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# Account Lead, Influencer Marketing, Sports & Entertainment (Fully Remote) at Kyra

- **Company:** Kyra
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-30
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-01
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kyra/c89ffd4d-6e72-4269-b6dd-a69faacd9ae6

## Job description

## About Kyra

Kyra is an enterprise influencer marketing platform working with brands like SharkNinja, Coach, H&M, Ray-Ban, and Converse. Our platform manages the full lifecycle — creator discovery, campaign management, content review, payments, analytics, and AI-powered intelligence across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube.

👋 About the role Permanent · Full-Time · US-based · EST Hours Target Start Date: November 2026

We're hiring an Account Director for one of our biggest sports and entertainment clients. The work covers sportsbook, fantasy and live events, and the campaigns are judged on views, CPV and how quickly we can get from brief to live post. You'll own this one account end to end, with two Campaign Managers reporting into you. The account is newly won and growing quickly into the end of the year. An interim lead is running it until then, so you'll get a proper handover and join with campaigns already live. We're looking for someone who has spent at least five years agency-side running creator programmes in sports betting, DFS or around the NFL and NBA, and who can show us the numbers behind that work.

🏟️ What makes this role different One account, in depth. Most Account Director roles, run a portfolio of clients and build CM teams underneath them. This role is responsible for one is a single client. We need someone who understands sports, betting and the US creator space properly. Senior and hands-on. You're the client's senior contact and you're also across the detail every day: who has been outreached, what's stuck in contracting, which draft is late, whether spend is on pace. You run the operations yourself. Structure matters. This client tracks delivery milestones, feedback windows and their own dependencies against a timeline. You bring the process, keep the client to their side of it and keep everyone on top of dates. Speed matters. Campaigns are built around games and moments. Turnaround from brief to live is one of the things we measure you on. The category has rules. Sportsbook and fantasy content comes with age gates, state restrictions and platform policies. You need to already know how these work. It moves fast. Briefs land with short lead times, priorities change with the sports calendar, and the client expects answers the same day. You need to be comfortable working at that pace without letting quality slip. We are an AI-native business. Kyra is Claude-first and our campaign workflows run through our own proprietary platform, built with AI at the core. On top of that there is plenty of room to use AI tools to make your own working day more efficient. We are not looking for someone who is open to AI. We are looking for someone who is already getting real value from it: building their own workflows, automating the repetitive parts of the job and using the time saved to think harder about the client. You will be expected to bring that with you.

🏈 What you'll do: the GAME PLAN Grow the client relationship. Grow the client relationship. You own the client relationship and retention on this account, and you’re measured on net revenue retention (NRR). You are the client’s senior contact at Kyra, accountable for strategy, approvals, escalations and commercial conversations. You keep them informed, manage their expectations and identify what we should be doing next with them. 🏆 Agree how the account runs. You own the operating playbook: casting, outreach, contracting, briefing, review, approval, go-live and reporting. You keep it current, and when a process is slowing delivery you change it. 📋 Make the casting calls. You set the casting strategy for every campaign: creator profile, tier, mix and volume. You set the negotiation approach on fees and usage rights and approve deals before contracting. You are responsible for compliance: 21+, state restrictions, platform policy and disclosure. 🎯 Execute delivery every day. You oversee every live campaign from first outreach to the moment content goes live. You know the status of every workstream, surface risk early and protect the quality of what we put out. ⚡ Pace the budget. You track creator spend and delivery against the contracted plan, flag variances early and adjust allocation to protect both performance and margin. 💸 Lead the team. You manage two Campaign Managers. You set priorities, review their work, give direct and constructive feedback and develop their skills. 🤝 Analyse performance. You agree KPIs with the client before launch, monitor performance in flight and adjust creator mix, creative or distribution when the data calls for it. 📊 Next campaign, stronger. Every campaign ends with a debrief. You take what we learned into the next brief so the account keeps improving. 🔁

📈 How we'll know it's working We measure success by what the brand gets from us. The brand hits its moments. Content is live when the game, the fixture or the launch happens. Creators are contracted, posts are delivered and volumes are met on the timelines the client has planned around. The brand gets the reach it paid for. Blended CPM and CPV come in at or better than the agreed rate on every campaign. The brand can react quickly. Turnaround from brief to live is short enough that the client can respond to a result, a trade or a trending moment with creator content. The brand trusts the delivery. The account runs on a documented playbook, feedback windows and dependencies are tracked, and issues leave meetings with an owner and a date. The client does not need to chase us. The brand brings us the next brief. The client renews because the work is good and the relationship is easy, and comes to Kyra first with new ideas. Revenue growth is shared with Client Solutions. The client's confidence in delivery sits with you. What good looks like by month six. The account is running to plan without the interim lead, the client has signed off the operating cadence, rates are being met or beaten, and your two Campaign Managers can each run a campaign end to end on their own.

