Elite Athletic Gear is a fast-growing athletic accessories and apparel brand serving youth athletes, parents, and teams across the country.
We have built an online community of more than 400,000+ followers across our social media platforms and have served hundreds of thousands of customers nationwide.
We are looking for a highly organized, outgoing, and motivated Creator Partnerships Coordinator to help grow and manage our creator program. This person will work directly with our founder and CEO and collaborate closely with our marketing team.
The primary goal of this position is to recruit, onboard, and manage at least 50 new creators every month while building long-term relationships with athletes, parents, influencers, and content creators.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone early in their marketing career who understands social media, communicates confidently, stays extremely organized, and wants hands-on experience helping build a major creator program.
What You’ll Do
- Recruit and onboard at least 50 new qualified creators each month
- Identify athletes, parents, influencers, and content creators who align with the Elite Athletic Gear brand
- Conduct consistent outreach through Instagram, TikTok, email, creator platforms, and other channels
- Respond quickly and professionally to creator messages and partnership inquiries
- Build and maintain strong relationships with creators
- Explain campaign expectations, content requirements, timelines, compensation, and product details
- Negotiate creator partnerships within established company guidelines
- Send creator contracts and ensure agreements are completed before campaigns begin
- Coordinate product selections and shipments for creators
- Track creator communication, campaign status, deadlines, content submissions, and payments
- Follow up consistently with creators to keep campaigns moving forward
- Collect raw videos, edited content, photos, usage permissions, and advertising authorization
- Organize creator assets so the marketing team can quickly find and use approved content
- Coordinate Meta whitelisting and paid advertising permissions when required
- Manage creator relationships through platforms such as Insense and TikTok Shop
- Identify high-performing creators who should be rehired or developed into long-term brand partners
- Monitor TikTok, Instagram, and social media trends to help identify new creator opportunities
- Support seasonal campaigns, product launches, holiday promotions, and Black Friday preparation
- Provide regular updates to the CEO and marketing team on creator activity, deliverables, and results
- Help improve the systems and processes used to manage the creator program as it grows
What We’re Looking For
- Strong understanding of TikTok, Instagram, creators, influencers, and social media content
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Extremely organized and detail-oriented
- Comfortable managing dozens of active conversations and partnerships at the same time
- Strong follow-up skills and the ability to keep projects moving
- Outgoing, confident, and comfortable starting conversations with new people
- Persistent and motivated without being overly aggressive
- Able to communicate professionally with athletes, parents, creators, and business partners
- Comfortable working directly with the founder and CEO
- Able to work independently while collaborating with a small marketing team
- Strong sense of urgency and responsiveness
- Willingness to learn new platforms, systems, and marketing processes
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment where priorities can change quickly
- Genuine interest in sports, youth athletics, social media, or e-commerce
Experience
Previous experience in social media, influencer marketing, creator partnerships, customer service, sales, recruiting, public relations, or marketing coordination is preferred but not required.
A college degree is not required. We are open to recent graduates and early-career candidates who demonstrate strong communication skills, social media knowledge, organization, and ambition.
Bonus Qualifications
- Experience working with influencers, creators, athletes, or brand ambassadors
- Experience managing Instagram or TikTok accounts
- Experience with TikTok Shop creator programs
- Experience using creator platforms such as Insense
- Familiarity with Meta Ads Manager or creator whitelisting
- Experience using Google Sheets, project-management software, or CRM systems
- Experience with Canva, CapCut, or basic video editing
- Experience organizing large volumes of photo and video assets
- Knowledge of youth sports, baseball, softball, basketball, football, or fitness culture
What Success Looks Like
- At least 50 new qualified creators are recruited and onboarded each month
- Creator messages and inquiries receive fast, professional responses
- Contracts, product shipments, deadlines, and deliverables remain organized
- Creators consistently submit the agreed-upon content on time
- The marketing team receives a steady flow of usable social media and advertising content
- High-performing creators are identified and developed into repeat partners
- Creator assets and usage rights are organized and easy for the marketing team to access
- Elite Athletic Gear becomes known as a responsive and creator-friendly brand
- The creator program grows into a reliable and measurable part of the company’s marketing strategy
Why Join Elite Athletic Gear
- Work directly with the founder and CEO of an established and growing e-commerce brand
- Gain hands-on experience in creator partnerships, social media, paid advertising, and influencer marketing
- Help build and shape a rapidly growing creator program
- Work with large athletes and content creators across the country
- Join a small team where your ideas and performance have a visible impact
- Gain exposure to product launches, marketing campaigns, e-commerce, and brand growth
- Opportunity to take on greater responsibility as the company and creator program continue to expand
Work Location
This is a full-time, in-office position based in Bradenton, Florida. Candidates must be able to reliably commute to our office.
How to Apply
Please submit your resume along with a short explanation of why you would be a strong fit for this position.
In your response, please include:
1. The social media platforms you use most frequently
2. Any experience you have working with creators, influencers, athletes, customers, or online communities
3. An example of how you stay organized when managing multiple projects or conversations
4. Three creators you believe would be a good fit for Elite Athletic Gear and why
Pay: $45,000.00 - $55,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Health insurance
Application Question(s):
- Do you have any experience working with creators, influencers, athletes, customers, or online communities? If so, please elaborate.
- Please list 3 creators you believe would be a good fit for Elite Athletic Gear:
- If you started tomorrow, how would you find your first 25 creators?
- Which social media platform do you spend the most time on, and why?
- Have you ever created content on TikTok, Instagram, or YouTube? If yes - please link the usernames and platforms.
- What's your favorite brand on social media and why?
- Why do you think you'd be successful in this role?
Experience:
- Instagram: 3 years (Required)
- TikTok: 2 years (Required)
Work Location: In person
