Affiliate & Partnerships Manager

LearnWorlds

Affiliate & Partnerships Manager responsible for partner acquisition and activation at LearnWorlds. Focus on growing a global partner ecosystem and enhancing strategic partnerships.

Posted 6/15/2026full-timeRemote • 🇬🇷 GreeceJuniorMid-LevelWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Identify high potential affiliates, publishers, creators, e-learning agencies, e-learning consultancies, implementation partners, consultants, and other education focused partners who are a strong fit for LearnWorlds.
Run proactive outreach campaigns, qualify opportunities, and turn promising contacts into active partners.
Find ways to automate and scale partner research and outreach, including list building, segmentation, personalized messaging, follow ups, and outreach tracking.
Manage the full partner acquisition process, from first outreach and intro calls to negotiation, approval, onboarding, and activation.
Help new partners understand LearnWorlds, our audience, our value proposition, and the best ways to promote us.
Assess partner quality and promotional methods, including PPC behavior, brand bidding, coupon/discount usage, traffic hijacking, attribution risk, and potential channel cannibalization. Escalate or recommend partner restrictions, suspension, or termination where needed.
Work with internal teams to create and share partner resources, such as onboarding emails, product messaging, campaign briefs, presentations, promotional ideas, email copy, and enablement materials.
Monitor partner performance across channels such as PartnerStack and Rakuten.
Track key metrics such as applications, approved partners, activated partners, traffic, trials, customers, revenue, conversion rates, and ROI.
Prepare clear updates for the Head of Affiliate and Partnerships and other internal stakeholders.
Work with marketing, sales, content, creative, data, finance, legal, and product marketing to support partner success, campaigns, tracking, reporting, payouts, and compliance.

Requirements

What you’ll need

2+ years of experience in affiliate marketing, partner acquisition, partnerships, performance marketing, or a similar growth focused role.
Experience in SaaS, EdTech, creator economy, online learning, marketplace, or B2B software is a strong plus.
Proven experience recruiting and activating affiliates or partners online, including outreach, discovery calls, negotiation, onboarding, and follow up is a must.
Strong affiliate acquisition mindset, with the ability to identify good fit partners, build trust, negotiate, and convert potential partners into active LearnWorlds promoters.
Hands on experience with platforms such as PartnerStack, Impact, Awin, Rakuten, CJ, ShareASale, or similar tools.
Experience with outreach, CRM, or automation tools is a plus.
Interest in using AI and automation to improve partner research, outreach, onboarding, reporting, follow ups, and internal workflows.
Good understanding of affiliate business models, including revenue share, CPA, commission structures, attribution, tracking, partner quality, and ROI.
Strong analytical skills, with the ability to turn performance data into clear actions.
Excellent written and spoken English. Strong communication, negotiation, and relationship building skills.
Organized, proactive, commercially minded, and comfortable managing several priorities at the same time.
Comfortable working with partners across different regions and time zones, with occasional early or late calls when needed and the ability to balance working time accordingly.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Private life and health insurance plan
Fully remote work if you prefer to work from home, apart from when we have team meetings a few times per year
Your personal annual training budget
An annual home office allowance to set up your personal space
Company laptop
23 days of paid time off
3 early summer Fridays in July and August
Access to AI tools at work
A free LearnWorlds School to build and sell your own courses
Work in one of the globally top 5 e-learning courses platform
An opportunity to grow alongside us and shape the look and feel of tomorrow's e-learning
An entrepreneurial, international, and highly motivated team with a flat hierarchy that will both challenge you and help you reach your highest potential
Company retreats & other onsite team activities (see the video of our latest retreat).

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Hard Skills & Tools

affiliate marketingpartner acquisitionperformance marketingnegotiationonboardingoutreachdata analysisCRMautomationrevenue share

Soft Skills

communicationnegotiationrelationship buildingorganizationalproactiveanalyticalcommercial mindsettrust buildingtime managementadaptability