Media Partnership Manager

ArchiPro; California; On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

ArchiPro, the leading architecture and design platform expanding into the United States, seeks a Brand Partnerships Director to lead relationships with premium product brands in architecture and interiors. You will open strategic conversations with CMOs, founders and senior marketers, shaping how ArchiPro goes to market and delivering value beyond traditional advertising.

You'll bring existing brand relationships, drive new partnerships, and collaborate with events and content programs to scale

Qualifications

• Experience selling to design and luxury brands.
• A track record building partnerships with premium product brands.

Responsibilities

• Build relationships with marketing leaders and senior decision-makers at premium product brands in the US.
• Bring new brands to ArchiPro through consultative conversations and value-led selling.
• Design partnerships across memberships, media, content, product launches, films and events.
• Translate audience and performance data into clear recommendations for clients and ArchiPro.
• Lead partnership reviews and annual planning with clients.

Job description

ArchiPro is the largest curated architecture and design platform to come out of New Zealand. Trusted by leading brands and professionals across New Zealand and Australia, we're now launching in the United States, and we're looking for an exceptional Brand Partnerships Director to lead our relationships with the country's most respected product brands.

You've already sold media, advertising or brand partnerships into this world. You might come from a design or shelter publisher, a design platform, a trade-show business or an agency. You understand how premium brands in kitchens, bath, furniture, lighting, surfaces and building products market themselves, and you can sit across the table from a CMO, Marketing Director or founder and help them build a better strategy.

About ArchiPro

ArchiPro is a global marketing and media platform for the architecture, building and design industry. It connects more than 600,000 monthly users with the brands, products and professionals behind exceptional spaces. Our audience includes homeowners actively planning and building, alongside architects, interior designers and builders researching the products and people behind their projects.

Brands invest in ArchiPro to reach and influence these audiences. But simply being visible isn't enough. We want to be an extension of our clients' marketing teams, not just another place they advertise. We use our audience, data and expertise to help them decide who to reach, how to position themselves, and what content to create and how to turn exposure into commercial results.

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The Role

As Media Partnership Manager, you'll be one of our first commercial leaders in the US. You'll open relationships with some of the most respected product brands in American architecture and interiors, and shape how ArchiPro goes to market here.

One conversation might be with a brand's CMO about reaching more specifying architects. Another might be planning a product launch, a content programme or an event partnership. Another might be with a founder about how their brand should position itself in the architectural market.

There is a clear commercial goal: you'll bring new brand partners onto the platform, negotiate and close agreements, and grow those partnerships over time. But your first instinct should be to understand the client, not to sell. When we understand a client's business and keep creating value, the commercial conversation follows.

What You'll Do

• Build relationships with marketing leaders, founders and senior decision-makers at premium product brands across the US.
• Bring new brands into ArchiPro through consultative, insight-led conversations rather than transactional selling.
• Design partnerships across memberships, media, content, product launches, films and events.
• Turn audience and performance data into a clear story about what's working and what should happen next.
• Lead performance reviews and annual partnership planning with your clients.
• Represent ArchiPro at events like KBIS, ICFF and NYCxDESIGN, and in the A&D community.
• Feed what you learn back into ArchiPro, and help shape the playbook and team as we scale.

Who We're Looking For

You've already sold to this industry. Your background may be in:

• design and shelter media
• design and specification platforms
• trade shows and design events
• an agency working with home, design or luxury brands
• a senior marketing role at a product brand

Your title might be Account Director, Brand Partnerships Director, Integrated Sales Director or Client Partner.

You understand marketing well beyond the jargon: brand, positioning, audience, media, content, campaigns and return on marketing investment. You're commercially confident and comfortable discussing investment, negotiating and asking for a decision. You're also curious. You listen, ask good questions and challenge a client's thinking respectfully when there's a better approach.

You'll bring existing relationships with brands in architecture, interiors, home or luxury, and you enjoy being in market: visiting showrooms, attending events and being part of the design community. This is not a role for someone who wants to manage relationships mainly through email and Zoom.

The Person

You're ambitious and intelligent, and you take ownership. You can work independently but want to be part of a highly ambitious team. You don't accept "that's how we've always done it". You want to raise the standard of how brands market themselves in architecture and design, and to help build ArchiPro in the US from the ground up.

If you're an exceptional marketer who happens to be commercially strong, rather than a salesperson who has picked up some marketing language, we'd particularly like to hear from you.