Influencer Marketing Manager- Flipgrid

Wake up every morning and KNOW you are making a difference. Flipgrid’s mission is to empower everyone on the planet to share their voice and respect the diverse voices of others.

The Flipgrid team has focused on student voices with our short-form video application and a rapidly growing, passionate community of educators that empowers over 100 million educators, learners, families, and organizations across 180 countries. Check out #FlipgridForAll on Twitter!

We are looking for creative problem solvers and diverse thinkers—people who care about adding to our team culture and engaging the community we serve. We believe that why we do things is as important as what we do. You should be purposeful, quality-driven, curious, determined, collaborative and fun.

Love working with thought leaders and creators across the social media landscape? Have a passion for lifelong learning? We are seeking someone who understands the influencer and creator landscape across platforms to work with identify, manage, onboard, and build relationships with leaders across the social media landscape, as well as strategic business partners. In this role you will help develop influencer and creator relationships, create pitch materials, develop events and programs to support them and help ensure that they are successful on our platform. The team will look to you to have your finger on the pulse of the latest trends and creators, and business partners as well as uncover the trending creators. You will partner closely with the marketing team to support these partners and ensure that they are part of our marketing and engagement mix.

If you are a team player with a passion and understanding of the influencer world and working with partners, then we’d love to talk to you about this role!

Responsibilities

• Identify and build relationships with prominent influencers and thought leaders.
• Create and drive pitch and support materials for working with influencers and partners.
• Assist and onboard partners onto the platform.

• Work with marketing to develop, support and lead events to support creators and share best practices, product updates and opportunities.
• Attend relevant events for networking and business purposes.
• Develop content ideas and write and curate content, pitches and support materials.
• Research relevant industry experts, competitors, target audience and users and provide feedback from influencers and creators back into the product to enhance it for our community.
• Brainstorm new, creative approaches to influencer campaigns with the marketing team.

• Keep abreast of emerging trends, technologies and influencers.
• Liaising with the marketing team to create and coordinate marketing strategies that work across different channels.

Qualifications

• 3 Plus years experience with a proven track record in working with influencers for consumer application and marketing teams.
• In depth knowledge of social media marketing industry and competitive landscape.

• Impeccable verbal and written communication skills and energetic and engaging presentation skills.
• Well organized with great time management skills and attention to details.
• Outstanding project management skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and relationship building skills and networking aptitude.
• Bachelor's degree in Marketing or Communications

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

Benefits and Perks

• Industry leading healthcare
• Savings and investments
• Giving programs
• Educational resources
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Opportunities to network and connect
• Discounts on products and services
• Generous time away