Partnerships & Influencer Marketer

Kovo

Partnerships & Influencer Marketer driving acquisition channels at Kovo, a fintech startup expanding access to financial tools. Own influencer marketing and partnership strategies, while achieving measurable results.

Posted 7/24/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $120,000 - $200,000 per yearWebsite

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Demonstrates expertise in managing influencer and affiliate partnerships to drive measurable acquisition outcomes, leveraging data analysis to optimize performance media strategies. Capable of building and scaling partnership functions independently in a fast-paced environment.

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Influencer MarketingAffiliate PartnershipsPerformance MarketingData AnalysisNegotiation Skills

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Hard Skills

Performance-Based TermsCPA ReportingIncrementality AnalysisWhitelistingSpark AdsUsage Rights ManagementDeal StructuringCreator Content OptimizationPartnership DevelopmentMedia Buying

Soft Skills

Self-StarterAutonomousAdaptabilityOwnershipClarity in Ambiguity

Tools & Technologies

AI ToolsMeta Ads ManagerTikTok Ads Manager

Industry Keywords

Consumer FintechCreditLendingPerformance MediaPodcast SponsorshipsEmerging Channels

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Spark

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own influencer, creator, and affiliate partnerships as a real acquisition channel: sourcing, negotiating, and running the deals end to end, and owning the channel's CPA and volume outcomes.
Turn creator relationships into performance media: whitelisted/Spark ads, host-reads, and affiliate placements that run alongside and lift our paid social engine.
Operate independently, drive clarity where it doesn't exist, and build a function from the ground up.
Build the influencer and creator engine: source and vet creators, negotiate terms (moving deals toward CPA/hybrid structures where possible), manage the relationships, and keep a high-velocity pipeline from first contact to live placement.
Own affiliate and performance partnerships: personal finance publishers, comparison sites, creators, and communities relevant to credit building - sourcing, structuring, and growing the deals that drive measurable acquisition.
Turn partnerships into performance media: secure usage and whitelisting rights in every deal, and feed creator content into our paid social accounts as Spark/whitelisted ads in partnership with our performance marketing team.
Own channel outcomes: CPA and volume for influencer and partnership channels, with asset-level and deal-level performance as your scorecard.
Read and act on measurement: use our attribution and incrementality readouts (promo codes, vanity URLs, holdouts) to reprice deals, kill what doesn't perform, and double down on what does; the team supports test design and media buying.
Build the playbook: deal templates, standard usage-rights terms, partner scorecards, and the processes that let this function scale beyond one person.
Extend the brand through partnerships: organic social presence, creator collabs, co-marketing, podcast appearances, and earned-media placements with finance publishers; this is a secondary lane that runs through your partner pipeline, with acquisition outcomes always first.

Requirements

What you’ll need

4+ years in influencer, affiliate, partnerships, or performance-partnership marketing at a consumer startup (preferably consumer fintech), with a track record of deals that drove measurable acquisition - not just reach.
Deal-savvy and scrappy: you can find, negotiate, and run external partners without hand-holding, and you've moved partners from flat-fee to performance-based terms.
Fluent enough in data to be effective: you can read a CPA report or an incrementality readout, act on it, and defend your channel's numbers; you think in incremental impact, not impressions.
Familiar with how creator content becomes paid media: whitelisting, Spark Ads, usage rights, and what makes creator assets perform in-feed.
You get more done with AI: we expect everyone here to lean on AI tools to punch above their weight; it's part of how we stay this lean and efficient.
Self-starter who thrives in ambiguity, handles shifting priorities fluidly, and takes full ownership of outcomes.
Highly autonomous and thrive with high ownership in a small, fast-moving remote team.
Bonus: experience in credit, lending, fintech, or another regulated / consideration-heavy category.
Bonus: experience with offline and emerging channels (podcasts/audio host-reads, CTV, direct mail, sponsorships) - we'd love someone who can eventually source and run deals here too, with measurement and media buying supported by the team.
Bonus: hands-on experience inside Meta or TikTok Ads Manager.
Bonus: experience standing up a partnerships or influencer function from scratch.

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