Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Hilton is a globally recognized hospitality brand. The Affiliate Marketing Manager will manage and optimize affiliate programs across brands and markets, oversee publisher and partner relationships, and support customer acquisition, revenue, and ROI objectives through data-driven performance marketing. The role also involves cross-functional collaboration, campaign execution, reporting, compliance, and scaling content commerce and creator-led affiliate opportunities.
Responsibilities
- Drive day-to-day execution and optimization of affiliate programs to support customer acquisition, revenue, and ROI objectives
- Manage relationships with affiliate networks, key publisher partners, and technology providers
- Oversee campaign setup, tracking, testing, and optimization across affiliate platforms, ensuring accuracy and compliance with brand guidelines
- Collaborate cross-functionally to support affiliate initiatives from end-to-end, including promotions, content partnerships, and brand launches
- Analyze performance data to evaluate publisher effectiveness, commission structures, and promotional impact, translating insights into actionable recommendations
- Maintain campaign timelines, promotional calendars, budgets, and performance trackers to ensure on-time delivery and financial accuracy
- Communicate ongoing performance, risks, opportunities, and recommendations to leadership and key stakeholders
- Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, scale the channel, and test new affiliate models or partnerships
- Ensure compliance with contractual terms, regional regulations, and internal policies across affiliate activity
- Support post-campaign and quarterly reviews, applying learnings to future optimization efforts
- Own and maintain detailed project plans, promotional calendars, partner trackers, and operational documentation to ensure seamless execution across multiple initiatives
- Manage and grow relationships with editorial content partners, commerce publishers, creators, and affiliate-focused influencers to drive incremental customer acquisition and revenue
- Identify, evaluate, and scale content commerce and creator-led affiliate opportunities, developing activation plans that align with brand, audience, and commercial objectives
- Partner with Content, Influencer, Social, and Brand teams to support affiliate-enabled content strategies and creator monetization initiatives
Skills
- • Strong understanding of affiliate marketing, performance media, and publisher-based acquisition models
- • Strong understanding of content commerce, editorial publisher monetization models, and affiliate creator ecosystems
- • Excellent communication and relationship-building skills with internal teams and external partners
- • Demonstrated ability to independently manage multiple priorities, navigate ambiguity, solve problems proactively, and deliver high-quality work in a fast-paced environment
- • Analytical mindset with the ability to interpret performance data and recommend optimizations
- • Strong attention to detail, particularly related to tracking, reporting, and financial management
- • Experience working with affiliate networks and platforms such as CJ, Impact, Rakuten, or similar
- • Advanced proficiency in Excel and experience creating performance reports, tracking documents, and data-driven business recommendations required
- • Experience evaluating and optimizing content-driven affiliate partnerships, including editorial placements, product recommendations, creator content, and commerce-focused campaigns
- • Knowledge of evolving affiliate trends, including creator commerce, influencer monetization, and publisher content strategies
- • 3+ years of hands-on experience managing affiliate marketing programs, including campaign execution, partner management, reporting, tracking validation, and operational program management
- • Experience managing editorial content monetization, commerce content publishers, creator affiliate programs, influencer monetization initiatives, or similar content-driven affiliate partnerships required
- • US based remote role
- • Global or multi-market marketing experience is a plus
- • Experience working with editorial publishers such as commerce media, review sites, travel content publishers, or creator-led affiliate programs preferred
- • Experience managing large-scale or global affiliate programs preferred
- • Familiarity with financial reconciliation, invoicing, and commission structures preferred
- • Demonstrated success building and scaling partnerships that monetize content through affiliate relationships, product recommendations, sponsored commerce content, or creator-driven acquisition strategies preferred
Benefits
- US based remote role
- This hybrid role combines performance marketing strategy, partner management, and operational execution
- Contract workers are not employees of Hilton or any of its subsidiaries, nor will they be eligible for Hilton benefits.
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