AFFILIATE PARTNERSHIPS MANAGER

Little Dot Studios; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Little Dot Studios seeks an Affiliate Partnerships Manager to lead publisher affiliate strategies and manage relationships with US retailers and networks. You will optimize revenue from affiliate links, negotiate exclusive codes, and align campaigns with the content calendar.

You will coordinate with content production to seamless link integration, monitor performance metrics, and ensure FTC compliance across platforms.

Qualifications

• Experience building and managing publisher-side affiliate partnerships.
• Proven ability to pitch brands for direct affiliate partnerships and rate increases.
• Strong negotiation with retailers and networks for favorable terms.

Responsibilities

• Retailer partnership management and business development with US partners.
• Own affiliate playbooks around tentpole events and exclusive codes.
• Coordinate with content teams to insert affiliate links and CTAs.
• Maintain tracking structures and ensure FTC compliance.

Skills

Affiliate networks

US retailer relationships

Smart-link tools

Communication

Deal-making

Content collaboration

Google Sheets/Excel

FTC/compliance awareness

Tools

Geniuslink

Pretty Links

CJ Affiliate

Impact

Job description

We Realize Potential in Your StoryWe are a multi-platform production company, social media agency, and digital media network who are currently on a quest to find a

We Realize Potential in Your StoryWe are a multi-platform production company, social media agency, and digital media network who are currently on a quest to find a Affiliate Partnerships Manager to join our Network team - Is this your next opportunity?

We're looking for an individual to help power one of the largest deal-focused channels on YouTube (3M subscribers). The Affiliate Partnerships Manager will own, scale, and optimize the affiliate commerce revenue engine for one of our lead Creator channels. In this role, you will lead publisher-side affiliate strategy and day-to-day commercial relationship management, partnering directly with top-tier US retail merchants and affiliate networks. Working closely with the Content and Channel Management teams, you will be tasked with maximizing earnings via affiliate links/shopping features. You will be responsible for proactively negotiating bespoke commission increases, securing exclusive promotional codes and advance deal sheets for marquee shopping events (such as Prime Day and Black Friday/Cyber Monday), and aligning high-converting retail deals with our content calendar. You will collaborate closely with the Channel Manager and the content production team to integrate affiliate links seamlessly into video descriptions, community posts, and newsletters while maintaining audience trust and strict compliance.

How You Will Spend Your Time

Retailer partnership management and business development

• Manage and scale direct relationships with major US retail partners, (eg. Amazon and Walmart) alongside major affiliate networks (eg. Impact, CJ Affiliate, MagicLinks).
• Pitch and negotiate with retailers and networks to secure beneficial commission rates, hybrid campaign fees, performance bonuses, exclusive merchant coupon codes, and curated landing pages to drive maximum revenue yield.
• Serve as the primary commercial point of contact for brand affiliate managers, affiliate PR reps, and network account teams.

Affiliate strategy and operations

• Own and execute the commercial affiliate playbook for the Creator channel, including around major retail tentpole events such as Amazon Prime Day, Fall Prime Day, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and Q4 holiday shopping.
• Regularly liaise with merchant partner contacts (including well in advance of tentpole dates) to secure embargoed deal sheets, early bird promotions, high-tier commission incentives, and guaranteed exclusive promotional codes.
• Coordinate with content and channel production leads to plan timely content releases that capitalize on real-time flash sales and lightning deals.

Product curation and link operations

• Curate commercially compelling, high-converting product selections tailored to the audience's interests, seasonal trends, and upcoming video releases.
• Coordinate with the Channel Management team to supply optimized affiliate tracking links, promotional copy, and call-to-action (CTA) text for video descriptions, pinned comments, newsletters, and social channels.
• Manage smart-link routing and redirection platforms (e.g., Geniuslink) to ensure multi-retailer fallback logic, global geo-targeting, and rapid resolution of out-of-stock items or broken URLs.

Performance analytics and compliance

• Maintain tracking structures to attribute revenue, clicks, and conversion by video, placement type, product category, and distribution channel.
• Monitor and report on core performance indicators and run regular A/B testing on channel output to improve performance
• Ensure that 100% of affiliate placements and promotional messaging strictly adhere to FTC disclosure regulations, merchant operating terms, and host platform community policies.

