Senior Affiliates Manager - Marketing

Senior Affiliates Manager - Marketing Kit https://kit.com/ is an email-first operating system for creators who mean business. We help creators grow and monetize their audience with ease. For coaches, YouTubers, authors, podcasters, and other creatives, there isn't a better marketing hub to rely on to grow audiences, automate email marketing, and sell digital products — all within one platform. More importantly, there isn't a team more committed to helping creators earn a living. We're on a mission to help creators earn $1 billion using our creator marketing platform. We have always been 100% independent and 100% remote. We are proud to have built a product that our customers love, and we look for people who have enthusiasm and belief in our mission, vision, and values to join our team. We're also embracing AI thoughtfully — both in how we build and how we hire to ensure our team is adaptable, innovative, and ready for what's next. THE ROLE Kit's affiliate program has real momentum waiting to be unlocked — and we need someone with the drive and instincts to go unlock it. We're looking for a Senior Affiliate Marketing Manager to build our affiliate program into a profitable, predictable acquisition channel by recruiting the right creator partners, strengthening how we engage and activate them, and building the systems that make the whole thing scale. This is a full-time IC role ideal for someone who's energized by building genuine relationships with creators, sees untapped potential where others see a broken process, and moves fast to test, learn, and iterate. YOUR SUPPORT SYSTEM You'll report to Christina Lhi https://www.linkedin.com/in/christinalhi/, Head of Marketing, and collaborate closely with the marketing team, including our Senior Content Marketing Team Lead, Social Content Marketing Manager, two Product Marketing Managers, Growth Marketing Lead, and Creator Educator. You'll also partner with product and growth teams to improve the creator experience for affiliate-sourced signups. WHAT YOU'LL DO - First week: Get access to PartnerStack and existing affiliate dashboards. Review current program performance, partner mix, and webinar data. Attend Get-To-Know-You meetings with your marketing teammates and key stakeholders. Begin building relationships with top-performing affiliates. - First month: Audit the current affiliate program and identify your highest-impact opportunities. Pay particular attention to partner segmentation, recruitment gaps, and where engagement is breaking down. Develop a segmentation framework that goes beyond performance tiers — think by creator type, audience, and channel, so you can build engagement strategies that actually fit how different partners operate. Map out a strategic plan with clear priorities and expected outcomes. Launch 2-3 quick wins to improve partner activation or webinar conversion. Share your initial strategy and recommendations with Christina and the team. - First six months: Execute your strategic plan and hit quarterly MRR targets from affiliates. Recruit and activate new partners across multiple segments (pro affiliates, media partners, creator partners). Scale the webinar program to drive more qualified leads with better conversion rates. Build AI-powered systems that reduce manual coordination time by at least 50%. Establish clear metrics, dashboards, and a regular working-in-public cadence. . Build a community-first engagement cadence for affiliates — not just promotional emails, but ongoing touchpoints that make partners feel like they're part of something. - First year: Deliver $1M in new ARR through strategic partner recruitment and program optimization. Scale the webinar program to meaningfully increase its contribution to total affiliate MRR. Diversify the partner mix beyond individual creators to include media partners and AI-first publishers. Continue building documented playbooks and systems that make the program scalable and predictable. Establish Ki ... (truncated, view full listing at source)