Head of Creator Growth

Aquent is partnered, exclusively, with a rapidly growing client seeking a visionary leader to join a dynamic team and revolutionize how creators engage with the platform. This is an unparalleled opportunity to shape the future of creator-focused initiatives, ensuring the platform continually meets the evolving needs of established brands, emerging creators, and new audiences. You will lead the transformation of outreach and sales efforts, driving substantial revenue growth and cultivating a thriving, sustainable creator community. This pivotal role requires a strategic and operational expert ready to build and scale a robust sales system within a dynamic two-sided marketplace. Your impact will be instrumental in expanding the reach and profitability of a platform that champions creativity worldwide.

What You'll Do

• Define and execute a revenue strategy that aligns with growth goals.
• Shift the focus from solely creator success to a balanced approach emphasizing product adoption, upselling, and acquisition.
• Design and implement a scalable sales infrastructure from the ground up, establishing systems for goal-setting, tracking, and reporting. This includes leveraging CRM tools to ensure visibility into all creator interactions, track sales metrics, analyze data, identify areas for improvement, and adjust strategies to consistently hit revenue targets.
• Provide clear guidance and performance goals to category leads, enabling them to excel as the faces of their respective categories.
• Work closely with the marketing team to ensure alignment between sales and marketing efforts, including lead generation and messaging.
• Drive adoption of key new features critical to future profitability.
• Reactivate established creators and acquire and support larger-scale creators who meet a defined threshold of engagement.
• Empower, mentor, and manage a team of leaders, including managers of managers.
• Foster a collaborative, results-driven team culture.

What You'll Bring

• 10 years of proven experience leading sales, enablement, customer success, and revenue operations teams in a two-sided marketplace, creator-focused platform, or comparable industry.
• Strong people management skills with a track record of developing talented managers.
• Expertise building and scaling sales functions.
• Results-driven leader that has experience implementing sales operational excellence, CRM implementation, and goal-setting frameworks.
• Strong understanding of creator communities, digital platforms, and the unique challenges of non-traditional sales teams.
• Exceptional ability to balance strategic vision with hands-on execution during the ramp-up period.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills to inspire and align cross-functional teams.

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About Skill:

Skill connects the best professional, IT, engineering, financial and administrative talent with the world's biggest brands. Our eligible talent get access to benefits such as health benefit contributions, retirement plans with match and flexible spending accounts.

Skill is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We're about creating an inclusive environment-one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.