人才合作经理
Manager, Talent Partnerships
Later 是全球最智能的影响力营销公司，致力于让品牌在打造难忘营销活动时充满信心。通过结合真实的创作者关系、可信赖的洞察力和专业指导，Later 消除了营销中最显眼的投资中的恐惧和猜测。
基于原生 AI 驱动的平台和超过十年的专有数据——包括数十亿次社交媒体互动、展示次数以及超过 24 亿美元的经验证的影响力驱动购买——Later 帮助团队在启动前了解哪些策略会奏效。
通过将可信的洞察与专业指导相结合，Later 消除了影响力营销中的猜测，使品牌能够选择合适的创作者，执行全面管理的活动，并在知名度、参与度和收入方面推动有意义的增长。Nike、Wayfair、联合利华和西南航空等领先企业都信任 Later，它将创意与绩效结合起来，使活动不仅看起来出色，还能带来实际成果。了解更多请访问 later.com。
关于该职位：
作为人才合作经理，你将负责并推动 Later 如何识别、接触和激活各活动中的顶级创作者人才。你将负责构建一个一流的创作者生态系统——这个系统能让我们的客户更快地接触到合适的创作者，解锁高端合作，并使 Later 区别于其他竞争对手。
这既是一个战略性的角色，也是一个执行性的角色。你将塑造我们对人才的看法——谁重要，为什么重要，品牌应该如何与他们合作——同时也要领导日常的人才挖掘、谈判和关系管理，以实现活动的落地。你将利用你在代理机构中广泛而多样化的关系，确保我们的客户能够接触到高端人才，同时在活动中推动效率和影响力。
你将与策略、客户服务和销售团队紧密合作，确保人才不是事后考虑的问题，而是我们所构建的每个项目的核心杠杆。同时，你将在创作者和管理领域建立深厚的关系，将 Later 定位为高价值人才及其代表的首选合作伙伴。
你将从事的工作：
策略
- 制定并持续优化 Later 在各类别、平台和文化趋势上的创作者人才观点。
- 识别与客户目标和品牌定位一致的新兴和高影响力创作者。
- 跟踪行业变化、价格趋势和平台动态。
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Later is the world’s most intelligent influencer marketing company, built to give brands the confidence to create unforgettable campaigns. By combining real creator relationships, trusted intelligence, and expert guidance, Later removes fear and guesswork from one of marketing’s most visible investments.
Built on a native, AI-powered platform and more than a decade of proprietary data—including billions of social interactions, impressions, and $2.4B+ in verified influencer-driven purchases—Later helps teams understand what will work before they launch.
By combining trusted insight with expert guidance, Later removes guesswork from influencer marketing, enabling brands to choose the right creators, execute fully managed campaigns, and drive meaningful growth across awareness, engagement, and revenue. Trusted by leading enterprise brands including Nike, Wayfair, Unilever, and Southwest Airlines, Later bridges creativity and performance so campaigns don’t just look good—they deliver results. Learn more at later.com.
About this position:
As Manager, Talent Partnerships, you will own and evolve how Later identifies, engages, and activates top-tier creator talent across campaigns. You’ll be responsible for building a best-in-class talent ecosystem—one that gives our clients access to the right creators faster, unlocks premium partnerships, and differentiates Later.
This is both a strategic and executional role. You’ll shape our point of view on talent—who matters, why they matter, and how brands should work with them—while also leading the day-to-day sourcing, negotiation, and relationship management that brings campaigns to life. You will bring to Later your vast and diverse relationships with agencies, ensuring our clients gain access to premium talent while driving efficiencies and impact across campaigns.
You’ll partner closely with Strategy, Client Services, and Sales to ensure talent is not an afterthought, but a core lever in every program we build. At the same time, you’ll cultivate deep relationships across the creator and management landscape, positioning Later as a preferred partner for high-value talent and their representatives.
What you'll be doing:
Strategy
- Develop and continuously refine Later’s point of view on creator talent across categories, platforms, and cultural trends.
- Identify emerging and high-impact creators aligned to client objectives and brand positioning.
- Stay ahead of industry shifts, pricing trends, and platform dynamics to inform recommendations.
- Proactively surface agile talent and culture-driven strategic opportunities, pitching to the appropriate parties in alignment with customer business needs.
Technical/ Execution
- Source and secure creator talent for campaigns, balancing quality, speed, and strategic fit.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with creators, agents, and managers to unlock priority access to talent.
- Lead sourcing, negotiations, and contracting for high-tier talent, ensuring talent and agreements meet client strategy, brand safety, and compliance standards.
- Continuously improve workflows and processes to increase scalability and efficiency in talent sourcing and trend identification.
- Organize recurring touch bases with talent representatives to unlock access for the Customer Team to major talent relationships and milestones.
Team / Collaboration
- Partner with cross functional teams including SMM, Product, Strategy, Campaign Management, Research, and Creator teams, to embed a creator and culture-first approach is at the forefront of everything we are building across the org.
