Founding Head of Creator Partnerships

30tril•New York City, NY

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

An early-stage consumer company building on the household's side of food is seeking a founding Head of Creator Partnerships. This founder-led, stealth company has a working product ahead of launch. The role involves building a creator network from the ground up and leading it as the company grows. The immediate focus is to secure the first twenty founding partners: credible creators and credentialed experts in food, cooking, and wellness, chosen for their credibility and audience fit, and to establish long-lasting partnerships. The role reports to the founder, owns the function from strategy to execution, and is hands-on from day one. This position will set a precedent for how creators and experts can monetize their influence in the world of AI.

Requirements

Direct ownership of creator or talent partnerships: sourcing, negotiation, onboarding, and ongoing relationship management.
Partnerships personally closed and activated, with a clear account of contribution and results.
Creator-side experience: signing and retaining creators, as distinct from selling brand campaigns against their audiences.
Fluency in creator incentives, representation, rights, and the dynamics of long relationships.
Ease in building new relationships, including from cold.
AI-native: uses technology to work faster and leaner, as a matter of course.
A creative growth mindset: tests ideas, learns from results, and grounds decisions in experience and researched best practice.
Highly organized, coachable, and quick to move.
A team player and an independent performer, as an early-stage company requires.
Strong writing, negotiation, and organizational skills.
At ease with an early product, incomplete information, and a stealth posture.
Genuine entrepreneurial energy and real skin in the game.

Nice To Haves

Lived experience as a creator is valuable and welcome.
Experience in food, cooking, wellness, or premium consumer categories is valuable.

Responsibilities

Define the founding partner profile: who is invited, in what order, and why.
Build and manage a qualified pipeline of creators, experts, managers, and representatives.
Lead personal outreach and take each relationship from first conversation through agreement and activation.
Shape the partner proposition and commercial terms with the founder.
Coordinate agreements, rights, permissions, and disclosure requirements with the founder and counsel.
Design the onboarding experience and the continuing touchpoints that keep signed partners active, engaged, and motivated.
Establish reporting across pipeline conversion, onboarding, activation, participation, and retention.
Translate partner feedback into product and operating requirements.
Build a repeatable partnerships process and, in time, the team around it.