Head Of Partnerships (Japan)

TL;DR

Head Of Partnerships (Japan): Building awareness of the hirify.global brand in Japan and onboarding the country’s most exciting independent talent. Focus on developing and executing a strategy for onboarding influential creators and helping them build successful subscription businesses.

Location: Tokyo (remote working)

Company

hirify.global is building a new global economic engine for culture, giving the most creative and interesting people on the internet the power of their own publishing platform.

What you will do

• Develop and execute a strategy for onboarding influential creators, helping them build successful subscription businesses and vibrant communities on hirify.global.
• Own key growth metrics around creator acquisition, retention, revenue, and engagement—aligning impact with hirify.global’s broader business goals.
• Build and deepen relationships with creators, talent managers, studios, agencies, tastemakers to the press to expand hirify.global’s presence in the cultural ecosystem.
• Champion Japanese creators internally by synthesizing their needs, motivations, and ambitions into product, support, and partnership opportunities.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Data, Marketing, and Communications to evolve the Japanese creator experience and improve outreach and feature adoption.
• Represent hirify.global externally—on stage, in the press, and in key industry rooms—positioning the company as the premier platform for independent creative work.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience as a leader in creator partnerships, talent development, business development or editorial
• Proven success leading and scaling teams in fast-paced environments with high agency and ownership.
• Deep empathy for creators and an understanding of the challenges and opportunities they face when building independent careers.
• A robust network across the creator economy—including relationships with top creators, talent agencies, production companies, digital media leaders and journalists
• A demonstrable and exceptional understanding of the Japanese ‘creator’ market
• An ability to communicate clearly and effectively often on a public stage is a bonus.

Culture & Benefits

• Enabling independent expression and building a better business model for creators.
• See what media, communities, and content can become when unmoored from advertising models.