Senior Affiliate Specialist

* Opportunity to advance your career as the company grows

* Performance incentives for exceptional work

* Flexible working options and wellness leave

About Us

We are a digital performance marketing agency for fashion, lifestyle and beauty brands.

With over a decade of experience, we've earned the trust of premium brands and retailers, and are leading the way in e-commerce growth. Our team of deep thinkers and creative minds are united in delivering exceptional results for our clients. We're expanding our client portfolio and are looking for thoughtful digital marketers to join us

Your Opportunity

We're searching for an industry-obsessed and highly experienced Senior Affiliate Specialist to identify, cultivate, and manage an affiliate and partnerships client portfolio. On a day-to-day basis, you will:

• Formulate proactive affiliate marketing strategies aligned with client-specific objectives.
• Supervise the daily operations of multiple affiliate programs.
• Present performance results and make strategic recommendations to key decision-makers.
• Define, monitor, and analyse trends in clients' metrics and KPIs.
• Generate forecasts, establish budgets, and set KPIs for affiliate programs.
• Implement creative and promotional changes based on content calendars.
• Oversee all aspects of affiliate management, including recruitment, activation, payment, compliance, and communication with affiliates.
• Devise and execute initiatives to enhance affiliate performance through effective acquisition and retention tactics.
• Handle reporting, communicating program performance and recommending enhancements.
• Supervise the work of junior team members, mentoring and coaching as needed.

Experience you'll bring

This ideal candidate brings a positive and thoughtful attitude to everything they do. They are a team player and a straight shooter. They'll also:

• Have 2-4+ years of direct affiliate management experience (in-house or performance agency with affiliate service offering).
• Be proficient in working with various Affiliate Networks (Rakuten Advertising, Commission Factory, Impact, Partnerize etc).
• Demonstrate exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Think critically and have a strategic mindset, making data-driven and evidence-based decisions.
• Ability to deliver and execute successful outcomes in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Strong negotiation and influencing skills with the ability to close deals confidently during client meetings.

What's on offer

We love the thrill of agency life – it's fast-paced, dynamic, and rewarding. We appreciate the challenges too, so we value work-life balance and approach everything thoughtfully. Other reasons our team loves working at Thoughtful include:

• Opportunity to advance your career as the company grows
• Regular in-house training from industry leaders
• Performance incentives for exceptional work
• Flexible working options and wellness leave
• Generous gifts from awesome clients
• Regular social events and free Mecca coffee all day

Our hiring approach

We've designed our recruitment process to be open, supportive, and thoughtful of your time.. Each stage is an opportunity for us to get to know each other better and make informed decisions. We'll typically follow the steps below:

• Screening

: Our hiring team will review your CV, cover letter, and screening questions.
- Technical Interview:

We'll go deep on your technical skills, experience, and special talents. You may be asked to do a case study or take-home task, but we'll let you know beforehand.
- Culture-Fit Interview:

This interview is designed to help us assess alignment on core values and ways of working.
- Culture-Fit Interview:

At this final stage, we'll do reference checks with two contcats before extending and offer.

Don't tick all the boxes?

While a stellar CV and experience are important, we care more about you, the person. If you're passionate about e-commerce and digital marketing and delivering exceptional client results, we'd love to hear from you.