Director, Partnerships, Collabs, & PR
Core
Senior brand and partnerships role focused on building meaningful connections across culture, talent, entertainment, fashion, beauty, and strategic brands to drive high-impact collaborations and earned-media programs.
Role type
Director, Partnerships, Collabs, & PR
Builds
High-impact collaborations, talent relationships, licensing opportunities, experiential moments, and earned-media programs
Domain
Consumer brands, entertainment, fashion, beauty, and cultural industries
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work
Required skills
Partnership strategy development, talent and brand relationship management, contract negotiation and structuring, PR agency management, cross-functional coordination, budget management, licensing operations
Preferred skills
Established relationships in music, entertainment, fashion, and beauty industries, commercial judgment, cultural awareness, project management in ambiguous environments
Technologies
None stated
Responsibilities
Develop partnership strategy across brand collaborations, talent, ambassador programs, retail partnerships, licensed intellectual property, experiential initiatives, and cultural opportunities; Identify new partnership categories and market whitespace; Evaluate inbound partnership requests from talent, agencies, brands, retailers, and other prospective partners; Build and maintain strong relationships with talent, managers, agents, agencies, brands, retailers, and strategic partners; Serve as a key day-to-day contact for external partners and relationship stakeholders; Support the negotiation and structuring of talent, partnership, and licensing agreements; Draft and redline partnership and talent contracts while coordinating Legal review; Manage partnerships from signed agreement through launch, overseeing communication, timelines, approvals, asset collection, and contractual deliverables; Identify partnership risks, execution gaps, missed deadlines, and other issues and drive them toward resolution; Administer licensing operations, including approvals, product and asset requirements, line sheets, retail listing coordination, and post-launch reporting; Maintain an organized repository of partnership terms, rates, rights, deliverables, performance data, and renewal opportunities; Own the collaboration and partnership calendar, coordinating launches, activations, contractual milestones, and renewals with broader marketing and retail calendars; Partner cross-functionally to ensure products, creative assets, content, events, and programs are delivered on schedule; Manage partnership and event budgets, vendors, invoices, and payments in coordination with Finance; Prepare leadership recap materials covering deliverables, performance, outcomes, and key learnings; Establish PR strategy and priorities in partnership with the external agency; Manage the PR agency relationship, including campaign briefs, scopes of work, assets, deliverables, timelines, and escalations; Track agency performance and media coverage against campaign calendars and address execution gaps; Support press releases, statements, messaging, and other communications materials; Prepare leadership and designated spokespeople for interviews, podcasts, and other media opportunities
