Affiliate Creator Community Manager

Tarte Cosmetics; New York (NY); On-site; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary range $80k-$100k

Medical, dental, vision + 401K

Paid time off

Makeup gratis & employee discount

Friendly collaborative environment

Job summary

tarte cosmetics is looking for an Affiliate Creator Community Manager to grow our creator affiliate program, with a focus on TikTok Shop, Discord and Lark. This hands-on role blends community building, creator marketing, and affiliate strategy to engage top creators, nurture emerging partners, and turn engagement into sales.

You will shape programming, events, incentives, and communications, establish KPIs, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to scale our creator ecosystem.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in influencer or affiliate marketing.
• Hands-on experience building and/or managing a Discord community.
• Experience with TikTok Shop affiliate marketing or another social commerce/creator affiliate platform.
• Strong understanding of the creator economy and what motivates creators to engage, create and sell.
• Excellent written communication skills and ability to adapt to tarte’s fun, social-first brand voice.

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategy, day-to-day management, and continued growth of tarte’s Discord and Lark affiliate communities, creating an engaging destination where creators want to participate and grow.
• Develop an ongoing community programming calendar featuring challenges, contests, leaderboards, incentives, recognition programs, trainings, webinars, and IRL creator experiences.
• Identify, nurture, and reward top-performing and emerging affiliates, providing education, resources, content inspiration, and selling strategies to drive long-term success.
• Build scalable communication strategies that mobilize creators around priority products, promotions, commission opportunities, content best practices, and TikTok Shop tools.
• Stay ahead of TikTok Shop trends, platform updates, affiliate best practices, and emerging creator behaviors, while gathering community feedback to inform internal teams and future programming.
• Establish and track KPIs for community health and affiliate performance, including active membership, participation, creator activation, content volume, sales, and the effectiveness of community initiatives.

Skills

Influencer marketing

Affiliate marketing

Creator partnerships

Discord community management

TikTok Shop

Gamification & incentives

Data-driven

Communication at scale

Project management

Tools

Discord

TikTok Shop

Lark

Job description

About the Role:

tarte cosmetics is looking for a Affiliate Creator Community Manager to help take our rapidly growing creator affiliate program to the next level.

This role will own the day-to-day strategy and management of our affiliate creator communities, with a particular focus on TikTok Shop, Discord and Lark. We’re looking for someone who understands that a best-in-class affiliate program is about more than recruiting creators; it’s about creating a community people genuinely want to be part of.

The ideal candidate is deeply plugged into the creator and affiliate ecosystem, understands what motivates creators to post and sell, and knows how to turn community engagement into action. They’ll develop programming, activations, challenges, gamification strategies and communications that keep our affiliates informed, engaged and excited to create content for tarte. This is a hands‑on role for someone who is equal parts community builder, creator marketer and affiliate strategist.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the strategy, day-to-day management, and continued growth of tarte’s Discord and Lark affiliate communities, creating an engaging destination where creators want to participate and grow.
• Develop an ongoing community programming calendar featuring challenges, contests, leaderboards, incentives, recognition programs, trainings, webinars, and IRL creator experiences.
• Identify, nurture, and reward both top-performing and emerging affiliates, providing the education, resources, content inspiration, and selling strategies needed to drive long-term success.
• Build scalable communication strategies that quickly mobilize creators around priority products, promotions, commission opportunities, content best practices, and TikTok Shop tools.
• Stay ahead of TikTok Shop trends, platform updates, affiliate best practices, and emerging creator behaviors, while gathering community feedback to inform internal teams and future programming.
• Establish and track KPIs for community health and affiliate performance, including active membership, participation, creator activation, content volume, sales, and the effectiveness of community initiatives.

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of experience in influencer marketing, affiliate marketing, creator partnerships, social media community management or a related field
• Previous hands‑on experience building and/or managing a Discord community
• Experience with TikTok Shop affiliate marketing or another social commerce/creator affiliate platform
• Strong understanding of the creator economy and what motivates creators to engage, create and sell
• Experience developing creator challenges, incentive programs, ambassador programs or other gamified community initiatives
• Proven ability to build relationships and communicate effectively with creators at scale
• Highly creative with a strong pulse on social media, internet culture and emerging creator trends
• Comfortable using data and performance insights to inform community and affiliate strategy
• Strong organizational and project management skills with the ability to manage multiple campaigns and priorities at once
• Excellent written communication skills with the ability to adapt to tarte’s fun, social-first brand voice
• Self-starter who thrives in a fast-moving environment and is excited to test, learn and build

Our Perks

• Salary range: $80,000-100,000 (Compensation will depend on a variety of factors, including but not limited to skill level, relevant work experience & education)
• Medical, dental, vision, 401K plan & access to health & wellness programs
• Paid vacation, holidays, summer Fridays, birthdays off, volunteer time & more
• Makeup gratis, employee discount on tarte.com, team give back initiatives
• Friendly, fun, creative & collaborative work environment

Tarte is an equal opportunity employer.