Social Media Associate Director, Influence Location: Minneapolis, MN | Open to Remote (U.S.)
Our Client, an innovative and fast-growing agency in the digital marketing space, is looking to hire a Social Media Associate Director with a focus on Influencer Strategy and Management. This is a strategic and executional leadership role ideal for a candidate with 5–8 years of influencer marketing experience—specifically within an agency setting—who is ready to step into a key position overseeing high-profile campaigns.
This role involves managing full campaign lifecycles while also contributing to broader agency initiatives and client strategy. The Associate Director will partner closely with clients, internal cross-functional teams, and junior talent to drive performance and innovation in the influencer space.
Key Responsibilities
Campaign Strategy & Execution
Lead the day-to-day execution of influencer marketing campaigns across a variety of clients and verticals.
Develop creative, results-driven strategies for influencer partnerships and branded content.
Oversee the full campaign process—from strategy and influencer selection to contracting, activation, content review, and performance reporting.
Work collaboratively with content, social media, analytics, and strategy teams to align influencer efforts with larger marketing programs.
Client Partnership & Leadership
Serve as a primary point of contact for clients, providing strategic recommendations and insights with confidence.
Build and maintain strong client relationships while identifying opportunities to expand influencer initiatives.
Represent the influencer discipline in both internal and client-facing meetings, contributing to cross-functional leadership conversations.
Team Management & Process Development
Mentor and support junior team members involved in campaign support, research, and reporting.
Establish and continuously refine influencer marketing best practices, workflows, and operational processes.
Stay current on trends in the creator economy, platform changes, and influencer industry innovations to ensure strategies remain relevant and competitive.
Qualifications
5–8 years of hands-on influencer marketing experience in an agency or comparable setting.
Strong track record managing campaigns end-to-end, including with both macro-influencers and scaled micro-influencer activations.
Excellent client-facing and communication skills, with proven experience presenting strategy and managing client expectations.
In-depth knowledge of social platforms, creator trends, and influencer campaign formats across categories.
Ability to think creatively and translate strategic ideas into actionable plans.
Demonstrated experience in building or improving influencer marketing processes and playbooks.
Highly proactive and comfortable managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Passionate about digital culture and the evolving creator landscape.
We’ve partnered with a social-first agency in their search for a Social Media Manager with a focus on Influencer management and strategy. The ideal candidate has 2–4 years of hands-on influencer marketing experience, preferably in an agency or fast-paced entrepreneurial environment. This role is responsible for leading the day-to-day execution of influencer campaigns, managing creator relationships, and ensuring timely, high-quality delivery of campaign assets and results.
The ideal candidate is highly organized, proactive, and comfortable managing multiple influencer campaigns simultaneously. This role will collaborate with internal teams and external partners to support broader marketing initiatives. Experience or interest in gaming culture is a plus, but not required.
Key Responsibilities
Campaign Execution & Creator Management
Oversee day-to-day operations of influencer campaigns with minimal supervision.
Manage creator outreach, negotiations, contracting, and relationship management.
Brief creators and provide clear, actionable feedback on content and deliverables.
Ensure all content is aligned with campaign guidelines and delivered on time.
Monitor performance and ensure campaign deliverables meet agreed-upon expectations.
Cross-Team Collaboration
Coordinate with internal teams across content, strategy, and analytics to align influencer efforts with broader marketing goals.
Communicate campaign updates, challenges, and results to relevant stakeholders.
Quality Assurance & Market Awareness
Maintain accuracy and consistency across contracts, deliverables, and reports.
Stay current on influencer marketing trends, platform updates, and best practices.
Provide relevant updates on specific verticals or cultural spaces, such as gaming (if applicable).
Qualifications & Skills
2–4 years of experience in influencer marketing or digital campaign management.
Proven track record of managing influencer campaigns independently.
Strong interpersonal and communication skills for managing creator relationships.
Ability to juggle multiple projects in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
High attention to detail and strong organizational skills.
Familiarity with social media platforms and the creator/influencer landscape.
Head of Marketing (Director of Growth) Remote, U.S. | $120K–$140K + bonus | Multi-seven-figure coaching company
Be the architect of growth for a fast-growing, multi-seven-figure coaching and mentorship brand that helps entrepreneurs scale without sacrificing their lives. This is a rare opportunity to step in as the first senior marketing hire and build the engine that takes a proven business model to the next level.
As Head of Marketing, you’ll be both strategist and doer — a true player-coach. You’ll partner directly with the founder and leadership team to translate vision into high-converting offers, funnels, and campaigns that fuel measurable growth.
What You’ll Do:
Own and execute the full-funnel growth strategy: awareness ? lead gen ? nurture ? conversion.
Build and optimize funnels (landing pages, email/SMS sequences, upsells) with strong attribution and reporting.
Oversee paid media — directing partners, testing creative, managing budgets — and scale efficiently.
Write and guide compelling, conversion-focused copy across offers, ads, and email campaigns.
