Influencer Marketing Coordinator

Enthusiast Gaming is searching for an Influencer Marketing Coordinator to support the Customer Success team within the broader organization. This role will work directly with Enthusiast’s Influencer Marketing Manager, sales and client success teams to help bring to life groundbreaking custom activations with the industry’s best and brightest talent. The ideal candidate will have strong existing relationships within the creator space and gaming industry, a breadth of experience interfacing with clients, talent, and talent managers/agents, and a finger on the pulse of the who’s who and what’s what in the ever-evolving digital space. 

This is a very unique opportunity to work closely with a wide range of gaming-related talent, and brands, to help bring to life first-to-market activations for our clients. Success in this role will require a self-starter approach with strong initiative and drive to hit the ground running. The ideal candidate will also be proactive, flexible, resourceful, and willing to problem solve in a fast-paced, ambiguous work environment; staying cool, calm, and collected is crucial.

Primary Functions:

• Partner with Influencer Marketing Manager and Account Managers in responding to RFP’s, RFI’s and proactive client pitches. This includes collaborating to create presentation sales decks, media plans, and custom ideas/programs
• Manage post-sale talent campaigns and communications ensuring that activations run smoothly and on time, deliverables are accurate, and reporting is submitted in a timely manner
• Offer support with talent cost/rate estimates, activation and deliverable feasibility, talent suggestions, drafting and redlining contracts, and negotiating with talent, their agents, or their management
• Spearhead all communication with key internal stakeholders, talent and talent agents/management to ensure prompt and timely responses
• Have a finger on the pulse of the industry and stay ahead of content creator, creator economy, and esports/gaming trends

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Advertising, Public Relations, Communications, or related field highly preferred
• Prior agency, marketing, content, entertainment, and/or gaming industry experience preferred
• 1+ year(s) of experience in an administrative assistant or coordinator role inclusive of internships
• Strong client services focus 
• Familiarity with content creators, social media influencers, and celebrity level talent, preferably in gaming and esports verticals
• Profound attention to detail, willingness to support and own projects end to end to craft and truly deliver incredible talent activations to clients
• A self-starter who thrives in fun and result-oriented work environment, is passionate about problem solving and enjoys working on a wide variety of projects
• Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple overlapping projects and schedules simultaneously while prioritizing tasks to meet tight deadlines
• Great teammate with a positive attitude and exceptional communication skills including writing and presentation

Bonus points if:

• You are based in Los Angeles, CA or the west coast and can operate within west coast work hours
• You are very familiar with the RFP intake or sales processes, especially when it comes to digital/social media, content creators, or related talent
• You have 1+ years of prior experience working at a talent agency/management company or in-house in an influencer marketing type role
• You have a background in a legal capacity or experience handling highly sensitive contracts/agreements and familiarity with redlining and legal verbiage
• You live and breathe esports/gaming, you know the difference (and similarity) between an esports player and a content creator, you can name the biggest Twitch and YouTube streamers without batting an eye, and you love keeping up with creator brand partnerships in the space

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