Head of Talent Booking & Partnerships Executive Director

Step into the role of Talent Booking & Partnerships to help us utilize celebrity and tastemaker talent for firmwide programming opportunities. The talent you engage with will be the faces for campaign work, content creation, speaking engagements (both internally and externally) and a variety of other opportunities we engage with from both a paid and earned perspective.

As a Head of Talent Booking & Partnerships Executive Director in the Talent Partnerships & Culture organization, you will have leadership responsibility and deep contacts within talent management, booking or representation at a publisher, network, agency, or studio. You will be passionate about and knowledgeable of many aspects of culture - restaurants, film, music, sports, fashion - to name a few. You will report to the Head of Talent Strategy and Culture Marketing and serve as a leader across the newly formed team.

Job responsibilities

• Serve as a thought partner to identify what kinds of talent our business lines should be working with, and connect with their agents/representatives in tactful, meaningful ways.

• Create processes for talent outreach and intake, ensuring a positive experience that showcases our brand's values.

• Oversee day-to-day operations for celebrity talent booking, for example: setting up interviews or collecting assets for a new content series.

• Lead a team of talent relations professionals focused on development and management of on-going talent relationships

• Develop unique partnerships with brands, platforms and business entities to create strong cultural connections between talent and consumers.

• Serve as a sounding board and internal expert for helping lines of business identify pathways for successful partnership with talent

• Manage logistics around talent partnerships and programming for talent engagements with both internal partners, external representation and talent directly

• Be the point of connectivity for talent relations with internal teams, and collaborate with them to get the most out of our talent opportunities.

• Play a role in the development and execution of key preparation materials, wrap reports, executive briefings and other materials to support our talent executions

• 10+ years of experience working directly with talent and agents in the entertainment space, ideally in media, a network, a talent firm, or other brand with deep talent relationships

• Client centric, and go above and beyond to endear yourself to the people you communicate with on a daily basis.

• Have a passion for, and point of view on, many aspects of culture - from film, to sports, to sports, to fashion, to music, and everything in between.

• Organized, a natural note taker, and someone who will do well in a role that requires a lot of documentation.

• Experience working in partnership with key administrative partners including but not limited to: Finance, Legal, Risk, Controls, Compliance and more

• Able to thrive on process, and have numerous examples of creating new and efficient work streams for your team.

• Skilled at distilling information into nicely designed decks.

• Willing to travel to engagements locally, domestically and in some cases, internationally.

• Bachelors degree in media, communications, marketing, or similar field.