Artifact Uprising is building a brand people recognize, trust, and choose because it stands for something and is shared with care. We're looking for a Brand Partnerships Manager to help bring that brand into the world through thoughtful relationships, credible collaborations, and earned moments that reinforce its value.

This role sits at the intersection of brand, culture, and connection. You'll shape how we work with ambassadors, creators, and partners to make beautiful storytelling possible, extending our story to new audiences in ways that feel natural, elevated, and worth sharing.

This is a hybrid role located in Denver, CO, reporting to the Director of Brand Marketing.

Job Responsibilities

• Own Artifact Uprising's external partner ecosystem end-to-end, serving as the primary point of contact for ambassadors, creators, collaborators, and select brand partners.
• Strengthen and evolve our ambassador program by refining partner curation, improving briefing, and building closer relationships that lead to higher-quality creative and more meaningful advocacy.
• Under the guidance of the Brand Marketing Director, help shape how partnerships grow over time, identifying potential collaborators and establishing early relationships that set the foundation for future brand moments.
• Steward partnerships from outreach through ongoing engagement, ensuring every interaction reflects our values, point of view, and standards for quality.
• Serve as the day-to-day liaison with our PR agency, helping drive ongoing communication, manage requests, and ensure partners are equipped with clear brand priorities and upcoming GTM moments.
• Support brand storytelling within B2B partnerships as that channel scales, helping translate our voice and perspective into partner-facing narratives and experiences.
• Partner with the Community Manager to monitor and strengthen brand reputation, contributing to thoughtful approaches around reviews, feedback, and trust-building.
• Collaborate closely with Brand, Social, Creative, and Growth teams to ensure partner content is well briefed, relevant to activate across channels, and designed to travel.

Qualifications

• 4-6+ years of experience in brand partnerships, influencer or ambassador programs, or brand marketing, ideally within premium, design-led consumer brands.
• Strong instinct for brand fit, taste, and cultural relevance, with an emphasis on quality over scale.
• Experience managing external partners with consistency and professionalism.
• Fluency working closely with PR agencies in support of brand storytelling and launch moments.
• Ability to own both relationship-building and execution details, from briefing through follow-up.
• Proven ownership of a defined workstream, driving progress over time.
• Highly organized, with the ability to manage multiple partnerships simultaneously.
• Collaborative by nature, with experience working cross-functionally to align partners, creative, and business goals.
• Experience using data and performance signals to evaluate programs, refine approach, and hold work accountable to clear KPIs.
• Clear communicator who represents the brand well internally and externally.
• Drawn to building brands through trust, storytelling, and advocacy rather than short-term amplification.

Impact in the first 6-12 months

• Bring greater clarity and consistency to how Artifact Uprising works with external partners, raising the bar for relationship management and creative quality.
• Strengthen the performance of the ambassador program through more targeted outreach, sharper briefs, and deeper ongoing partnerships.
• Help shift earned media from campaign-driven moments toward more evergreen brand stories, supporting placements that reinforce Artifact's authority, point of view, and relevance over time.
• Improve how partner-created content moves across organic and paid channels, increasing engagement and extending the life and impact of what we create.
• Establish scalable tools and frameworks that make ambassador partnerships and PR collaboration easier to manage, more aligned to GTM moments, and more effective as the brand grows.

$80,000 - $90,000 a year

The final salary is commensurate with experience, skills, and organizational equity considerations.

Artifact Uprising is a Colorado-based company creating premium, customizable photo goods designed to help people honor their stories with beauty and intention. Through elevated design and carefully sourced materials, our products turn everyday moments into objects meant to be lived with, shared, and returned to over time.

We're a tight knit, collaborative team with a deep respect for craft and creativity. Recently named one of Built In Colorado's 2025 Best Places to Work, we take pride in building something that feels enduring and deeply human.

If you care about relationships, storytelling, and creating work people genuinely want to share, we'd love to hear from you.

Job Perks

Industry leading health, vision and dental insurance for families (Plans cover 100% for employees and up to 95% for dependents), flexible vacation policy, Gym partnership with ClassPass, 401(k) matching plan, Year-End Company Bonus Plan.

Why Artifact Uprising?

Creative Freedom. We value the creative process and look to our employees to speak into Artifact Uprising products, identity and approach - regardless of position or title. We look for driven people who demonstrate initiative to take the company to the next level.

The Working Life

We strive to create a workplace where everyone works hard but also has the flexibility and balance to enjoy life outside of the office.

It Won't Be Boring

We are a small company with big ideas - and we recognize it will take every last one of us to reinvent the way brands approach business. We believe a good workplace empowers its team to rise to new challenges, expand their skill sets and think outside of the box. Through this, we foster a company culture that is always growing, always reaching, and always looking to see things differently.

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Artifact Uprising is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, color, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.