Creator Acquisition Manager, ShopYourLikes

London, UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own the creator recruitment and monetization engine in the UK, from scouting to onboarding and ongoing growth.

  • Recruitment and creator alignment: identify creators with advertiser briefs using Modash or CreatorIQ to fit our program and revenue goals.
  • Onboarding and enablement: educate creators on affiliate marketing and performance campaigns to turn signups into active partners.
  • Cohort growth focus: monitor cohorts, channel mix, and revenue impact to guide program improvements.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
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Skimlinks powers commerce content strategies for publishers. As the world’s largest commerce content monetisation platform, it helps grow a revenue stream that can contribute as much as a quarter of a publisher’s overall revenue, which enables publishers to be less dependent on advertising. Its technology automatically earns publishers a share of sales they drive through product links in commerce-related content created by editors. The platform is a one stop solution providing the technology and the data to start, grow and successfully scale a content commerce strategy across desktop, tablet and mobile. Skimlinks connects 60,000 publishers to 48,500 merchants around the world, generating $2.5m of sales every day. With over ten years in the industry, Skimlinks is ideally placed to become a trusted long-term partner for publishers. Clients include half of the top content publishers in the US&UK such as Conde Nast, Hearst, Yahoo!, Huffington Post, Reach and MailOnline. The platform is scalable and supported by 100% trusted privacy frameworks certified by EDAA and IAB with complete GDPR compliance.Skimlinks is a Taboola company.Learn more at https://skimlinks.comVisit our careers site to learn more about working with Skimlinks! https://skimlinks.com/careers

Founded in 2007
London, England, GBR
112 employees (34 in marketing)
62% recommend to a friend
72% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
134.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
30.9%
Direct
59.5%
Referral
6%
Social
2.4%
Paid
1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~113

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
30 (27% of company)

Funding

Total Funding
$25.5M
Last Raise
$16M
Series C, 11 years ago

Funding History

  • Feb 2015
    Series C • $16M
  • Mar 2014
    Debt Financing • $2.5M
  • Oct 2013
    Non Equity Assistance

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