Tik Tok wants to hire content partnerships manager from Nigeria, 2 others

The most popular short-form video hosting service on App Store and Play Store, TikTok has opened a job listing available for people in Sub-Saharan countries. Although TikTok has global offices, there are none in Africa as a whole. The job listing is opening to three African countries – Lagos (Nigeria), Kenya, and Johannesburg (South Africa) and is being termed as a local partnership.

The team is put together is a local partnership arm of their global Operations & Marketing organization. The job will primarily serve the West, East, and Southern markets as those are the areas that use it the most.

The position is set up to help deliver a commitment to regions that have not been catered to properly but make up an influential part of the content on the app. TikTok intends to champion and understand the content creators native to these regions.

In order to expand the lifestyle and education vertical, the Content Partnerships Manager for Sub-Saharan Africa will be in charge of putting TikTok’s plan into practice and leading localization. Fashion, beauty, food, travel, motivation, and other educational content are some of the vertical’s categories that will be focused on.

What the Content Partnerships Manager for Sub-Saharan Africa will be responsible for

Find, welcome, and cultivate strong connections with content partners.

To achieve distinctive results through partnerships, negotiate and carry out partner agreements.

Create a thorough localized strategy to promote partner development and growth (top publishers, public figures).

Define distinct tactics to meet local market needs using data and experience.

Monitor, evaluate, and improve the output of regional content partners.

Conduct account performance reviews for elite partners in order to foster development and performance and to create strategic alignment.

Increase publisher content quality, platform engagement, and audience growth, as well as analyze individual and overall creator performance.

Apply creative thinking to content development and campaign ideation.

What qualifications do you need to have?

A Bachelor’s degree or a higher qualification, with a minimum of 4+ years in an external facing partner role or creator facing experience in TV/media or Internet, working with talent and content creators.

Demonstrated experience identifying, negotiating, and executing content partnerships. This is not an advertising or sales role.

Interest in lifestyle and education across Sub-Saharan Africa and the ability to influence others in the space.

Existing relationships with a network of top creators, influencers, brands, publishers, institutions, and content partners within categories such as fashion, beauty, food, travel, motivation, and other instructional content lead them towards partnership.

A deep understanding of the publisher and creator culture.

Exceptional communication and presentation skills.

Comfortable providing partner support over the phone, email/web, and in-person. –