Stand Together is a philanthropic community that helps America’s boldest changemakers tackle the root causes of our country’s biggest problems, from education to the economy, broken communities, and toxic division, among dozens of other pressing
issues. We provide our partners with access to resources including funding, thought leadership, a network of peers, and a playbook for applying proven principles to transform lives and society.
We’re seeking an entrepreneurial, world-class leader to grow and lead our Activations capability—our engine for transforming products and partnerships into national, integrated platforms that mobilize people around key social causes aligned with our vision and principles. This isn’t about short-term campaigns; your team will own multi-year strategies that capitalize on and grow evergreen activations platforms, including major partnerships with top sports leagues and cultural influencers.
To be successful in this role, you will bring deep experience in integrating external partners—including influencers, artists, athletes, businesses, media, and social impact organizations— with internal capabilities like Marketing and Communications and Partnerships to deliver dynamic, culture-shaping activations. You will have examples of building a scaled operation that has been successful in doing this on a national scale.
This role requires a builder—someone who can both roll up their sleeves to design an integrated activations strategy today and build the systems, team, and strategy that will scale our impact across multiple platforms and products tomorrow. The ideal candidate blends strategic vision, culture fluency, team leadership, and operational excellence.
How You Will Contribute
- Team & Operational Leadership:
- Grow and lead a scalable Activations capability that is capable of mobilizing audiences through platforms that span culture, music, media, sports, business, and the social sector.
- Build a scalable operating model: grow a high-performing team, integrate resources and capabilities across Stand Together, and develop an ecosystem of external partners and vendors.
- Define the strategic vision, systems, and measurement frameworks that enable repeatable success and continual learning.
- Integrate cross-functional teams—Marketing & Communications, Partnerships, and external collaborators—into matrixed initiatives working toward a shared goal.
Strategic Leadership & Capability Vision:Lead the go-to-market strategy for flagship activation platforms that bring our vision and solutions to life in culture. Translate complex organizational priorities into clear, audience-driven campaigns that drive awareness, engagement, and action. Serve as a thought partner to senior leadership—helping connect activations to broader brand and social impact strategies. Continuously refine the Activations value proposition through feedback, experimentation, and performance learning loops. Lead the full lifecycle of national and local activations—from ideation and creative development to execution, analysis, and iteration. Integrate influencers, artists, athletes, businesses, and cause partners to extend reach and cultural relevance. Champion innovation—testing new formats, partnerships, and storytelling models that engage diverse audiences in meaningful ways.
Partnership Development & Stakeholder Engagement:Build and sustain strong relationships with internal and external partners, agencies, thought leaders, influencers, and collaborators. Partners include world-class philanthropic, film and media, music, entertainment, education, and community organizations.
Our Values: Working at Stand Together is different from many other organizations. Our culture is deeply rooted in Principle Based Management® (PBM®), a framework guided by the principles that drive human progress, such as dignity, openness, and bottom-up empowerment. PBM® empowers our employees to be entrepreneurial, to innovate, and to continually drive transformation.
We believe diversity fuels creativity, broadens knowledge, and helps drive success, and that is 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 may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
