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title: 'Senior Creator Partnerships Manager at AppLovin'
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# Senior Creator Partnerships Manager at AppLovin

- **Company:** AppLovin
- **Location:** Palo Alto, CA
- **Posted:** 2026-09-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://boards.greenhouse.io/applovin/jobs/4701419006?gh_jid=4701419006

## Job description

## About AppLovin

[AppLovin](https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.applovin.com&esheet=54549558&newsitemid=20260608414458&lan=en-US&anchor=AppLovin&index=3&md5=a4ac8b1dcb8b5502d0154df68e322df6) makes technologies that help businesses of every size connect to their ideal customers. The company provides end-to-end advertising solutions for businesses to reach, monetize and grow their global audiences. For more information about AppLovin, visit: [www.applovin.com](http://www.applovin.com).

To deliver on this mission, our global team is composed of team members with life experiences, backgrounds, and perspectives that mirror our developers and customers around the world. At AppLovin, we are intentional about the team and culture we are building, seeking candidates who are outstanding in their own right and also demonstrate their support of others.

## About Gist

Gist is a new consumer social app built by AppLovin — a handbook for the curious. We're building our creative engine from the ground up, and we're looking for a Creative Strategist who lives at the intersection of storytelling and performance data. In this role, you'll own the creative strategy behind our paid social advertising. You'll concept, brief, and iterate on ads that are genuinely enriching, while staying deeply connected to the metrics that determine what scales. Central to this is your ability to identify, brief, and collaborate with top creators to produce authentic content that resonates at scale. This is a hands-on seat. You're not handing briefs to an agency and reviewing decks. You're in the work.

## About the Role

We are launching a new social platform dedicated to the relatable, actionable content that people use to navigate their daily lives. We are looking for a Senior Creator Partnerships Manager to be the connective tissue between our platform and the macro and mega influencer talent that will define it. This is a dealmaker role, we want someone who knows the influencer landscape cold, has relationships with talent management companies, and can negotiate custom agreements that make top creators want to build on a new platform. You will own a budget, set recruitment strategy, and be the reason our best creators show up.

A Day in the Life

- Recruit macro and mega/celebrity influencers across US lifestyle verticals to post on our platform and amplify their content elsewhere.
- Develop and own creator partnership strategy — identifying the right talent mix, negotiating custom deals, and managing relationships with influencers and their management companies.
- Own and optimize a creator recruitment budget, balancing deal value against platform growth and content quality goals.
- Build and maintain a strong pipeline of creator talent through your existing network and proactive outreach across agencies, management firms, and platforms.
- Collaborate with global cross-functional teams to structure deals and ensure smooth creator onboarding and activation.
- Track and report on creator performance, partnership ROI, and content impact to inform ongoing strategy.

The Impact You'll Make

- Define the creator roster that shapes our platform's identity and drives daily active use from launch.
- Establish Gist's credibility in the influencer ecosystem — becoming the go-to contact for talent looking to expand to new platforms.
- Build scalable partnership frameworks and deal structures that can grow with the platform across markets.
- Directly influence product direction with ground-level insight into what creators need to succeed on a feed-based platform.

## Who You Are

- 5+ years of experience in influencer partnerships, creator talent, or influencer marketing — ideally at an agency that works with brands and manages or brokers relationships with large-scale talent.
- Proven track record working with macro (500K–1M followers) and mega/celebrity (1M+) influencers across lifestyle, beauty, wellness, food, or adjacent verticals.
- A strong existing Rolodex — relationships with talent managers, MCNs, and agency contacts that you can activate quickly.
- Deep fluency in custom deal negotiation: you know market rates, deal structures, exclusivity windows, and how to get to yes without overpaying.
- Comfortable working with a creator recruitment budget and being accountable for the ROI it generates.
- Experience working with or inside a global organization while owning a domestic US remit.
- Strong communicator who can represent Gist credibly in rooms with top-tier talent and their representatives.

## Nice to Have

- Existing relationships with influencers in the 500K–5M follower range who are open to emerging platform opportunities.
- Experience at a platform (TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat, or similar) in a partnerships or creator growth capacity.
- Familiarity with lifestyle feed content dynamics — what drives daily engagement, retention, and shareability.

## Why Join This Venture

- This is more than a partnerships role — it's a chance to define the creator ecosystem of a new global product inside an industry leader.
- Enjoy the autonomy and deal-making latitude of a startup, backed by AppLovin's resources, technology, and scale.
- Work with a lean, fast-moving team that values relationships, speed, and creative thinking.
- High visibility into how creator strategy drives product growth — with a direct line to leadership from day one.

