Creative Partnerships Manager

Location: London, Hybrid Employment: Full-time Compensation: £45,000–£55,000 base + performance bonus ICONS (www.interioricons.com) is a fast-growing ecommerce furniture company selling design-led products in the US. We are hiring a Creative Partnerships Manager to build and manage collaborations with talented interior designers and other creatives. This is a hands-on role combining partnership management, project management, relationship building and creative execution. Your mission is to build a strong pipeline of creative collaborations, manage them efficiently from first contact through testing, and help turn designers' ideas into compelling visual concepts. We are looking for someone who is highly organised, personable, proactive and creatively minded. You do not need to be a furniture buyer or product-development specialist. What you will do

• Identify relevant interior designers and potential collaboration partners.
• Build relationships with designers and introduce the Interior Icons collaboration opportunity.
• Proactively approach and pitch potential partners.
• Manage multiple collaborations and external relationships simultaneously.
• Keep briefs, concepts, feedback, approvals and deadlines moving.
• Help turn sketches, references and ideas into strong visual concepts using AI and other creative tools.
• Coordinate internal review and market testing.
• Communicate feedback and results clearly to collaboration partners.
• Coordinate the handover of successful concepts to the relevant internal teams.
• Track the collaboration pipeline and commercial performance.
• Build clear, repeatable processes for managing collaborations at scale. What we are looking for
• Strong relationship-building and partnership-management skills.
• Excellent project-management and organisational ability.
• Comfortable proactively approaching new collaboration partners.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Creative eye and strong visual judgment.
• Comfortable using or learning AI image-generation and other modern creative tools.
• Commercially minded and comfortable working with targets and performance data.
• Highly proactive and able to manage many projects simultaneously.
• Comfortable working as a hands-on individual contributor. Experience in furniture, interiors or another design-led consumer industry is useful, but not required. How success will be measured
• Quality and volume of relevant collaboration partners engaged.
• Collaborations successfully agreed.
• Number of concepts progressing through the pipeline.
• Speed and reliability of project execution.
• Quality of visual concepts produced.
• Commercial performance of collaborations.
• Development of a repeatable and scalable collaboration process. Recruitment process Shortlisted candidates will complete a short paid practical exercise based on the type of work they would do at ICONS. Final-stage candidates will be asked to arrange reference calls with their previous 2–3 direct managers. We care more about demonstrated ability, execution and creativity than about specific degrees or traditional job titles.