Creator Partnerships Associate
About Us
Outerseas is a direct-to-consumer wild-caught Alaskan seafood brand. We ship premium sockeye, halibut, black cod, and more directly to home cooks across the country. Small team, fast growth, and a fisherman founder who is the face of the brand and deeply involved in the work. About The Role Creators are one of our biggest growth levers, and a key pillar to building and growing our community online and IRL community. We’re hiring an associate to own the entire creator engine end to end — sourcing, outreach, negotiation, briefing, deliverable tracking, affiliate operations, and reporting. You’ll work directly with our Growth Marketing Manager, who sets the strategy, creative direction, and monthly angles. You own everything underneath that: the pipeline, the relationships, the timelines, and the follow-through that turns a brief into finished assets on time. This is a builder’s role, not a coordinator’s, you’ll inherit a working program and be expected to systematize and scale it. What You'll Own Creator sourcing and recruiting. Build and maintain a pipeline of creators across our target segments — athletes, home chefs, wellness and parents. Research, vet, and prioritize new talent; keep a living database of who we’ve worked with and how they performed. Outreach and negotiation. Run first contact through signed agreement, including talent managers and agencies. Negotiate deliverables, rates, and usage rights within budget parameters we set together. Briefing and production management. Translate our monthly creative angles into individual creator briefs, then manage delivery — hooks, formats, revisions, and deadlines — so finished footage lands when the media calendar needs it. Seeding and shipping logistics. Coordinate product to creators with our 3PL, track shipments, and resolve issues fast. Our product is frozen and perishable; getting it there in good condition is part of the job. Affiliate program operations. Run day-to-day affiliate management — onboarding, links and codes, commission structures, payouts, restock requests, and performance tracking. Recruit new affiliates against the segments we’re targeting. Asset library and handoff. Organize incoming raw and finished footage so paid media, email, and organic can find and use it. Flag top performers for usage-rights buyouts. Reporting. Track spend, deliverables, affiliate revenue, and creative performance. Bring a monthly read on what’s working, which creators to re-sign, and where we’re wasting money. Where You'll Support Beyond the creator program, you’ll be in the room for how the brand shows up and where it’s headed: Brand and creative strategy. Contribute to how we position Outerseas, the stories we tell, and the angles we test — and help make sure creator work ladders up to those goals instead of running beside them. Promo and campaign briefing. Help turn sales, launches, and lifecycle moments into clear briefs for creators, designers, and channel owners. Long-lead planning. Work the marketing calendar with us — seasonal moments, holiday, and Q4 — so content and creator commitments are locked far enough ahead to actually be good. The monthly creative sprint. Five angles, creator campaigns, static ad variations, and landing pages — you own the creator half of execution and have a voice in the rest. Brand-voice copy. First-pass writing when creator content feeds email, SMS, or the site. What Success Looks Like First 30 days: you know the tools, the current roster, and the monthly rhythm. You’re running outreach independently. First 90 days: creator briefs and deliverables run through you without needing to be chased. The affiliate roster is growing against a plan, not opportunistically. First 6 months: the program is documented, predictable, and producing a reliable monthly volume of usable creative. You’re bringing ideas about which creators, segments, and brand angles to bet on next. Who We're Looking For 1–3 years in creator/influencer marketing, PR, talent coordination, social, or DTC brand marketing. Agency or in-house both count. You’re comfortable pitching, negotiating, and following up with people you don’t know — repeatedly, without it feeling awkward. Genuinely organized. Dozens of creators at different stages is the normal state of this job, and nothing can quietly fall through. Strong writer who can match a brand voice — ours is warm, conversational, and founder-led. You have opinions about brand. You can look at an angle or a promo and say why it will or won’t land. Comfortable in spreadsheets and fluent enough with performance data to tell a good partnership from a bad one. Self-directed. We’ll give you context and ownership, not hand-holding. You care about food, fishing, the outdoors, or where your dinner comes from — enough to talk about it credibly with creators. Nice To Have Agency/client experience Hands-on experience with an influencer or UGC management. Working knowledge of Shopify, Klaviyo, or Meta Ads Manager. You’ve made content yourself — it helps to know what you’re asking creators for. Logistics Type: Full-time, salaried Compensation: $45,000–$65,000 annually, depending on experience Benefits: Flexible PTO, paid holidays, sick leave Location: Fully remote within the US, with regular video check-ins Reports to: E-Commerce Growth Marketing Manager To Apply Send a resume and cover letter to [email protected]