Affiliate Partnerships Manager

Who We Are

Babylist is the leading destination for baby commerce, where 8 million people each year discover and purchase items to help welcome a new baby. We serve parents and the community of grandparents, friends and relatives around each baby - connecting everyone who helps plan, prepare and shop for the new arrival. From the “add anything from anywhere” registry for new parents, to the expert advice and product ideas for gift givers, there is no more trusted, go-to solution for growing families.

What the Role Is

The Affiliate Partnerships Manager will own the relationship with our Affiliates and lead our efforts to increase growth and revenue. This person will play a key role in the pre and post sales stages and will interact strategically with our Marketing, Engineering and Data teams to create and develop the best and most effective programs for new and existing partners. 

Who You Are

You are a proven seller with deep affiliate experience who thrives on using data to understand trends and manage a business. You’re experienced with post-sales implementation and ready to own clients across the full spectrum of the sales cycle. You have a minimum of 5 year of affiliate partnership experience. 

• Excited  to pitch, sell, negotiate and create win - win affiliate relationships with Babylist and client-direct affiliate partners, ultimately driving significant growth in Babylist affiliate revenue. Strategic thinker who can manage, negotiate, develop, and nurture affiliate partnerships across both new and existing clients using data to identify opportunities.
• Own and build  quarterly business reviews and other partner-facing presentations that review performance, insights and strategic upsell opportunities.
• Deft at  analyzing data to manage the overall affiliate business, find opportunities and identify issues; develop strategic program plans and present resulting data-driven insights and recommendations to partners.
• Strategic and creative thinker able to pitch and close new businesses and identify opportunities to add value to our partners with strong experience “closing” deals.
• Experience working in tracking platforms (Pepperjam, Commission Junction, Impact Radius, Share a Sale etc) and able to troubleshoot technical issues.

How You Will Make an Impact

• Affiliate partnerships are a key revenue driver for Babylist and you will own the full seven+-figures affiliate business from start to finish
• Own  the relationship with our affiliate network platforms to optimize and increase revenue from new and existing clients
• Own the business by Analyzing current affiliate performance and trends to enhance and develop new programs based on existing data.
• Use your sales and business development background to develop new and existing partner relationships and work towards acquiring new ones to increase our partner base.
• Own the current partner programs to enhance existing performance and leverage data and insights to build new strategies for existing and new partners.
• Build strategies for additional affiliate opportunities as Babylist continues to grow.

Our Ways of Working

We’re a remote-first company with team members located across the United States spanning multiple time zones, so we put in extra effort to make sure we connect and collaborate in ways that make sense for both the individual and for the business. We care about our work but know that we all care about things outside of work, too. Sometimes this looks like being flexible with our time to log on to a critical meeting and other times, it’s our team being flexible for us to attend to life outside of Babylist.And as a remote-first company, personal connection is the foundation for the great work we do together. In order to build those relationships, we meet with coworkers in person two times a year at a full company offsite and a departmental offsite. These are great opportunities to meet the people you work with every day and to do some of the work that is much more difficult to do virtually. Though most of our roles are fully remote, the majority of our leadership positions require limited amounts of travel for in-person meetings throughout the year, primarily to our headquarters in Oakland, CA.

Why You Will Love Working At Babylist

• We are a remote first company and we invest in the infrastructure you’ll need to be supported and successful: tools, opportunities to connect with colleagues, and a stipend to help you set up your office
• We build products that have a positive impact on millions of people’s lives
• We work at a sustainable pace which means work/life balance is a real thing here
• We believe technology and data can solve hard problems 
• We believe in exceptional management 
• We are an antiracist organization and doing the work to support differences of all kinds
• We offer competitive pay and meaningful opportunities for career advancement
• We have great benefits like company paid medical, dental, and vision, a generous paid parental leave policy, and 401k with company match
• We care about employee wellbeing with perks for physical, mental and emotional health, parenting, childcare, and financial planning