Affiliate & Influencer Marketing Manager

About the Role

We are looking for a highly proactive, organized, and results-driven Affiliate & Creator Growth Manager to take full ownership of our affiliate and creator acquisition operations.

This role goes beyond managing affiliate platforms. You will be responsible for building and growing our entire affiliate and creator network, from identifying prospects and sourcing contact information to email outreach, social media outreach, follow-ups, negotiations, onboarding, activation, and performance tracking.

You will manage our affiliate programs across Social Snowball and SideShift while also running independent email and social media outreach campaigns to continuously recruit new affiliates and creators.

We need someone who can handle high-volume outreach, manage multiple pipelines, maintain accurate records, and consistently turn prospects into registered, onboarded, and active partners.

Affiliate Program Management

Take ownership of the overall affiliate program and its day-to-day operations.
Manage and optimize affiliate campaigns through Social Snowball.
Manage affiliate and creator campaigns through SideShift.
Monitor affiliate registrations, approvals, activations, referrals, content submissions, and performance.
Ensure affiliates receive the necessary onboarding, guidance, links, and discount codes.
Maintain consistent communication and build long-term affiliate relationships.
Identify inactive affiliates and implement strategies to reactivate them.

Key Responsibilities

1. Lead Sourcing & Prospect Research

Source 1,000+ relevant outreach opportunities and activities daily across email and social media.
Research and identify qualified affiliates, influencers, athletes, coaches, creators, and relevant communities.
Find prospects across Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook , websites, and other relevant platforms.
Source accurate business email s, contact details, and social media profiles.
Research each prospect's audience, engagement, content quality, and relevance to QBounce.
Build and maintain a large, organized, and duplicate-free prospect database.

2. Email & Social Media Outreach

Execute high-volume email outreach to potential affiliates and creators.
Conduct outreach through Instagram, TikTok, and other relevant social platforms.
Develop and use effective outreach templates while maintaining appropriate personalization.
Manage follow-up sequences and ensure prospects are contacted consistently.
Respond to interested prospects, answer questions, and communicate program benefits.
Track all outreach activities, responses, and next steps.
Monitor email deliverability, bounce rates, and response performance.

3. Affiliate Recruitment & Conversion

Convert qualified prospects into registered affiliates.
Guide prospects through the registration and onboarding process.
Explain commission structures, discount codes, gifting opportunities, and collaboration terms.
Follow up with registered affiliates to ensure they become active.
Identify inactive affiliates and develop reactivation strategies.
Build long-term relationships with productive affiliates.

4. Creator Recruitment & Development

Identify affiliates with the potential to become content creators.
Convert suitable affiliates into gifted, paid, and ongoing creator partnerships.
Recruit creators for product collaborations and content campaigns.
Manage creator communication, onboarding, campaign requirements, and deliverables.
Track content submissions, approvals, publishing status, and completed collaborations.
Identify high-performing creators for long-term partnerships.

5. Social Snowball Management

Manage the overall Social Snowball affiliate program.
Monitor registrations, approvals, referrals, commissions, discount codes, and affiliate performance.
Manage gifting and referral-only campaigns.
Support affiliate onboarding and resolve routine program-related issues.
Identify opportunities to increase active affiliates and affiliate-generated sales.

6. SideShift Campaign Management

Manage SideShift affiliate and creator campaigns.
Source and recruit suitable creators for active campaigns.
Monitor applications, approvals, onboarding, task completion, and content submissions.
Follow up with creators who have pending deliverables.
Ensure campaigns remain active, organized, and on schedule.
Recommend improvements to campaign recruitment and execution.

7. Pipeline & Status Tracking

Maintain the central affiliate and creator tracking system using Google Sheets and company workflows.
Track every prospect from initial sourcing through final conversion.
Record prospect name, social media handle, email address, platform, outreach date, contact method, response status, follow-up date, and next action.

Maintain clear statuses such as:

New Lead
Contact Information Found
Contacted
Follow-Up Required
Responded
Interested
Negotiating
Registered
Onboarded
Active Affiliate
Creator Opportunity
Creator Onboarded
Not Interested
No Response

Ensure all records are updated accurately and consistently.
Prevent duplicate outreach and missed follow-ups.
Keep the pipeline clean and up to date at all times.

8. Reporting & Performance Optimization

Provide daily end-of-day reports covering sourcing, outreach, follow-ups, responses, registrations, onboarding, and conversions.
Submit daily performance summaries with measurable results.
Monitor outreach response rates and affiliate activation rates.
Track affiliate-generated sales and revenue.
Identify bottlenecks and recommend improvements.
Take initiative to improve recruitment processes, outreach strategies, and campaign performance.

Requirements

Previous experience in affiliate marketing, influencer marketing, lead generation, or business development.
Experience with high-volume email and social media outreach.
Strong prospect research and contact information sourcing skills.
Hands-on experience with affiliate platforms such as Social Snowball, SideShift, or similar tools.
Excellent written English and professional communication skills.
Strong Google Sheets and data management skills.
Ability to manage large lead databases and multiple outreach pipelines.
Strong follow-up, organization, and time-management skills.
Ability to work independently and take full ownership of assigned responsibilities.
Experience with email outreach tools, CRM systems, and automation is an advantage.

Daily Performance Expectations

Execute 1,000+ outreach activities daily, including new email s, social media DMs, and follow-ups.
Maintain accurate tracking of every outreach activity and prospect status.
Continuously source new qualified prospects while managing existing conversations.
Ensure timely follow-ups and consistent communication.
Maintain active management of Social Snowball and SideShift campaigns.
Convert interested prospects into registered and active affiliates.
Identify and convert suitable affiliates into content creators.
Submit clear daily reports and maintain an organized pipeline.

Outreach volume is a minimum activity expectation, not the sole measure of performance. Quality, deliverability, qualified prospects, responses, registrations, active affiliates, creator conversions, and generated revenue will also be evaluated.

Compensation

$500 USD per month.

This is a long-term opportunity for someone who can demonstrate strong ownership, consistency, execution, and measurable growth.

How to Apply

Please answer the following in your application:

Describe your experience managing affiliate or influencer programs.

Have you managed Social Snowball, SideShift, or similar platforms?

What is your experience with high-volume email and social media outreach?

How do you source business email s and social media profiles?

What tools do you use to manage outreach and track prospect statuses?

How would you organize and manage 1,000+ daily outreach activities?

What is your earliest available start date?

Include examples of previous affiliate, creator recruitment, or outreach campaigns you have managed.