Wonder

Partnerships Manager, Wonder Create

Wonder$128K — $143K *
Food & Beverages
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3-6 years of experience in partnerships, account management, or sales
  • Experience with creator, influencer, or celebrity negotiations
  • Proven ability to manage and grow high-value relationships
  • Strong communicator able to influence diverse stakeholders
  • Highly analytical, able to turn data into actionable strategies
  • Entrepreneurial mindset comfortable with ambiguity
  • Established creator relationships are a plus

Responsibilities

  • Develop go-to-market strategies for creator partnerships
  • Generate and define sales pipeline for creator acquisition
  • Guide creators through the onboarding process, from concept development to go-live
  • Manage and nurture relationships with top-tier creators over time
  • Analyze performance metrics to identify growth opportunities
  • Collaborate with product, marketing, and operations teams to enhance creator experiences
  • Define best practices and tools for scaling creator partnerships

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation package with equity
  • 401(k) plan
  • Choice of medical, dental, and vision plans
  • Company-paid disability coverage
  • Flexible paid time off
  • Paid parental leave
  • Discounted meals and perks across Wonder brands
Full Job Description
About the Role

Wonder Create is hiring a Creator Partnerships Manager to own and grow a portfolio of top creators building restaurant concepts on our platform. This role sits at the intersection of sales and account management, acting as both the initial deal lead and long-term relationship owner for critical creators. You will serve as a trusted advisor, helping creators bring their concepts to life, scale their businesses, and maximize long-term value on Wonder.

This is a highly external-facing role that blends high-touch relationship management with strategic growth initiatives. You will work closely with the Wonder Create GM, product, operations, and marketing teams to ensure creators have a seamless experience from onboarding through ongoing performance, while surfacing insights that shape the future of the business.

About the Opportunity

Sales and Onboarding
  • Develop go-to-market strategy
  • Define and generate sales pipeline
  • Drive creator acquisition from first conversation through launch, positioning Wonder Create as the platform to build and own the next generation of restaurant brands
  • Own onboarding for new creators, guiding them through concept development, menu creation, and go-live


Strategic Creator Partnerships
  • Manage and grow a portfolio of top-tier creators, building strong, long-term relationships
  • Act as a strategic advisor, helping creators evolve their concepts, menus, and brands over time


Performance and Growth
  • Analyze concept performance and identify opportunities to drive revenue and engagement
  • Provide clear, actionable recommendations to help creators optimize their menus and business


Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Partner with product, marketing, and operations teams to improve the creator experience
  • Advocate for creators internally, ensuring their needs are reflected in roadmap and execution


Process and Scale
  • Help define the creator playbook, tools, and best practices to scale creator partnerships as the business grows


You Are Energized By
  • Building relationships with founders, creators, and entrepreneurs
  • Helping turn ideas into real businesses that generate revenue
  • Using data to uncover insights and drive growth
  • Operating in a fast-paced, zero-to-one environment
  • Owning outcomes and driving measurable impact


Qualifications
  • 3-6 years of experience in partnerships, account management, or sales
  • Experience working with and negotiating creator, influencer, or celebrity deals
  • Experience managing and growing high-value relationships, ideally with creators or celebrities
  • Strong communicator with the ability to influence and advise a wide range of stakeholders
  • Highly analytical with the ability to translate data into actionable strategies
  • Entrepreneurial mindset with comfort operating in ambiguity
  • Someone with established creator relationships is a plus
  • Experience with marketplaces, creator platforms, food/hospitality, or ecommerce is a plus
  • Familiarity with CRM and analytics tools is a plus


As a matter of company policy, Wonder does not sponsor applicants for employment visa status for this role.

Our hybrid model requires 3 days a week in the office. That said, many team members choose to come in more often to take advantage of in-person collaboration and connection. You're welcome-and encouraged-to be in the office up to 5 days a week if it works for you.

New York: $128,000 - $143,000 per year.

Wonder uses geographic-specific salary structures, which means the salary offered may vary depending on where the job is located. The final salary offer will take into account various factors, such as the candidate's skills, education, training, credentials, and experience.

Benefits

The benefits applicable to this role include a competitive compensation package with equity and a 401(k). We also offer a choice of medical, dental, and vision plans, company paid short and long term disability coverage, paid time off including flexible time off for exempt employees, paid vacation for non-exempt employees, and paid sick leave in compliance with applicable law in addition to paid parental leave, discounted meals and exclusive perks across the Wonder family of brands.

Eligibility, effective dates, and available plan options vary by employment classification and location. To learn more about benefits for this role, visit our Careers page here.

We look forward to hearing from you! We'll contact you via email or text to schedule interviews and share information about your candidacy.

About Wonder

World of Wonder Productions is an American production company founded in 1991 by filmmakers Randy Barbato and Portsmouth-born Fenton Bailey. Based in Los Angeles, California, the company specializes in documentary television and film productions, with credits including the Million Dollar Listing docuseries, RuPaul's Drag Race, and the documentary films Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures and The Eyes of Tammy Faye. Together, Bailey and Barbato have produced programming through World of Wonder for HBO, Bravo, HGTV, Showtime, the BBC, Netflix, and VH1. World of Wonder is perhaps best known for its contributions towards LGBTQ programming, for which they won an Outfest Annual Achievement Award in 2011. Their most well known LGBTQ production is RuPaul's Drag Race, having managed the career of drag queen and titular host RuPaul for many years before this, eventually producing the franchise alongside the majority of its live shows, podcasts, television specials, and conventions.
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