Turn content and IP into lead magnets, mini-offers, workshops, and evergreen entry points.
Lead contractors/vendors and build a small but mighty growth pod over time.
What You Bring:
5–10 years in growth marketing with hands-on execution in coaching, digital programs, or info-products.
Proven success scaling businesses from low-seven to eight figures (or similar growth stage).
Mastery of funnel architecture, paid media, and conversion copywriting (non-negotiables).
Experience managing agencies/contractors and shipping measurable results fast.
Bias for action, resourcefulness, and the ability to both lead and do.
Why This Role:
Shape the marketing foundation of a thriving brand with an engaged audience.
Collaborate directly with a visionary founder in a high-growth, human-first culture.
Remote flexibility with competitive pay, bonus upside, and wellness perks.
We have partnered with a well-known advertising agency to identify their Director of Business Development. This individual will discover and connect the agency with exciting brands and opportunities across the country.
The ideal candidate will be a self-motivated individual who’s ready to lead new business efforts with creativity and passion. If you’re optimistic, charismatic, and have a knack for storytelling, we’d love to hear from you!
We’re hoping to find someone with 10+ years of business development experience within an advertising agency, brand side in a broader marketing role or digital media. You should have a successful track record in spotting opportunities, building meaningful connections, and turning those prospects into reality.
Key Responsibilities
Making New Connections: Your mission will be to generate top-notch new business leads, ideally targeting the SVP/Marketing or CMO level.
Crafting a Strategic Plan: Work alongside the Agency Partners to create a new business strategy, keeping everyone focused on short-term and long-term goals.
First Responder: You’ll be the go-to person for pitch consultants and new business leads, helping assess opportunities alongside the leadership team.
Winning Strategies: Help find clever ways to enhance the agency’s approach to new business, always searching for that edge that boosts the chances of success.
This role is onsite 3+ days a week in the agency’s Minneapolis, MN headquarters (open to relocation). The compensation structure for this role will be base salary (up to $100K DOE) + commission. Some travel required.
American Public Media & Minnesota Public Radio | Vice President, Friends & Membership
Overview
We are proud to partner with American Public Media & Minnesota Public Radio to identify their Vice President of Friends & Membership. MPR engages an audience of millions and is stewarded by hundreds of thousands of members and friends.
The Vice President of Friends & Membership will be a visionary and entrepreneurial leader, driving the development and implementation of the “Friends of MPR” initiative as a top priority, to build meaningful relationships, deeper affiliation and significantly expand the organization’s reach. This position provides strategic direction and leadership for the Membership team while fostering cross-functional collaboration to achieve shared objectives.
Rooted in the organization’s mission and core values, the Vice President will innovate to expand the organization’s reach and execute creative strategies to grow membership, expand loyalty revenue, and amplify impact. The successful candidate will be an agile leader with a deep understanding of engaging a diverse set of community stakeholders at scale. They will possess extensive experience in managing multi-channel marketing strategies and leveraging bold experimentation to scale quickly and widely.
Our Client has one of the strongest Membership programs in the country. They serve audiences on-air, online, and in person. If you are a dynamic leader passionate about driving innovation, building meaningful relationships, advancing mission-focused initiatives, and achieving measurable results, we invite you to join our team. This role reports to our General Counsel, an entrepreneur, and this effort will be run like a startup.
Success Characteristics
Visionary Innovator: Entrepreneurial leader with a track record of driving bold, creative initiatives that align with and advance the organization’s mission and values.
Data-Driven Strategist: Skilled in leveraging analytics to inform strategy, optimize decision-making, and measure impact.
Collaborative Leader: Strong leadership experience, fostering cross-functional teamwork, empowering teams, and driving results that reflect the organization’s purpose and values
Proactive Problem-Solver: Self-starter who challenges traditional norms and pioneers’ innovative paths to achieve goals while staying true to core values.
Inspiring Communicator: Exceptional communication and storytelling skills, capable of rallying internal teams and external supporters around the mission.
Key Responsibilities
“Friends” Leadership
Pioneer a comprehensive and innovative “Friends” strategy to attract, engage, and grow new audiences across Minnesota and nationally.
Develop partnerships, events, and digital campaigns to enhance visibility, nurture prospects, and funnel them into the membership pipeline.
Collaborate across departments to drive awareness across Minnesota and establish direct relationships with a wide swath of Minnesotans.
Membership Growth & Lifecycle Management
Develop and execute a membership strategy to grow membership volume, focusing on acquisition, retention, and, ultimately, increased financial support.
Partner with content teams, Community Engagement, Philanthropic Development, Audience Development & Marketing, Communication, and Digital Product teams to create compelling member experiences. Tailor member communications and engagement opportunities that foster long-term loyalty and satisfaction.
Define and monitor key performance indicators, including growth, retention, and satisfaction, and combine data-driven insights with deep community listening to refine strategies.
Strategic Leadership
Build multi-channel strategies that leverage the organization’s content, brand and multichannel audience development teams to attract new Friends.
