Digital Media Management is hiring: VP, Talent + Influencer in Los Angeles

VP, Talent + Influencer

Digital Media Management (DMM), a Keywords Studios company, is a full-service social media agency that specializes in 360 campaigns for the entertainment, games, and consumer brands industries. DMM creates groundbreaking social-first marketing campaigns rooted in innovative strategy, and provides clients with community management, creative, video production, influencer, talent, and performance marketing capabilities.

We are currently seeking a VP, Talent + Influencer in our Los Angeles office to join our expanding leadership team. This role is responsible for overseeing and uniting two key pillars of DMM services: Talent Services and Influencer Partnerships. The VP, Talent + Influencer will act as a senior thought leader on the DMM Senior Leadership team - collaborating across departments, creating strategic partnerships with our roster of clients and helping develop and evolve the Talent & Influencer solutions.

Successful candidates must have eight to ten years of experience in the social media space.

Your Impact

• Bring a deep knowledge and understanding of social marketing across landscape and industry with particular focus in Entertainment, Gaming and Sports
• Act as a strategic thinker, understanding Talent and Influencer's intrinsic and measurable value while knowing how to seamlessly weave that value into campaigns and pitches
• Ability to evangelize these services and sell value to clients in person and within pitches
• Entrepreneurial mindset with passion for creating, packaging and selling innovations within the services
• Strong grasp of creator economy, pricing & negotiations
• Contacts and ties to Hollywood agencies, management, PR and film/tv studios
• Experience building and running teams with proof of cost optimizations and evolution
• Own the roster of Talent clients acting as executive oversight and mentorship to teams that lead the day to day work
• Lead a team of social content producers and influencer experts, building best-in-class campaigns that drive success
• Work with client leads and Strategy team at DMM to build winning pitches for incoming RFPs to secure new business for various departments
• Act as a senior thought leader and stakeholder at DMM, collaborating across the senior leadership team to infuse innovation, education, and experience that elevates and evolves DMM's client solutions
• Act as an executive level strategic partner for clients to devise and implement new and novel strategic opportunities
• Digests and analyzes social media insights and data to make informed strategic decisions

Your Experience

• 8-10 Years of experience in the social media and digital space
• Own an expert level understanding of talent and influencer marketing with vision to push and evolve the ways they work for clients
• Ability to manage senior team members, providing guidance and growth
• Ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment
• Strong presentation and/or public speaking skills
• Advanced proficiency in building decks via Google Slides or other programs
• Knowledge of the entertainment landscape in some form: Games, TV, Film, Podcast, Brand etc.
• Experience working with Video Games is a plus
• Ability to collaborate and work as part of a team

Availability

• M-F: 9am-6pm PST

$180,000 - $200,000 a year

The salary range for this role is $180,000 - $200,000 a year and is based on experience, responsibilities of the position, subject matter expertise and is location specific. We also know how important benefits are to your overall compensation package and take them seriously. Work/life balance, health insurance, DEI and training are all an important part of the DMM DNA. (Benefits are dependent on eligibility.)

Benefits:

• DMM pays 100% of the cost for employee medical, dental, and vision premiums, as well as covers 40% of dependent premium costs
• Employer paid life insurance
• A tax-advantaged health savings account (HSA)
• A 401(k) plan that provides employees with automatic enrollment at 3% of your salary with a full employer match of your first 3% contribution, all fully vested
• Paid family leave

Work/Life Balance:

• Open PTO: DMM offers unlimited vacation, 10 sick days & 5 mental health days
• DMM Fridays: Employees have the opportunity to sign off early and kick-start their weekends at 2pm on Fridays

DEI:

• DMM offers DEI specific training focused on preventing discrimination and harassment in the workplace
• ERGs focusing on diverse perspectives across DMM to promote diversity, inclusion, and shared experiences
• Generous donation match to non-profits of interest to our employees

Training:

• Extensive onboarding that includes working with multiple departments to learn the DMM way
• Frequent trainings on the latest tools and trends and how to optimize them for our clients

Our company culture is casual, fun, and empowering. There is a lot of room for growth in this role! That's right, no glass ceiling and room to learn. Digital Media Management is an equal opportunity employer. We work together to create a space that fosters diversity and inclusion across race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, disability, age, national origin, and veteran status. Our diversity strategy is simple: grow a team of creative, innovative, passionate people from varied backgrounds to produce best-in-class digital campaigns.