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About us
Here at GoCardless, we’re building the world’s bank payment network. Bringing simple and secure direct bank payment solutions for people and businesses everywhere, as well as making open banking more accessible. GoCardless is used by 75,000+ organisations and counting, processing more than $30 billion of payments across 30 countries.
We’re an award-winning London based fintech, with additional offices in Riga, Paris, Melbourne and New York.
The role
As our Senior Affiliate Manager you will lead the team responsible for acquisition of merchants through our recently launched affiliate program. You will be responsible for ideating, scoping, target setting and delivering a market-specific scalable program to boost merchant acquisition with the support of an Affiliate Manager, designers, developers and a business setup to take this business to the next level
You will focus on the acquisition of non-traditional affiliates such as Accountants and Startup Consultants where we see GoCardless partnering with these influencers to deliver high quality prospects. Reporting into the Senior Director, Growth Marketing, the successful candidate must have specific knowledge and experience working in the B2B affiliate marketing space.
What excites you
- You’ll love Identifying and recruiting new referral partners and affiliates through various approaches including from within our merchant base and businesses who could act as referring partners – such as Accountancy firms and Start-up consultancies.
- Negotiating and managing contracts, relationships and commission structures for affiliates, as well as maintaining direct communication and recommend new campaigns for affiliates and provide performance feedback
- Making decisions on pivots where performance doesn’t match plan
- Monitoring affiliate activity, analyse performance, identify areas of improvement, and recommend ways to increase affiliate performance
- Proactively monitor traffic sources to determine which affiliates should be prioritised and focused on
- Provide reports/insights/analysis on Channel Performance
- Monitor all KPIs/insights and communicate them accordingly
What excites us
- You have a keen entrepreneurial mindset and experience in a B2B Lead Affiliate Marketing role, Partnerships or Account Management. Previous experience of recruiting partners in the accountancy space is highly desirable.
- You are driven, analytical and results orientated with ROI at the heart of everything you do.
- You are comfortable diving into data to produce informed strategic recommendations and insights
- You’re passionate about Affiliate Marketing and can draw on first-hand experiences as well as being well-read on winning Affiliate Marketing approaches
- Knowledge of the fin-tech industry is a plus
- Enthusiasm and a can-do attitude; Willing to “get in the weeds”
We don’t expect you to meet every requirement. If you’re excited by this role, we encourage you to apply.
(some of) The good stuff
- Wellbeing – stay healthy with dedicated support and medical cover
- Work away scheme – gives you the option to work away from your country of residence for up to 90 days in any 12 month period
- Adaptive Working – allows you to work flexibly, around your lifestyle
- Equity – all permanently employed GCs get equity to help you make a valuable contribution
- Parental leave – to suit everyone embarking on life’s great adventure
- Learning Budget – lead your own development with an annual learning budget
- Time off – generous holiday allowance, + 3 annual volunteer days, + 4 annual business-wide wellness days (‘GC Fridays’)
Life at GoCardless
We’re an organisation defined by our values; We start with why before we begin any project, to ensure it’s aligned with our mission. We act with integrity, always. We care deeply about what we do and we know it’s essential that we be humble whilst we do it. Working this way creates the GC magic- the reason we all love showing up to work.
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