Affiliate Marketing Specialist - Remote

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced Affiliate Marketing Specialist to build, manage, and scale our affiliate marketing programs.

This is a hands-on role for someone who has successfully developed affiliate programs and knows how to identify, recruit, activate, and manage high-quality affiliates and partners.

You will be responsible for growing affiliate marketing into a meaningful customer acquisition channel by developing the strategy, recruiting partners, creating campaigns and incentives, monitoring performance, and continuously improving affiliate-generated leads, customers, and revenue.

We are specifically looking for someone with demonstrated experience building and growing affiliate programs, rather than simply administering an existing program.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the companys overall affiliate marketing strategy.

• Identify and recruit high-quality affiliates, publishers, content creators, influencers, bloggers, comparison sites, referral partners, and other potential partners.

• Conduct proactive outreach to prospective affiliates and build long-term relationships with them.

• Develop affiliate commission structures, promotions, incentives, and campaigns designed to increase participation and sales.

• Create an effective onboarding and activation process for new affiliates.

• Work with internal teams to provide affiliates with landing pages, marketing materials, messaging, offers, and other resources required to successfully promote our services.

• Identify high-potential affiliates and develop strategies to increase their traffic, leads, and revenue.

• Build relationships with larger publishers and strategic affiliate partners.

• Monitor affiliate traffic, leads, conversion rates, customer acquisition costs, revenue, and ROI.

• Analyze affiliate performance and identify opportunities to increase conversion and revenue.

• Identify inactive or underperforming affiliates and develop strategies to improve their performance.

• Monitor affiliate activity for fraudulent, misleading, or low-quality traffic and leads.

• Test different commission structures, offers, campaigns, landing pages, and affiliate recruitment strategies.

• Coordinate with marketing and sales teams to improve lead quality and lead-to-customer conversion.

• Prepare regular performance reports covering affiliate recruitment, activation, leads, customers, revenue, and ROI.

Qualifications & Requirements

• Min 2+ years of experience in affiliate marketing, partnership marketing, or a closely related field.

• Proven experience building or significantly scaling affiliate marketing programs.

• Strong experience personally recruiting and developing affiliates and strategic partners.

• Experience working with affiliate networks, affiliate management platforms, publishers, influencers, and content partners.

• Strong understanding of affiliate tracking, attribution, commission structures, conversion rates, CAC, LTV, and ROI.

• Experience developing affiliate offers, promotions, and incentive programs.

• Ability to analyze affiliate performance data and make decisions based on measurable results.

• Strong relationship-building and negotiation skills.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Strong organizational and project management skills.

• Ability to work independently and take complete ownership of the affiliate marketing channel.

• Experience with B2B services, SaaS, professional services, accounting, construction, financial services, or similar industries is preferred.

• Existing relationships with affiliates, publishers, or affiliate agencies would be an advantage.

• Reliable high-speed internet connection and a dedicated quiet workspace area.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary pay

• Flexible work-from-home opportunity

• Health insurance

• Sick and vacation time off

• Paid training

• Supportive team environment

• Opportunities for growth and advancement

If you have successfully built affiliate programs and enjoy developing partnerships that generate measurable leads, customers, and revenue, wed love to hear from you!

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