Responsibilities

• Affiliate Program Management: Own end-to-end affiliate recruitment, onboarding, activation, and publisher relationship management.
• Strategy & Planning: Align affiliate strategy with client goals and broader campaign plans through cross-team collaboration with analytics, planning, and paid media.
• Performance Monitoring & Optimization: Track KPIs, identify optimization opportunities, and improve program ROI while managing budgets and payouts.
• Publisher & Network Relations: Serve as the primary contact for publishers and networks, negotiating placements and maintaining strong partnerships.
• Cross-Channel Collaboration: Coordinate with analytics, planning, and other channel teams to ensure affiliate activity fits with the overall media mix.
• Budget & Financial Tracking: Monitor affiliate budgets, commission structures, payouts, and reconcile finances with clients and internal teams.
• Client Communication & Reporting: Provide updates and actionable reporting, manage expectations, and build trust through consistent follow-through.
• Compliance: Ensure FTC disclosures, brand guidelines, and network policies are followed; monitor for compliance issues and address them proactively.

Requirements

• 3–5+ years of hands-on affiliate marketing experience, ideally within a media agency, advertising agency, or in-house brand environment managing programs at scale.
• Demonstrated ability to independently manage affiliate programs end-to-end.
• Familiarity with major affiliate networks and platforms and comfort navigating their tools and reporting interfaces.
• Experience working within integrated campaign environments, collaborating with paid media, analytics, and planning teams to ensure alignment with broader channel strategies.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret performance data and communicate insights clearly to clients and internal stakeholders.
• Experience managing affiliate budgets, commissions, and payout reconciliation with accuracy.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; confident in client-facing settings and able to discuss performance, strategy, and budget with clarity and composure.
• Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple programs and workstreams simultaneously, meeting deadlines without close supervision.
• CPG or retail industry experience is a plus.

Preferred

• CPG or retail industry experience is a plus.