Principal Affiliate Marketing Program Manager

Global Financial Firm located in New York City, NY has an immediate contract opportunity for an experienced Principal Affiliate Marketing Program Manager

Pay Rate Range: $60.00 - $64.00 negotiable based upon years of experience

Work Mode: Hybrid, three days per week onsite in New York City, NY

Responsibilities:

• Support the development and execution of affiliate channel strategies that drive customer acquisition, revenue growth, and business objectives.
• Manage relationships with affiliate networks, publishers, agencies, and strategic partners, including onboarding, activation, optimization, and performance reviews.
• Lead complex, cross-functional initiatives from strategy through execution, coordinating efforts across Marketing, Product, Analytics, Legal, Compliance, Risk, Operations, and Technology teams.
• Define project scope, timelines, milestones, resource requirements, risks, and success metrics while ensuring on-time delivery.
• Partner with business and technology teams to identify and implement enhancements to affiliate platforms, tracking, attribution, reporting, and operational processes.
• Monitor channel performance and analyze data to identify growth opportunities, improve partner effectiveness, and optimize return on investment.
• Develop executive-ready presentations, business cases, performance reports, and strategic recommendations.
• Ensure affiliate marketing activities comply with regulatory, legal, privacy, brand, and governance requirements.
• Drive issue resolution, stakeholder alignment, and decision-making across multiple teams and external partners.
• Identify opportunities to improve affiliate processes, reporting, governance, and operational efficiency.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in affiliate marketing, performance marketing, digital acquisition, partnerships, product management, consulting, or project management.
• Demonstrated success managing complex, cross-functional initiatives from strategy through execution.
• Strong understanding of affiliate marketing ecosystems, networks, publishers, and performance-based marketing models.
• Experience managing external partners and influencing internal stakeholders at multiple organizational levels.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and presentation skills.
• Experience developing executive communications and presenting insights to senior leadership.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, highly regulated environment.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.

Preferred Skills:

• Financial services, credit card, lending, or consumer banking experience.
• Experience with affiliate platforms and networks such as CJ, Impact, Partnerize, or Rakuten.
• Knowledge of affiliate tracking, attribution, tagging, and performance measurement methodologies.
• Familiarity with marketing compliance, data privacy, and regulatory requirements.
• Experience supporting channel strategy, marketing technology, or product development initiatives.
• PMP, Agile, or related project management certification.

Benefits:

• Join a high-impact acquisition marketing team responsible for one of the company's largest performance marketing channels.
• Opportunity to shape affiliate strategy, lead key growth initiatives, and build partnerships that deliver measurable business impact.