Strategic Partnerships Lead — Brand & Experiences (Remote)

Paycom; Stamford (CT); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Long term incentive program

401K matching

Health benefits

Paid time off

Employee discounts

Job summary

Lovesac seeks a Senior Manager, Partnerships to drive high-impact collaborations that strengthen our brand and grow the business. You will identify opportunities across entertainment, lifestyle, design, culture, and creators, then lead partnerships from concept to activation.

In this remote role reporting to Lovesac Corporate HUB in Stamford, CT, you will manage budgets, collaborate with marketing, PR, social, and retail teams, and measure ROI to ensure measurable impact.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in partnerships, brand marketing, entertainment, lifestyle, sponsorships, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a strategic partnerships roadmap across lifestyle, entertainment, design, culture, creators, events, and complementary brands that ladder back to Here For Life.
• Identify emerging trends, cultural moments, talent, properties, and partnership opportunities that align with the brand and target customer.
• Build and manage relationships with external partners, talent, agencies, brands, properties, venues, and industry stakeholders from partner pitch through contract negotiation to execution.
• Lead partnership development from insight to ideation and negotiation through activation, execution, and post-event analysis.
• Create compelling partnership concepts that generate brand awareness, customer engagement, earned media, social conversation, and commercial impact, including driving traffic.
• Partner with the Integrated and Lifestyle teams to develop brand-enhancing partnerships and collaborations at the right time to drive the business.
• Develop integrated partnership programs that come to life across retail stores, e-commerce, social, PR, influencer, CRM, content, and other customer touchpoints.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to ensure partnership activations are strategically aligned, creatively compelling, operationally executable, and financially responsible.
• Lead agency and external partner relationships, providing clear direction, timelines, deliverables, and performance expectations.
• Manage partnership budgets, contracts, deliverables, and timelines while ensuring strong ROI.
• Sit at the center of a newly developed partnership and quick to market process within the organization to drive cross functional collaboration across design, supply chain, sourcing and product development.
• Establish measurement frameworks and KPIs to evaluate partnership performance and communicate results and learnings to senior leadership.

Skills

Partnerships

Brand marketing

Negotiation

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Lovesac seeks a Senior Manager, Partnerships to drive high-impact collaborations that strengthen our brand and grow the business. You will identify opportunities across entertainment, lifestyle, design, culture, and creators, then lead partnerships from concept to activation.

In this remote role reporting to Lovesac Corporate HUB in Stamford, CT, you will manage budgets, collaborate with marketing, PR, social, and retail teams, and measure ROI to ensure measurable impact.