AI Lead Generation & Outreach Automation Specialist

AI Lead Generation & Outreach Automation Specialist | B2B Sales & Affiliate Marketing | Part-Time

Company: Today's Business — U.S.-Based Digital Marketing Agency

Location: Remote — Philippines

Compensation: $100 USD/week

Schedule: Part-Time, approximately 10–15 hours/week, with some overlap with U.S. Eastern Time business hours

Engagement: Long-Term B2B Contractor

About the Position

Today's Business is a U.S.-based digital marketing agency looking for a highly skilled, AI-savvy Lead Generation & Outreach Automation Specialist.

We are NOT looking for a traditional virtual assistant who manually researches prospects and sends email s one at a time.

We want someone who understands how to leverage AI, automation, and modern sales prospecting tools to dramatically increase the volume, efficiency, and quality of our outreach.

Our agency works with brands on affiliate marketing, influencer marketing, publisher partnerships, and digital marketing.

Your primary responsibility will be helping us scale outreach to relevant creators, influencers, publishers, journalists, affiliate partners, and potential business partners.

We want someone who can build efficient, repeatable systems to identify qualified prospects, research contacts, personalize messaging, execute outreach campaigns, manage follow-ups, and track results.

Our goal is to move from manual outreach to scalable, AI-powered business development.

Key Responsibilities

1. AI-Powered Lead Generation & Prospecting

• Research and identify qualified creators, influencers, publishers, journalists, affiliate partners, and prospective brand partners.
• Use Claude, ChatGPT, and other AI tools to accelerate prospect research.
• Build highly targeted prospect lists based on each client's ideal partner profile.
• Find and verify business email addresses, contact details, websites, and social media profiles.
• Research relevant information for personalized outreach.
• Identify decision-makers and high-value partnership opportunities.
• Build automated workflows that can research and qualify hundreds of potential prospects daily.
• Prioritize prospect quality, relevance, and verified contact information rather than simply generating large lists.

2. AI Outreach & Cold Email Automation

• Build and manage scalable outbound email campaigns.
• Use AI to generate personalized messaging based on each prospect's business, audience, and relevance.
• Implement automated outreach sequences and appropriate follow-ups.
• Research and recommend tools that improve outreach efficiency.
• Work toward scaling outreach to hundreds of qualified contacts daily as systems, infrastructure, and campaign performance allow.
• Monitor email deliverability, bounce rates, responses, and campaign performance.
• Maintain suppression lists, respect opt-outs, and follow applicable email marketing regulations.
• Ensure messages sound natural, professional, and human rather than generic or obviously AI-generated.

We are especially interested in candidates who know how to use AI to make outbound prospecting dramatically more efficient without sacrificing personalization or quality.

3. Affiliate & Influencer Recruitment

• Identify relevant influencers and creators for our clients' affiliate programs.
• Research publishers and websites that could promote our clients' products.
• Find affiliate partners who have strong potential to generate revenue.
• Help recruit creators into affiliate programs through approved outreach campaigns.
• Research potential publisher placements, product reviews, gift guides, and other promotional opportunities.
• Identify opportunities to develop stronger ongoing partnerships.
• Maintain accurate prospect and outreach records.

4. AI Automation & Workflow Development

• Use tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, n8n, Make, Zapier, and other automation platforms where appropriate.
• Build repeatable prospecting, research, qualification, and outreach workflows.
• Automate repetitive tasks that would otherwise require hours of manual work.
• Develop AI-assisted workflows for email personalization and follow-up management.
• Identify ways to improve existing processes and reduce manual labor.
• Continuously test and optimize outreach workflows.

We want someone who proactively brings automation ideas to the table rather than waiting to be told what to do.

