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Senior Affiliate Marketing Specialist

QuillBot - Remote - Remote - posted 2026-09-28

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QuillBot is seeking a Senior Affiliate Marketing Specialist to own and scale the company's affiliate growth program end-to-end. You will drive partner recruitment, onboarding, and activation across a network of 2,000+ partners spanning product reviewers, comparison sites, creators, cashback platforms, and verified communities. This is a hands-on senior individual contributor role with direct ownership of partner relationships, program operations, and performance growth. Key responsibilities include developing and executing comprehensive affiliate marketing strategies to drive partner recruitment, activation, and revenue growth across QuillBot's global affiliate ecosystem. You will identify, recruit, and onboard strategic affiliate partners; negotiate and manage contracts, commission structures, and incentive programs to expand the network and maximize ROI. You will setup and manage affiliate relationships end-to-end, including tracking codes, promotional offers, payment reconciliation, and ongoing partner support. You will analyze affiliate performance across cohorts, geographies, and partner types, tracking key metrics such as conversion quality, revenue, CAC, LTV, and fraud indicators, presenting findings and optimization recommendations to senior management. You will manage commission spend within approved budgets and recommend reallocations based on partner performance and ROI. You will design and run structured tests across partner incentives, offers, audience segments, commission tiers, and campaign mechanics to optimize conversion rates and partner engagement. Collaboration is essential: you will partner with Creative to build promotional materials and affiliate assets, and work 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. You will stay informed about emerging trends, competition, technologies, regulatory changes, and best practices in affiliate marketing, sharing insights with internal stakeholders. QuillBot was founded in 2017 with a mission to help students and professionals strengthen their writing. Today, the company helps over 56 million people globally create great things through AI-powered tools that help users think clearly, communicate effectively, and create beautifully across every platform. QUALIFICATIONS: - 5+ years of hands-on affiliate marketing experience, preferably within a B2C subscription or consumer technology business - Demonstrated 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, using 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, managing multiple partner relationships and priorities with high 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

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