Account Director, Influencer Strategy

About the role

Weber Shandwick is more than a leading global PR agency - we're an engagement agency and we're working in and around the cutting edge of the new media landscape. We're storytellers, content creators, and we engage people IN the story. Our success is built on a deep commitment to client service and to our people. We embrace creativity and collaboration, and we engage stakeholders in new and creative ways to build brands and reputations. Account Director, Influencer Strategy

Responsibilities

• Build social influencer strategies cross-functionally to align strategic efforts and priorities, and able to develop strategic outputs with little to no oversight. Collaborate closely with strategy, creative, paid and larger integrated agency teams to deliver program initiatives.
• Effectively knows how to drive an influencer marketing program forward and manage a team to ensure influencer contracts are negotiated and content is delivered swiftly and on time.
• Lead end-to-end influencer procurement process from influencer recommendations, content reviews, content posting and reporting
• Maintains strong connections with talent and management agencies to ensure quality relationships, reliability and quick turn asks.
• Spearhead high profile activations and campaigns for some of our top tech, consumer, and CPG clients.
• Provide expert counsel to clients and colleagues on social/digital/influencer best practices
• Lead a high-performing team; mentor and develop junior team members

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience, preferably within an agency environment
• Is comfortable working in a team setting, is not an independent contributor.
• Strong understanding of the overall media and social landscape, with an emphasis on digital experience
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills, with ability to develop relationships with influencers, creators, agencies, and other partners.
• Deep expertise in managing influencer programs
• Strong knowledge of social platforms, including paid amplification and campaign optimization
• Strong understanding of marketing funnel analytics & KPIs
• Familiarity with a broad set of social, media and influencer analytics tools
• Detail-oriented, multi-tasker with excellent time-management skills
• Strong written, verbal communication, negotiation and presentation skills
• Experience leading a team is an asset
• Bonus if you have experience in the B2B and LinkedIn influencer space
• Is this you?
• Have high cultural competencies: Understand the role and importance of diversity, equity & inclusion (DE&I) You must be culturally vigilant with the ability to understand, communicate with and effectively interact with people across cultures.
• Be ready to lead at any moment: working with your leads, you will learn to "step up to the plate" and lead effectively in the client's and agency's best interests while also helping to cultivate, mentor and coach mid to junior staff members on the influencer team.
• Hustle: identify influencer opportunities (organic or new) to ensure influencer marketing continues to be a strong marketing discipline and revenue driver on your assigned account or at Weber Shandwick.
• Think like a lawyer: you understand how important it is to be in compliance with best practices (FTC updates, platform requirements), continuously build our excellence by partnering with DXTRA legal and finance to ensure risk and liabilities are reduced and tamed for every campaign you touch.
• Have experience building engaged audiences: on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, Clubhouse and other distribution platforms.
• Know how to build a story: you will bu

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