Senior Affiliate Manager (Dating, Web)

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Affiliate Manager (Dating, Web) based in Germany.

This role offers the opportunity to lead affiliate growth initiatives within a fast-moving digital environment focused on building meaningful online connections.

You will manage strategic partnerships, identify new business opportunities, and scale performance-driven collaborations across international markets.

The position combines relationship building, business development, analytics, and technical affiliate expertise to maximize revenue growth.

You will work closely with cross-functional teams to launch campaigns, optimize partner performance, and improve acquisition strategies.

The ideal candidate is commercially driven, data-oriented, and experienced in building strong affiliate networks from the ground up.

This is a high-impact role where your partnerships and strategic decisions will directly contribute to business expansion and long-term growth.

Accountabilities

The Senior Affiliate Manager will be responsible for developing and scaling affiliate partnerships, managing the full partner lifecycle, and driving profitable growth through strategic collaborations and performance optimization.

• Identify, approach, negotiate with, and onboard new affiliate partners, advertisers, networks, and business opportunities within the mainstream dating vertical.
• Build and manage a strong partnership pipeline, from initial outreach and negotiations through campaign launch and long-term collaboration.
• Drive affiliate channel growth by testing new traffic sources, scaling successful partnerships, and increasing sales volume and profitability.
• Manage the complete partner lifecycle, including onboarding, communication, development, and coordination with internal teams.
• Collaborate with product, technology, sales, and account management teams to ensure smooth campaign execution and partner success.
• Analyze market trends, competitors, offers, traffic sources, partner economics, and campaign performance to identify new growth opportunities.
• Work with affiliate tracking and performance data to monitor key metrics such as conversion rates, LTV, CPA, ROI, payouts, and traffic quality.
• Coordinate tracking setup and troubleshoot technical issues related to tracking links, attribution, reporting, and conversion discrepancies.
• Develop data-driven recommendations to improve partner performance, campaign efficiency, and overall affiliate strategy.

Requirements:

The ideal candidate has strong experience in affiliate marketing, partnerships, or business development within performance-driven digital industries, with the ability to combine commercial skills, analytical thinking, and technical affiliate expertise.

• Proven experience in affiliate marketing, partnerships, business development, or sales roles within digital performance industries.
• Experience working with mainstream dating products, advertisers, affiliate networks, or similar performance-based verticals is highly valued.
• Existing network of relevant affiliate partners, advertisers, traffic sources, or industry contacts.
• Demonstrated success in attracting, launching, and scaling partnerships or clients.
• Experience building partnership pipelines from scratch or significantly expanding existing affiliate channels.
• Strong understanding of affiliate marketing models, including CPA, CPL, RevShare, hybrid deals, payouts, caps, traffic quality, and partner economics.
• Experience negotiating international partnerships and managing commercial relationships.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to evaluate performance metrics and make data-driven decisions.
• Technical understanding of affiliate tracking systems, including tracking links, pixels, S2S postbacks, sub IDs, attribution logic, conversion events, and payout structures.
• Ability to work with tools such as Google Sheets and performance reporting platforms.
• Strong communication, negotiation, and relationship-building skills.

Benefits:

• Fully remote full-time work opportunity.
• Competitive compensation package, with details shared during the recruitment process.
• 28 calendar days of paid vacation per year.
• 7 wellness days annually for personal recovery and life needs.
• Bonuses of up to $5,000 for successful employee referrals.
• 50% reimbursement for professional training, international conferences, and industry events.
• Corporate discounts for English language lessons.
• Health benefits, including reimbursement support of up to $1,000 gross per year for eligible employees who are not covered by corporate medical insurance.
• Support for workplace organization, including equipment provision or reimbursement of workplace expenses up to $1,000 gross every three years.
• Access to a workplace setup support program covering items such as furniture, internet, and co-working expenses.
• Internal recognition and rewards program with bonuses that can be exchanged for merchandise, team activities, and wellness experiences.
• Opportunity to work with an international, remote-first team on globally impactful digital products.