Associate Director, Affiliate and Influencer

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Monks is hiring for the role of Associate Director of Affiliate & Influencer Marketing. This position will be a key leader within a growing unit of our established digital marketing agency.

Core responsibilities include serving as the primary lead running the relationship with client leads and managing the affiliate and influencer programs. You will lead publisher development, client communication, and support the work of the affiliate/influencer channel cross-functionally within the larger marketing program. You will be in charge of evolving our clients' programs within their larger digital marketing needs.

Your Responsibilities Will Include:

• Client Leadership: Serve as the primary lead for client relationships, ensuring high-touch communication and strategic alignment with client leads.

• Strategy Development: Work closely with the client team and influencers, content creators, and affiliate publishers to build a best-in-class strategy to meet client KPIs.

• Program Management: Take full ownership of the regional affiliate and influencer programs, driving strategy and day-to-day execution.

• Publisher Development: Ensure our clients are working with best-in-class affiliate and influencer partners.

• Reporting & Strategy: Lead weekly reporting and client calls to communicate performance metrics and strategy; as well as irregular working sessions and client check-ins.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with other digital media teams to bring the affiliate program to life with a larger agency integrated media offering.

• Financial Oversight: Project yearly, quarterly, and monthly affiliate budgets based on previous learnings and expectations for future performance.

• Budget Allocation: Work with the integrated media teams to determine the best use of budget allocation, audience targeting, and creative analyses.

• Strategic Presentations: Execution of quarterly business reviews and other client-facing presentations that review performance, insights, and strategic opportunities.

Qualifications:

• 4+ years of direct affiliate and/or influencer experience.

• Experience in a client-facing lead role with the ability to work autonomously.

• History of direct responsibility and lead for midsize to large clients.

• Proven strategy of digital marketing platforms that coincide with affiliate (ShareASale, Impact, Commission Junction, Rakuten, and Google Analytics).

• Successful management of large budgets.

• G-Suite proficiency; most importantly Docs, Sheets, and Slides.

• Exceptional communication skills and interpersonal skills.

• Self-motivated, analytical, and ability to multi-task.

• An eagerness to work as a member of a fast-growing team.

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About Monks

Monks is the global, digital-first, data-driven, unitary operating brand of S4 Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global Marketing and Technology Services to redefine how brands interact with the world. Through Monks.Flow, its flagship AI ecosystem for marketing orchestration, Monks transforms marketing into a growth engine, collapsing timelines and connecting brands to culture in real time. By deploying bespoke intelligent agents across disciplines and delivering culturally relevant, high-impact creative and digital solutions, Monks solves key critical business challenges across the entire brand enterprise to help brands sustain long-term impact.

Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services, ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-25) and remains the only partner featured in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). Named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023) and The One Show’s inaugural AI Pioneer Organization, Monks was also awarded Business Intelligence Group’s 2025 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Award in both the Organizational and AI Product categories. As a trusted partner to cutting-edge innovators in tech, Monks earned titles such as Optimizely Experimentation Partner of the Year (2025), runner-up for the Adobe Firefly Partner Award (2024), and Workato’s AI Visionary Customer Impact Award (2024). Additionally, Monks achieved a record-breaking number of FWAs and continues to hold the most of any partner.

We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.