Experience

Director of Brand Partnerships, Women's Magazine

New York

Business development and expansion

  • Built the brand partnerships function from the ground up in 2025, creating the revenue model, pricing and pipeline that fund the company's event and editorial calendar

  • Grew the event slate into an international season: St. Tropez Residency, Hamptons Residency, Surf Lodge Montauk, NYFW at Crane Club, PFW in Paris, Pacha NYC, and forward slates for Aspen X Games, Coachella and Art Basel

  • Expanded sponsor categories beyond beauty, fashion and spirits into consumer tech, AI, prediction markets, wellness, CPG, hospitality, travel, fintech and creator commerce

  • Created new revenue streams, including an ad-space program for tech founders, digital-only press rates for PR agencies, and no-cash hotel trade partnerships for room nights, on-property shoots and title placements

  • Structured tiered sponsorships from $5K placements to $100K to $130K featured partnerships, and negotiated title, presenting and exclusivity terms with brands such as Vestiaire Collective, Veenus, DAVIDE and Steve Madden

  • Built a five-year sponsorship pipeline aimed at long-term luxury groups such as LVMH, Richemont and L'Oréal

Operations and event production

  • Ran partnership operations across simultaneous events, managing venue relationships (Surf Lodge, Crane Club, Silencio, Boom Boom Room), talent and DJ bookings, gifting, contracts and delivery timelines

  • Scoped and budgeted brand activations per event, including ring-fenced content budgets, share-of-voice pricing and cost analyses

  • Coordinated guest lists, invitations and invite-only access with partners such as Contra, alongside the influencer and talent team

  • Managed partnership agreements from pitch to deliverables, including shoot schedules and asset delivery for editorial integrations

Marketing and brand

  • Positioned Women's Magazine as the first Gen Z luxury media brand (84% Gen Z and millennial readership) across all partner materials

  • Built and scaled the Icon Society talent network narrative (about 126M combined followers), featuring talent including Charli XCX, Cole Sprouse, Alix Earle and Coco Rocha

  • Supported social growth strategy with a goal of taking the Instagram account from about 31K to 100K followers, launching the WM EDIT content series, and building campaign carousels and social copy for events and exhibitions

  • Used cover and editorial assets (Mick Jagger, Teyana Taylor, Taylor Hill, Ellen von Unwerth productions) as headline marketing and sales tools

Outreach and relationships

  • Led cold and warm outreach to 300+ brands across luxury fashion, high jewelry, beauty, fragrance, spirits, hospitality and tech, including Chanel Beauty, Cartier, Dom Pérignon, Charlotte Tilbury, Loewe, L'Oréal and La Mer

  • Ran press and PR agency outreach in NYC and Paris (Purple PR, Karla Otto, KCD, BPCM and boutique agencies)

  • Built podcast and media partnerships and placed the founder as a guest on fashion and founder podcasts

  • Managed senior brand relationships through the full cycle, from first pitch to call to close to follow-through

Presentation and curation

  • Designed the master deck system behind every pitch, including a 40-page season deck, brand-specific decks (KHAITE, Diptyque, KITH, Ray-Ban, OUAI, Vestiaire Collective and others) and venue decks

  • Curated custom activations for each partner, such as newsstand bars, confessional booths, scent counters, styling suites, capsule drops and live data boards, fitted to each brand's goals

  • Built investor relations materials, reworking the live experiences deck to cover celebrity roster, event economics and the forward event slate

Infrastructure

  • Created the rate card, partnership tiers, deliverables framework and the Women's Magazine design system used across all brand materials

  • Built master outreach lists, contact databases and pipeline tracking across more than 20 categories

  • Standardized pitch, follow-up and deck workflows so the team could run outreach at scale

Advisor and equity acquisition

  • Sourced and brought on fashion-industry board advisors to strengthen the company's credibility and network

  • Supported investor relations and fundraising, including investor-facing decks and event economics

  • Negotiated equity, commission and IP terms in my own contractor agreement