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Senior Affiliate Compliance Specialist

HighLevel

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $84,000 - $120,500 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Own the affiliate channel escalation process, serving as the primary decision driver for compliance-related issues and a key stakeholder in legal, investor relations, and affiliate policy situations
  • Actively investigate potential affiliate violations by gathering evidence, auditing traffic sources, and validating promotional methods
  • Drive cross-functional reviews with Affiliate, Legal, Finance, and Investor Relations teams to align on risk assessment and outcomes
  • Serve as the final escalation point for affiliate-related compliance issues originating from Customer Support and Product Support teams
  • Be able to advocate for and strongly recommend enforcement decisions, including warnings, restrictions, or removal from the affiliate program
  • Provide clear guidance to Product Support Manager to ensure teams are aware on how enforcement decisions should be communicated to customers and affiliates, including approved rationale and boundaries
  • Proactively monitor affiliate activity and identify emerging risk patterns before they escalate
  • Execute detailed traffic audits to determine source legitimacy, compliance with policy, and overall quality
  • Run point on miscellaneous legal and compliance tasks tied to affiliate activity, ensuring timely follow-through and resolution
  • Produce clear, defensible documentation that supports decisions and stands up to internal and external scrutiny
  • Build and refine repeatable workflows for escalation, investigation, and enforcement as the affiliate channel scales
  • Continuously improve how affiliate risk is identified, assessed, and resolved to protect revenue, brand trust, and legal exposure

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in affiliate marketing, compliance, trust & safety, risk analysis, operations, or a legal-adjacent role
  • Strong investigative and analytical instincts
  • Demonstrated experience evaluating policy-driven or compliance-related issues and supporting decisions that carry business or legal risk
  • Hands-on experience reviewing, auditing, or investigating activity within a digital channel (affiliate, performance marketing, payments, platforms, or marketplaces)
  • Proven ability to synthesize information from multiple sources (data, documentation, stakeholder input) and arrive at clear, defensible conclusions
  • Experience working cross-functionally with teams such as Affiliate, Legal, Finance, Investor Relations,, or Operations
  • Strong written documentation skills, including the ability to clearly and professionally explain findings, risk factors, and recommended actions when handling sensitive or confidential matters
  • Comfort taking ownership of outcomes and following issues through to resolution, even when decisions are complex or unpopular
  • Working knowledge of affiliate marketing practices, traffic sources, and common risk vectors (or demonstrated ability to quickly develop this expertise)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
affiliate marketingcompliancerisk analysisoperationsinvestigative skillsauditingpolicy evaluationdocumentationtraffic auditsdata synthesis
Soft Skills
analytical instinctscross-functional collaborationwritten communicationownership of outcomesproblem-solvingdecision-makingadvocacyattention to detailconfidentialityprocess improvement