Affiliate & Creator Marketing Lead

Runpod is the AI Developer Cloud. More than one million developers, from indie researchers to teams running frontier models in production, use Runpod to experiment, train, fine-tune, deploy, and scale AI on one platform. The platform has processed more than 20 billion inference requests. We closed a $100M Series A in June 2026. We're at an inflection point for AI infrastructure, and we're building the platform the next generation of developers will depend on. Learn more in our CEO's funding announcement: runpod. io/blog/one-million-developers. We're a small, remote-first team. We take ownership seriously, move fast, and ship work that more than a million developers rely on every day. We're looking for people who care deeply, build with urgency, and want to matter at scale. The Affiliate & Creator Marketing Lead joins Runpod's Marketing team, a lean, high-output team responsible for how Runpod shows up across every channel developers and infrastructure buyers touch. This role reports to the Director of Growth & Demand Gen and works closely with Growth, Content, Product Marketing, PR/Comms, DevRel, and Sales.

Affiliate is already one of Runpod's most productive acquisition channels. It has historically been supported by agency partners (Advertise Purple, FNF), both of which are winding down as this hire brings affiliate and creator management fully in-house; PartnerStack remains our platform of record. A separate influencer motion has run out of PR/Comms as one-off creator activations (sponsored newsletters, YouTube drops) measured on impressions and clicks; that motion is now being folded under Demand Gen, with the mandate to shift it from an awareness metric to a signups-and-revenue one. We're looking for a hands-on Affiliate & Creator Marketing Lead to own and scale Runpod's affiliate program while completing the consolidation of our influencer and creator relationships into that same motion. This is a mid-senior role for someone who thrives on relationship-building, incentive design, and finding the next great creator to partner with before anyone else does. You'll grow the affiliate program's reach, deepen relationships with existing affiliates, scout and sign new creators across the internet, fold the right ones into the affiliate program with properly structured incentives, and turn one-off sponsored placements into an ongoing, performance-based partnership. You'll also partner with DevRel on community and creator discovery, and support Product Marketing in extending the reach of the executive team's personal accounts. You're inheriting two programs with real traction, not a blank page: the affiliate program already drives meaningful signups and revenue every week, and the influencer program has already landed real creators and real impressions. What's missing is the connective tissue: a single motion where creators are incentivized on signups and revenue instead of one-off sponsorship fees, where the best affiliates and the best creators are treated as the same kind of partner, and where finding the next great partner is a repeatable process instead of an ad hoc one. Get this right and it becomes one of Runpod's most efficient and most visible growth channels. Responsibilities: Affiliate Program Growth - Own and scale Runpod's affiliate program end to end, taking over agency-managed relationships (Advertise Purple, FNF) as those contracts wind down and bringing affiliate management fully in-house. - Strengthen relationships with existing high-performing affiliates through proactive outreach, better communication, and improved support. - Monitor affiliate performance and program health (signups, fraud signals, engagement) in PartnerStack, our platform of record, and partner with Marketing Ops to keep tracking and attribution accurate.