Associate Director of Creator Marketing

You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely - even if they're daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love - driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together - lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the #VTeamLife.

The Associate Director of Creator Marketing will be responsible for building, developing, and executing an industry-leading creator/influencer approach for Verizon, one of the industry's most prominent marketers. As an experienced expert in the fast-moving creator/influencer space, you'll be a driving force as part of Verizon's marketing transformation, tasked with putting creators at the center of the brand's marketing and content mix, developing long-term creator relationships/partnerships, and demonstrating and evangelizing the effectiveness of our creator program and the business and brand results we're able to deliver.

We're on the lookout for someone with a proven track record of building and executing holistic, full-funnel creator strategies and activations for major brands with a diversity of objectives, products, and business objectives. This leader is equal parts an expert in the creator/influencer space, a thought leader in the changing dynamics on where this space is going, and a deeply strategic and creative marketer, with a keen ability to bring creators to the center of a brand's integrated marketing campaign.

This role is a unique opportunity to lead a new discipline transforming a major brand's marketing approach, and will be directly responsible for:

• Defining Verizon's overall influencer marketing strategy and building the core principles, systems, workflows, and practices to execute industry-leading creator partnerships and campaigns integrated across Verizon's marketing ecosystem.

• Partnering with Verizon teammates, our influencer agency, and creators themselves to develop breakthrough creative concepts that drive brand and business results.

• Developing strategy and operations necessary for creator content to fuel Verizon's holistic content ecosystem, powering paid, owned, and ATL channels with engaging creator content.

• Leading a team of Creator Strategists, developing and executing 100's of influencer marketing campaigns for dedicated Verizon brand and business initiatives informed by campaign goals and target audiences.

• Collaborating closely and effectively across brand social, marketing activation, media, analytics teams to bring the influencer strategy and individual campaign executions to life as part of larger omnichannel campaigns.

• Building relationships with cross-functional leaders and ensure regular communication and alignment on influencer/creator marketing efforts.

• Overseeing relationship with Verizon's influencer agency-of-record to effectively and continuously push breakthrough creative work and innovative strategic initiatives.

• Developing our approach in partnership with our agencies and internal measurement teams to effectively track, analyze, and report social and influencer KPIs as part of our larger measurement stack - turning data into insights and continually making optimizations that improve performance and efficiency.

• Allocating time and resources effectively across strategists on your team and our agency partners to maximize ROI across all initiatives, and ensure consistency in execution against our strategic imperatives.

• Continuously surfacing, educating, and inspiring Verizon's marketing organization with the latest trends, competitive intelligence, and creator perspectives to increase the creator marketing fluency of our entire organization.

You'll need to have:

• Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.

• Eight or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.

• Direct experience in influencer marketing at a creative/creator/social agency, client, platform or talent agency.

• Experience building a brand's creator/influencer marketing practice from the ground-up, or transforming a nascent creator/influencer marketing practice.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Bachelor's degree in a related field.

• Experience with building and managing influencer and social marketing programs in fast-paced environments for blue-chip brands.

• Strong leadership skills, ability to balance multiple projects in a fast-paced environment, and experience building and managing a team.

• Expertise in the influencer marketing tech stack and key software to enable brands to efficiently manage and scale an effective influencer practice.

• Strong knowledge in affiliate marketing and connecting brands with creators to measurably drive sales conversion.

• Proven track record of managing successful social/digital campaigns across social platforms (Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Twitter).

• Experience in social media judgment (e.g., knowing what to post and when to post it).

• Knowledge with optimizing content on specific social media platforms to drive engagement.

• Ability to craft strategic POVs on industry-related topics in an ever-changing media landscape, and deliver them clearly and concisely.

• Sound business and professional ethics.

• Shows confidence in front of an audience; ability to be the 'center of the room'.

• Ability to accomplish work independently with minimal guidance.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every "even better" qualification listed above.

Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to veteran status, disability or other legally protected characteristics.

Our benefits are designed to help you move forward in your career, and in areas of your life outside of Verizon. From health and wellness benefit options including: medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, AD&D insurance, identity theft protection, pet insurance and group home & auto insurance. We also offer a matched 401(k) savings plan, stock incentive programs, up to 8 company paid holidays per year and up to 6 personal days per year, parental leave, adoption assistance and tuition assistance, plus other incentives, we've got you covered with our award-winning total rewards package. Depending on the role, employees have the opportunity to receive compensation in the form of premium pay such as overtime, shift differential, holiday pay, allowances, etc. Newly hired employees receive up to 15 days of vacation per year, which grows with additional service. For part-timers, your coverage will vary as you may be eligible for some of these benefits depending on your individual circumstances.