5. ---------- CRM & Reporting

• Work inside our existing ---------- project management and CRM systems.
• Keep prospect records, contact information, outreach activities, and follow-up statuses accurate.
• Check for duplicate contacts before creating new records.
• Connect contacts to their relevant companies, brands, or publication outlets.
• Track outreach performance and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Provide regular reports showing qualified leads, verified contacts, email s sent, replies, interested prospects, and opportunities generated.
• Maintain accurate records of the work completed by automated systems.

6. Communication & Team Collaboration

• Communicate effectively with our U.S.-based team through Slack and ---------- .
• Have excellent written and spoken English.
• Participate in occasional meetings during U.S. Eastern Time business hours.
• Work closely with affiliate strategists, account managers, and leadership.
• Understand client campaign guidelines, qualifications, and partnership requirements.
• Escalate interested prospects, important responses, and promising opportunities promptly.

Required Qualifications

• Previous experience in B2B lead generation, cold email outreach, sales prospecting, or affiliate recruitment.
• Strong hands-on experience using ChatGPT, Claude, or similar AI tools professionally.
• Experience with outreach automation or lead generation tools.
• Experience researching and verifying professional contact information.
• Excellent written English and strong spoken English.
• Ability to personalize cold email s at scale without producing generic AI content.
• Understanding of email deliverability, follow-ups, list quality, and outreach performance.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to maintain accurate CRM records.
• Ability to work independently and proactively improve processes.
• Reliable internet connection and professional communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with U.S.-based marketing agencies.
• Familiarity with affiliate and influencer marketing.
• Experience with Apollo, Instantly, Smartlead, Clay, or similar prospecting and outreach platforms.
• Experience with n8n, Make, Zapier, or AI agents.
• Experience with ---------- .
• Experience working with Gmail and CRM integrations.
• Experience developing AI-powered outbound prospecting workflows.
• Understanding of creator recruitment, affiliate networks, and publisher partnerships.

What Success Looks Like

• Prospect research and outreach require substantially less manual work.
• Hundreds of relevant prospects can be researched and qualified through efficient workflows.
• Approved outreach campaigns can scale responsibly while maintaining strong personalization and deliverability.
• Our affiliate and business development teams receive more qualified partnership opportunities.
• ---------- remains organized, accurate, and up to date.
• Follow-up opportunities are tracked and do not fall through the cracks.
• AI and automation reduce repetitive tasks and improve overall productivity.
• Outreach generates meaningful conversations and partnerships, not just a high number of sent email s.

Contract Structure

This is a part-time, ongoing professional services opportunity intended to operate under a B2B contractor agreement, subject to applicable law.

The selected provider will be expected to operate through an appropriately registered business before contracting.

We prefer a flexible month-to-month arrangement without a mandatory long-term commitment, with termination terms defined in the services agreement.

How to Apply

Please answer ALL of the following questions:

1. What AI tools do you currently use for lead generation and outbound sales? Explain exactly how you use them.
2. Have you built an automated prospecting or cold email outreach system before? Explain your workflow and results.
3. How would you use Claude or ChatGPT to identify, research, and personalize outreach to 500 relevant influencers or publishers?
4. What tools would you recommend for finding verified business email s and automating personalized outreach?
5. How do you prevent duplicate outreach, bad email addresses, spam complaints, and poor email deliverability?
6. What experience do you have with B2B sales, affiliate recruitment, or influencer marketing?
7. Have you used ---------- , n8n, Make, Clay, Apollo, Instantly, or similar tools?
8. Please provide examples of outreach campaigns or automations you have personally built.
9. Please submit a short 1–2 minute video introduction in English.
10. Confirm your availability for approximately 10–15 hours per week and your acceptance of the $100/week budget.

Important: We are not interested in generic, copy-and-paste applications.

We want someone who understands AI, thinks creatively about automation, and can demonstrate how they have successfully improved lead generation and outreach efficiency.

Shortlisted candidates may be invited to complete a paid practical assessment.

Our goal is to build a scalable, AI-powered business development operation, and we're looking for someone excited to help make that happen.