Global Head of Growth, Managed Services

About Us

IZEA (NASDAQ: IZEA) provides leading brands and agencies with unmatched professional services backed by next-generation technology to develop scalable Influencer Marketing and bespoke Content Marketing initiatives.

Over its 16 years of being a renowned industry pioneer, IZEA has been recognized and awarded repeatedly for its campaign work, technological innovations, most importantly, as a 'top place to work' and 'best work-life balance' as rated by its team members.

The company serves as a champion for the thriving Creator Economy, enabling individuals to monetize their content, creativity, and influence. IZEA launched the industry's first-ever influencer marketing platform in 2006 and has since facilitated over 4 million sponsorship transactions.

IZEA is a modern, remote workplace that welcomes people from diverse backgrounds and viewpoints, promoting an inclusive environment with equal opportunity. Our team member locale concentrations currently span 95 cities and 12 countries around the world.

We don't just celebrate the modern Creator Economy. We've been here since Day One.

The Opportunity

To further expand the rate of our growth, IZEA is seeking a strategic, proactive, and well-regarded servant leader to drive new thinking and deliver truly innovative solutions for IZEA's clients.

Reporting to the President & Chief Operating Officer, this senior level role will be responsible for leading a multi-continent team to deliver on growth goals via new, organic business acquisition and expanding existing relationships with leading brands and agencies of a variety types (Creative, Media, PR, Digital, Social, etc.)

Your mission at IZEA

• Lead, drive, and deliver the product, practice, and process of client development and growth for IZEA globally through its Managed Service offering.
• Demonstrate a deep understanding of strategy, investment, and optimization across all types of media and creative, but particularly those interrelated to the Creator Economy (e.g. Influencer Marketing, Content Creation, Product Endorsement, etc.)
• Manage, coach, and continuously develop our Client Development personnel and other aligned direct reports within the operating unit.
• Oversee the development of early-stage pitch engagement responses, including written RFIs, RFPs, subject matter eminence, and credentials content.
• Establish strong, collaborative connections with IZEA's client base to identify ways to expand the nature of our working relationship.
• Build and strengthen integration between IZEA's Growth efforts and the broader ecosystem serving our clients, including Campaign Management, Client Strategy, Creator Partnership, Business Operations, and Legal Affairs.
• Work closely with IZEA's in-house Creative Services team to fuel new ideas related to demand generation, brand marketing, event marketing/sponsorship, and related opportunities to demonstrate our deep subject matter expertise.
• Build and support a continuous improvement culture in your day-to-day work ethos, including the hygiene of client information, budgeting, forecasting, and related financial goals.
• Make informed business decisions for the benefit of IZEA based off a combination of quantitative data and qualitative, instinctual experiences.
  
  

What You Will Bring To IZEA

• Thorough leadership experience of 15 to 20+ years in media, marketing, or consulting – placing people at the center of your demonstrated successes. You have both the grit and wisdom from experience to be bold and inventive. We need you to bring or create new models, new approaches, new stories, new capabilities to the table.
• Strong communication skills balanced with high emotional intelligence. You communicate clearly, concisely, and adapted for the audience, with a focus on soliciting feedback and driving consensus. At the same time, you understand how to effectively lead and inspire creative individuals while relating to analytical marketers simultaneously.
• You fuel your inner energy by building meaningful relationships inside and outside the organization. As a high-profile executive leader, you recognize that central to your success is your proven ability to facilitate consensus, empower our team members, and inject a spirit of inclusiveness in all that you do.
• The ability to anticipate needs paired with the pride of high throughput. You are a proactive self-starter who knows what is needed and how to drive against it. Your strong bias towards action helped you earn the reputation of someone who gets things done. You thrive when you have a lot on your plate and get energy from making our clients' investment in IZEA a success.
• Excellent management skills with a focus on agility. You work comfortably and effectively in fast changing, high pressure, and iterative environments/situations while having a keen barometer for sanity. We aspire to capture market opportunities aggressively while not being reckless while doing so.
• You have a knack for dreaming big while also driving simplification. Our industry can very quickly deduce itself to buzzwords and jargon in lieu of substance. Your superpower is the ability to simplify complex concepts, constructs, and language while also focusing on what matters most to our clients and our team members.
  
  

How We Will Support You

• Our core values -- Love, courage, communication, teamwork, accountability, citizenship and fun -- showcase how we work day-to-day and the support we give our team members. We believe that by living our core values and empowering our team members, we can provide the support and encouragement they need to thrive.
• Modern Remote Workplace
• World-Class Healthcare - Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance
• Up to 16 weeks of Paid Parental Leave
• 401k with employer match
• Team Member RSU Equity
• Discounted Stock Purchase Plan
• Personal Time Off - not only your accrued days, but also 15 fixed company holidays and four ad-hoc, "floating" holidays
• Commitment to Personal Growth with an annual stipend of up to $1,000
• Fitness Reimbursement
  
  

Please note that:

• A successful candidate will be subject to a background check and must receive satisfactory results of the same, as a condition of joining the team.
• By applying for this role, you confirm that all information submitted is accurate and complete. You further acknowledge that providing false or fraudulent information during the application process is cause for denial of an offer, revocation of any existing offer, or other adverse action, up to and including termination after the start of your commencement of work.
  
  

Don't meet every requirement listed? Studies show that women and people of color are less likely to apply for jobs when they don't meet every requirement. At IZEA, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive community, so if you think you could crush this role, even without all the listed qualifications, please apply! You may be exactly who we didn't even know we needed.

Why would you want to work here?

The act of hiring is not simply to up the headcount or to fill a seat quickly. When we hire at IZEA, it's to add to our strong existing roster of talent and choose the right individual to impact, collaborate, commit, inspire, and grow alongside our tenured teams.

We take great pride in creating a positive work environment for all our employees - from our investment in team member ongoing education, to the ability to influence real change across our business - we are dedicated to your long-term growth and success.

At IZEA, you have an opportunity to make an impact on a global scale. IZEA connects leading brands with creators ranging from TikTok stars to travel bloggers and everyone in-between. We are the pioneers fueling the democratization of information, entertainment, marketing, and commerce. Our platforms fuel the burgeoning Creator Economy, filled with the next generation of artists, poets, filmmakers, photographers, thought leaders, comics, actors, and musicians. What you do here will impact hundreds of thousands of people directly and influence the actions of millions more.

We provide a modern, virtual workplace that welcomes people from diverse backgrounds and viewpoints. IZEA places value on action and results. We seek individuals that thrive in a challenging and fast-evolving work environment. While the company certainly is not a startup, our executives remain active player-coaches -- they roll up their sleeves and get their hands dirty by working side-by-side with our team members across all levels of seniority to accomplish our common goals.

If you are the very best at what you do and seeking an opportunity to attack the "never been done before" with a passionate team of dreamers and doers, we encourage you to apply.

California residents, please use the following link to view the types of information we may gather from California residents who are applicants, employees, or contractors of IZEA, and how we use such information: https://izea.com/california-employee-applicant-independent-contractor-privacy-notice