Creator & UGC Manager

About the role

Maximus * Remote * Contract

The Role

This role owns the creators, not the creative. Our creative team supplies the briefs, hooks, and scripts; your job is to find the people who can deliver them, lock in the deal, and keep them producing. You'll do three things, in roughly this order of importance: find new talent, structure the contracts and the asks, and manage the roster week to week.

You're inheriting a working program with an active roster and a clear playbook. Your time goes into output: more good creators, cleaner deals, and ad-ready videos landing on schedule for our paid media team.

You'll report to the Creative Director and work closely with our paid media partners and medical/compliance reviewers.

Find new talent

• Run a steady sourcing cadence across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube, plus creator marketplaces (Trybe, SideShift, and similar): outbound outreach, inbound triage, and referrals from creators already in the program
• Vet creators for fit before anyone is briefed: on-camera credibility, prior paid-social work, audience quality, and willingness to work in a regulated health category
• Keep a bench of vetted, ready-to-brief creators so the pipeline never depends on who happens to be available this week
• Replace underperformers quickly and double down on creators whose videos win in paid

Structure contracts and asks

• Negotiate and close creator deals within our guardrails: per-video rates, deliverable counts, revision rounds, turnaround times, usage rights, and Meta whitelisting / partnership-ad permissions
• Issue contracts and keep terms consistent across the roster so the program stays predictable as it scales
• Turn each brief into a clear, specific ask for each creator: what to shoot, how many cuts, what the deadline is, and what "approved" means, so first submissions come back usable
• Own payments and rights tracking: who's been paid, what we're cleared to run, and for how long

Manage the roster

• Run the day-to-day of a large active roster: scheduling, deadlines, follow-ups, and the back-and-forth that keeps creators shipping on time
• Route every submission through our review process, send creators clear revision notes, and get approved videos filed and handed to paid media
• Keep the creator pipeline tracker current and share a short weekly status: creators added, videos in flight, videos shipped, what's blocked
• Feed performance learnings from paid media back into who we recruit, who we keep, and how we structure the next round of asks
• Target: 50+ ad-ready creator videos delivered per month to start, scaling from there

You Are

• 8+ years running creator or UGC programs for a DTC brand, agency, or creator marketplace, with real volume behind you (brand-side preferred)
• A natural recruiter: you know where good creators are, how to reach them, and how to tell in one call whether they'll deliver
• Comfortable negotiating and closing deals: rates, rights, and deliverables, with a bias toward clean, repeatable terms over one-off exceptions
• Organized at scale: you can run dozens of creators and deadlines at once without things slipping
• A clear communicator: asks creators actually follow, feedback they can act on
• Fluent in what performs on Meta and TikTok, so your recruiting and your asks are tuned to paid results, not vanity metrics
• Comfortable in a regulated category where claims get reviewed (health, wellness, or similar experience is a plus)
• Self-directed; you can run a part-time schedule without someone checking in on you

Why Maximus

• A fast-growing brand in a category where real, evidence-based content stands out
• A creative-first team where creator content directly drives paid performance
• A working program and a clear playbook, so your time goes into growing it, not building it
• Flexible, remote, part-time, with room to grow the scope if it's working

Details

• Type: Independent contractor, part-time
• Hours: ~[15-20] per week, flexible, with availability for a weekly sync
• Location: Remote, U.S. time zones preferred
• Compensation: $6-10k/month, bonus potential

Do Not Apply If

• You want to oversee rather than do. This role is in the DMs, the contracts, and the follow-ups every week.
• You've never sourced and closed creators yourself, end to end.
• You've only done B2B, or only done organic social with no paid performance lens.

Before Applying

• Send a short note that includes the size and output of creator programs you've run, and 3-5 UGC ads from creators you sourced and managed, with results if you have them.
• As part of its interviewing process, Maximus asks candidates to complete a ~20 minutes assessment to understand how they think. Candidates who complete the assessment as part of their initial application will be prioritized for review/interviews:

Note: We utilize AI note-taking technology during our interview sessions to ensure we capture all answers and details accurately. Candidates are also encouraged to use AI note-takers for their own records if they wish.