Senior Affiliate Partnership Specialist

Overview

Own and scale Quillbot's affiliate growth program end to end, managing recruitment, onboarding, activation and performance across a network of 2,000+ partners. This is a senior individual contributor role.

What you'll do

• Develop and execute comprehensive affiliate marketing strategies to drive partner recruitment, activation, and revenue growth across Quillbot's global affiliate ecosystem.
• Identify, recruit, and onboard strategic affiliate partners; negotiate and manage contracts, commission structures, and incentive programs to expand the network, drive performance, and maximize ROI.
• Set up and manage affiliate relationships end to end, including tracking codes, promotional offers, payment reconciliation, and ongoing partner support to ensure activation, retention, and positive relationships.
• Analyze affiliate performance across cohorts, geographies, and partner types, track key metrics (conversion quality, revenue, CAC, LTV, fraud indicators), and present findings and optimization recommendations to senior management.
• Manage commission spend within approved budgets and recommend reallocations based on partner performance, growth opportunities, and ROI.
• Design and run structured tests across partner incentives, offers, audience segments, commission tiers, and campaign mechanics to optimize conversion rates and partner engagement.
• Partner with Creative to build compelling promotional materials and affiliate assets to support partner activation, campaign execution, and engagement.
• Collaborate with Product, Brand, Data, and Engineering teams to align affiliate initiatives with business objectives, optimize tracking and attribution, implement fraud detection, and improve measurement accuracy.
• Stay informed about emerging trends, competition, technologies, regulatory changes, and best practices in affiliate marketing, and share insights and recommendations with internal stakeholders.

What you'll need

• 5+ years of hands-on affiliate marketing experience, preferably within a B2C subscription or consumer technology business.
• Success recruiting, onboarding, and scaling affiliate partner networks, managing partner performance, and making data-based commission and budget recommendations against acquisition, revenue, and ROI goals.
• Deep hands-on experience with affiliate platforms and networks such as Impact, PartnerStack, or comparable affiliate management systems.
• Analytical judgment to diagnose partner performance changes, identify high-potential segments, prioritize optimization opportunities, and translate data into practical partner and program actions.
• Understanding of attribution, fraud detection, and quality-control concepts, and use of measurement findings to inform partner recruitment, incentive design, and program decisions.
• Ability to communicate performance findings and recommendations clearly through dashboards, written updates, and structured presentations to internal stakeholders and partners.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across remote, cross-functional teams including Marketing, Product, Brand, Data, and Finance, and to manage multiple partner relationships and priorities with a high degree of ownership.
• Experience recruiting, onboarding, and managing affiliate partners across international markets.
• Experience designing and analyzing structured tests or experiments to optimize partner incentives, offers, or conversion mechanics.

Details

• Location: India - Remote. Eligible for hire in India; candidates must have existing authorization to work in India and must not require current or future company sponsorship.
• Hybrid and remote model with flexible working hours.