Affiliate & Creator Partnership Lead

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Guide, mentor, and enhance the Creative Talent Management team

• Establish performance standards, clarify roles, and ensure team accountability

• Conduct individual meetings, performance assessments, and developmental discussions

• Offer constructive feedback and handle challenging conversations, conflicts, and underperformance issues

• Create improvement plans and track measurable advancements

• Recognize skill deficiencies and deliver coaching and training

• Assist with recruitment, onboarding, and the integration of new team members

• Manage team performance in relation to KPIs, service-level agreements, quality benchmarks, and delivery goals

• Supervise productivity, health of the talent pipeline, turnaround times, talent quality, and stakeholder satisfaction

• Detect performance issues and take corrective measures

• Direct the sourcing, screening, vetting, onboarding, and coordination of talent

• Develop and enhance workflows, SOPs, and quality benchmarks

• Oversee workload allocation, team capacity, and project priorities

• Ensure quality assurance for talent submissions and creative outputs

• Keep precise talent databases, pipeline trackers, and performance documentation

• Identify operational constraints and implement scalable, data-driven solutions

• Anticipate talent requirements and set hiring and sourcing priorities in collaboration with Creative Leadership and stakeholders

• Lead talent capacity planning and convert business needs into talent strategies

• Provide updates on team performance, talent availability, pipeline deficiencies, capacity limitations, and delivery risks

• Address escalations related to talent quality, availability, performance, and delivery schedules

• Cultivate relationships with creative talent networks and sourcing partners

• Stay updated on trends in the creative industry, sourcing platforms, and emerging methodologies

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in creative talent management, talent acquisition, creative recruitment, or a similar role

• A minimum of 2 years in direct people management

• Proven success in developing team members, managing underperformance, and enhancing individual and team outcomes

• Experience in establishing and overseeing KPIs, tracking results, and executing corrective actions or performance improvement strategies

• Strong knowledge of creative talent sourcing, screening, vetting, onboarding, and freelance talent management

• Background in supporting creative, marketing, advertising, content production, or other project-based talent requirements

• Experience in refining workflows, documenting SOPs, and creating scalable operational procedures

• Capability to utilize performance data for assessing team productivity, identifying bottlenecks, and making operational choices

• Proficient in spreadsheets and tools for managing talent pipelines, team performance, and operational workflows

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Experience with UGC creators, performance creative teams, influencer marketing, or direct-to-consumer brands is a plus

• Familiarity with freelance and project-based creative talent management is an advantage

• Knowledge of Casting Networks, Billo, Fiverr, and Upwork is a plus

• Experience in leading remote or distributed teams is beneficial

• Established connections within the creative, advertising, or content creation sectors are advantageous

• Fluent or advanced proficiency in English communication

• Willingness and ability to adhere to a schedule aligned with US Eastern Time, including overnight hours when necessary

• Comfortable working under an Independent Contractor Service Agreement

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote work opportunity

• Professional development prospects

• Collaborate with seasoned professionals in creative, performance marketing, and operations

• Chance to lead and cultivate a team focused on creative production and performance marketing

• Opportunity to develop scalable talent management systems and processes

• Independent contractor arrangement