[Hiring] Creator Partnerships Lead @Hercules

Role Description

We’re hiring a Creator Partnerships Lead to build and scale Hercules’ creator distribution. You will own partnerships end-to-end, from sourcing to measurement, and turn creator content into reusable growth assets.

• Sponsored creator and influencer program across major and micro channels
• Sourcing + outreach:
  • Identify creators
  • Run inbound/outbound
  • Maintain pipeline
• Negotiation + contracts:
  • Rates
  • Terms
  • Deliverables
  • Timelines
  • Compliance
• Briefs + approvals:
  • Creative direction
  • Messaging
  • Brand safety
  • Review workflow
• Deliverable ops:
  • Timelines
  • Revisions
  • Posting verification
  • Link/UTM setup
• Tracking + reporting:
  • Performance by creator
  • Format
  • Platform
  • Cohort quality

Qualifications

• Proven experience running creator/influencer partnerships with measurable outcomes
• Strong networking and sourcing ability (finding emerging creators before they are expensive)
• Excellent negotiation and contract instincts (rates, rights, exclusivity, timelines)
• Strong creative briefing skills (clear direction without constraining creators)
• Familiarity with whitelisting/paid usage rights and how creator content performs in ads
• Strong ops + analytics: pipelines, tracking, UTMs, reporting, and learning loops
• Good judgment on branding (especially with meme and micro media pages)

Requirements

• Deal-oriented: strong at outreach, negotiation, and closing
• Taste-driven: you know which creators will perform and why
• Process-strong: you can run a high-volume pipeline without chaos
• Performance-aware: you treat creator spend like a growth channel with clear KPIs

Benefits

• Healthcare, vision, and dental
• User whatever AI tools you’d like (you have an unlimited AI budget)
• Take what you need vacation policy
• Daily lunches, dinners and snacks in the office
• We guarantee you will do the best work of your career here

Company Description

Hercules’ operating principles guide how we make decisions every day. We take them very seriously. Most of them are specifically choices that we as a company uniquely prioritize and so can be learned on the job. However, we do specifically filter for these principles in our hiring process:

• We move with urgency: We ship fast, iterate, and correct mistakes quickly. Our bias for action speeds our learning and delights our customers.
• We strive for excellence: Doing things well is in our DNA. We have good taste. We get the details right. Our outputs are exceptionally simple and self-serve. We’re proud of our work.
• We are hungry: We are willing to work hard and break through walls to achieve the outcomes we want. We are willing to operate at any level to get things done. We are politely relentless.