Head of Travel Partnerships, Hotels & Attractions
1 day ago
Los Angeles
About Bmore Studio Bmore Studio is a creator network and TikTok GO partner supporting hotels, attractions, destinations, and hospitality partners through creator-driven content, local execution, and campaign coordination. We work at the intersection of travel, hospitality, creator economy, and social commerce. Our team supports creator onboarding, partner coordination, POI visits, Creator Led Events, and local market execution for TikTok GO-related opportunities. More about TikTok Go: Role Overview Bmore Studio is hiring a Head of Travel Partnerships, Hotels & Attractions to lead our travel and hospitality partnership strategy. This role will be responsible for building and managing relationships with platform partners, hotels, attractions, DMOs, tourism organizations, and other travel-related partners. This is a senior builder role. The right person should be able to think strategically, open doors, manage senior stakeholder relationships, build a partnership pipeline, recruit and manage a team, and turn partner conversations into real activations, revenue opportunities, and measurable business growth. This role will report to CEO of Bmore Studio. Location Los Angeles or Baltimore preferred. This role may require regular travel for partner meetings, industry events, hotel visits, destination activations, and creator-related events. Compensation Expected total compensation: $96,000 - $144,000 annually, depending on experience, with potential bonus opportunities. Key Responsibilities 1. Lead travel and hospitality partnership strategy • Develop Bmore Studio's partnership strategy across hotels, attractions, destinations, DMOs, tourism organizations, and related travel partners., • Identify priority markets, partner segments, and growth opportunities., • Build a clear pipeline for new partnerships, activations, and revenue opportunities. 2. Manage platform and strategic partner relationships • Maintain strong working relationships with TikTok GO and other platform or strategic partners., • Understand platform priorities, program direction, and partner requirements., • Translate platform opportunities into clear internal execution plans. 3. Build high-level hotel, attraction, and destination partnerships • Develop senior relationships with high-end hotels, luxury hospitality groups, major attractions, destination marketing organizations, tourism groups, and strategic travel partners., • Personally lead higher-level partnership conversations that can open access to premium hotels, destination partners, large-scale activations, and long-term strategic opportunities., • Lead the partnership team in securing broader execution opportunities, including POI visits, Creator Led Events, hotel stays, destination activations, and other partner programs., • Work with partners to connect creator content, travel discovery, visitor engagement, and booking-related outcomes. 4. Drive revenue growth and marketing activation • Turn partner relationships into active campaigns, business opportunities, and measurable growth., • Support marketing activations that connect creators, destinations, hotels, attractions, and TikTok GO opportunities., • Work with leadership to define partnership goals, budgets, and expected outcomes. 5. Build and manage the partnership team • Recruit, train, and manage partnership or business development team members as the business grows., • Set clear ownership, pipeline expectations, and follow-up standards., • Help the team scale outreach and execution across standard hotel, attraction, and destination opportunities while personally focusing on higher-level strategic relationships., • Help build the operating system for partnership outreach, tracking, partner communication, and activation planning. 6. Coordinate execution across internal teams • Work closely with creator operations, content, studio, and internal operations teams., • Ensure partner opportunities are translated into clear creator coordination, event plans, content needs, timelines, and deliverables., • Track progress and communicate risks, blockers, and next steps to leadership. 7. Represent Bmore Studio externally • Represent Bmore Studio in partner meetings, hospitality and tourism events, industry networking opportunities, and strategic conversations., • Build trust with senior stakeholders across hotels, DMOs, attractions, tourism organizations, and platform partners. Qualifications • 10+ years of experience in travel, hospitality, OTA, hotel partnerships, DMO partnerships, tourism boards, travel tech, strategic partnerships, or business development., • Strong experience managing senior stakeholder relationships across hotels, destinations, attractions, tourism organizations, platforms, or major hospitality partners., • Proven ability to build partnership strategy, open new business opportunities, and turn relationships into measurable revenue growth or active marketing programs., • Experience with destination partnership strategy, marketing activation, partner development, and cross-functional execution., • Ability to build from the ground up in a fast-moving business environment., • Strong communication, negotiation, and relationship management skills., • Experience recruiting, managing, or developing partnership or business development teams., • Comfortable working across strategy and hands-on execution., • Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple partners, timelines, and priorities at once., • Willingness to travel regularly for partner meetings, industry events, hotel visits, and activations. Preferred Qualifications • Experience at a major travel platform, OTA, hospitality group, tourism organization, destination marketing organization, or travel technology company., • Existing relationships in hotels, attractions, DMOs, tourism boards, travel platforms, or hospitality marketing., • Familiarity with creator economy, TikTok, social commerce, travel content, influencer marketing, or performance-based travel marketing., • Experience building new business lines, launching new markets, or leading early-stage partnership teams., • Experience working with both enterprise-level partners and local market operators. What We Are Looking For We are looking for someone who can operate like a business owner for the travel and hospitality side of Bmore Studio. This person should be able to build relationships, understand the market, manage people, drive execution, and help shape the next stage of Bmore Studio's TikTok GO and travel partnership strategy. The ideal candidate is not only a relationship manager. They should be able to build strategy, close opportunities, organize a team, manage budgets and timelines, and make sure partnerships turn into real execution.