Head of Brand & Partnerships

TL;DR

The bad

⚡️ We hire slow and fire fast
😪 No flashy merch or trips
👷🏻 Hard work
✋🏻 No stock (usually)
🗣️ English or Spanish required
👶🏻 No kindergarten standards

The good

🧑🏻‍🎤 Culture | PR | fashion | media | partnerships
🌎 Fully remote
💵 Above market rate salary
⬆️ Role can scale to Global Director of Brand
🍰 BIG cash bonuses
🔁 Rolling interviews
👴🏻 No condescending treatment

Who we are

😼 We are a small but very competitive startup.
We are incredibly visionary. Decently competent. Reasonably funded. Subpar at sticking to deadlines.

• Cool af: What we are building and how we are doing it are one for the history books.
• Chill af: Work remotely, manage your own time, skip work when you need to.
• 0% BS: 0% political behaviour, 0% bureaucracy, 0% pedantry, 0% ass-kissing.
• Give & Take: We won’t take a bullet for you but we’ll never throw you under the bus either.
• Not a: Family. But not a toxic elite team either. Just… a competitive yet reliable company.

The role

💼 You’ll own cultural marketing and partnerships.
Your job is to make sure Rkive shows up in the right rooms, media, and collabs — building the brand’s cultural footprint.

• Press & media: Pitch magazines, podcasts, and journalists.
• Events: Get us into the right conferences, panels, and cultural happenings.
• Shoots: Coordinate brand shoots, founder profiles, and ambassador features.
• Collabs: Broker partnerships with influencers, artists, and creators.
• Intel: Feed back cultural trends and opportunities into the growth + product loop.

What you’ll do

🧠 Turn presence into perception.
Translate our vision and activity into cultural relevance and media coverage.

• Media relations: Cold-email and manage journalists, stylists, photographers.
• Partnerships: Secure collabs and cross-promos with relevant names.
• Events & activations: Organize pop-ups, shoots, or talks that position Rkive.
• Founder PR: Support the CEO’s image with appearances, interviews, and profiles.
• Cross-team: Work hand-in-hand with the Head of Growth to maximize distribution.

How you’ll do it

🧠 Move fast, be scrappy.
Relationships, hustle, and taste matter more than big budgets.

• Scrappy PR: Cold emails, DMs, intros — whatever works.
• Network: Tap photographers, stylists, and culture insiders for leads.
• Taste: Position Rkive with good aesthetics and credibility.
• Collaboration: Work directly with the founder and growth lead.
• Tools: Email, Instagram/TikTok DMs, Notion, Airtable.

Who you are

💍 We want true love, not a marriage of convenience.
You’ve already hustled in PR, talent, or cultural marketing and want to own something.

• Background: Ex-agent, PR assistant, comms coordinator, fashion/music PR.
• Connector: You know how to get into shoots, events, and features.
• Hungry: Underpaid before, now want to run your own lane.
• Resourceful: You’ll wrangle creatives and press with limited budget.
• Ambitious: You want to grow into global brand leadership.

When

🏡 Join in 90+ days, stay forever.
We are looking for a long-term relationship, not short-term fun.

• Rolling interviews: We interview (and hire) as CVs arrive. First come first served.
• Start: As early as Dec 1st 2025 & as late as Jan 1st 2026.
• Bonus: Performance-based cash bonuses.

What

👀 Show us something worth seeing.
But most importantly, show us YOU.

• CV: Keep it readable and impact-focused.
• Portfolio: Press hits, campaigns, events, or shoots you’ve landed.
• Recommendations: From past teams, founders, or creatives.
• Cover letter: Tell us why you want to build Rkive’s cultural footprint.

Apply

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Send your resume and portfolio to careers@rkiveai.com