Associate Director, Strategy (Influencer Management & Relations)

The Klick Group—comprising Klick Health (including Klick Katalyst and btwelve), Klick Media Group, Klick Applied Sciences (including Klick Labs), Klick Consulting, and Klick Ventures—is an ecosystem dedicated to realizing the full potential of our people and clients in life sciences. Founded in 1997, we have offices in New York, Philadelphia, Saratoga Springs, Toronto, London, São Paulo, and Singapore. Consistently named a Best Managed Company, Most Admired Corporate Culture, and Great Place to Work, Klick is committed to fostering a high-performance, people-first culture with creativity, collaboration, innovation, and impact across everything we do.

About our Strategy Craft
Our Strategy Craft defines where brands should play and how they can win. Grounded in research, insight, and behavioral understanding, the team shapes long-term direction and guides decision-making across the organization. Strategists partner closely with creative, media, and technology teams to connect insight to action. Their work challenges assumptions and drives growth across complex, regulated environments.

This role sits within Klick’s growing influence capability and supports operational partnerships with creators and other influencers across client portfolios. The Associate Director, Strategy works closely with fellow strategists and cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, compliant, and effective influencer programs. The role balances strategic perspective with hands-on operational leadership. It requires comfort navigating evolving influence models while ensuring rigor, governance, and executional excellence.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the execution of influencer partnerships across healthcare client portfolios, overseeing vetting, contracting, content development, and regulatory review with internal teams and external partners
• Develop and manage influencer rosters aligned to client objectives, audience needs, and platform dynamics across social ecosystems
• Partner with Strategy, Media, Social, and Client teams to integrate influencer programs into broader marketing ecosystems including paid media and search
• Document, standardize, and scale influencer operations best practices through playbooks, workflows, and team training
• Identify and implement AI-enabled tools or processes to improve efficiency, governance, and scalability of influencer operations

Required:

• 5–7+ years of experience managing creator or influencer partnerships end-to-end, including contracting, content development, and ongoing relationship management
• Demonstrated experience leading influencer operations across multiple brands or portfolios, with ownership of workflows, governance, and execution quality
• Proven ability to integrate influencer programs into broader marketing ecosystems, including social platforms, paid media, and search
• Experience developing and socializing scalable processes or best practices (e.g., SOPs, playbooks, training) across teams or clients
• Strong stakeholder leadership skills, with experience guiding cross-functional teams and client partners through complex or evolving ways of working

Desired:

• Comfort and enthusiasm for using AI as a regular part of how work gets done
• Experience working within healthcare, pharmaceutical, or other regulated marketing environments
• Exposure to emerging platforms, evolving influence models, or new partnership structures

The base salary range for this position is between USD $110,000 - $150,000. The final amount offered will be determined based on several factors such as a candidate's work location, their unique skill set, education, and prior work experience.

Our Commitment to Inclusion

Klick uses an AI-powered tool as part of an automated process to support our hiring process by analyzing your experience, skills, and qualifications to help identify alignment with role requirements. Please note that the tool does not make final decisions or automatically disqualify candidates. Hiring decisions are made by our team, with thoughtful human judgment and oversight. We are committed to fair and transparent hiring practices and have implemented safeguards to help mitigate bias and support compliance with applicable laws. If you have questions, accessibility needs, or concerns about the use of this tool, please contact us. Klick is consciously creating a culture where everyone can thrive and grow in their careers. We believe that our best work comes from our diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We strongly encourage members of historically underrepresented communities to apply, including Black people, Indigenous peoples, and other people of color, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities and people with intersectional identities. We're also committed to developing an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment process and work environment. Should you require any accommodation, please contact us at [email protected] and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs and ensure you have a positive experience.