Partnerships Manager, Affiliates

Summary

Join Babylist's Account Management team as an Affiliate Partnerships Manager and play a critical role in supporting partners and teams to drive affiliate revenue growth. Manage relationships with affiliate partners, ensuring seamless execution of partnerships and campaigns exceeding goals. Serve as an internal and external partner for campaign setup, management, and support. Leverage analytical and problem-solving abilities in a media environment. This role requires 5+ years of experience in affiliate marketing account management and strong knowledge of affiliate platforms. You will manage affiliate partnerships, support retailer campaigns, identify efficiency areas, track performance, and organize interdepartmental workflow. Babylist offers competitive pay, benefits, and opportunities for career advancement.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in a results-driven affiliate marketing Account Manager role working with clients, agencies and advertisers at a media company or experience with marketing and executing media plans
• A performance marketer at heart: you are obsessed with tracking, attribution, and ROI
• Strong knowledge of affiliate platforms (e.g., Amazon, Amazon Creator Connections Impact, ShareASale, CJ, Rakuten), and/or direct affiliate partnership management
• Experience working with editorial and/or publishing teams and/or affiliate marketing agencies, with market-facing experience
• Experience managing successful affiliate campaigns, with a keen eye to leverage reporting to identify where the retailers are performing well and where they can improve
• Successful history of cross-selling and upselling for pertinent opportunities
• Excellent time management, problem-solving and communication skills, both internal and external
• Energetic, enthusiastic, solutions-oriented and enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams
• Great interpersonal skills including poise, tact and diplomacy to handle sensitive situations, and affiliate relationships; ability to find opportunity in every interaction despite internal and/or external complexity
• Highly organized with a systematic approach to detail-oriented work
• High proficiency in tools like Excel, Google Sheets, Google Analytics, affiliate tracking platforms, and project management tools (e.g., Asana, Canva)
• Excited about the ability to develop with a lean ad sales team, wearing multiple hats and taking on a variety of roles
• Understanding of working with creative, sales, product, engineering, and marketing teams

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day management of affiliate partnerships, including owning reporting and affiliate data, platform data, optimizing performance, and building strong, long-term partner relationships
• Manage and support retailer-paid/barter campaigns to ensure accurate contract fulfillment, quality control, and excellent partner customer service
• Identify areas of efficiency on Babylist to inform upsells and additional flat fee investment
• Track, measure, analyze and report the performance of multiple affiliate partners, including creating detailed performance reports and proposing optimization and upselling strategies
• Organize interdepartmental workflow to ensure all elements are handled according to process and schedule, with a focus on beating deadlines
• Own asset gathering, creation, production, and archiving for campaigns, campaign pacing, performance and optimization opportunities
• Prepare and distribute performance reports, both specific to affiliate partner and general program performance

Benefits

• We invest in the infrastructure you’ll need to be supported and successful: tools, opportunities to connect with colleagues, and a stipend to help you set up your office
• We build products that have a positive impact on millions of people’s lives
• We work at a sustainable pace which means work/life balance is a real thing here
• We believe technology and data can solve hard problems
• We believe in exceptional management
• We offer competitive pay and meaningful opportunities for career advancement
• We have great benefits like company paid medical, dental, and vision, a generous paid parental leave policy, and 401k with company match
• We care about employee wellbeing with perks for physical, mental and emotional health, parenting, childcare, and financial planning
• Babylist takes a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on your location. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location
• The estimated pay range for this role is $76,360.00 - $114,540.00
• In addition, Babylist offers equity, bonus, and benefits, including company paid health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k) matching, flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies