Brand Partnerships Manager

About the Company

Thrillophilia is looking for a Brand Partnerships Manager to build high-value partnerships with global tourism boards, consumer brands and lifestyle companies.

About the Role

You will identify commercial opportunities, create original travel-led IPs and convert strong creative ideas into meaningful partnership revenue. This is not a sponsorship-sales role where logos are inserted into existing content. You will bring together brand objectives, traveller insights, creators, content and Thrillophilia's distribution to create partnerships that brands genuinely want to invest in.

Responsibilities

• Build and own the revenue pipeline for brand and tourism-board partnerships
• Identify and pitch opportunities to tourism boards, cameras, automobiles, fintech, hospitality, airlines and lifestyle brands
• Develop original travel IPs with brands such as GoPro, Sony, KTM and other category leaders
• Convert business objectives into sharp campaign ideas, partnership decks and commercial proposals
• Create multi-platform properties across creators, films, social content, experiences, events, PR and distribution
• Lead partnership conversations from first meeting through negotiation and closure
• Structure deliverables, pricing, usage rights, timelines and partnership economics
• Work closely with creative, creator, production, social and performance teams to deliver campaigns
• Protect creative quality while ensuring campaigns achieve the partner's business objectives
• Build long-term annual partnerships rather than isolated campaign deals
• Own revenue targets, deal profitability and partner satisfaction

Qualifications

• 5–10 years of experience in branded content, media sales, brand partnerships, creative solutions, sponsorships or integrated marketing
• Experience working with creative agencies, media companies, content studios, creator platforms or experiential businesses
• A strong network across brand, media and marketing decision-makers
• Evidence of personally pitching and closing meaningful partnership deals
• Ability to develop compelling IPs—not merely sell inventory
• Strong commercial negotiation, presentation and storytelling skills
• Understanding of creators, social media, content production and digital distribution
• Ability to work across strategy, creativity, sales and execution
• Strong ownership, urgency and comfort working directly with senior stakeholders
• Practical use of AI for research, opportunity mapping, pitch development and partnership intelligence

Required Skills

• You can enter a client meeting with an insight—not just a media kit
• You understand what makes an idea creatively exciting and commercially fundable
• You can turn a destination, product or cultural behaviour into a scalable content property
• You have sold ideas to senior brand leaders and defended their commercial value
• You know how to manage agencies and internal teams without losing momentum
• You are equally comfortable discussing creative concepts, campaign economics and revenue targets
• You want to create travel properties people remember—not another branded reel

Preferred Skills

• A strong pipeline of large tourism-board and brand partnerships
• Original Thrillophilia-owned travel IPs created with leading brands
• Meaningful partnership revenue with healthy campaign economics
• More annual and multi-campaign relationships
• Campaigns that partners want to renew and audiences genuinely want to watch
• Thrillophilia becomes a preferred travel-content and creator-marketing partner for major brands

Pay range and compensation package

This role is for someone who can transform a blank page into a powerful travel IP—and then persuade a major brand to fund it.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Thrillophilia is committed to diversity and inclusivity.