Senior Affiliate Manager

Accountabilities

• Own a substantial affiliate portfolio and take direct responsibility for monthly affiliate revenue, incremental revenue, profitability, and growth across relevant geographies and offers.


• Recruit high-volume affiliates, publishers, media buyers, networks, and performance partners across Europe, MENA, and Asia, leveraging an established professional network while continuing to develop new relationships.


• Launch new affiliate partnerships quickly, managing the process from initial conversation and commercial agreement through tracking, first traffic, conversion, and meaningful scale.


• Develop existing affiliate relationships by identifying opportunities to increase volume, improve performance, expand into new GEOs, and introduce additional offers.


• Manage key commercial and performance metrics, including CPA, EPC, CVR, AOV, approval rates, refunds, chargebacks, payout economics, contribution margin, and traffic quality.


• Make informed decisions around affiliate payouts, caps, scaling, profitability, and traffic quality, using performance data to determine when to increase or restrict volume.


• Build and scale a portfolio of meaningful producing affiliates, including multiple partners capable of generating six-figure monthly revenue.


• Monitor affiliate traffic for fraud, fake orders, incentivized traffic, unauthorized brand bidding, coupon abuse, self-referrals, misleading advertising, compliance issues, poor customer quality, abnormal refunds, and chargebacks.


• Take decisive action when traffic quality or profitability falls below acceptable standards, including reducing or stopping traffic when necessary.


• Track market and competitive intelligence, including competitor payouts, affiliate demand, emerging GEOs, effective creatives, conversion challenges, and opportunities to unlock additional profitable volume.


• Partner cross-functionally with sales, media, creative, CRO, analytics, technology, finance, compliance, and operations teams to resolve issues and accelerate growth.


• Maintain accurate forecasts and ensure rapid resolution of partner issues, with a focus on time to launch, time to first conversion, and time to meaningful scale.

• 5+ years of substantial affiliate or performance marketing experience, preferably in a Senior Affiliate Manager, Head of Affiliates, Affiliate Director, Senior Partnerships Manager, Performance Partnerships Director, or comparable commercial role.


• Proven personal ownership of a significant affiliate portfolio and substantial monthly affiliate revenue, including experience managing revenue and profit targets.


• Demonstrated success recruiting and developing high-performing affiliates, ideally including multiple partners generating $100K+ in monthly revenue.


• An established network of serious affiliates, publishers, media buyers, or performance networks across Europe, with relationships extending into MENA and/or Asia.


• Strong knowledge of European affiliate and performance marketing markets, with practical exposure to international GEO expansion.


• Direct-response e-commerce experience and a strong understanding of performance-driven acquisition models.


• Excellent analytical and commercial skills, with the ability to interpret and act on metrics such as CPA, EPC, CVR, AOV, margins, refunds, chargebacks, and payout economics.


• Hands-on experience with affiliate tracking platforms; Everflow experience is preferred.


• Strong understanding of traffic quality, fraud prevention, compliance, and affiliate risk management.


• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.


• High personal accountability, strong negotiation skills, and the ability to make commercially sound decisions independently.


• A proactive, hands-on approach and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving, performance-oriented environment.


• Willingness and ability to travel internationally for affiliate and performance-marketing events.


• Candidates should be able to quantify their previous affiliate performance, including the largest portfolio and individual affiliate personally managed, affiliates personally recruited, revenue generated, profitability improvements, and current affiliate relationships.


• Experience primarily focused on influencer marketing, brand partnerships, social media, affiliate administration, partnership coordination, or reporting without direct revenue ownership is not aligned with this position.

• Top-of-market base compensation designed for an experienced affiliate performance professional.


• Meaningful commission or performance bonus directly tied to profitable affiliate revenue.


• Accelerators for exceeding revenue and profit targets.


• Additional bonuses for major new affiliate relationships.


• Additional incentives for exceptional annual performance.


• International travel opportunities to major affiliate and performance-marketing events.


• A performance-based compensation structure where exceptional commercial results can be reflected in additional earnings.


• Significant autonomy and direct ownership of affiliate revenue and profitability across multiple international markets.


• Opportunity to build and scale a multi-million-dollar monthly affiliate portfolio in a highly performance-driven environment.


• Remote working arrangement from Europe.


• Full-time-equivalent senior commercial responsibilities in a consultant position.

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