Senior Affiliates Manager

SoFi
New York, NY
On-site

Who this role is best for

Best suited to candidates with a background in financial services or fintech and a strategic, data-driven mindset working in a fast-paced, performance-driven environment.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 7+ years of experience in affiliate marketing and a track record of managing high-value partnerships
    — “7+ years of experience”
  • Professionals who have led affiliate strategies in financial services or fintech and can demonstrate portfolio-level optimization
    — “Experience in financial services or fintech preferred”
  • Individuals capable of translating data into strategy and influencing cross-functional teams at executive levels
    — “Lead executive-level and cross-functional conversations with the ability to influence decisions”

Things to consider

  • The role requires a strong commitment to compliance with state and federal regulations
    — “Understanding of and commitment to affiliate compliance”
  • Candidates must be able to manage urgent priorities independently across multiple product lines
    — “Strong organizational and time management skills, with the ability to independently manage a broad portfolio of urgent priorities”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience in managing affiliate portfolios across multiple product lines in your resume and interview responses
    — “Lead our 'Banking' vertical, with primary ownership across our Checking & Savings, Smart Card, Invest, and Crypto products”
  • Demonstrate your ability to translate data into strategic recommendations using specific examples from your past work
    — “Translate performance data, market insights, and partner trends into clear strategic recommendations”
  • Emphasize your experience with affiliate marketing platforms like Impact, Tableau, or Snowflake
    — “Experience with affiliate marketing platforms and data/reporting tools such as Impact, Tableau, Snowflake, or similar”
  • Demonstrate your expertise in forecasting, budgeting, and program optimization for affiliate portfolios
    — “Own portfolio-level forecasting, budgeting, performance management, and optimization”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Company

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What success looks like

  • Affiliate portfolio growth
  • Strategic partnerships
  • Operational efficiency
Typical background
Affiliate MarketingBusiness Development

Skills & requirements

Required

Affiliate StrategyCross-functional CollaborationForecastingBudgeting

Preferred

Data AnalyticsExecutive Communication

Stack & domain

Affiliate MarketingData AnalysisForecastingBudgetingOptimizationLeadershipCommunicationProblem SolvingCollaborationBankingFinance

About the role

Original posting from SoFi

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Who we are:

Shape a brighter financial future with us.

Together with our members, we’re changing the way people think about and interact with personal finance.

We’re a next-generation financial services company and national bank using innovative, mobile-first technology to help our millions of members reach their goals. The industry is going through an unprecedented transformation, and we’re at the forefront. We’re proud to come to work every day knowing that what we do has a direct impact on people’s lives, with our core values guiding us every step of the way. Join us to invest in yourself, your career, and the financial world.

The role:

SoFi’s Affiliate Marketing Team is seeking a Senior Affiliates Manager to join us as we continue to expand and evolve our affiliate partnerships across multiple verticals.  This role will lead our “Banking” vertical, with primary ownership across our Checking & Savings, Smart Card, Invest, and Crypto products.  You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams to shape and execute affiliate strategy, drive growth and performance across the portfolio, and ensure strong operational and compliance discipline. You’ll also lead internal stakeholder and partner engagement while overseeing key areas including reporting and analytics, forecasting, budgeting, and program optimization. 

What you’ll do: 

Lead the Banking affiliate portfolio across Checking & Savings, Smart Card, Invest, and Crypto, owning strategy, performance, and growth across the vertical

Develop and execute affiliate strategies that drive sustainable, efficient growth, balancing volume, acquisition economics, member quality, and long-terMat business objectives

Build, manage, and grow high-value affiliate partnerships, from prospecting and negotiation through activation, optimization, and expansion

Translate performance data, market insights, and partner trends into clear strategic recommendations and actionable growth opportunities

Own portfolio-level forecasting, budgeting, performance management, and optimization, ensuring affiliate investment is aligned to business goals and deployed efficiently

Use data and analytics to continuously optimize campaign strategy, partner mix, placements, creative, and channel economics

Identify opportunities to improve the affiliate funnel from lead through revenue, partnering with internal teams and affiliates to unlock incremental growth and improve performance

Establish and evolve the affiliate partner strategy, including prioritization, relationship development, recruitment, and expansion of strategic accounts

Serve as a senior affiliate leader and trusted strategic partner to Business Units, Growth Engineering, Data Science, Marketing, Compliance, and other cross-functional teams, aligning stakeholders around priorities and driving initiatives from strategy through execution

Lead executive-level and cross-functional conversations with the ability to influence decisions, resolve complex issues, and represent Affiliate Marketing's perspective across the organization

Identify opportunities to strengthen the Affiliate organization’s strategy, operating model, processes, and capabilities to support continued growth and long-term channel scalability

Mentor and develop team members, sharing affiliate expertise and helping build a high-performing, data-driven culture across the channel

Highly self-motivated and success-driven professional, capable of generating relationships through own initiative

What you’ll need:

3+ years in Affiliate Marketing

7+ years of experience

Bachelor’s degree

Strategic, data-driven mindset with demonstrated experience optimizing, scaling, and growing performance-based partnerships

Proven ability to translate complex data into actionable insights and business recommendations

Exceptional communication, relationship-building, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence internally and externally, and across functions and levels

Experience with affiliate marketing platforms and data/reporting tools such as Impact, Tableau, Snowflake, or similar

Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, performance-driven environment while balancing competing priorities and driving results

Strong organizational and time management skills, with the ability to independently manage a broad portfolio of urgent priorities

Understanding of and commitment to affiliate compliance, including applicable state and federal regulations and internal policies

Experience in financial services or fintech preferred

Compensation and Benefits

The base pay range for this role is listed below. Final base pay offer will be determined based on individual factors such as the candidate’s experience, skills, and location. 

To view all of our comprehensive and competitive benefits, visit our Benefits at SoFi page!

SoFi provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, breastfeeding, and conditions related to breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age (40 or over), physical or medical disability, medical condition, marital status, registered domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, military and/or veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable state or federal law.

The Company hires the best qualified candidate for the job, without regard to protected characteristics.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

New York applicants: Notice of Employee Rights

SoFi is committed to an inclusive culture. As part of this commitment, SoFi offers reasonable accommodations to candidates with physical or mental disabilities. If you need accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, please let your recruiter know or email accommodations@sofi.com.

We are unable to accommodate remote work from Hawaii, Alaska or Puerto Rico at this time.

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