Job Description
As the Affiliate Marketing and Partnerships Manager, you'll be the face of the company to a variety of marketing partners. UPLIFT Desk is a $100M+ eCommerce company focused on growth, and you'll be a key part of that. You will be tasked with managing the affiliate marketing program, ensuring that we maintain strong relationships with our affiliates, influencers, creators, and content marketers. You will coordinate a variety of complex tasks, from spearheading new product campaigns to launching social media initiatives. This role will be responsible for strategic development and execution of digital marketing plans, proving performance metrics, and adjusting strategies to ensure optimal marketing spend. You will optimize our partnerships across both paid and unpaid media, focusing on both direct-to-consumer and business-to-business eCommerce channels. This position will allow for significant growth over time, and so you must be eager for new challenges and the pursuit of opportunities.
Required Qualifications
- 4+ years direct experience managing Affiliate, Content, and/or Social Marketing programs, preferably at a retail brand or an agency
- Applicable bachelor's degree or commensurate experience
- Strong computer literacy and familiarity with G-suite (Google docs and spreadsheets) or similar software with the ability to track and report on key performance metrics
- Great character skills: willing to be a learning sponge and focus on growth
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience managing and growing an affiliate program with Impac or other programs.
- Working business knowledge of tag management, tracking pixels, data feeds, data collection and exchange (i.e., 1st and 3rd party data sources). Experience with multi-touch attribution and media mix models.
- Basic knowledge (or willingness to learn) other digital marketing channels (e.g., PPC, SEO, Display)
- Networker and Hustler: excited to reach out, form partnerships, build networks, and find the right deals.
- A team player with a positive, can-do attitude who works effectively with cross-functional stakeholders.
- Strong organizational skills to manage an inbox efficiently
- You have experience prioritizing multiple projects in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, and delivering them on-time while meeting performance goals.
What You’ll Do
- Responsible for affiliate strategy, account management and maintenance, including recruitment, placement planning and competitor audits
- Juggle communications across multiple platforms, in-person, virtually, and through social media
- Seek and develop creative new opportunities for partnerships that are aligned with our brand and will increase our reach, qualified traffic, and revenue.
- Plan monthly and quarterly promotions for our Affiliate partner offers. Provide our community with high value transformative content that drives site traffic and sales.
- Be results-driven and motivated with a non-negotiable commitment to exceeding goals and objectives.
- Respond to publisher inquiries and oversee affiliate newsletters for various campaigns
- Monitor account activity, analyze performance, identify areas of improvement, and recommend ways to increase account-generated revenues. You will need to be forthright and open about what is and is not working.
- Communicate and monitor compliance or brand guidelines in the ever-changing digital marketing landscape
- Represent our brand at industry conferences and client meetings, both virtually and in-person
- Manage delivery of regular performance analysis for Paid Social and Affiliates programs, identifying areas of opportunity and messaging out key wins
- Arrange product reviews while working with Product Development team on new product launches and campaigns
- Work with internal and external resources on Advertisements, determine the return on investment, and optimize our marketing programs
- Identifying potential growth strategies and execute on marketing campaigns
- Work independently under minimal supervision. Resolve complex or unusual requests and problems that may require a customized response.
- Perform other related duties as assigned by management
Benefits
- A merit-based environment that rewards growth and accomplishment regardless of seniority
- Generous paid time off
- 4% 401K company matching with instant vesting (after one year)
- Excellent group health insurance available to employees and dependents, including domestic partners (4 medical plans, 2 dental plans, and a vision plan to choose from)
- Flexible spending account (FSA) for health care and child care costs
- Company-paid & Supplementary Life Insurance; Long-term & Short-term disability
- Free UPLIFT Desk (after one year)
- 50% discount on all UPLIFT products
- Free healthy (and not so healthy) snacks and drinks
- On-the-job training and skills development
- A supportive and engaging work culture that promotes healthy living
Position Details
- Compensation: DOE
- Type: Full-time
- Employee Status: Regular
- Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8am-5pm
- Location: In Office, Austin, Texas
About UPLIFT Desk
As a fast growing, mid-sized Direct To Consumer (DTC) brand company, it’s our mission to deliver sincere, world-class customer service. We provide optimally designed, quality office solutions to customers. We focus on happier & healthier customers and employees!
UPLIFT Desk has revolutionized the way people shop for office furniture. It all starts with our award winning UPLIFT Standing Desk, made even better when accessorized with our entire UPLIFT office furniture line. Our product line includes most furniture an office could need. We design office products that optimize customers’ comfort, health, and productivity. Our Product Development team focuses on designing the highest quality ergonomic office furniture. Then our Content team's ecommerce website offers customers the ability to configure products specifically to their needs. Our amazing Order Processing and Warehouse teams make sure we have inventory and ship orders the same day. Customers receive award winning support from our Sales and Customer Service and Warranty teams. We offer the best 15 year warranty in the business! Our Interior Design and Contract Sales teams specialize in large office furniture layouts for commercial buildings that serve most Fortune 500 companies.
Award winning UPLIFT Desk is loved globally!
- Rated Best Standing Desk by New York Times Wirecutter 5 years in a row
- Hundreds of thousands of happy customers around the world sit and stand at an UPLIFT Desk
- Google reviews - 4.9 rating with thousands of reviews
We value our environment:
- We plant 5 new trees in U.S. National Forests for every solid wood desk sold. By partnering with the National Forest Foundation, we're able to plant tens of thousands of new trees each year
- Solar powered operations: Our Austin facilities produce over a megawatt of electricity through roof-mounted solar panels on three large warehouses
- We use sustainable materials in our products. Some examples are:
- Bamboo Desktops, Drawers, & Motion Boards: The world's fastest-growing plant, Moso bamboo is a grass that grows as quickly as an inch an hour
- Eco Curve Desktops: Eco Curve desktops use 100% recycled MDF and have the lowest carbon footprint in the industry due to not using edgebanding, backer boards, adhesives, or solvents
- Rubberwood Desktops: Pará rubber trees produce 99% of the world's natural rubber latex. The rubber production lifespan of these trees is exhausted after about 25-30 years. Our rubberwood desktops give the trees a second life
Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO)
UPLIFT Desk believes in building an organization whose staff reflects the true diversity of our community. We hire, promote, and reward employees based on results and professional performance. UPLIFT Desk provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, creed, color, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, marital status, partnership status, ancestry, disability, or veteran status.
To all recruitment agencies: We do not accept agency resumes. UPLIFT Desk is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
