Founding Partnerships Lead

Offline exists to preserve the communities that bring people together in real life.We’re making it easier for Hosts to build their communities by giving them access to advertising and brand sponsorship revenue.Our founders are 2x founders that come from the brand and entertainment industries, with one working with people like Drake, Anthony Edwards, Nike, Riot Games, etc, and the other working with brands like Hinge, Spotify, L’Oreal, Crocs, Spotify, etc.In this role you’ll be working directly with both founders as employee #1.What You Do: Move fast and build trust. You will own partnerships with brands and hosts, deepening trust and relationships with each party, and making sure every campaign we run is a great experience and yields a great outcome for everyone involved. But you’ll also be ears to the ground - listening, strategizing and acting on opportunities.So move fast and build trust. Those two things will help us win.End-to-End Campaign ExecutionEvent sourcing & buyability — pull events from onboarded hosts that match briefs, get events sourced from not-yet-onboarded hosts for active campaigns, ensure every event is formatted correctly and buyableActive campaign coordination — IO to execution, brand comms, host comms, logistics (shipping, tracking, samples), Slack channel mgmt, batched brand updatesHost contracts + payouts — getting contracts to hosts cleanly, tracking signatures, running the payout flow, reconciling on-time payoutsPost-event reporting — photos, UGC, attendance, check-in stats, dashboard pulls, recap decks for brand partnersHost support — real-time host questions across active campaignsPartnership Management + Account GrowthAM (make clients feel loved): proactive check-ins, anticipating needs, surfacing relevant communities & event opportunities before brands ask, owning the relationship post-IO so no brand feels sold-and-forgottenGrowth (expand the accounts): identifying expansion opportunities within active accounts, packaging and framing them, warm outreach to dormant accounts, proactive pitches to net-new brands where they see patternsTurning non-working spend into rolling working media through quality of attention + smart packagingGeneral Hands-On Growth (default: action)Whatever the moment needs, with a strong default toward actionIncludes product translation — observing gaps from inside the workflow, briefing fixes to engineering teamsAlso can cover in-person event attendance, deck support, conference prep — whatever needs a bodyWhat We Look ForThe easiest people for us to hire are just ready for a ride. They’re in a flexible stage of their life where they’re ready to put a lot of their energy and life force into building a startup. They love the space we’re in enough to have a huge amount of respect for what hosts do. Maybe they’ve been a host in the past. They understand the marketing industry and can put themselves in the POV of a brand enough to create a great experience for all of the brands that will be working with us.Confident but humble.Self-motivatedCurious and open-mindedRole Pros and ConsPROS:We care a shit ton about the work because it matters. and we care a lot about each other, too. we’re warm. we care. we’re gonna try to make sure you always feel that as we’re grinding through this journey.You will see your impact in real-time. hosts need us, and you’ll feel that. and it should be rewarding for your hard work to see that.We work hard. We expect a lot.CONS:We don’t do the “cool kids” thing. We’re about the work, we’re generally just not interested in optimizing for people who work here to feel cool.We’re doing this because this problem deeply matters to us, so you’ll have to accept a high standard of not only the work, but how we carry ourselves in these rooms with hosts and clients.We work hard. We expect a lot.Who fits (not requirements, but things we look for)2–3 years at early-stage startups (