Round Barn Labs is a premium performance marketing agency specializing in Affiliate and Influencer Marketing. We bring an in-house perspective to digital performance marketing consulting with a growth mindset. Our team has extensive experience working with companies like Amazon, eBay, ModCloth Future Fit, LiveNation, Nextdoor, Hatch, Facebook/Meta (Portal & Oculus), Ironclad, Perk, Atlassian, Hopin, Tempo, Hatch, Puma, Ritual, and Grammarly. We have helped hundreds of companies improve their paid digital marketing performance and understand growth.
Role Description
This is a full-time remote role for an Associate Affiliate Marketing Manager. The Associate Affiliate Marketing Manager will work closely with Senior Account Mangers and the RBL team to recruit activate and optimize high quality affiliate partners for our clients.
This role will communicate with affiliates and monitor and improve performance.
Qualifications
Affiliate Management and Affiliate Marketing skills
Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
Experience in marketing and sales
Desire to make a big impact on a small team
A knack for customer service, client service
Understanding of growing influencer marketing space
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Ability to work independently and remotely
Knowledge of digital marketing trends and strategies
Previous agency experience is preferred
We are long-term thinkers driving impact for our clients.
We have a more robust understanding of in-house teams and growth. Since our founding 10 years ago, we've worked with brands like ModCloth, Future Fitness, LiveNation, Nextdoor, Hatch, Amazon, Facebook/Meta (Portal & Oculus), Ironclad, Perk, Atlassian, Hopin, Ask, Tempo, Hatch, AXS, Puma, Ritual, and Grammarly to name a few.
About You
This is an exciting and pivotal role for you, and it has the potential to have a significant impact on RBL and our clients. You are a vital player in our fast-growing affiliate practice. You are interested in affiliate and partner marketing and performance marketing. You are curious and competitive, have an eye to improve the client experience, and can see projects through to completion.
As RBL's Manager of Affiliate Marketing, you will be responsible for the following key areas: execution of affiliate recruitment, activation, optimization, communication, reporting, and data analysis, working with teammates to deliver client results.
In addition to strategic and execution support, you will have a significant seat at the table and voice within the organization and the opportunity to grow with the team. You will need the drive to work independently and the communication skills to work as part of a growing team. Successful teammates have been great communicators and have exhibited strong ownership over the work and areas of focus.
This is a very hands-on role where you can select and implement performing affiliate partners for clients to hit their monthly, quarterly, and yearly goals.
This is an exciting learning opportunity to be part of building and implementing systems for high impact. It's a significant learning opportunity to be at the forefront of growth and paid marketing, working closely with seasoned growth and performance marketing practitioners and world-class clients.
You'll be responsible for: • Supporting our clients, affiliate team, paid media, publisher development, and data team • Driving affiliate execution for top-tier clients in collaboration with experienced affiliate pros • Support RBL affiliate team reporting, insights, recruitment, optimization, communication, and presentations. • Work with the team to reach key performance indicators, optimize objectives, and reach client goals. • Recruitment, Activation, Optimization, and Management of relevant incremental partners • Collaborating to hit goals for volume, CPA, ROI, and incrementality. • Identifying and executing tasks that will have the most significant impact in hitting targets. • Quantifying and prioritizing initiatives/opportunities accordingly and collaborating with the team to set priorities. • Monitoring affiliate partner traffic and performance to ensure the account is pacing well relative to budgets, promotional plans, and targets. • Troubleshooting pixels, UTM tags, tracking, and instrumentation as needed with help from the team and technical resources. • Have an eye for building helpful reporting and recommend improvements to existing processes, reporting, and analysis • Implementing testing initiatives in critical areas such as ad creatives, promotional schedules, publisher communication, and 3rd-party tools.
You'll need to have: • A minimum of 3 years' affiliate partner marketing experience • Proven prior work experience managing affiliate accounts with various goals and across several different industries • Experience in one or more of the following in-house management: affiliate network, affiliate marketing agency, merchant or publisher • Knowledge of International partners and affiliate ecosystem a plus • Experience on affiliate marketing platforms: Impact, CJ, AWIN, RAN, and other networks. • Strong written and verbal communication skills. This is critical to ensure client success and alignment of team and client expectations, particularly on a remotely distributed team such as ours.
Additional points we'd like to see: • A Bachelor's Degree or equivalent years of experience required • A Google Analytics certification • A passion for Affiliate Marketing and Growth • You are an energetic and creative search marketing enthusiast, eager to roll up your sleeves and be hands-on, learn, and grow in affiliate and paid marketing • You have an entrepreneurial spirit and are a self-starter; able to work both independently and in a team environment • Interested in innovation and working with new, improved methodologies for boosting performance
Benefits include unlimited PTO, health medical dental vision therapy benefits, 401k, a competitive salary, a significant voice in a small, fast-growing firm, fun quarterly and yearly team events, a learning stipend to continue to grow in your career, and 10% of your time to work on non-client projects.