Director, Entertainment Marketing & Advisory

William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, LLC; Canada; Sur place; CAD 113 000 - 150 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, LLC (WME Group) seeks a Director-level Talent Partnerships to lead global brand partnerships and oversee complex talent deals from strategy to execution. You will advise clients, negotiate with legal teams, and manage multi-project engagements across paid, earned, owned and experiential channels.

You will cultivate relationships with talent reps, agencies, studios, and digital platforms while guiding a high-performing team and driving growth opportunities

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, Media Studies, Entertainment, or related field.
• 7+ years of experience in entertainment marketing, talent partnerships, and/or influencer marketing.
• Experience developing and executing celebrity, creator, athlete, and entertainment partnership strategies for leading brands.
• Proven track record leading high-profile talent negotiations and managing complex partnership agreements from inception through execution.
• Strong relationships across production, talent, studios, and digital platforms; Gen Z content familiarity.
• Ability to lead multiple client engagements with exceptional client service.
• Strong creative, strategic, business acumen; creating briefs, pitch decks, and content proposals.
• Excellent communication, presentation, storytelling, negotiation, and relationship management with execs.
• Experience managing direct reports, account financials and revenue planning.
• Highly organized with attention to detail in a fast-paced environment.
• Proactive, entrepreneurial, dependable team player with a solutions-oriented mindset.
• Maintain professionalism and confidentiality at all times.

Responsabilités

• Develop and lead comprehensive talent partnerships that align with brand objectives, cultural trends, and marketing initiatives.
• Identify, evaluate, secure, and execute partnerships across paid, earned, owned and experiential channels, managing full lifecycle.
• Provide strategic counsel on talent selection, usage rights, and partnership optimization.
• Lead complex talent negotiations with Business Affairs and legal teams.
• Build and maintain relationships with talent reps, agencies, managers, publicists, studios, networks, and digital platforms.
• Collaborate with brand, strategy, creative, experiential, communications, media and legal teams.
• Lead day-to-day client relationships and maintain account organization.
• Oversee project timelines, budgets and forecasting across engagements.
• Develop executive presentations and client-facing proposals.
• Contribute to business development and new pitches.
• Mentor and manage junior team members.
• Leverage internal expertise across WME to unlock opportunities.

Formation

Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, Media Studies, Entertainment, or a related field

Description du poste

The Role and What You'll Do:

WME Group is seeking a talent partnership executive at the Director level to join the Entertainment Marketing & Advisory (EM&A) team. This individual will lead the development and execution of talent partnerships for global consumer brands, serving as a trusted advisor to clients while overseeing complex talent deals and programs from strategy through execution.

• Develop and lead comprehensive talent partnerships that align with brand objectives, cultural trends, and broader marketing initiatives.
• Identify, evaluate, secure, and execute celebrity, creator, athlete, musician, and entertainment partnerships for brands, across their paid, earned, owned and experiential channels. Oversee the full partnership lifecycle-from opportunity identification and talent sourcing through post-campaign measurement.
• Provide strategic counsel on talent selection, cultural relevance, risk assessment, usage rights, and partnership optimization.
• Lead complex talent negotiations in partnership with Business Affairs and legal teams, balancing budget considerations and production/service requirements. Fundamental understanding of SAG agreements and implications is a must.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with talent representatives, agencies, managers, publicists, production companies, studios, networks, streamers, and other key industry partners.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with brand, internal teams and third party stakeholders (IATs) across production, strategy, creative, experiential, communications, media and legal.
• Lead day-to-day client relationships, maintaining account organization and regular communications with the brand.
• Oversee project timelines, budgets and forecasting, across multiple client engagements.
• Develop executive-level presentations, strategic POVs, talent recommendations, and client-facing proposals that drive strategic decision-making.
• Contribute to business development by identifying growth opportunities, generating upstream insights, and supporting new business pitches.
• Mentor and manage junior team members, fostering professional development while strengthening overall team capabilities and execution.
• Collaborate across WME to leverage internal expertise/relationships, unlock new opportunities and develop best-in-class entertainment and talent partnership solutions.

You Have These:

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, Media Studies, Entertainment, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in entertainment marketing, talent partnerships, and/or influencer marketing.
• Extensive experience developing and executing celebrity, creator, athlete, and entertainment partnership strategies for leading brands.
• Proven track record leading high-profile talent negotiations and managing complex partnership agreements from inception through execution.
• Deep understanding of the entertainment industry, including established relationships across production, talent, studios, and digital platforms, and familiarity with Gen Z-focused content and talent
• Demonstrated ability to lead multiple high-priority client engagements simultaneously while delivering exceptional client service.
• Strong creative, strategic, and business acumen with experience developing compelling creative briefs, pitch decks, and content proposals
• Excellent communication, presentation, storytelling, negotiation, and relationship management skills, including engagement with executive stakeholders
• Experience managing direct reports, account financials and revenue planning.
• Highly organized with exceptional attention to detail and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
• Proactive, positive, entrepreneurial, and dependable team player with a solutions-oriented mindset.
• Ability to maintain professionalism and strict confidentiality at all times.

Per local requirements and in the interest of transparency, the rate shown below reflects the prevalent current hiring range for this position. Hiring pay rates are based on a number of factors, including location and may vary depending on job-related qualifications, knowledge, skills and experience. The company strives to provide locally competitive rewards packages, which include base rate along with, as applicable, short- and long-term incentives, growth and developmental opportunities, and robust benefits, such as health care, retirement, vacation and other paid time off, and additional offerings.

Hiring Rate Minimum: $112,500 annually (minimum will not fall below the applicable state/local minimum salary thresholds)

Hiring Rate Maximum: $150,000