Head of Creator Partnerships

Head of Creator Partnerships
Gaply · Dubai · Full time
About us
Gaply is a product and venture studio co-building apps and software ventures with creators. We have shipped over 100 software products, including work for Forbes, Starbucks, Under Armour and Meta.
We have 20 active ventures now.
The role:
You bring creators into the studio and you own that relationship from the first conversation to a signed deal.
This is not brand deals. The creators you work with end up owning a software company built on their audience rather than renting that audience to a sponsor. Your job is to find the ones who should, get them in a room with us, and get the partnership agreed.
Base plus commission on what you close and a share of Gaply's equity in the ventures you bring in. The upside is where this role pays, and we shape the package around the creator.
What you would actually do
- Find creators and media brands whose audience and stage as a creator would be a good fit to build a business around, and open those conversations yourself (We will provide our playbook for this)
- Run the first calls. Explain the model, qualify properly, and bring in our CEO and head of product when the conversation is ready for them
- Own the negotiation on structure, cost split and equity, with us
- Keep the relationship warm after signature, because our partners are where our next partners come from
- Build the referral side: managers, agencies, creator networks and platforms who introduce deals and get paid for them
Who this is for
Someone who has managed talent and got tired of the ceiling on it. You have spent years getting creators paid by other companies, and watching those companies build real equity value out of your client's audience. You would rather be on the other side of that.
What matters to us:
- An existing network, from large creators to the agencies and platforms that represent them, and people in it who take your calls
- You can hold a commercial conversation about equity, cost and structure without a deck
- You understand why a creator says no, and you do not take it personally
- You are entrepreneurial and want ownership in what you build rather than a bigger salary for building someone else's
- Based in Dubai, California or Miami
- Arabic is useful, not required
What does not matter: whether you have sold software or worked in investment before. We will teach you the product side.
What this turns into
A brand deal pays a percentage once. A partnership here pays on signature, pays again every month the build runs, and then keeps paying for as long as the company exists. You can build a portfolio of your own equity with us.
That is the reason to do this instead of joining another agency.
How to apply
Email rayka@gaply.org or dm https://www.linkedin.com/in/rayka-moradi/ with two things.
1: One or more creators you have worked with whose audience should have been a business, and what you think that business should have been.
2: What are some of your past experiences/ CV

Work arrangement
Yes