Creator Partnerships Manager - Turkish Market

Principle; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 74,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Principle is recruiting a Creator Partnerships Manager for the Turkish market to grow and support its creator ecosystem in Turkey. You will manage a portfolio of approximately 100 creators, optimise content strategies and help partners expand their audiences.

Fluent Turkish and English are essential, with a strong understanding of Turkish digital culture. The role is hybrid in London under a 9-month contract, with collaboration across product and partnerships teams and occasional travel to

Qualifications

• Fluent Turkish and English are essential.
• Strong knowledge of Turkish culture, digital media and the Turkish creator ecosystem.
• Experience managing creators, influencers or digital partnerships at scale.
• Strong relationship and stakeholder management capabilities.
• Ability to interpret dashboards and metrics to inform recommendations (coding not required).
• Experience driving product adoption, monetisation or audience growth.
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration and project management skills.
• Experience managing creator/influencer events is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Manage and develop relationships with a sizeable portfolio of creators and strategic content partners across the Turkish market.
• Use dashboards, channel metrics and audience insights to identify growth opportunities and provide recommendations.
• Develop creator growth strategies including audience development, content strategy and monetisation.
• Drive adoption and optimisation of digital products, measuring impact via subscriber growth and monetisation.
• Act as a trusted partner to creators, handling complex queries and sensitive conversations.
• Build scalable engagement programmes for a large creator community.
• Collaborate with product, partnerships and other internal teams.
• Project manage virtual and in-person creator events, coordinating agencies from briefing to execution.
• Develop relationships with external partners, agencies and broadcasters in the Turkish ecosystem.
• Travel to Turkey once or twice during the contract if needed.

Skills

Turkish proficiency

English proficiency

Relationship management

Strategic partnerships

Data-driven recommendations

Cross-functional collaboration

Event management

Job description

• Contract: 9-month contract


• Location: London - hybrid, 3 days per week onsite


• Salary: £82,000 per annum

We are recruiting a Creator Partnerships Manager - Turkish Market to join a global technology and digital media organisation, supporting the growth and development of its creator ecosystem in Turkey.

This is a highly relationship-driven role working directly with some of Turkey's most established digital creators, media organisations and content partners. You will manage a portfolio of approximately 100 creators, helping partners optimise their content strategy, grow their audiences, adopt new platform products and maximise their long-term success.

Fluent Turkish and English are essential. The successful candidate will also have a strong understanding of Turkish digital culture, creators and the wider social media landscape.

What you'll be doing

• Manage and develop relationships with a sizeable portfolio of creators and strategic content partners across the Turkish market.


• Use platform dashboards, channel metrics and audience insights to identify growth opportunities and provide actionable recommendations.


• Develop creator growth strategies spanning audience development, content strategy, product adoption, monetisation and emerging areas such as AI.


• Drive adoption and optimisation of digital products, measuring impact through metrics including subscriber growth, membership and monetisation.


• Act as a trusted partner to creators, handling complex queries, complaints and commercially sensitive conversations.


• Build scalable engagement programmes for a large creator community rather than managing only a small number of high-touch accounts.


• Collaborate extensively with cross-functional teams across product, partnerships and other internal functions.


• Project manage virtual and in-person creator events, potentially involving 50-100 creators/influencers, coordinating third-party agencies from briefing through execution.


• Develop strong relationships with external partners, agencies, broadcasters and other organisations operating within the Turkish creator ecosystem.


• Potentially travel to Turkey once or twice during the contract.

What we're looking for

• Fluent Turkish and English - Turkish is mandatory.


• Strong knowledge of Turkish culture, digital media and the Turkish creator/influencer ecosystem.


• Experience managing creators, influencers, content partners or digital partnerships at scale.


• Strong relationship and stakeholder management capabilities.


• Comfortable interpreting dashboards and digital performance metrics and translating them into recommendations; coding or advanced data analytics is not required.


• Experience driving product adoption, optimisation, monetisation or audience growth.


• Confident handling challenging partner conversations, complaints and conflict resolution.


• Strong cross-functional collaboration and project management capabilities.


• Experience managing creator, influencer, community or partner events is highly desirable.

Relevant backgrounds could include social media platforms, creator economy businesses, influencer marketing, talent management, digital media, creative agencies or large consumer brands with established creator/influencer programmes. The manager specifically highlighted businesses such as Meta, TikTok, Twitch, Kick and large-scale creator/talent agencies as relevant talent pools