Account Director, Influencer Marketing, Sports & Entertainment (Fully Remote)
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
Ideally starting mid-November
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, including others at Kyra, run a portfolio of clients and build CM teams underneath them. This one is a single client. We need someone who understands sports, betting and the US creator space properly. Experience across many brands is less important.
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 fr...