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Influencer Marketing Manager

Honeymoon, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60290

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We’re looking for a creative and strategic influencer pro who makes brands known, loved, and understood through performance-driven, insight-led partnerships. You are fluent in social culture, an integrated thinker, creative collaborator, and comfortable using data to inform decisions, optimize campaigns, and scale what works. You understand the evolving influencer landscape from both a creative and growth perspective. You challenge convention, think big, and bring fresh, smart influencer ideas in partnership with our other experts to solve client business challenges.

What You Bring

Deep influencer expertise

– fully understand the landscape from strategy to execution, performance measurement and how it’s evolving

Integrated mindset

– understand how earned, paid, and owned work together across influencer engagement to drive both awareness and results

Entrepreneurial spirit

– collaborative, flexible, innovative, and growth-oriented, with a builder’s mentality

Problem-solving mindset

– strategic, calm under pressure, able to navigate challenges big and small

Creative energy

– pop culture and social–savvy, marketing-obsessed, and eager to brainstorm

Accountability & detail

– high standards for yourself and your team, delivering measurable, high-quality results and continuously improving performance

Experience Requirements

5–7 years influencer engagement experience (consumer focus preferred)

Agency background a plus

Experience with national/global brands

Strong influencer strategy, activation, and optimization experience

What You’ll Do

Support influencer engagement for Honeymoon accounts by partnering with clients, agencies, agents/influencers, and vendors

Serve as key support to internal Account Leads and Honeymoon teams in building, executing, and optimizing influencer strategies, including building briefs, managing tools, vetting partners, collaborating with creators and owning influencer-related budgeting

Support negotiation of influencer partners and contracts across clients with an eye toward value, performance, and scalability

Serve as one of our experts on FTC and any necessary industry-related influencer regulations

Develop a measurement framework in partnership with other key experts and help measure and track our influencer work to meet or exceed client KPIs

Provide direction to and manage other team members to support influencer research, background checks, and campaign execution while building efficient, repeatable processes

Partner with paid media agencies of our clients to strategically amplify influencer content and help recommend paid amplification for those clients without paid agency partners

Contribute to the development and evolution of our agency’s overall influencer practice, including frameworks, tools, and best practices

Help our agency and clients understand influencer trends and the future of the capability from a growth perspective

Identify new business opportunities and support the growth of our influencer capabilities and agency business

Serve as a key influencer expert in new business RFPs and pitches

Research and manage influencer partnerships to help keep our clients relevant and competitive

Bring some big ideas to the world on your clients’ behalf, build something impactful, and have a lot of fun while you do it!

Core Responsibilities

Client Influencer Engagement

– Serve as a trusted influencer expert for clients by delivering strategic counsel, creative recommendations, and proactive solutions aligned to business goals

Influencer Strategy – Build performance-minded strategies, briefs, direction, and foster strong relationships with earned and paid influencer partners that align with our clients’ brands

Campaign Execution

– Deliver high-quality, on-time, on-budget programs with cross-functional teams through influencer content development, approvals, execution, and optimization

Reporting & Insight

– Define success metrics, set KPIs, measure impact, analyze results, and translate insights into clear optimization recommendations

Team Coaching

– Mentor entry-level talent and emerging influencer experts by sharing best practices, frameworks, and performance learnings

Key Skills $80k - $115k

401 (k) with company match

Generous PTO

Parental & private health leave

And more

Honeymoon works alongside teammates Candor and Salient agencies, operating as one to deliver custom, high-impact work for national and global clients. We are owned by Salient Holdings, LLC.

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