Strengthen a culture of audience-centricity and philanthropy across the enterprise.
Collaborate with Major Gift officers and mid-level giving officers to advance members initiatives through the donor continuum to Leadership Giving levels.
Cultivate future leaders through coaching, mentoring, and constructive feedback along with thoughtful professional development plans.
People Leadership
Translate organizational goals into actionable and measurable performance objectives, set clear execution standards, and hold leaders and teams accountable for delivering results.
Lead and cultivate a motivated, collaborative, and high-performing team committed to achieving ambitious shared goals.
Enable organizational strategy through a personal commitment to equity, inclusion, diversity, and access (EIDA) in workplace relationships and audience engagement.
Key Skills, Knowledge, and Mindsets
Familiar with modern tech stack including customer relationship management, data analytics, performance tracking, and digital outreach tools.
Use of artificial intelligence tools with a pointed vision towards expanded use across all job tasks.
Ability to lead teams using rapid cycle testing to take informed risks, refine strategies, and scale successful initiatives.
Audience-centric, entrepreneurial mindset to develop and manage compelling user journeys and campaigns to drive acquisition, conversion and retention.
Relentless emphasis on execution; resilient leadership that sees opportunity in every challenge.
Knowledge of local media organizations and content-driven membership or “Friends” programs.
Key Experience
This role requires demonstrated success or high potential in the following areas:
Leveraging existing owned and third-party networks to scale user acquisition.
Converting new audience and consumer segments, with a focus on expanding reach beyond core customers to drive growth and diversification.
Deploying loyalty and lifecycle marketing strategies to enhance retention, engagement, and lifetime value.
Achieving measurable results in digital revenue growth through strategic planning and execution.
Guiding multi-channel marketing strategies, including digital, email, events, and direct mail.
Building and managing complex plans across stakeholder groups, creating and monitoring budgets, and overseeing data-driven reporting and metrics.
Galvanizing populations to identify with a sense of community and shared purpose.
This role is hybrid requiring 3-4 days/week onsite in St. Paul, MN. The target annual base salary for this position is $150,000-$175,000, depending on experience and qualifications.
Our Client is the leading distributor of mechanical power transmission, conveyor belts, electric motors, and control products in the upper Midwest. In partnership with their leadership team, we are seeking an experienced and motivated Marketing Leader with an unwavering entrepreneurial spirit.
The Marketing Leader will collaborate closely with the senior management team across all departments to generate proactive ideas and solutions that support sales and overall brand and communications needs. This individual will be responsible for establishing the strategy for the company’s brand positioning and presentation, as well as managing the distribution and maintenance of brand assets and standards across all channels.
This role will also work in tandem with both B2B and B2C sales, leads to plus up marketing strategies that foster customer loyalty, attract new customers, and drive sales. Additionally, this is a leadership position within the company, which involves providing high-level strategic guidance and managing an internal team member.
Qualities we’re looking for:
Exceptional organizational skills and strong interpersonal communication abilities, with a keen attention to detail.
8+ years of experience in trade shows and digital marketing methods, including social media, email marketing, SEO, data & analytics, and content marketing.
A professional and proactive work ethic.
A strong desire to collaborate with team members and cultivate strong relationships.
Ability to proactively identify new opportunities to drive brand awareness in existing and new markets.
A strong entrepreneurial spirit, along with a passion for brand building and a commitment to celebrating the organization’s rich history through strategic marketing initiatives.
Experience working with or for a distributor or relevant industry is a plus.
This role is onsite at their headquarters in Plymouth, MN.
Due to our continued growth, SkyWater Search Partners is currently looking to hire a Marketing & Creative Recruiter in our Minnetonka office.
The Marketing & Creative Recruiter is responsible for helping drive the continued growth of our company by identifying and placing top marketing and creative talent. This will be achieved through the development of recruiting plans, employing traditional sourcing strategies, leveraging industry networks, and implementing new, creative recruiting ideas. The recruiter will serve as a consultant to our clients, helping them build exceptional marketing and creative teams. This role is critical in ensuring we continue to recruit and place the most talented marketing and creative professionals in Minnesota and beyond.
SkyWater Search Partners has been rated the #1 search firm in Minnesota (based on number of placements) for the past 9+ years in a row by the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal. We place more people in professional full-time positions than any other Minnesota-based search firm.
In addition, we have won 9 Best Place to Work Awards, as voted by our employees, from Minnesota Business Magazine and the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal. We offer one of the most competitive compensation structures in the industry.
SkyWater Search Partners is conveniently located in the Carlson Towers in Minnetonka. Our A+ rated building includes amenities like free covered parking, a complimentary gym membership with showers/changing rooms, an award-winning café, and many other perks—including the flexibility to work in a hybrid environment and unlimited PTO.
If you are interested in this position or would like to hear more about our firm, please apply online or reach out to Sujatha Ramanathan, Senior Talent Scout: sramanathan@skywatersearch.com.
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