Influencer & Creator Associate Partner

Location: Manchester & Remote First (with in-office collaborative days as needed)

Type: Full-Time (5 days per week)

The Opportunity

Are you deeply immersed in social and creator culture, with a passion for unlocking impactful brand partnerships?

Open Partners is looking for an Influencer & Creator Associate Partner to lead and scale the influencer and creator proposition across our client roster. Operating at the crossroads of culture, community, and commerce, you will craft innovative, creator-first strategies that drive brand fame, audience engagement and tangible business results across paid and organic channels. Joining our collaborative Social & Influencer team, you will bridge the gap between creative, paid media, PR, content and client leadership teams, turning strategic concepts into culturally brave, performance-driven creator campaigns.

Your Role & Responsibilities

You will take complete ownership of the creator campaign lifecycle, pairing commercial rigour with cultural instinct:

• End-to-End Campaign Delivery: Lead the day-to-day management of creator campaigns from initial strategy and talent discovery through to creative briefing, approvals, content delivery, paid amplification and reporting.

• Creator-First Strategy: Develop and pitch creative strategies that align seamlessly with client objectives, brand tone, and performance goals across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and emerging channels.

• Integrated Performance Amplification: Partner closely with paid social and creative teams to feed authentic creator assets directly into paid amplification engines to deliver measurable commercial impact.

• Talent Relations & Commercial Rigour: Build and nurture strong direct relationships with creators and agents, managing contract negotiations, licensing, usage rights and budgets in collaboration with legal and client teams.

• Creative Guidance & Brand Safety: Direct talent through briefings and feedback cycles to ensure exceptional creative quality, strict ASA/CAP compliance and complete brand safety.

• Cultural Relevance & Trend Scouting: Keep your finger on the pulse of internet moments, emerging formats and platform behaviours to proactively pitch agile creative opportunities to clients.

What Success Looks Like in 6 Months

• Client Trust & Partnership: You have built trusted relationships with client teams and account leads, becoming an indispensable expert in creator marketing and cultural strategy.

• Centralised Operations: You have established consistent, repeatable operational systems and frameworks for influencer briefing, contracting and campaign delivery.

• Co-Intelligent Workflows: You and your team are working co-intelligently with a HI / AI workforce, using modern platforms to elevate creator discovery, listening and reporting efficiency.

• Scalable Campaign Models: Working with the Social & Influencer Partner, you have developed scalable creator frameworks and reusable campaign models across key agency accounts.

What You'll Bring

• Proven Influencer & Social Experience: 4+ years of hands-on experience in influencer marketing, social media, or creator partnerships, ideally within an agency or creative-led environment.

• Commercial & Legal Acumen: Deep working knowledge of creator agreements, licensing terms, usage rights and advertising compliance (ASA/CAP guidelines).

• Cultural Instinct & Creative Voice: A genuine love for storytelling, social culture and trend spotting, with the confidence to deliver clear creative direction to creators and present ideas to clients.

• Integrated & Analytical Mindset: Experience collaborating across PR, paid social, and creative teams, using data, audience insights and campaign metrics to guide talent selection and iterative optimisation.

• Tool & Platform Familiarity: Practical experience with influencer discovery and campaign tools (such as CreatorIQ, Tagger, or In Da Hash) alongside social listening/CX platforms (like Sprout, Sprinklr, or Brandwatch).

Our Values & Mindset

At Open Partners, we hire mindset first. If you do not tick every single box but bring a strong growth mindset, transferable skills, and an authentic passion for this space, we want to hear from you. We hold each other to three simple standards:

Smarter: Aim high, train hard, embrace next.

Faster: Learn fast, adapt fast, act fast.

Better: Think, say and do what's best.

Ready to take creator-led marketing to the next level? Apply today!