Director, Partnerships, Collabs PR

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Director, Partnerships, Collabs, & PR based in United States.

This is a senior brand and partnerships role focused on building meaningful connections across culture, talent, entertainment, fashion, beauty, and strategic brands.

You will lead the development of high-impact collaborations, talent relationships, licensing opportunities, and experiential moments.

The role combines relationship building and creative ideation with commercial judgment, contract management, and operational execution.

You will own partnerships from initial sourcing and negotiation through launch, performance tracking, and renewal opportunities.

You will also manage the day-to-day relationship with an external PR agency and help shape impactful earned-media programs.

Working cross-functionally, you will coordinate closely with Brand Marketing, Creative, Social, Influencer, Product, Retail, Operations, Legal, and Finance teams.

This opportunity is designed for a highly connected, organized, and commercially savvy leader who can turn ambitious cultural ideas into successful business initiatives.

Accountabilities:

• Develop the partnership strategy across brand collaborations, talent, ambassador programs, retail partnerships, licensed intellectual property, experiential initiatives, and cultural opportunities.
• Identify new partnership categories, market whitespace, and opportunities aligned with brand positioning, growth priorities, and consumer trends.
• Evaluate inbound partnership requests from talent, agencies, brands, retailers, and other prospective partners.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with talent, managers, agents, agencies, brands, retailers, and strategic partners.
• Serve as a key day-to-day contact for external partners and relationship stakeholders.
• Support the negotiation and structuring of talent, partnership, and licensing agreements, including scope, economics, rights, usage, exclusivity, approvals, and deliverables.
• Draft and redline partnership and talent contracts while coordinating Legal review and internal approvals.
• Manage partnerships from signed agreement through launch, overseeing communication, timelines, approvals, asset collection, and contractual deliverables.
• Identify partnership risks, execution gaps, missed deadlines, and other issues and drive them toward resolution.
• Administer licensing operations, including approvals, product and asset requirements, line sheets, retail listing coordination, and post-launch reporting.
• Maintain an organized repository of partnership terms, rates, rights, deliverables, performance data, and renewal opportunities.
• Own the collaboration and partnership calendar, coordinating launches, activations, contractual milestones, and renewals with broader marketing and retail calendars.
• Partner cross-functionally to ensure products, creative assets, content, events, and programs are delivered on schedule.
• Manage partnership and event budgets, vendors, invoices, and payments in coordination with Finance.
• Prepare leadership recap materials covering deliverables, performance, outcomes, and key learnings.
• Establish PR strategy and priorities in partnership with the external agency.
• Manage the PR agency relationship, including campaign briefs, scopes of work, assets, deliverables, timelines, and escalations.
• Track agency performance and media coverage against campaign calendars and address execution gaps.
• Support press releases, statements, messaging, and other communications materials.
• Prepare leadership and designated spokespeople for interviews, podcasts, and other media opportunities.

• 8+ years of experience leading talent, brand, entertainment, or strategic partnerships from sourcing and deal development through execution.
• Strong understanding of partnership and licensing mechanics, including rights, economics, approvals, usage, exclusivity, and contractual deliverables.
• Established relationships and credibility across music, entertainment, fashion, beauty, culture, talent, and related industries.
• Strong commercial judgment and experience supporting negotiations, contracts, budgets, and vendor relationships.
• Experience managing or briefing external PR agencies and holding partners accountable for scope, timelines, and deliverables.
• Demonstrated ability to build trusted relationships with talent, agents, managers, agencies, brand executives, vendors, and senior external…