AppLovin is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about EEO rights as an applicant [here](https://www.eeoc.gov/employers/eeo-law-poster).

If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please send us a request at jobs@applovin.com

AppLovin will consider for employment all qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law.  If you’re applying for a position in California, learn more [here](https://calcivilrights.ca.gov/fair-chance-act/).

To support an efficient and fair hiring process, we may use technology-assisted tools, including artificial intelligence (AI), to help identify and evaluate candidates. All hiring decisions are ultimately made by human reviewers.

Please read our [Global Applicant Privacy Notice](https://legal.applovin.com/global-applicant-privacy-notice/) to learn more about how AppLovin processes your personal information.

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## About AppLovin

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: AppLovin provides an end-to-end software and AI platform that helps mobile app developers and consumer brands acquire users, monetize audiences, and analyze performance through advertising technology.
- **Entity Type**: Public (Nasdaq: APP, S&P 500 component)
- **Headquarters**: Palo Alto, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2012
- **Founders**: Adam Foroughi, Andrew Karam, John Krystynak

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Mobile technology, advertising, and marketing software.
- Target customers: B2B – mobile app developers (gaming and non-gaming), consumer brands, and advertisers.
- Mission/purpose: To help businesses of every size connect to their ideal customers and achieve growth through AI-powered advertising solutions.

## Products & Services
- **MAX (SSP)**: In-app bidding and programmatic ad mediation platform for mobile publishers to maximize revenue.
- **AppDiscovery (DSP)**: Demand-side platform that uses AI to find high-value users for apps and drive conversions.
- **SparkLabs**: Creative studio that produces video and playable ad creatives optimized for performance.
- **Adjust** (acquired): Mobile measurement and analytics platform for attribution, campaign tracking, and fraud prevention.
- **MoPub** (acquired): Mobile monetization platform for publishers (now integrated into AppLovin’s stack).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: ≈ $3.9 billion (as of mid-2025, per LinkedIn). Note: IPO in 2021 valued the company at ~$24 billion, and valuation has fluctuated since.
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of $5.48 billion (2025 fiscal year). Net income of $3.33 billion.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Orient Hontai Capital (led debt financing), GQG Partners (post-IPO secondary). Also partnered with TripleDot Studios (sold mobile games division for $800M in 2025).
- **Growth Signals**: Added to the S&P 500 in September 2025; divested mobile games business to focus entirely on advertising technology; continues to expand in-app bidding and AI capabilities.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Scale & Reach**: Platform reaches over 1 billion mobile game players daily across a global network.
- **Full-Screen Ad Experience**: Ads appear during natural app pauses or as rewarded videos, providing high engagement without disrupting user experience.
- **Engineering-Led Culture**: Emphasis on product excellence, speed, and continuous improvement; attracts top talent from Google, Meta, Unity, and Zynga.
- **Integrated Platform**: End-to-end solution from creative production (SparkLabs) to measurement (Adjust) to monetization (MAX) – reduces fragmentation for advertisers and publishers.

## Strategic Focus
- Double down on AI-powered advertising technology following the sale of its mobile games business (Lion Studios and other game studios) to TripleDot Studios in mid-2025.
- Continue to improve programmatic in-app bidding and expand into consumer brand advertising beyond gaming.
- Grow international presence (29 countries) and strengthen the platform’s data and machine learning capabilities.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Recognized as a Great Place to Work – 94% of employees say it’s a great place to work (vs. 57% at a typical U.S. company). Listed #7 Fortune Best Workplaces in the Bay Area 2025 (Small & Medium), #1 in Advertising & Marketing 2024.
- **Engineering Focus**: “Product first” philosophy with hands-on work from day one; interns ship real code. Flat hierarchy and fast decision-making.
- **Benefits**: 100% company-paid health coverage for employees and dependents, employee stock purchase plan, flexible time off, parental leave, retirement matching, wellness support, phone reimbursement.
- **Work Policy**: Primarily office-based in Palo Alto HQ, but global offices include Germany, China, Canada, Israel, and Singapore. No explicit remote-first policy.
- **Compensation & Reviews**: LinkedIn ratings show 4.3/5 for compensation, 3.8 overall; Glassdoor-style reviews note strong pay but fast-paced environment.

## Sources
1. [applovin.com/careers](https://www.applovin.com/en/careers)
2. [applovin.com](https://www.applovin.com/)
3. [linkedin.com/company/applovin](https://www.linkedin.com/company/applovin)
4. [wikipedia.org/wiki/AppLovin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppLovin)
5. [greatplacetowork.com/certified-company/1368858](https://www.greatplacetowork.com/certified-company/1368858)

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