Affiliate & Creator Partnerships Manager - Fintech

Our client is a growth-focused digital agency helping organizations improve marketing performance through strategy, content, paid media, websites, analytics, automation, and integrated digital programs.

They are hiring an Affiliate & Partner Growth Manager to build a partner acquisition program for a client in the financial education and home-finance industry.

The role will recruit trusted creators and professionals who can generate qualified homeowners and homebuyers, with success measured by partner activation, campaign execution, and lead quality.

Need to have qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience in affiliate marketing, creator partnerships, business development, strategic partnerships, influencer marketing, partner marketing, or a related growth role.
• Proven experience conducting outbound prospecting and developing new partner relationships.
• Experience managing prospects through a defined pipeline from identification through activation.
• Experience with creator, affiliate, or influencer partnership platforms.
• Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills.
• Confidence conducting outreach, discovery calls, and partner conversations.
• Ability to evaluate audience quality and commercial fit beyond follower counts or traffic volume.
• Experience managing multiple partner relationships and follow-up commitments.
• Working knowledge of landing pages, lead magnets, email marketing, webinars, and conversion funnels.
• Experience using a CRM, affiliate platform, or partner-management system.
• Basic understanding of attribution, UTM tracking, lead stages, and conversion reporting.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to work independently within a small, remote team.
• Comfort building processes where a complete playbook does not yet exist.
• Sound judgment when working with financial, regulated, or trust-sensitive subject matter.

Nice to have:

• Experience in fintech, mortgage, real estate, personal finance, insurance, or another high-consideration industry.
• Existing relationships with personal-finance creators, coaches, real-estate professionals, podcasters, or newsletter publishers.
• Experience developing podcast, webinar, newsletter, or creator-led campaigns.
• Familiarity with affiliate disclosures and responsible financial-product marketing.
• Ability to write or edit outreach messages, campaign briefs, email copy, and partner talking points.
• Experience with HubSpot, Pipedrive, Salesforce, ClickUp, Airtable, Apollo, or Clay.
• Familiarity with n8n, Zapier, or Make.
• Previous experience in an agency, startup, or entrepreneurial environment.

• Identify and prioritize creators, professionals, and organizations whose audiences align with qualified homeowners and homebuyers.
• Research prospects across podcasts, newsletters, YouTube, social platforms, professional networks, associations, and online communities.
• Evaluate prospects based on audience fit, credibility, engagement quality, content relevance, and brand safety.
• Build and maintain a prioritized partner prospecting pipeline.
• Conduct personalized outreach through email, LinkedIn, social platforms, and direct introductions.
• Lead introductory and qualification calls with prospective partners.
• Recruit and onboard qualified partners through program training and activation.
• Explain the offering, ideal customer, qualification criteria, approved messaging, and marketing boundaries.
• Coordinate tracking links, landing pages, talking points, educational materials, and campaign briefs.
• Launch first campaigns with new partners and re-engage inactive partners.
• Collaborate with partners on podcasts, webinars, newsletters, videos, social content, email sequences, and co-branded educational resources.
• Review partner campaign materials for clarity, accuracy, audience fit, and compliance with approved guidelines.
• Identify opportunities to improve offers, landing pages, follow-up sequences, and conversion paths.
• Track partners from prospecting through recruitment, onboarding, activation, and ongoing production.
• Monitor partner-generated leads through marketing and qualification stages.
• Evaluate performance by partner, audience, campaign, and acquisition source.
• Maintain accurate CRM records, UTM parameters, partner identifiers, and lead-source data.
• Report on partner pipeline, activation, campaigns, and lead quality.
• Build repeatable processes, documentation, templates, and partner resources.