Affiliate Marketing, Partnerships Lead

Role Overview

• Own affiliate program performance: Manage affiliate programs end to end across CJ and Refersion, including publisher strategy, commission structures, and coupon code governance. Track performance weekly, monitoring ROAS, incremental revenue, and publisher level efficiency across both brands.
• Grow and optimize the affiliate partner ecosystem: Identify, onboard, and activate partners across content, deals, loyalty, and cashback categories. Set and optimize commission rates by publisher tier and manage CPA negotiations on a case by case basis.
• Lead influencer and content partnerships: Source, negotiate, and manage paid influencer partnerships and link buys across bloggers, social creators, and YouTube. Structure deals across flat fee, CPA, hybrid, and licensing models, balancing reach, quality, and ROI.
• Manage partner execution and relationships: Brief partners on deliverables, review content, ensure brand alignment, and report on performance. Maintain a strong pipeline of mid to large tier partners, manage relationships with top creators, and pursue new high value signings.
• Support organic social execution: Own day to day organic social across Instagram and Facebook for Samplize and DesignShop. Develop and manage a content calendar, leveraging partner generated content, collaborative posts, and usage rights. Coordinate on asset approvals, posting, and content repurposing.
• Own budget and performance tracking: Manage monthly affiliate and partnership budgets, ensuring disciplined pacing and efficiency. Deliver weekly performance reporting, tracking ROAS, incremental revenue, and partner level attribution.
• Maintain tracking accuracy and data quality: Ensure accurate tracking across CJ, Refersion, and Rockerbox, partnering with analytics on integration and data quality.
• Manage partnership operations and visibility: Build and maintain a partnership tracker covering signed partners, go live timelines, performance, and renewal status. Explore emerging partnership formats to expand channel opportunities.

Requirements

• 5-7 Years experience in affiliate marketing and influencer partnerships for a consumer or e commerce brand, with a strong understanding of publisher ecosystems and performance driven acquisition
• Hands-on experience managing affiliate networks such as CJ, Rakuten, Refersion, or equivalent
• Proven track record negotiating and managing paid influencer and creator partnerships across a range of deal sizes and structures
• Experience managing and optimizing deal site and coupon platform relationships
• Familiarity with attribution tools such as Rockerbox, Northbeam, or similar, and comfort interpreting multi touch performance data
• Strong negotiation and relationship management skills with sharp commercial instincts
• Experience managing and pacing a substantial monthly budget with accountability to ROAS targets.

Benefits

• Flexible PTO
• Sick Days
• Paid National Holidays
• Health Benefits: We contribute to your medical, dental, vision and short-term/long-term disability plans and have a strong employee assistance program.
• 401(k) eligible after your first 90 day's employed!
• Giving Back: We sponsor multiple events throughout the year to help out our communities.
• Growth: We’ll help you take your career to the next level. We want you to be creative and take initiative which will allow you to grow and create within the company. Most importantly, be the best at what matters!
• Flexible Work Schedules: With business units and employees across the globe, Material Technologies has embraced a hybrid working model allowing department leaders to decide on the best approach for their respective teams, whether that be remote, in person, or a little of both.