About Motion

Motion is growing fast (3x YoY), our product is sticky and we recently raised $30M in Series B funding. We doubled our customers as well as our headcount in 2024, and have just over 50 team members.

But we’re just getting started and we need your help!

We’ve built a new category of software to bridge the gap between performance marketers and creative teams. Our platform combines creative analytics, research, and strategy. Motion is the command center for Creative Strategists.

Our customers are top ecom and DTC brands like Vuori, True Classic, The Farmer’s Dog, HexClad, and thousands more. They’ve used Motion to analyze over $13B in media spend.

The Influencer and Sponsorships Manager will live on our growth marketing team and will be key in working with the biggest players in the industry to make sure Motion stays top of mind for our customers.

Who you are 🫵

• You’ve worked at a B2B SaaS company (ideally a startup!)

• 2-5 years of experience in roles such as:

  • Influencer Marketing

  • Partnership Management

  • Brand Marketing

  • Digital Marketing

• Expertise in establishing and maintaining professional relationships with influencers and partners.

• Understanding how to guide influencers in creating content that is authentic and drives real business impact

• Ability to identify and prioritize sponsorship opportunities that deliver measurable outcomes.

• Strong negotiation skills to ensure we always get the best deal possible

• Proficiency in tools like Google Analytics, HubSpot, or influencer platforms.

Why you’ll love this role 🫶

You will get the opportunity to work with the best people in the social advertising industry. You will be on the cutting edge of social advertising, getting insights from brands spending millions and working with influencers that have grown the most iconic brands of the last decade.

What you'll do 🧠

Drive brand awareness, user acquisition, and customer engagement through collaborations with influencers and strategic sponsorship initiatives.

Build and Manage Influencer Relationships

• Identify Influencers: Research and identify influencers within the DTC and B2B space.

• Outreach and Collaboration: Establish strong relationships and come up with creative partnership ideas.

• Content Guidance: Provide influencers with creative briefs that outline messaging, branding guidelines, and campaign objectives.

• Contract Negotiation: Negotiate terms, compensation, and deliverables for influencer partnerships.

Sponsorship Strategy and Execution

• Event Sponsorships: Identify relevant conferences, webinars, or industry events for sponsorship opportunities.

• Digital Sponsorships: Manage sponsorships in podcasts, blogs, newsletters, or YouTube channels popular within the target market.

• Negotiation and Coordination: Work closely with event organizers or media partners to ensure alignment with sponsorship deliverables (e.g., booth setups, ad placements).

Campaign Management

• Planning and Execution: Develop and implement campaigns involving influencers and sponsorships, aligning them with the company’s overall marketing goals.

• Monitoring and Optimization: Track the performance of campaigns using analytics tools (e.g., engagement rates, ROI) and optimize ongoing efforts based on data insights.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Marketing Teams: Work with content, social media, and performance marketing teams to ensure campaigns align with broader marketing initiatives. Work with creative strategists to identify user-generated content opportunities or testimonials.

• Product Teams: Collaborate with product teams to understand features and value propositions that need to be communicated.

Reporting and Metrics

• KPIs: Measure the impact of influencer partnerships and sponsorships through metrics such as reach, engagement, conversion rates, and lead generation.

• ROI Analysis: Assess and report on the return on investment for influencer and sponsorship campaigns to leadership teams.

Why you’ll 💜 Motion

• Competitive market compensation, equity offering, 20 days PTO, full healthcare benefits, work from home stipend

• Fully remote team with incredible offsites and retreats to build camaraderie. Our last company retreat was a week-long stay at Lake Muskoka.

• We’ve found product market fit but we’re still so early that you will have a major impact.

• Our team is very ambitious, super capable and low on egos

• Our customers are some of the leading brands and agencies in D2C e-commerce

• We want Motion’s impact in the “creative-tech” industry to be up there with the Webflows, Canvas and Figmas of the world.

• We have a deep understanding of the problem space through many years of tinkering in the industry.

• We know exactly what it’s going to take for Motion to win, and we’d love for you to join us on the ride!

2024 was a defining year here. We are starting the year with fresh funding and exceptional signals from our clients. On top of this, our founding team has built successful companies before. This role offers an incredible opportunity to get in on the ground floor (we are only about 55 people right now) to help us build a category-defining company in the “creative-tech” space.