Social Media & Influencer Manager, North America
Posted Aug 25, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
Walk me through a creator or influencer program you owned end to end, from sourcing through renewal decisions.
What they are checking: whether the candidate has actually run the full lifecycle of a program versus just executing pieces of one
Tell me about a time you cut an influencer or creator relationship that wasn't performing. What data made that call, and how did you handle the conversation?
What they are checking: comfort making unpopular budget calls and defending them with evidence, not gut feel
Tell me about a negotiation with a creator or their agent where the rate they wanted didn't match the value you were seeing. How did that play out?
What they are checking: real negotiation experience and backbone on spend, not just relationship management
Walk me through a piece of organic content you produced or directed that you think really worked. What made it travel, and how did you know Gen Z was actually responding versus just scrolling past?
What they are checking: actual platform instinct for what performs versus generic content marketing knowledge
Tell me about a time you had to build a readout that needed to survive a room with senior leadership in it. What did you include, and what did you leave out?
What they are checking: ability to synthesize data into a narrative executives can act on, since this role reports readouts to a CMO-level audience
What's the difference between managing someone new to the field and someone who's more senior than you expected when you first led people?
What they are checking: whether their leadership claim is genuine given they may be newer to managing a team of two
What would you do
Say you've got a TikTok creator whose videos are getting huge views but almost no attributed orders. Someone on the team wants to renew because the content 'feels like it's working.' What do you do?
What they are checking: whether they separate vanity metrics from real performance and can push back on soft arguments with data
If I gave your team a generative AI tool tomorrow and told you to cut production time in half without dropping quality, how would you actually restructure the workflow?
What they are checking: whether they can operationalize AI tools into a team process, not just use them personally
You've got two direct reports and one calendar spanning organic social and the creator program. How would you set the operating rhythm so nothing falls through the cracks between the two?
What they are checking: management maturity and ability to run one unified system rather than siloed workstreams
A creator posts content that technically follows the brief but just doesn't feel right for the brand once it's live. What's your process for catching that before it goes out, and what do you do if it already has?
What they are checking: quality control instincts and how they handle brand risk in a fast-moving creator pipeline
About the work
How have you set up affiliate or performance tracking for creators — CJ, Impact, Rakuten, or similar — and what broke or surprised you when you tried to trace a sale back to a specific post?
What they are checking: hands-on depth with attribution tooling versus surface familiarity with the names
Describe the scoring model or framework you've used to rank a creator roster. What inputs mattered most and why?
What they are checking: ability to build a repeatable, defensible system rather than case-by-case judgment calls
What generative AI tools have you actually used in content production — Veo, Sora, Runway, Midjourney, ElevenLabs, whatever — and where did the output fall short of what a human needed to fix?
What they are checking: genuine hands-on fluency versus buzzword familiarity, since the role requires directing and critiquing AI output
Marketplace or e-commerce content has to convert, not just entertain. How does that change the way you brief a creator compared to a pure brand-awareness campaign?
What they are checking: understanding of the shift from brand marketing to performance-driven content at a transactional business like Groupon
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