Senior Creator & Talent Manager

Overall Purpose

At Bicycle Ripple, our Senior Creator & Talent Manager will sit at the heart of our creator offering, bringing specialist expertise, strong industry relationships and brilliant execution to the work we deliver for clients.

You’ll lead creator, talent and partnership delivery across campaigns, owning everything from casting and outreach through to negotiation, contracting, briefing, content delivery, approvals, amplification and reporting.

You’ll work across the full spectrum, from emerging social-first creators and influencers through to established talent, celebrities, ambassadors and longer-term brand partnerships, helping us identify the right people and opportunities for our clients.

Working closely with our Managing Partner and Senior Social & Influencer Account Manager, you’ll bring creator and talent expertise into our thinking from the outset and take ownership of making those ideas happen brilliantly.

As Ripple grows, you’ll also play an important role in strengthening our creator capability, industry relationships, processes and team expertise.

Key Responsibilities

Ripple is seeking a commercial, culturally tuned-in Specialist to lead creator, influencer, and talent strategy end-to-end. You will own the entire lifecycle: from brief, casting, and negotiation to execution and post-campaign analysis, while helping shape Ripple's network, internal processes, and business growth.

• Strategy & Casting: Translate brand briefs into culturally relevant creator strategies across organic, paid, and long-term ambassador partnerships.

• End-to-End Execution: Lead discovery, outreach, briefing, contracting, content approvals, usage rights, and performance tracking across multiple simultaneous campaigns.

• Commercials & Negotiation: Confidently negotiate fees, deliverables, exclusivity, and licensing. Build and manage budgets, ensuring cost efficiency and compliance with advertising and disclosure standards.

• Team & Process Development: Support junior staff, refine agency tools/processes, and share emerging platform and cultural trends across the wider team and agency.

• Agency Growth: Bring specialist insight to new business pitches, spot opportunities to expand scopes with existing clients, and build Ripple's industry network.

Approach & Mindset

• Culturally Tuned-In: Genuinely passionate about creators, entertainment, social platforms, and emerging trends.

• Commercially Minded & Decisive: Experienced negotiator with a strong grasp of budgets, usage rights, and value creation.

• Organised & Proactive: Comfortable managing multiple moving parts and navigating challenges with a solutions-first attitude.

• Collaborative & Growth-Oriented: Eager to mentor others, share expertise, and thrive in an evolving agency environment where you help build the processes.

• Adaptability : Comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving environment with shifting priorities

Essential Skills & Experience:

We’re less focused on ticking every box and more interested in finding someone with strong creator and talent expertise, great relationships and the right mindset to grow with us. That said, we’d expect you to bring:

• 5+ years’ experience in influencer marketing, creator partnerships, talent management or a closely related role

• Strong experience delivering creator campaigns, talent collaborations and partnerships end-to-end

• Strong knowledge of the UK creator, influencer and talent landscape

• Existing relationships across creators, talent agents, managers and/or creator partners

• Proven experience identifying, casting and recommending creators against client briefs

• Experience negotiating fees, deliverables, usage rights, exclusivity and paid amplification

• Good understanding of creator contracting, disclosure requirements and industry best practice

• Experience managing creator and talent budgets and multiple campaigns simultaneously

• Excellent organisational and project management skills with strong attention to detail

• Confidence presenting creator and talent recommendations to clients and internal stakeholders

• Strong understanding of major social platforms, creator formats and emerging trends

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Ideal additional skills and attributes:

• Experience working with celebrity or entertainment talent alongside social-first creators

• Experience developing longer-term ambassador, creator or talent partnerships

• Experience across both organic creator partnerships and paid amplification

• Experience contributing to pitches or new business

• Experience working across regulated or compliance-heavy categories

Remuneration & Benefits:

£42,000–£46,000, depending on experience.

Flexible, extensive benefits post probation can be found here .

London or Manchester options available.

Reasonable Adjustments

Please inform the People team if you require support prior to or during your interview and we will endeavour to support you to ensure you have every possible chance of success.

What to Expect from here

Feedback on whether we’d like to chat to you in an initial interview with the hiring manager

• 1st stage: 30 minutes Google meets CV run-through with the hiring manager.

• 2nd stage: in-person interview including a response to brief and meet the team.