Affiliate Marketing Manager (Remote)

IXL Learning, a leading edtech company with products used by more than 14 million students worldwide, is seeking a full-time Affiliate Marketing Manager. We are looking for a creative, data-driven performance marketer to help us drive growth through our affiliate programs across many of our educational brands, including IXL, Rosetta Stone, Education.com, and Wyzant. You'll own strategy, execution, and vendor relationships across the entire affiliate channel.

You will lead the way identifying and recruiting affiliates who can drive traffic and share content about IXL’s expanding product portfolio. You will test aggressively to find the best ways to deliver growth and revenue while developing collaborative relationships with your affiliates. You will weigh in on which platform(s) make sense for us to work with to manage the process of recruiting affiliates, managing offers, and tracking the ROI of our campaigns.

This is a unique opportunity to own a growing channel for a leading edtech company, with the potential to build out a team to support you as the channel scales. Your efforts will help bring top learning tools to students of all ages around the world. The role will report directly to our VP of Digital Marketing.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

• Develop and implement strategies to drive subscriber acquisition, conversion and efficiency across many brands through the affiliate channel
• Build repeatable, scalable processes for prospecting and recruiting affiliates, developing marketing campaigns utilizing web, email, promo, social, paid and organic assets
• Cultivate relationships with partners and get them excited to promote our products
• Work with affiliates to develop innovative ways to drive activity, traffic, and accounts, while helping them grow their commissions
• Help us organize and centralize the affiliate channel within our internal systems
• Regularly analyze data and metrics to identify key opportunities to improve KPI performance, increase scale, and enhance the efficiency of our spend
• Develop compensation structures to optimize the ROI of affiliates; get creative in developing programs and incentives for affiliates to maximize their success and ours
• Ensure affiliate referrals are qualified and commission payments are accurate; manage issues related to fraud and referral quality

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• BA/BS in Marketing or related field
• 5+ years working in marketing, with experience managing and scaling an affiliate program
• Ability to work collaboratively while pushing to reach goals
• Results-driven; able to prioritize tasks that align to goals
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Organized and methodical with good project management skills
• Self-motivated and self-directed

At IXL, we value diversity in age, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, physical and mental ability, political and religious beliefs, and life experience, and we are proud to promote a work environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work. IXL Learning is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

ABOUT IXL LEARNING

IXL Learning is a leading educational technology company on a big mission: creating innovative learning experiences that help all learners reach their full potential. IXL's comprehensive curriculum and insightful analytics help more than 900,000 teachers deliver personalized instruction, and empower over 14 million students to achieve new learning milestones every day.