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Salary: CAD 66,000 - 89,000 / annual
Mejuri, a modern fine jewelry brand founded in 2015, is seeking an Events & Partnerships Specialist to serve as the execution engine behind its partnership and events calendar. You will turn strategic partnership initiatives into flawlessly executed activations across a growing slate of concurrent local, cultural, and brand partnerships. This is a hands-on, high-autonomy role requiring meticulous attention to detail and creative problem-solving.
Key Responsibilities:
- Partnership Sourcing & Strategy: Identify, pitch, and validate new local and cultural partnerships. Build and present the quarterly partnership calendar that anchors the brand's activation strategy.
- Negotiation & Contracts: Initiate partnership discussions, negotiate terms to maximize value, and manage legal agreements alongside Finance and Legal teams. Escalate higher-stakes deals to leadership as appropriate.
- Campaign & Event Execution: Lead development and on-the-ground launch of co-marketing campaigns, events, and co-branded content. Own vendors, budgets, timelines, staffing, and on-site execution with contingency planning to ensure flawless delivery.
- Pipeline & Performance Management: Maintain the single source of truth for the partnerships calendar. Use performance data (foot traffic, sell-through, EMV, redemptions) to report results to stakeholders and refine future partnership strategy.
- Cross-Functional Enablement: Act as connective tissue across creative, retail, social, and legal teams. Translate partner requirements into precise briefs that move quickly and maintain alignment.
- Cultural Insight & Brand Alignment: Stay attuned to cultural trends across fashion, lifestyle, design, and beauty. Assess brand fit, identify white-space opportunities, and shape partnership strategies that feel relevant, authentic, and differentiated.
Performance Indicators:
- Event and partnership revenue targets (NMV, conversion rate, AOV)
- New customer acquisition
- EMV (earned media value) working with PR, social, and influencer teams
- Budget stewardship (deliver activations on or under budget)
- Execution quality
Requirements:
- 3+ years in event production, partnerships, or experiential marketing (ideally in DTC retail, fashion, or lifestyle)
- Bachelor's degree or diploma in a related field
- Proven experience running brand partnerships, campaigns, and activations end-to-end from initial conversation through execution, measurement, and post-campaign optimization
- Demonstrated experience initiating and closing partner agreements, balancing brand value with commercial terms
- Deep cultural fluency across fashion, lifestyle, design, and beauty with ability to assess brand fit and spot white-space opportunities
- Hands-on experience producing high-impact events and brand activations, managing vendors, timelines, budgets, and on-site execution with precision
- Exceptional communicator able to align internal stakeholders (creative, PR, legal, finance, retail, digital) around shared vision
- Highly organized and process-oriented; able to own multiple complex initiatives simultaneously in fast-moving, ambiguous environments
- Innovative, resourceful thinker with strong creative problem-solving skills
- Data-informed mindset with ability to track performance, extract insights, and continuously improve partnerships and campaigns
- Strong soft skills including creative ideation, pop culture fluency, interpersonal communication, negotiation, and emotional intelligence
Assets:
- Experience in luxury or premium DTC brands within jewelry, fashion, beauty, or lifestyle
- Global partnership or influencer experience with sensitivity to regional and cultural nuance
- Hands-on exposure to IRL activations, retail moments, or experiential marketing
- Comfort presenting ideas and results to leadership, balancing creativity with business impact
- Experience working with event, merch, and design vendors across global markets
- Ability to create compelling pitch decks for external partners
- Experience managing freelance or agency support
Mejuri welcomes candidates at all stages of their AI journey and values curiosity, willingness to learn, and openness to working alongside AI tools.
