Affiliate & Partnerships Manager

You are a hands-on sales professional who thrives in a digital marketing environment? Do you have experience in managing Affiliate programs for a brand? High goals do not scare you and you have a passion for challenges?

If you answered yes to these questions, we are sure this position will sound super exciting to you. 🤩

We are looking for a friendly person, with passion for driving sales and developing brand awareness, to handle and grow our Affiliate Marketing Programs (for WP Rocket, Imagify and RocketCDN). 🚀

Keep reading for more details! 📝

In your job as an Affiliate & Partnerships Manager, you will be responsible for defining and implementing affiliate strategies to drive customer acquisition for our 3 brands.

In this role, you will report directly to the Chief Marketing Officer. You will join our marketing team, which is based in Europe. We work remotely, and ideally you should live in a country that aligns with the European Timezone.

We are so curious to know which new country will be added to our distributed team map! 🌍

In your everyday job as an Affiliate & Partnerships Manager, you will connect with potential and existing Affiliates, negotiate terms, analyze and optimize their strategies to develop brand awareness, drive customer acquisition and revenue growth.

We need somebody who is great at establishing and developing relationships, with a key focus on activation, to ensure that Partners and Affiliates realize their potential.

Here is a list describing the tasks involved in this position (do you happen to like making lists? So do we!):

• You will monitor sales, report on progress & performance and set goals and action plans
• You will analyze Affiliates’ statistics to identify opportunities, optimize campaigns and maximize revenue.
• You will manage affiliate agreements, compensation models, commission structures, and engagement requirements.
• You will find high-value Affiliates and Partners that drive business results
• You will run onboarding and activation for new affiliates, ensuring they have the necessary assets (content template, ready-to-use texts/banners, newsletters, new features description & screenshots)
• You will ensure compliance with the brand guidelines, the Affiliate agreement and product presentation on an ongoing basis.
• You will represent our company at events such as WordCamps

Significant experience in Affiliate Marketing

You have hands-on experience implementing and optimizing affiliate programs for a brand (ideally in the SaaS or Tech environments).

You understand marketing attribution and how different channels interplay at different points in the customer journey.

Strong analytical and quantitative skills

You know how to use data to analyze and measure marketing programs, you have experience with web analytics tools (Google Analytics, SEMrush,…) and you know how to use numbers to prioritise your work.

Strong Sales Skills

You are highly goal oriented, assertive and a hands-on problem solver. You are not afraid to share a point of view and lead Affiliates to drive better performance.

Excellent Communication

You have excellent English speaking and writing skills. You are good at building strong relationships and hustling to make sure partners are satisfied.

WordPress Market Knowledge

A familiarity with the WordPress ecosystem is a major plus (themes, plugins, hosts, etc…)

Do you want to know two other things we appreciate about our candidates?

• A startup mentality
  You are doer, you are adaptable and you like to evolve in a fast-paced environment.
• Previous remote job experience.
  Slack will be your virtual office, where all the life of the company takes place.
• The involvement in the WordPress community.
  We support our teammates to attend and/or speak at WordCamps and volunteer within the community.

Founded in 2014 in the beautiful Lyon, France, WP Media is an equal opportunity employer with a distributed team of +35 teammates living around the world.

We are best known as the creators of WP Rocket, but we also developed Imagify and RocketCDN.

Mutual respect, collaboration, and inclusivity.

These are the fundamental values that support our life as a team.

Healthy balance between work and private life.

We encourage our employees to enjoy their family and hobbies with flexible working hours and minimum vacation policy. There are no time cards to stamp, only customers to make happy and friendly teammates to work with! We care about the work you do, not about the hours you sit at your desk.

Transparent culture.

We have a public salary grid. Once a year, when the company does well, we share our profits with the team in the form of bonuses.

Perks and benefits

We want the people on our team to feel that they always receive what they need to shine. This is why we offer:

• Budget for setting up your home office
• Monthly budget for your remote-work expenses
• Free books and Kindle

We like to see each other in person whenever possible.

Every year, we organize a trip with the whole team and spend a week of coworking and fun activities together.

To give you an idea, so far we have traveled to Spain, Portugal, and Mexico:

Now that we've told you so much about us, it's your turn.

Let us know why you would like to become our Affiliate & Partnerships Manager and why you think you are the person we are looking for.

We can’t wait to receive your application! 🌟