Vice President of Brand Partnerships, ATTN:
$185-220k
+ incentive compensation
Mobile-first, issues-driven media company
Be an early applicant
Mobile-first, issues-driven media company
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$185-220k
+ incentive compensation
101-200 employees
Company mission
To combine informative content with entertainment content to provide enjoyable and informative information for consumers.
Role
Who you are
- 12+ years of relevant experience across digital, social, media, agency, brand partnerships, client-direct sales, or in-house marketing
- Deep experience working with technology, innovation-led, or culturally relevant brands, with a strong understanding of how these companies think about brand, audience, reputation, growth, and cultural relevance
- Existing relationships across major technology, AI, consumer technology, social media platforms, enterprise technology, or innovation-focused companies
- A strategic and proactive client partner with experience selling or developing branded content, social-first campaigns, creator/influencer programs, integrated partnerships, or creative agency-style solutions
- Someone with an established senior-level network and a demonstrated ability to convert trusted relationships into commercial opportunities
- Experienced in building client-direct relationships and navigating complex organizations with multiple decision-makers and stakeholders
- Comfortable selling ideas and strategy, not just inventory or impressions
- Confident negotiating and closing complex six- and seven-figure partnerships
- Energized by building: you are excited by the chance to help shape a category, expand a practice area, and contribute to a company’s next stage of growth
- A strong communicator and presenter with executive presence, strong judgment, commercial discipline, and the ability to build trust with both clients and internal leadership
- A fast learner and original thinker who can thrive in ambiguity, adjust quickly to change, and bring structure to open-ended opportunities
- Passionate about ATTN:’s mission, our content, social storytelling, and the evolving role brands play in culture
What the job involves
- We are looking for an ambitious, creative, and highly strategic VP of Brand Partnerships to join our new business team, with a focus on growing ATTN:’s presence across multiple categories including and not limited to technology, social media platforms, and retail
- This is a senior revenue-driving role for someone who is excited to help build on a great foundation of marquee clients. The right person will bring trusted relationships a track record of opening and closing large-scale business, and the ability to sell strategic creative services
- You will partner with leading brands and senior decision-makers helping ATTN: grow existing relationships, unlock new opportunities, and expand the company’s role as a creative, social-first, and strategic partner to some of the most important companies shaping culture, technology, and consumer behavior
- This role is ideal for someone who has built a strong career in media, agency, or client-side marketing, but is now looking for broader ownership, and more strategic influence over how the business grows inside a fast-moving, entrepreneurial business
- You’ll be driving the full deal lifecycle, owning a revenue target and leading everything from thoughtful prospecting, pipeline development, and executive relationship-building to creative strategy, proposal development, negotiation, and close
- Own and grow a portfolio of strategic accounts, building trusted senior-level relationships across brand, marketing, media, communications, and innovation teams
- Identify and open new business opportunities through your own network, market knowledge, and ability to connect ATTN:’s capabilities to client priorities
- Sell integrated, creative, and social-first programs that may span branded content, creator partnerships, experiential, streaming, digital, social, and broader strategic agency-style solutions
- Think like a brand marketer, not just a seller so understanding client objectives, business pressures, audience needs, and the role ATTN: can play in helping brands show up with relevance and impact
- Partner closely with internal creative, strategy, account, production, and leadership teams to develop best-in-class ideas and bring them to market
- Help evolve ATTN:’s go-to-market approach within the focus categories, identifying where the market is heading and where the company can build deeper relationships
- Prioritize high-value accounts and develop thoughtful account plans that support both near-term revenue and longer-term strategic growth
- Create momentum in the market by turning relationships into meetings, briefs, project-based work, and larger-scale partnerships
- Stay closely attuned to marketing trends, technology shifts, social behavior, cultural conversation, and integrated, multi-platform campaigns
- Operate comfortably in a fast-moving environment where the role requires both senior-level strategic thinking and a hands-on, entrepreneurial approach
Our take
ATTN: is a media company that creates short-form news content for social media, designed to engage Millenials and Gen-Z. It stands out by covering topics often overlooked or underexplored by traditional news outlets, such as drug policies, feminism, and income inequality.
While platforms like Vox Media and BuzzFeed mix entertainment with news, ATTN: has carved out a unique space focused on important issues and presenting them in an easily digestible format. With a blend of humor and pop culture references, ATTN: connects with young audiences, earning over 18M followers.
ATTN: has reached major milestones that position it for continued success. Its partnership with Instagram, which is typically reluctant to compensate publishers, is a breakthrough that will help drive impactful content. Additionally, the 2022 acquisition by Candle Media led to even greater growth, expanding ATTN:'s reach across multiple platforms while staying true to its core mission. In 2026, Candle Media sold a majority stake back to ATTN's co-founders, who will reinvest the profits back into the company, setting it up for a new phase of growth and an exciting future.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2018
$15m
SERIES C
Feb 2016
$18m
SERIES B
Total funding: $37.1m
Company benefits
- Parental Leave: Generous paid leave for new moms and dads
- Health Insurance: Comprehensive health insurance for employees and their families
- 401k Plan: Retirement plan (401k)
- Unlimited PTO: Paid time off (vacation, sick, and public holidays)
Company HQ
Miracle Mile, Los Angeles, CA
Leadership
Matthew Segal
(Co-Founder)Studied at Kenyon College before co-founding OurTime.org. They spent 3 years there before co-founding ATTN: in 2014.
Jarrett Moreno
(Co-Founder)Studied at Kenyon College before co-founding OurTime.org alongside Matthew. They have been a Board Member at NORML since 2017.
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