services
- Strong grasp of creator economy, pricing & negotiations
- Contacts and ties to Hollywood agencies, management, PR and film/tv studios
- Experience building and running teams with proof of cost optimizations and evolution
- Own the roster of Talent clients acting as executive oversight and mentorship to teams that lead the day to day work
- Lead a team of social content producers and influencer experts, building best-in-class campaigns that drive success
- Work with client leads and Strategy team at DMM to build winning pitches for incoming RFPs to secure new business for various departments
- Act as a senior thought leader and stakeholder at DMM, collaborating across the senior leadership team to infuse innovation, education, and experience that elevates and evolves DMM’s client solutions
- Act as an executive level strategic partner for clients to devise and implement new and novel strategic opportunities
- Digests and analyzes social media insights and data to make informed strategic decisions
Your Experience
- 8-10 Years of experience in the social media and digital space
- Own an expert level understanding of talent and influencer marketing with vision to push and evolve the ways they work for clients
- Ability to manage senior team members, providing guidance and growth
- Ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment
- Strong presentation and/or public speaking skills
- Advanced proficiency in building decks via Google Slides or other programs
- Knowledge of the entertainment landscape in some form: Games, TV, Film, Podcast, Brand etc.
- Experience working with Video Games is a plus
- Ability to collaborate and work as part of a team
Availability
- M-F: 9am-6pm PST
Company culture you ask? Our company culture is casual, fun, and empowering. There is a lot of room for growth in this role! That’s right, no glass ceiling and room to learn.
Digital Media Management is an equal opportunity employer. We work together to create a space that fosters diversity and inclusion across race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, disability, age, national origin, and veteran status. Our diversity strategy is simple: grow a team of creative, innovative, passionate people from varied backgrounds to produce best-in-class digital campaigns.
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What We Do
Digital Media Management is a full-service agency dedicated to managing high-profile individuals, brands and theatrical movies across all digital platforms. Drawing from years of experience in technology, media and business, our Digital Managers enable our clients to effectively navigate the digital space and exponentially increase their reach and influence.
