Creator Acquisition Manager, ShopYourLikes

London, UK (Hybrid)

$90K/yr – $100K/yrMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own end to end creator recruitment and activation in the UK, delivering revenue through careful talent sourcing, onboarding, retention, and brand alignment.

  • Own recruitment across key verticals, onboarding and activation, and drive early revenue milestones for creators.
  • Monitor cohorts and channel mix to maximize creator-driven revenue and inform market intel.
  • Maintain strong creator relationships, capture feedback, and align with brand opportunities and product needs.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • High-Velocity Sourcing & Recruitment
  • The Talent Scout: Own the end-to-end recruitment process across key verticals, using tools like Modash / CreatorIQ to identify creators who align with both our internal goals and specific advertiser briefs
  • Quality Control: Evaluate creator quality, audience authenticity, and monetization potential to ensure every new addition strengthens our ecosystem
  • Expert Onboarding & Activation
  • The Architect of Success: Lead the onboarding journey, converting prospective creators into active partners through compelling education on affiliate marketing best practices and performance campaigns
  • Retention Focus: Ensure new creators don\'t just sign up but stay. You\'ll provide the initial performance guidance and "toolkits" needed to help them see their first revenue milestones quickly. Keep them motivated to link via SYL on a CPA basis and work towards the overall revenue target
  • Community Engagement: Support the planning and execution of creator workshops and events, ensuring our "on-the-ground" presence in the UK is felt and valued
  • Commercial Alignment & Performance
  • Brand Matching: Work closely with the wider teams to match your newly acquired creators with high-impact brand opportunities
  • Data-Driven Growth: Monitor the performance of your "cohorts" - analysing which acquisition channels and creator types are driving the most revenue
  • Internal Feedback Loop: Collaborate with internal teams to share creator feedback, ensuring our platform and resources evolve to meet the needs of the modern creator
  • Market Intel: Stay "in the know" regarding competitor moves and social commerce trends to ensure SYL's offering remains the most competitive in the UK market

Requirements

  • 2-4 years of experience in influencer marketing, creator monetization
  • 2+ years of experience in influencer client services, talent management or influencer client development (bizdev) on the creator side
  • Ability to foster and create strong connections in the influencer talent space
  • Proven ability to meet and exceed revenue goals
  • Clear understanding of the affiliate creator business
  • Tremendous attention to detail in content analysis and creator communication
  • Passion for creators and strong ability to understand the impact of engagement
  • The natural ability to collaborate
  • A beat on social media virality, pop-culture, and trends
  • Experience with HubSpot or other CRM tools

    Benefits

    • Healthcare insurance & cash plans
    • Income Protection
    • Parental Leave Policies
    • Flexible work schedules and work from home/work from office policy
    • Lunch paid when attending the office
    • Wellness Resources
    • Equity
    • Voted "Best Places to Work," our culture is driven by self-starters, team players, and visionaries. Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, the company operates sites and business services in the US, UK, and EU. We offer top benefits including Annual Leave Entitlement, paid holidays, competitive comp, team events and more!
    • We are committed to providing a culture at Skimlinks that supports the diversity, equity and inclusion of our most valuable asset, our people. We encourage individuality, and are driven to represent a workplace that celebrates our differences, and provides opportunities equally across gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, and all other demographics. Our actions across Education, Recruitment, Retention, and Volunteering reflect our core company values and remind us that we\'re all in this together to drive positive change in our industry.
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    Founded in 1996
    Santa Monica, California, USA
    246 employees (29 in marketing)
    60% recommend to a friend
    70% CEO approval

    Traffic Signals

    Monthly Visitors
    59.9K
    Traffic Source Mix
    Search
    29%
    Direct
    62%
    Referral
    5.3%
    Social
    2.7%
    Paid
    0.9%

    Headcount Trend

    Current headcount: ~246

    Marketing Team

    Marketing Team Size
    27 (11% of company)

    Funding

    Total Funding
    $5M
    Last Raise
    $3M
    Seed, 14 years ago

    Funding History

    • Aug 2012
      Seed • $3M
    • Sep 2011
      Debt Financing • $2M
    • Oct 2010
      Seed

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