Affiliate Marketing Manager (Fluent in Portuguese)

Acceleration Partners is the world’s largest partnership and marketing agency, focused on creating and nurturing partnerships that drive measurable outcomes. They are seeking an experienced Strategic Partner Growth Manager to support the growth of their new department in the Brazil/LATAM affiliate space, requiring strong business development and account management skills.

Responsibilities:

• Contributes to the growth of clients through creation of high potential relationships and optimization of publishers
• Follow client-approved processes for paid placements and partner optimizations
• Is a trusted and knowledgeable resource, serving as a subject matter expert across partners, and the verticals of their managed clients
• Identifies and recruits high-quality partners with strong revenue potential based client needs
• Communications are clear, informative, and engaging
• Proactively identifies and executes areas of opportunity and optimization across the program to drive revenue growth
• Where applicable, optimizes opportunities with top publishers on behalf of the client
• Identifies and acts on opportunities that will drive client growth while maintaining a healthy return on investment
• Demonstrates exceptional calendar and time management skills
• Where required, participates in engagement kickoff call with client and ongoing calls as needed; asks appropriate questions and has a clear understanding of client goals and KPIs
• Creates plan for recruitment and/or paid placement initiatives to support the client’s program, including expected timeline for execution
• Implements paid placement strategy, including negotiation of terms, campaign set-up, commission changes, screenshots and communication with partners
• Executes recruitment strategy, including list building, outreach template and tracker
• Adapts to change and pivots strategies to reach client goals; sets expectations and projects new goals when not achievable
• Ensures clients have all necessary information to make informed decisions, clearly articulating the "why" behind each opportunity and the expected value it brings to the program
• Consistently demonstrates intellectual curiosity and a willingness to challenge the status quo
• Maintains deep knowledge across publisher verticals and applies that expertise to confidently address client questions and identify areas of opportunity
• Proactively digs into the why behind a no or rejection; thoughtfully pushes back when appropriate and has a track record of successfully overcoming objections

Requirements:

• Candidates need to reside in US or Mexico
• Some travel is required, for client meetings or other internal meetings, conferences, etc
• Candidates must hold a valid passport
• Candidates must be able to travel internationally
• Candidates must speak fluent in Portuguese
• Experience in business development/account management
• Ability to join client calls to pitch high value opportunities
• Ability to provide strategic insights and manage top partners
• Proactive research to identify and recruit high-quality partners
• Clear, informative, and engaging written and verbal communication
• Proactive identification and execution of areas of opportunity
• Ability to optimize opportunities with top publishers
• Ability to manage budgets and drive client growth
• Exceptional calendar and time management skills
• Participation in engagement kickoff calls with clients
• Creation and ongoing ownership of partner strategy
• Ability to adapt strategies to reach client goals
• Ability to ensure clients have necessary information for decisions
• Demonstrated intellectual curiosity and willingness to challenge the status quo
• Ability to maintain deep knowledge across publisher verticals
• Proactive approach to overcoming objections
• Strong aptitude for identifying digital strategies
• Ability to quickly develop new relationships
• Self-starter with strong internal motivation to hit targets
• Experience working with enterprise brands
• Proven knowledge of performance and acquisition marketing
• Demonstrated history of managing partnerships
• Personal track record of commercial sales success
• Data-driven decision maker with strong analytical thinking
• Excellent communication skills
• High attention to detail and ability to analyze data
• Proactive and collaborative attitude
• Growth mindset and passion to drive client's business forward
• Ability to collaborate with team members in a remote environment
• Fluency in Spanish will be considered
• 4+ years business development or relevant work experience
• Experience working in a sales or account management role with enterprise clients
• Proven track record of reaching and exceeding goals
• Experience in Performance Marketing (particularly Affiliate Marketing) industry preferred
• A genuine interest in AI tools and hands-on experience integrating AI into work
• Comfortable leading client-facing presentations
• Work from home and corporate office experience, a plus