The Senior Affiliate Marketing Manager will manage client relationships, develop affiliate strategies, source partners, optimize budgets, and provide performance reporting.
About Right Side Up
Right Side Up is a collective of premium marketing talent – with all the marketing chops and none of the agency fluff. We’re trusted by the most buzzed-about early-stage ventures, the fastest growing tech companies, and well-established Fortune 500 teams to do one thing better: GROWTH. Some of our clients include Parachute Home, Happiest Baby, Nutrafol, Robinhood, Just Food For Dogs, Nourish, The INKEY List, and many others.
What We’re Looking For
We are looking for affiliate managers who are passionate about the industry and want to demonstrate their expertise through contract work. As a consultant, you’ll act as a trusted extension of our team, managing clients while maintaining the flexibility of contract work. Our clients typically seek consultant opportunities with availability ranging from 10 to 40 hours per week.
What You'll Do
- Own the day-to-day management of client relationships, providing proactive communication, documentation, guidance, and expertise to client stakeholders.
- Develop and execute full-funnel affiliate strategies that align with our client’s goals.
- Provide full-service, end-to-end program management, from strategic execution and optimization to program operations.
- Source, recruit, and activate high-value partners that drive incremental growth across the full funnel.
- Collaborate with and optimize existing partners to increase exposure and drive incremental growth.
- Effectively manage the client's channel and media budget, with a focus on driving efficiencies and a strong ROI.
- Provide performance reporting on a regular cadence, highlighting wins, challenges, and new opportunities.
- Manage program operations including commission terms, partner compliance and to ensure partner compliance, commission terms, effective commissioning strategies.
What You'll Bring
- 5+ years of hands-on experience managing affiliate programs with proven success in accelerating customer acquisition through a wide array of partnerships.
- Deep understanding of affiliate marketing and eagerness to keep your skills and knowledge up to date with the changes in the industry.
- Demonstrated understanding of how AI is shaping affiliate management, including its impact on recruitment, attribution, and optimization strategies.
- Ability to leverage non-traditional partnerships to drive new customer acquisition.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; comfortable presenting to leadership, documenting, and putting together reports that illustrate program performance and growth opportunities.
- An analytical approach to performance marketing and decision-making, weaving in data where there is an opportunity.
- Ability to balance strategic thinking and execution; able to shift from big picture thinking to tactical on a dime.
- Relationship mindset and a constant pursuit to grow your network of partnerships.
- Experience in some of our core verticals, such as Retail, Health & Wellness, CPG, B2SMB/Prosumer, FinTech, Subscription & Services.
Bonus Experience
- Experience developing strategy and managing traditional influencer programs and relationships.
- Managing Amazon and TikTok Affiliate programs.
- Background in other marketing channels and a solid understanding of how they can work together to fuel growth.
Top Skills
AI
Data Analysis
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