Affiliate & Creator Partnerships Lead

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Identify, assess, and recruit UGC creators, influencers, TikTok Shop affiliates, and long-term brand collaborators.

• Establish connections with creators who resonate with the brand’s target audience, products, and business objectives.

• Oversee outreach, negotiations, onboarding, product sampling, compensation, commissions, and content usage rights.

• Foster ongoing collaborations with high-performing creators.

• Recruit and engage TikTok Shop affiliates to enhance product visibility and sales.

• Track affiliate engagement, conversion rates, revenue, and creator-level performance metrics.

• Enhance affiliate activation, retention, and repeat sales efforts.

• Develop a dependable network of commercially effective affiliate partners.

• Convert approved creative briefs into actionable assignments for creators.

• Organize product samples, content timelines, deliverables, revisions, and approvals.

• Ensure content aligns with creative standards and is delivered punctually.

• Manage content usage rights and asset transfers to the marketing team.

• Monitor creator performance in terms of content quality, affiliate sales, conversions, engagement, and partnership effectiveness.

• Identify top-performing creators and opportunities for repeat collaborations.

• Utilize performance insights to enhance creator selection, briefs, partnerships, and program investments.

• Create structured creator pipelines, reporting systems, and replicable workflows.

• Report directly to the CEO; no direct reports.

⛳️ Requirements

• Demonstrated hands-on experience in managing creator partnerships, influencer marketing, or UGC programs within direct-to-consumer (DTC) or e-commerce brands.

• Practical knowledge of TikTok Shop affiliate programs, encompassing creator recruitment, activation, performance monitoring, and growth strategies.

• Experience overseeing performance-driven UGC creators and content creation for paid advertising.

• Strong grasp of paid UGC, influencer collaborations, affiliate commissions, and sustainable partnerships.

• Proven ability to evaluate creator-level performance and convert findings into actionable enhancements.

• Experience with creator outreach, negotiations, product sampling, deliverables, usage rights, and creator management platforms.

• Capability to establish and manage organized creator pipelines and scalable partnership frameworks.

• Excellent communication, relationship management, analytical, and organizational abilities.

• Proactive and independent work style with the capacity to assume full ownership of a function.

• Availability to work from 9 AM to 5 PM with flexibility across US time zones.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote position: Work from anywhere in the United States.

• Flexible schedule accommodating various US time zones.

• Direct access to the CEO.

• Opportunity to establish an in-house creator partnerships function from the ground up.

• Chance to influence a new marketing function from the very beginning.

• Collaboration with a newly formed marketing team.

• Opportunity to play a key role in the launch of a new luggage line.

• Tangible impact on content performance and e-commerce growth.