EMEA Influencer Lead / Director

VaynerX

VaynerX is a family of companies building brands for the now. Founded by Chairman Gary Vaynerchuk in January 2017, the modern-day parent company is home to relevance-driving businesses including VaynerMedia, ChukMedia, Tamara Group, Gallery Media Group, Tingley Lane Trading, and VaynerSpeakers.

ABOUT VAYNERMEDIA

VaynerMedia is a global integrated creative and media agency, built for today's consumers. As the Modern Agency of Record, it understands the nuances of today's attention landscape, empowering brands to win attention, drive relevance, and deliver business results. Founded in 2009, by Gary Vaynerchuk, the independently owned agency operates in 15 offices worldwide, including Amsterdam, Bangkok, Chicago, New Delhi, Kuala Lumpur, London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Miami, New York, Tokyo, Toronto, Singapore, and Sydney. VaynerMedia is part of the VaynerX family of companies. 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• In coordination with global leadership, set the strategy for Creator and Influencer services and products across EMEA
• Establish our “C” (External Creator) capabilities, ensuring we have a sustainable and effective external creator process to fuel a variety of categories and countries
• Build our “I” (Influencer) POV and capabilities, ensuring we’re able to identify areas of value we can bring to clients in the Influencer space built around our unique access and digital expertise
• Oversee quality of work across services, ensuring we’re delivering at high levels of quality
• Coordinate with cross-departmental leads to ensure CAIT services are efficiently structured within our core day to day services across creative, media, and strategy
• Manage a small but growing team at delivering creator and influencer services across a diverse portfolio of clients spanning EMEA
• When relevant, work with recruiting team to identify the right talent to bring into the team based on upcoming needs
• Coordinate with centralised resourcing to ensure workloads are managed and balanced among team members
• Lead the development of proposals and scoping for CAIT related services whether stand-alone or tied into an integrated workstream
• Operate as a partner to our clients, helping identify how our CAIT services can deliver against their business needs and explain our logic in a clear and persuasive manner
• Where needed, support on-the-ground execution of campaigns when priority or bandwidth necessitates

EXPERIENCE

• 10+ years working in creator, influencer, and/or talent services
• Track record of managing creator-driven campaigns
• Experience managing a team
• Experience creating and delivering compelling client-facing materials

More context notes 

• Able to lean into the external creator landscape and understand the impact it can drive
• Strong grasp of influencer marketing as a relationship-driven channel, with the energy to bring in creative talent (not necessarily famous, but high quality and authentic)
• Excellent personality fit with strong soft skills
• Standalone role with responsibility for managing and growing a small team focused on the external creator network
• Comfortable handling day-to-day execution, but with an operational mindset and the ability to think strategically across EMEA
• Focused on finding solutions and making things happen, rather than just executing tasks
• Experience working within a managed service model for influencer marketing
• Hands-on approach with the ability to deliver, communicate effectively, and confidently engage with clients
• Strong understanding of how influencer marketing can drive growth for both clients and the business
• Enjoys working across both agency and client sides, acting as a bridge between brands and creators
• Proven experience working with both brands and agencies
• Excited by the opportunity to step up, grow, and push boundaries
• Ability to run operations across agency/brand-side influencer and affiliate execution
• Skilled at managing the complexity of multiple campaigns, stakeholders, and talent simultaneously

VaynerMedia is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This means that VaynerMedia provides equal employment opportunities to all staff members and job applicants without regard to gender, pregnancy, marital or civil partnership status, gender reassignment, race, disability, sexual orientation, religious belief, part time or fixed term employment, age or any other legally protected class. 

Candidates must be authorised to work in the U.K.