🙋 Who this role is for

- 5+ years agency-side running creator programmes for sportsbook, DFS or fantasy brands, or US league partnerships (NFL, NBA)
- Real numbers: CPV targets you've hit, creator and post volumes per month, typical turnaround from outreach to live
- You've owned a senior client relationship yourself, including the difficult conversations
- You've managed Campaign Managers while staying close to the work
- You're fluent in views, CPV and CPM and can turn performance data into clear recommendations
- You know FTC disclosure and the compliance rules around betting content
- US-based, working EST hours
- Not currently working on a competing sportsbook, DFS or betting brand
- Organised, direct and calm when plans change at short notice
- Experience in a fast-growing business or account, where the scope, the team and the client's expectations have scaled quickly and you have had to keep delivery steady through it
- Already using Claude or similar AI tools to do real work, with your own workflows for casting, research, reporting or client comms, and able to show what they have saved you or improved

📅 Weekend work Campaigns go live around games, fixtures and events, so this role involves some weekend work. Please only apply if you're open to that. Kyra reserves the right to amend your duties from time to time in line with the needs of the business. 💟 Support If you have a condition or require an adjustment to our interview process - please let us know so we can make adjustments to support you. Please note that when you submit an application or resume, your data will be processed in line with our [privacy policy](https://www.bamboohr.com/legal/privacy-policy).

## About Kyra

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Kyra is an AI-powered influencer marketing platform and agency that helps global brands execute creator campaigns at scale.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Devran Amaratunga Karaca (CEO) and Nicholas Dart (COO/CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industries**: Influencer Marketing, Creator Economy, Marketing Technology (MarTech)
- **Target Customers**: B2B, primarily serving large enterprise brands and global retailers in fashion, beauty, and CPG.
- **Mission/Purpose**: "To make influencer marketing smarter, more effective, and easier to scale."

## Products & Services
- **Kyra Platform (SaaS)**: An AI-powered, always-on influencer marketing engine. It combines proprietary performance data (tracking 1BN+ creators and analyzing 20M+ videos daily) with automated workflow management, creator matching, campaign tracking, and measurement. It enables brands to move from brief to creator live in 24–72 hours.
- **Kyra Agency Services (Managed Service)**: End-to-end campaign management including strategy, creator sourcing, content production, paid amplification, and live performance insights. This is a full-service offering for brands that want a hands-on partner.

## Market Standing
- **Total Funding**: $22.3M across 4 rounds. The most recent was a **$15M Series A in 2024** led by Bonnier Ventures, with participation from LionTree, Torch Capital, and GMG Ventures.
- **Annual Revenue**: Estimated at $5.0M (per business database estimates).
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Headcount**: ~65 employees (+34% YoY), operating globally across 9 countries including the US, UK, Spain, Canada, Germany, and Portugal.
- **Notable Clients/Partners**: L’Oréal, H&M, Shark Beauty, Prime Video, Bvlgari, The Weather Channel, Nike, Converse, Levi’s, Calvin Klein.
- **Key Metric**: Delivers 5K+ creator posts per month, with 4BN+ views delivered.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary Data Engine**: Their "Kyra IQ" system tracks over 1 billion creator profiles and analyzes 20 million videos daily, providing a massive data advantage for creator selection and trend spotting.
- **Speed & Scale**: They can move from brief to a creator posting live content in 24–72 hours, a significant differentiator in the fast-paced influencer market.
- **Hybrid Model**: A unique blend of a powerful AI-driven SaaS platform and a high-touch managed agency service, offering clients flexibility.
- **Deep Platform Integration**: Strong, long-standing relationships with TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-Powered Automation**: Continually investing in their AI and data engine to replace manual guesswork with data-driven performance.
- **Global Expansion**: Operating in 9 countries and hiring for remote roles in the US and Europe, indicating a push for broader geographic coverage.
- **Enterprise Growth**: Targeting larger, global brands with their "always-on" campaign model and outcome-led performance pricing.
- **Full-Funnel Influence**: Expanding beyond awareness into paid amplification and creator ads to capture more of the marketing budget.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: The company emphasizes a culture of "Collaborative Excellence," "Growth Mindset," and "Product Thinking." They describe themselves as adaptable, resilient, and focused on cutting through noise to build efficiently.
- **Remote-First Flexibility**: Many roles, including Campaign Managers and Engineers, are listed as remote (US and UK-based).
- **Growth Trajectory**: With a recent $15M Series A and 34% headcount growth, Kyra is in a high-growth phase, offering opportunities for career advancement.
- **Impact**: Employees get to work at the intersection of technology and pop culture, shaping influencer strategies for some of the world's biggest brands and creators.
- **Leadership**: Founded by a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree (Devran Karaca), with a leadership team that includes specialists in organizational psychology and finance.

## Sources
1. [kyra.com](https://www.kyra.com/)
2. [kyra.com/about](https://www.kyra.com/about)
3. [kyra.com/careers](https://www.kyra.com/careers)
4. [linkedin.com/company/kyra-creator](https://www.linkedin.com/company/kyra-creator)
5. [builtin.com/company/kyra-media](https://builtin.com/company/kyra-media)

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