- Partner with cross functional teams to ensure a seamless campaign execution and service evolution.
- Contribute to pitches and client conversations with a strong, informed POV on talent recommendations.
Leadership
- Act as the internal expert on creator talent, when working with internal teams. Advise on best practices when working with different tiers or types of talent.
- Build and strengthen Later’s reputation within the talent ecosystem through consistent, high-quality partnerships.
- Champion operational excellence and hold a high bar for performance across the Services team.
Research/Best Practices
- Stay ahead of platform shifts, monetization models, and compliance regulations (FTC, platform-specific rules).
- Continuously benchmark industry best practices and apply insights to evolve Later’s talent partnership approach.
- Experiment with new systems, processes, and partnership models to test-and-learn at scale.
What success looks like:
- Upholds high operational excellence, leading the organization of ongoing casting and trend-identification efforts.
- Builds and maintains a differentiated network of creators and representatives that provides a competitive advantage.
- Drives measurable impact on campaign success, client retention, and revenue growth.
- Consistently identifies and secures high-impact creator talent that elevates campaign performance and client outcomes.
- You excel at balancing campaign management, relationship management, and the creation and maintenance of operational workflows.
- The cross functional team and customers view you as a trusted advisor on talent, who serves as a go to across verticals of talent and different types of talent integrations.
- Establishes Later as a preferred partner for top-tier talent and their teams.
What you bring:
- 4-5+ years of experience in influencer marketing, creator partnerships, or talent management, with a proven track record of building and scaling high-impact creator programs; agency background preferred.
- Experience working with athletes in the professional and NIL space.
- Demonstrated success in sourcing, negotiating, and managing high-profile influencer, athlete and celebrity relationships across multiple partnership models.
- Strong network of creator, agent, and manager relationships across key verticals and platforms.
- Strong strategic and analytical skills with experience managing scalable systems that improve efficiency and outcomes.
- Deep understanding of social platforms, creator economics, and cultural trends.
- Experience implementing AI and workflow to increase operational efficiencies.
- Exceptional negotiation and relationship management skills, with the ability to cultivate trust and secure competitive agreements.
- Experience collaborating cross-functionally with cross-departmental teams.
- Strong understanding of FTC guidelines, brand safety standards, and compliance requirements.
- Familiarity with influencer marketing platforms, CRM systems, and campaign analytics tools.
- An entrepreneurial mindset—operationally excellent, solutions-oriented, and energized by scaling complex systems in a fast-paced environment.
- Clear communicator with strong judgment and attention to detail, with experience representing an organization externally.
*Experience working on a telecomms client a plus
How you work:
- Driven by Impact: You deliver results that matter—prioritizing high-value work, meeting deadlines, and adapting quickly while keeping outcomes clear.
- Strategic & Customer-Centric: You anticipate risks and opportunities, connect decisions to long-term growth, and build trust through proactive insights.
- Curious & Growth-Oriented: You seek knowledge, ask sharp questions, and apply learnings fast—challenging the status quo with a mindset of improvement.
- Collaborative & Resilient: You thrive in change by staying resourceful, solution-focused, and positive—removing roadblocks, sharing insights, and keeping morale high.
- Accountable & Honest: You own your work, hold yourself and others to a high bar, and use transparent feedback to drive growth.
- Emotionally Intelligent: You build trust through empathy and collaboration, foster inclusion, and inspire others with grit, optimism, and integrity.
Our approach to compensation:
We take a market-based & data-driven approach to compensation. We leverage data from trusted third-party compensation sources to help us understand the market value of a role based on function, level, geographic location, and scope. We evaluate compensation bi-annually, including performance and market-related factors.
Our salaries are benchmarked against market Total Cash Compensation for the geographic location of our job posting. Compensation for some roles is structured as On Target Earnings (OTE = base + commission/variable) while for others it is structured as Salary only.
To comply with local legislation and ensure transparency, we share salary ranges on all job postings. Skills, experience and other factors help determine the final salary we offer which may vary from the original range posted.
Additionally, all permanent team members are eligible to participate in various benefits plans as part of their overall compensation package.
Salary Range:
$80,000 - $90,000 OTE
*Co-op team members, independent contractors, and freelancers are not eligible for company benefits.
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Where we work:
We have offices in Boston, MA; Vancouver, BC; and Vancouver, WA. For select positions, we are open to hiring fully remote candidates. We post our positions in the location(s) where we are open to having the successful candidate be located.
Diversity, inclusion, and accessibility:
At Later, we are committed to fostering a culture rooted in an inclusion-first mindset at every level of the company, embracing the importance of hiring and building teams for culture add rather than culture fit. We openly build and maintain unbiased hiring, pay, and promotion practices to create a foundation for an equitable workplace, paving the way for systemic change.
We are committed to creating a diverse environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, or age. Please let us know if you require any accommodations or support during the recruitment process.