What You Need To Succeed

Skills matter, experience is useful, attitude is everything.

• Proficiency across major affiliate networks including Amazon Associates, Impact, CJ Affiliate, Rakuten, ShareASale, PartnerStack, Commission Juncture and MagicLinks
• Direct US retailer relationships, particularly with Amazon and Walmart.
• Expertise in smart-link and redirection tools (e.g., Geniuslink, Pretty Links) for link localization, dynamic routing, and out-of-stock monitoring.
• Strong communication and deal-making skills to pitch brands for direct affiliate partnerships and higher commission splits.
• Ability to analyze user behavior and craft effective call-to-action (CTA) copy that drives click-throughs without compromising audience trust.
• Understanding of how affiliate strategies differ across long-form YouTube videos, YouTube Shorts, TikTok, and Instagram Reels to optimize click-through rates per platform format.
• Proficiency in Google Sheets/Excel to track and monitor affiliate link performance.
• Attention to detail and ability to work with our legal and compliance team to ensure FTC and regulatory compliance at all times.
• Core skills: Communication, Collaboration, Organisation, Delivering Results, Solutions Focused, Adaptability
• Experience of managing publisher-side affiliate partnerships and operations at a deal site or media company
• Demonstrable experience managing high-volume link publishing with high accuracy and zero tolerance for broken or incorrect URLs
• Experience building and maintaining affiliate tracking structures that attribute revenue by content, video and placement using Sub IDs/tracking parameters, including identifying tracking discrepancies, reversals and underperforming programs
• Proven track record of successfully pitching and negotiating direct affiliate split increases or custom rates with brands
• Hands-on experience leveraging native video shopping tools (YouTube Shopping or TikTok Shop) (bonus)
• Experience working directly with content or production teams in a fast-paced YouTube or creator-led publishing environment (bonus)

Candidates must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the United States.

USE OF AI IN APPLICATIONS

Please keep it human; we want to get to know you -your thinking, and your originality. Whilst generative AI tools can be helpful for text refinement, we require your application to jobs at Little Dot Studios to be in your own voice and words. AI cannot be used to generate your responses and any applications appearing to be entirely AI-generated will not be progressed.

LITTLE DOT, BIG IMPACT

We’re probably the biggest studio you didn’t know was fueling your favorite content. We’ve been one of the top dogs in the digital content space since 2013 (some would say, before its potential was even fully realized). We're proud to work with some of the hottest TV and movie studios, distributors, rights holders, sports federations and brands in the business.

WE ARE COMMITTED

Little Dot Studios is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and does not unlawfully discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, pregnancy, age over 40, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, registered domestic partner status or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation. Please inform LDS if you need assistance to complete any forms or to otherwise participate in the application process. LDS will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history consistent with the requirements of the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.

Not accepting submissions from search firms or recruiters.

Learn more about us, our values and our commitments please visit our website www.littledotstudios.com for more information.

We are Little Dot Studios - a multi-platform production company, social media agency, and digital media network.

We work across every screen, partnering with some of the biggest names in entertainment, sports, social impact and consumer brands. As leading YouTube and social media specialists, we handle everything from strategy, audience development, content production, monetization, and digital copyright management.

We’re disruptive by nature and adaptive by design. We operate a multi-platform, multi-format production company who specialize in creating everything from original broadcast-quality film and TV and award-winning podcast series to short-form social content and live streams that perfectly tap into cultural moments. Whether we’re building communities, engaging superfans or driving performance - our aim is to realize the potential in every story.

We also run Little Dot Channels - our global digital media network made up of more than 250 channels across social platforms and seven FAST brands streaming on over 130 feeds. With more than 30,000 hours of premium content, we reach 125 million unique viewers every month and offer access to one of the largest brand-safe, premium advertising inventories across YouTube and CTV.

We’re proud to include WING, our specialist sports and branded content agency, and History Hit, Dan Snow’s podcast network and SVOD service, in the Little Dot group too.

To top it all off, we’re a certified B Corp, have been verified carbon neutral since inception, and are on track to be net-zero by 2030.

Founded in April 2013 and born for the digital entertainment era, we are made up of 500 digital experts across the UK, USA, Germany & APAC. We are part of media and entertainment group, Banijay Entertainment.