Excel Jobs is hiring a remote Affiliate Manager who must be located in Ohio. In this role, you will oversee a portfolio of business affiliates who place and sell traffic to the company. Your core mission is to ensure affiliates follow industry best practices, drive high-quality traffic, and improve performance to fuel revenue growth.
What You'll Do
- Vet new affiliate opportunities from inbound pipelines and referrals.
- Evaluate partner legitimacy, compliance, and scalability.
- Coordinate contracts and onboarding paperwork.
- Partner with technical teams to support integrations, tracking setup, and launch readiness.
- Manage a portfolio of affiliate partners and monitor performance against internal KPIs.
- Analyze reporting dashboards, buyer feedback, and call/transcription data to assess traffic quality and consumer experience.
- Identify optimization opportunities and implement data-driven strategies to improve results.
- Monitor fraud and compliance indicators and take action when standards are not met (caps, pauses, wind-downs).
- Support payout and pricing decisions based on performance and quality outcomes.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for assigned affiliate partners.
- Communicate performance insights and recommendations clearly and professionally.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Revenue, Compliance, Tech, and Affiliate teams to resolve issues and scale high-performing partners.
- Maintain accurate workflows and documentation in tools like Asana.
What We're Looking For
- 1–3 years of experience in B2B account management, affiliate marketing, performance marketing, insurtech, or SaaS.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. You understand how to interpret performance and quality KPIs to drive decisions.
- Excellent written and verbal communication. You are clear, concise, and persuasive.
- Reliable and self-directed. You demonstrate extreme ownership and accountability.
- Proactive, organized, and focused on measurable outcomes.
- Comfortable analyzing call data, leads, and web traffic performance, focusing on quality metrics.
- High level of comfort managing workflows, dependencies, updates, documentation, cross-functional collaboration, and accountability within a structured project management tool.
Nice to Have
- Hands-on experience with performance marketing and tracking platforms such as Tableau, Everflow, MediaAlpha, ActiveProspect (TrustedForm), and Call Criteria.
- Strong technical fluency and comfort navigating multiple data and lead management systems simultaneously; ability to quickly learn and adapt to new platforms.
- Direct experience working in Asana, including building and maintaining projects, templates, automations, dashboards, and reporting views. Familiarity with using Asana as a central operational hub is strongly preferred.
- Proven track record of managing, optimizing, and growing partner or affiliate accounts in a performance-driven environment.
Technical Stack
- Tableau
- Everflow
- MediaAlpha
- ActiveProspect (TrustedForm)
- Call Criteria
- Asana
Team & Environment
You will report to the Director, Network Partnerships.
Work Mode
This role is remote but requires the candidate to be located in Ohio.
Excel Jobs is an equal opportunity employer.





