Gondola is hiring: Associate Director of Creator Marketing in New York

You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely even if theyre 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.

What Youll Be Doing...

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 industrys most prominent marketers. As an experienced expert in the fast-moving creator/influencer space, youll be a driving force as part of Verizons 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 were 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.

Responsibilities

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

• Defining Verizons overall influencer marketing strategy and building the core principles, systems, workflows, and practices to execute industry-leading creator partnerships and campaigns integrated across Verizons 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 100s 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 Verizons 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 Verizons marketing organization with the latest trends, competitive intelligence, and creator perspectives to increase the creator marketing fluency of our entire organization.

What Were Looking For...

Youll need to have:

• Bachelors 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:

• Bachelors 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 dont meet every even better qualification listed above.

Where youll be working

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and a minimum eight assigned office days per month that will be set by your manager.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

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

Benefits And Compensation

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, weve 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.

The salary will vary depending on your location and confirmed job-related skills and experience. This is an incentive based position with the potential to earn more. For part-time roles, your compensation will be adjusted to reflect your hours.

The annual salary range for the New York location(s) listed on this job requisition based on a full-time schedule is: $125,500.00 - $219,000.00.

#J-18808-Ljbffr In Summary: 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 industrys most prominent marketers . The role is a unique opportunity to lead a new discipline transforming a major brands marketing approach . En Español: Queremos más de una carrera. Un lugar para compartir nuestras ideas libremente incluso si son audaces o diferentes. Donde la verdad puede aprender, crecer y prosperar. En Verizon, potenciamos y empoderamos la forma en que las personas viven, trabajan y juegan conectándolas a lo que les trae alegría. Hacemos lo que nos encanta impulsar la innovación, la creatividad e impacto en el mundo. Nuestro V Team es una comunidad de gente que anticipa, lidera y cree que escuchar es donde comienza el aprendizaje. En crisis y celebraciones, nos unimos levantando nuestras comunidades y construyendo confianza en cómo aparecemos, en todas partes & siempre. ¿Quieres participar? Únete al #VTeamLife. Este líder es por igual un experto en el espacio creador / influencer, un líder de pensamiento en la dinámica cambiante sobre hacia dónde va este espacio y un vendedor profundamente estratégico y creativo, con una gran capacidad para llevar a los creadores al centro de la campaña de marketing integrada de una marca.ResponsabilidadesEste papel es una oportunidad única para liderar una nueva disciplina que transforma un enfoque de mercadotecnia de grandes marcas, y será directamente responsable de:Definiendo la estrategia general de marketing de influencia de Verizon y desarrollando los principios fundamentales, sistemas, flujos de trabajo y prácticas de inteligencia del ROI para ejecutar las asociaciones de creadores líderes de la industria y optimizando las relaciones competitivas entre los creativos e influencers de Verizons.Partejándose con nuestros compañeros de equipo, nuestra agencia de influenciadores y creadores mismos para avanzar en conceptos creativos dedicados que garantizan eficazmente resultados comerciales y de negocio.Desarrolpar y desarrollar estrategias para mejorar la eficacia de las campañas de gestión y ejecución de contenidos de la empresa, crear y optimizar nuestras nuevas iniciativas de marketing, así como aumentar la eficiencia de las capacidades de los creadoras de información y los creatorios en todo nuestro entorno e impulsar continuamente los esfuerzos estratégicos de creación de medios de comunicación social y la compañía, evaluar las tareas e incrementar la potencialidad de los objetivos de la organización y sus clientes personalizadas y hacer frente a las últimas tendencias de la cadena de verizón, desarrollar su contenido y la transmisión de análisis de datos y los canales sociales, así lo que se convierte a través de una ampliación de nuestros equipos de las acciones de control y las redes sociales. Evaluamos a los solicitantes calificados sin tener en cuenta el estatus de veterano, discapacidad u otras características legalmente protegidas.Beneficios y compensacionesNuestros beneficios están diseñados para ayudarle a avanzar en su carrera y en áreas de su vida fuera de Verizon. Desde las opciones de beneficios de salud y bienestar que incluyen: médico, odontológico, visión, incapacidad a corto y largo plazo, seguro de vida básico, seguro complementario de vida, AD&D, protección del robo de identidad, seguros de mascotas y hogar & auto de grupo. También ofrecemos un plan de ahorro combinado 401k) , programas de incentivos a acciones, hasta 8 vacaciones pagadas por año y hasta 6 días personales por año, licencia parental, asistencia de adopción y ayuda de matrícula, además de otros incentivos, le cobrimos con recompensas totales premiadas. Dependiendo de las circunstancias, los empleados tienen la oportunidad de recibir una indemnización en forma de salario diferencial, según cuál sea la ubicación de sus puestos de trabajo. Para los puestos de trabajo a tiempo parcial, su remuneración se ajustará para reflejar sus horas.El rango salarial anual para la ubicación en Nueva York que figura en esta solicitud de empleo basado en un horario de tiempo completo es: $125,500.00 - $219,000.00.#J-18808-Ljbffr