Responsibilities

• Team Leadership and Development
• - Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team, including deep subject matter expertise across affiliate and performance creator strategy.
• - Nurture a culture of accountability, collaboration, transparency, and continuous improvement.
• - Define team staffing strategy and support recruiting, onboarding, training, and retention
• - Build team expertise, career paths, and leadership capabilities across affiliate and performance creator disciplines.
• - Own team-level oversight of financials, operations, technology, and capacity planning.
• - Partner across Ovative to integrate affiliate and performance creator capabilities into broader influencer, media, measurement, and consulting solutions.
• Affiliate & Performance Creator Strategy and Thought Leadership
• - Serve as a senior subject matter expert on affiliate marketing and performance creator strategy — including creator commerce, affiliate-linked creator programs, creator storefronts, and emerging formats — best practices, and industry developments.
• - Define and advance Ovative’s point of view, playbooks, and strategic frameworks.

Requirements

• 12+ years of relevant experience in affiliate marketing, digital marketing, or a related field, with meaningful depth in the performance creator ecosystem.
• 5+ years of experience directly leading and coaching teams, preferably teams of 8 or more.
• Deep expertise across affiliate networks, platforms, publisher partnerships, and affiliate operations, including tools such as CJ, AWIN, and Impact.
• Demonstrated expertise in the performance creator ecosystem — how creator content connects to commerce, conversion, and measurable outcomes — including creator identification, partnership structures, and creator/affiliate technology platforms (Impact, TikTok Shop, ShopMy, etc).
• Experience working with retail, ecommerce, or enterprise marketing programs.
• Demonstrated success developing and executing strategies that drive measurable business results across affiliate and performance creator channels.
• Strong understanding of data, analytics, measurement, incrementality, and customer value.
• Proven ability to influence senior client stakeholders and communicate complex strategies clearly.

Benefits

• Benefits:
• We strive to hire and retain the best talent by offering fair, competitive compensation, a meaningful bonus program, and excellent health coverage. When the company performs well, we all benefit.
• Some tangible benefits and amenities we enjoy:
• - Access to all office spaces in MSP, NYC, and CHI
• - Frequent, paid travel to our Minneapolis headquarters for company events, team events, and in-person collaboration with teams
• - Generous paid vacation policy
• - 401k match program
• - Top-notch health insurance options, inclusive of same sex partners
• - Family formation benefits including reimbursement options for fertility, pregnancy, and parenting needs
• - Monthly stipend for your mobile phone and data plan