Partnership Manager, Lifestyle Influencers

Connexity is a performance-marketing technology company that drives new customers and sales to retailers and generates premium earnings for content creators. Each year we deliver over $4 billion in sales to retailers and pay out industry-leading rates to publishers and creators. With 20+ years of proven success in the US, Europe, and APAC, Connexity is a long-time e-commerce pioneer.

ShopYourLikes is the Influencer monetization platform and community at Connexity. Influencers are a force within e-commerce, and for five years Connexity has served the influencer community with the ShopYourLikes product and brand. Our mission at ShopYourLikes is to help influencers thrive as entrepreneurs. We pride ourselves on service and relationship building. We pay our influencers well and we pay them fast. We listen to our community and build tools and processes to help our users achieve their goals. In return, influencers have developed loyalty and a love for us. Connexity is accelerating investment in this fast growing, high performing social channel as a key part of our overall growth strategy.

Times are exciting at SYL!

About the role

The Partnership Manager reports to the Head of Partnerships, and offers the chance to own growth and relationship building across a large portfolio of Influencers. Success in this role means growing revenue with an established group of influencers. Success also means working with new SYL influencers to onboard, educate, and grow revenue. Whether the influencers are long-time SYL users or just getting started, ultimate success in this role is driven by relationship building, learning about their drivers and goals, caring about their business, and earning their trust. When our influencers grow and prosper, so do we. When our influencers trust us, our SYL brand and community become stronger. If you are passionate about the influencer space and e-commerce, you'll love this role. If you want to get in early as we expand our influencer partnership team and would value a close partnership with industry veterans to grow your career, let's connect.

Responsibilities Include

• Managing, retaining, and accelerating growth of current SYL influencer accounts through highly proactive engagement through calls, email, and Hubspot
• Onboarding, educating, and growing new SYL influencer accounts through best-in-class service with great attention to detail
• Building and coaching influencers on creative strategies to best diversify their content and capitalize on earnings
• Meeting and exceeding quarterly financial and north star metric goals
• Researching and understanding the content, audience, key retailers, and competitor monetization across your influencer accounts
• Monitoring traffic performance and collaborating cross-functionally with analyst, product, and community teams to optimize
• Creating email marketing campaign templates with dynamic content using segmentation strategy and creative design

Requirements

• 4-6 years of AM experience in digital/e-commerce
• 1-2 years of AM experience in the influencer marketing space (both affiliate and sponsorships)
• Demonstrated success in revenue growth, relationship building, and account management
• Deep understanding of data and digital/influencer monetization models like CPA, CPC, sponsorships
• Well-versed in understanding influencer engagement, comment sentiment, and what makes a creator valuable
• Has a beat on social media/pop culture trends + influencer content creation workflows/best practices
• Excellent analytical aptitude with solution-based creative thinking
• Ability to manage dozens of relationships and initiatives in parallel
• Influencer agency experience and Canva experience are a plus
• Strong excel and data organizational skills
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience

Benefits

Headquartered in Santa Monica, the company operates sites and business services in the US, UK, EMEA, and APAC. We offer top benefits including flexible time off, casual work environment, competitive comp, hybrid work schedule, and much more!

Voted "Best Places to Work," our culture is driven by self-starters, team players, and visionaries. Headquartered in Santa Monica, the company operates sites and business services in the US, UK, and EU. We offer top benefits including flexible time off, paid holidays, competitive comp, team events and more!

• Health Care Plans (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Retirement Plan (401k Matching)
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D), LTD & STD
• Paid Leave Benefits (Maternity, Paternity & Medical)
• Learning & Development Program (educational tool)
• Free Food & Snacks
• Wellness Resources
• Equity

We are committed to providing a culture at Connexity that supports the diversity, equity and inclusion of our most valuable asset, our people. We encourage individuality, and are driven to represent a workplace that celebrates our differences, and provides opportunities equally across gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, and all other demographics. Our actions across Education, Recruitment, Retention, and Volunteering reflect our core company values and remind us that we're all in this together to drive positive change in our industry.

The pay range for this position is is $75,000-$85,000K. The pay offered may vary depending on several factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Compensation packages include a variety of perks such as equity, competitive 401(k) match, rich benefits, and bonus.

This position is hybrid ~2days/week in our Santa Monica office.

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