Senior Vice President, Influencer & Creator Strategy

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Senior Vice President, Influencer & Creator Strategy

We are seeking a Senior Vice President, Influencer & Creator Strategy to lead and scale 5W's influencer and creator practice across the agency.

This role is ideal for a seasoned influencer marketing executive with a proven track record of building award-winning creator programs for global brands, leading multi-million-dollar account portfolios, and driving meaningful agency growth. The SVP will serve as the senior-most influencer and creator strategist on assigned business, a trusted advisor to C-suite and executive clients, and a visible leader in shaping the future of the agency's influencer and creator capabilities.

The SVP will own the vision, growth, and performance of the influencer and creator practice. This includes setting strategic direction, driving new business and organic revenue growth, building and developing high-performing teams, and ensuring the agency's work consistently sets the standard for creativity, cultural relevance, and measurable business impact.

Here's what you'll be doing

Practice Leadership & Vision

• Define and drive the strategic vision, positioning, and growth roadmap for the agency's influencer and creator practice
• Establish and evolve agency-wide frameworks, playbooks, measurement standards, and best practices that elevate the quality and consistency of influencer work across all accounts
• Serve as the agency's foremost expert on the creator economy, providing thought leadership internally and externally on emerging platforms, partnership models, creator compensation trends, and cultural shifts
• Champion innovation across the practice, including emerging areas such as AI search visibility, LLM optimization, social commerce, affiliate models, and creator-led brand building, and translate these into new client offerings
• Represent the agency externally through industry panels, awards juries, press commentary, bylined content, and conference speaking opportunities
• Partner with executive agency leadership on cross-practice integration, ensuring influencer and creator strategy is embedded across PR, social, paid media, experiential, and creative offerings

Executive Client Counsel & Strategic Leadership

• Serve as senior strategic counsel to C-suite and executive-level clients across a portfolio of Fortune 500 and high-growth consumer brands
• Lead the development of large-scale, integrated influencer and creator programs spanning earned and paid creator partnerships, celebrity and talent deals, ambassador programs, always-on creator communities, and tentpole cultural moments and launch events
• Guide high-stakes talent strategy and negotiation, including celebrity partnerships, long-term ambassadorships, and complex multi-party deals involving talent agencies, media organizations, and rights holders
• Translate brand objectives, audience insights, and cultural trends into breakthrough strategies that deliver measurable business outcome

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• Sophisticated understanding of influencer measurement and analytics, with the ability to build KPI frameworks, translate performance into executive-level insights, and connect creator investment to business outcomes
• Fluency in the evolving creator economy and marketing technology landscape, including influencer platforms (e.g., CreatorIQ, Traackr, Tagger), social analytics tools, paid amplification, and emerging areas such as AI-driven search visibility and LLM brand optimization
• Experience building, managing, and developing teams of 5+ direct reports, including managers of managers, with a demonstrated commitment to mentorship and talent development
• Strong financial acumen, including budget ownership, SOW and contract development, forecasting, and profitability management
• Executive-level presentation, communication, and storytelling skills, with the presence to lead pitches, client summits, and industry appearances
• Deep cross-functional fluency, with experience integrating influencer strategy across PR, paid media, experiential, creative, and brand marketing
• An entrepreneurial, culturally attuned, and solutions-oriented mindset, with the judgment to operate independently at the highest levels of the agency and client organizations

Why you’ll love working here

• Competitive salary with comprehensive benefits & wellness programs including partnership with ClassPass!
• Flexible PTO
• Summer Fridays and Winter, Spring, and Fall Fridays too!
• Hybrid work model offering flexibility and work-life balance
• Expanded parental leave and family planning support
• Continuous learning through “5W University” and development initiatives
• Student Loan Reimbursement
• Professional Development Support
• Exclusive access to season tickets for pro sports teams along with Broadway shows, and more!
• Charitable giving, including matching donations

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