Influencer Marketing lead | 8 to 12 yrs | Consumer Retail | Gurugram

About MetaMorph:

We at MetaMorph, empower startups to scale and innovate by placing people at the center of their strategy. With a proven track record of supporting over 220 startups, we specialize in aligning talent with organizational needs, enhancing employee skills, and transforming employer brands. Our data-driven insights fuel decision-making and provide comprehensive support for both acquisition and being acquired, ensuring you are covered from every angle - 360°

About the client:

A fast-growing consumer business with a growing presence across multiple global markets.

Influencer Marketing Lead:

We are looking for a seasoned, dynamic Influencer Marketing Lead to head our

influencer marketing charter nationally.

In this role, you will define and own influencer, content creator and celebrity marketing strategy end-to-end - setting the vision, building the playbook, and leading a distributed team of regional influencer marketing managers across North, South, East and West India.

You'll be the single point of accountability for how we show up through creators and talent across every language market in the country, ensuring regional depth (Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati, Malayalam, Punjabi and more) rolls up into one coherent, scalable, national strategy.

You've built and led influencer or creator marketing functions before - whether at a large

D2C/e-commerce brand, a top-tier influencer or talent management agency, or an MCN - and

you know how to pair sharp campaign instincts with the discipline of running a team, a budget

and a set of vendor relationships at national scale.

You have a strong business acumen and are concerned with data and results, not just feelings.

Key Responsibilities:

● Own the national influencer, content creator and celebrity marketing strategy for us, aligned to brand and business objectives across all our brands

● Build, lead and mentor a team of regional influencer marketing managers across India setting clear goals, reviewing campaign quality, and holding a consistent bar while leaving room for regional and language-led nuance

● Design the overarching creator and celebrity partnership framework for the country -

tiering (mega/macro/micro/nano), rate cards, negotiation guardrails, contracting templates, and fraud/quality checks such as fake followers or inflated engagement

● Build and own relationships with India's leading talent management and celebrity management agencies, influencer marketing agencies and MCNs, negotiating retainers and preferred-partner arrangements at a national level

● Lead celebrity and top-tier talent partnerships for marquee brand moments, campaigns and product launches, working closely with brand, creative and category teams

● Set up and govern always-on creator programs (ambassador cohorts, always-on seeding, UGC pipelines) alongside campaign-based bursts tied to launches, sales events and regional festivals across the calendar

● Own the national influencer marketing budget, allocating spend across regions and campaigns and ensuring efficient utilization

● Manage crisis or reputation situations involving creators or celebrity partners, in coordination with PR and legal

What We're Looking For:

● 8-12 years of experience in influencer marketing, creator/talent management or celebrity

marketing, including at least 3-4 years in a leadership or people-management capacity

● Proven experience building or scaling a pan-India, multi-regional, multi-lingual influencer

marketing function - either in-house at a large consumer brand, D2C or e-commerce

company, or at a leading influencer/talent management agency or MCN

● Track record of managing distributed teams across geographies, setting direction

centrally while empowering regional specialists to move fast locally

● Deep, current network across India's creator and celebrity ecosystem - relationships

with major talent management agencies, influencer marketing agencies, MCNs and

celebrity managers

● Strong commercial acumen: experience owning a marketing budget, negotiating

agency/creator/celebrity deals, and reporting ROI to senior stakeholders

● Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication skills; comfortable

presenting strategy and results to CXO-level leadership

● Experience setting up processes, SOPs and vetting frameworks (fraud/fake-follower

detection, contracting, compliance) to run an influencer function at scale

● Bachelor's degree required; MBA or equivalent preferred

Nice to Have:

● Experience in fashion, beauty, lifestyle, consumer electronics or other

high-influencer-intensity D2C categories

● Familiarity with influencer marketing and analytics tools (Qoruz, Kofluence, Modash,

Influencer.in, etc.)

● Experience working across multiple Indian language markets and regional cultural

moments

*We will be able to connect only with relevant profiles for this role.