Associate Director, Affiliate Marketing

Remote, United States
Full Time

What We're Looking For

The Role

We’re looking for a performance-driven Associate Director, Affiliate Marketing to own and grow a portfolio of enterprise clients. In this role, you’ll act as a strategic partner—driving affiliate strategy, execution, and innovation—while connecting the channel to broader Paid, Earned, and Owned media efforts. Reporting into the Director, Affiliate Marketing, you’ll lead high-impact programs end-to-end, from partner development and campaign execution to cross-channel growth opportunities, all while delivering measurable business outcomes. This is a highly visible role at Wpromote that blends hands-on execution with strategic leadership, helping shape how Affiliate Marketing contributes to client growth and Wpromote’s continued evolution.

At Wpromote, we believe that great work is only possible with great people. Our goal is to build a better, more inclusive work environment and support our people at every stage of their careers by prioritizing a strong work-life balance through our policies and benefits listed below. As a Best Place to Work according to both Ad Age and Glassdoor and Adweek’s Fastest Growing Digital Agency, we are moving fast to expand our teams and bring new experts into the fold to keep pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in marketing.

We offer:

-Remote-first culture

-Unlimited PTO

-Extended Holiday break (Winter)

-Flexible schedules

-Work from anywhere options*

-100% paid parental leave

-401(k) matching

-Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Pet Insurance

-Sponsored life insurance

-Short Term Disability insurance and additional voluntary insurance

-Annual Class Pass credits and more!

The anticipated annual salary for this role will range from $93,000- $113,000, based on consideration of a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, years and depth of experience, education and certifications, competitive benchmarks, scope of responsibility, market dynamics, geographic location, and respective state’s salary threshold for exempt employees. At Wpromote, pay ranges are subject to change and are based on specific market medians for similar jobs according to third-party salary benchmark surveys. Individual pay within that range can vary due to skills, experience, and available budget. The total compensation package for this role will include benefits (listed above).

*This position may be performed remotely in most states within the US, with some exclusions

**While this role offers the flexibility to work remotely, we have office hubs in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, where you can join in on learning and development opportunities, fun events, take advantage of a space to work, and collaborate in person!

***This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship

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You Will Be

Managing a select enterprise client accounts as both the main point of contact and Director support, providing proactive and consistent client outreach and communication

Executing day-to-day responsibilities including:

Weekly or bi-weekly reporting, monthly reporting, and/or QBRs

Recruit and onboard new partners to your clients’ programs

Identify and execute paid placement campaigns from start to finish

Interfacing with relevant affiliate networks to coordinate aspects of program management and engaging in regular communication with affiliates to foster growth

Lead and launching any potential network migrations

Developing relationships and socializing affiliate strategies across a diverse portfolio of clients, advancing strategies/objectives for select clients

Establishing a strong understanding of client needs, solve complex challenges using subject matter expertise, drive process improvements, and strengthen client relationships

Confidently navigates difficult client questions and responds credibly, can provide team with support on calls/in person during these conversations

Assessing competitive landscape and providing recommendations, opportunities, suggestions, and education to clients and internal teams

Continuously refining and updating the training process and materials for new hires.

Identifying areas of internal cross-sell and present recommendations to clients, working with internal teams on next steps and partnering with clients through the cross sell process

Leading Affiliate Marketing-related discussions and partaking in internal or public speaking opportunities

Maintaining sufficient knowledge of core digital marketing channels, including influencer marketing, paid media, and earned/owned media

Assisting sales team on audits, decks and pitches for prospective Affiliate Marketing clients

Improving business processes & workflows to enable better collaboration & efficiency between account managers, clients, and business units

Spearhead development of new department deliverables based on Affiliate Marketing industry evolution and opportunities

Support the Affiliate business unit leader and upper directorate in reporting to the SVP of Paid Media and other upper executives on key client service pillars: same-store growth, retention, new business, and partnerships

Identify critical client/account issues and escalate them to appropriate executives in a timely manner

Anticipating the needs of the Affiliate business unit leader, upper directorate and the SVP of Paid Media by providing concise, actionable information on account opportunities

Oversee high-profile accounts to stay current on applicable technology, tactics, and account obstacles

Test and learn new strategies, features, and platforms and share findings with the Affiliate Marketing department

You Must Have

6-8 years of experience working in Affiliate Marketing, comprising media campaign strategy within an agency/client environment

Extensive experience developing, optimizing, analyzing, and reporting on Affiliate Marketing campaigns for a diverse range of clients and verticals (Ecom/retail, subscriptions, international and B2B)

Experienced with affiliate networks such as Impact, CJ, PepperJam, Rakuten, AWIN, Partnerize, etc

Experienced with insights data, partner performance, and key trends to inform the development of strategies and plans

Strong working experience running regular and ad hoc reports to hone in on data that demonstrate areas of opportunity to grow and optimize client affiliate partnerships, with an emphasis on forecasting

Bachelor’s degree or related four-year degree or relevant experience

“The employees at Wpromote are truly a team. In my day-to-day, I regularly have to lean on people to step outside of their defined roles to assist me in different aspects of my job.”

I have never heard someone say that this isn’t what they do or they don’t have time. Everyone– from the executive team to our summer interns– steps up and pitches in!

We Make Mondays Suck Less

Making it our mission to Make Mondays Suck Less, we strive to produce results that you’ll be excited to see and we’ll be excited to deliver. When you love what you do and who you work with, your Mondays will always be better. From office perks to meaningful employee benefits, we’ve created an environment where team members are excited to come to work and clients are blown away by their performance.