Director, Media Partnerships

Organization

Stand Together

Location

Arlington, Virginia

Job Description

Stand Together is a dynamic and mission-driven organization committed to driving positive social change and empowering individuals to overcome barriers. Join our team and be part of a collaborative community that values innovation, personal responsibility, and the power of bottom-up solutions. Together, we will create a society that fosters opportunity, dignity, and well-being for all. 
The Director, Media Partnerships will work with some of the country’s top film and TV producers, content creators, and internal partners across the Stand Together community to develop and execute scripted and unscripted content that advances Stand Together’s vision. This role will be responsible for managing a portfolio of projects and relationships from ideation through production and distribution, ensuring vision alignment and operations excellence. The role serves as a leader, builder, and producer, helping the team identify and articulate key themes, working with external partners and internal collaborators to execute high-profile, high-visibility partnership opportunities.   

Your Responsibilities Include

  • Manage a portfolio of relationships with production studios, building preferred partnerships focused on long-term, win-win opportunities both directly and by engaging Stand Together leadership and issue experts.  
  • Drive partnership development and production processes for films, series, podcasts, short form content, and special projects that are directly produced by top-tier production studios.  
  • Effectively translate complex and nuanced ideas into easy-to-understand creative briefs that can form the foundation of content partnerships.   
  • Ensure partnerships yield premium quality content that advances Stand Together’s vision and priorities. 
  • Create and institute processes and best practices for sourcing stories and characters from across Stand Together’s many initiatives to be featured in films and series.   

Knowledge and Skills You Bring to the Organization

  • Alignment and passion for Stand Together’s vision and values. 
  • Motivated by tackling some of the most pressing challenges facing the country. 
  • Exceptional project and production management skills.  
  • Strong interpersonal skills, professionalism, and ability to work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders. 
  • 10+ years’ experience in film and/or TV production, including strong knowledge of the industry and best practices.  
  • High level of humility and integrity.  
  • Proactive, entrepreneurial, and a high sense of urgency.   

What We Offer

  • A meaningful career where your work will improve the lives of millions of Americans
  • A vision-driven organization of over 1,000 employees across the country who are dedicated to improving the lives of others
  • Competitive salaries and bonuses. Our salary and bonus strategies are aligned to the value you create, not a standardized bell curve
  • Generous 401K match - 6% match with immediate vesting
  • Competitive health and wellness benefits
  • Our flexible time-off policy allows all employees to take planned and unplanned time off as needed
  • Mileage reimbursement for business travel separate from your commute
  • Commuter assistance plans to offset the cost of commuting into our headquarters (on-site parking or metro)
  • Opportunities for professional development and mentorship that can strengthen your effectiveness through Principle Based Management and other industry specific programs

Stand Together helps social entrepreneurs supercharge their efforts to help people improve their lives. We connect them with passionate partners and the resources necessary to make a greater difference.  Through our philanthropic community, we tackle some of the nation's biggest challenges so that every person has the opportunity to realize their extraordinary potential. Stand Together partners with people from diverse perspectives and backgrounds—including people in education, business, community non-profits, and public policy—to accomplish more together than any of us could on our own.   
  
Our Values Working at Stand Together is different from many other organizations. We have a relentless commitment to a culture based on a business philosophy called Principle Based Management® (PBM®). Informed by the principles that allow a free and open society to flourish, PBM® prepares individuals to innovate, improve, and transform while fostering a healthy, growing organization that creates long-term value for its clients and supporters and fulfillment for its employees.    
  
We believe that diversity in experiences, perspectives, knowledge and ideas fuels creativity, broadens knowledge, and helps drive success. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and strive to treat all employees and applicants with honesty, dignity, respect and sensitivity. We welcome all qualified applicants regardless of color, race, religion, religious creed, sex, gender or gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, ethnicity, ancestry, age, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy (including medical needs which may arise from pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), military and veteran status, genetic information, marital or familial status, political affiliation, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances.