Senior Affiliate Program Manager

Senior Affiliate Program Manager

Job Type: Full-time

Kaysville, UT and Remote (United States Only)

Who We Are:

Founded in 2015 by a dad of two, Bark is an online safety company that helps families protect their kids online and in real life. Over the past decade, we’ve transformed into the industry leader of safer tech for children, garnering recognition from TIME Magazine, Wired, The New York Times, Forbes, and countless other publications.

We’re at the forefront of the online safety revolution, designing and building smart devices that families need with parental controls that actually work. Our Bark Phone, Bark Watch, Bark Home, and Bark app are enabling today’s parents to help keep their kids safe like never before — and we’re just getting started.

Bark is also deeply committed to education and community impact. Through our Bark Community Partners program, we work with schools, nonprofits, and local organizations to provide online safety resources, training, tools, and safer technology to families and educators. 

At the heart of Bark is our hard-working team of remote employees who are passionate about our mission. We care about our work, each other, and building a safer digital world each and every day.

Job Summary

As Bark’s Senior Affiliate Program Manager, you will lead the day-to-day execution and growth of our affiliate channel, combining strong program operations with data-driven optimization to drive sustainable, mission-aligned revenue. You’ll manage partner performance, ensure tracking and attribution integrity, and develop a clear optimization roadmap in partnership with the Director of Partnership Growth. In this role, you’ll bring strategic recommendations forward, then own execution and reporting of outcomes—while operating within clear business and brand guardrails.

You’ll collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to align partner needs, promotional mechanics, and creative assets, ensuring the channel scales with quality, compliance, and brand safety.

Job Responsibilities

Lead day-to-day management and growth of Bark’s affiliate program within Impact, ensuring accurate tracking, clean attribution, and well-maintained partner terms, offers, and placements.

Own partner lifecycle management for priority affiliates and publishers: onboarding, enablement, relationship management, performance reviews, and ongoing optimization.

Evaluate, vet, and approve inbound affiliate applications against Bark’s quality standards, traffic requirements, brand guidelines, and compliance expectations.

Identify and contribute to outbound partner growth opportunities (publishers, content partners, loyalty/deal partners, and other relevant affiliate types) in alignment with channel goals and brand fit; assisting with outreach and negotiations in partnership with the Director of Partnership Growth.

Monitor daily performance and traffic health to identify optimization opportunities, detect anomalies, and flag potential fraud, compliance issues, or brand-safety risks.
Investigate and resolve tracking, attribution, and performance issues in coordination with partners and internal stakeholders; recommend corrective actions and document outcomes.

Build and maintain a structured optimization roadmap (offers, landing pages, creative, messaging, placements), proposing tests backed by performance data and owning implementation and measurement.

Prepare and deliver weekly and monthly reporting: performance summaries, insights, learnings, blockers, and recommendations to the Director of Partnership Growth and/or relevant stakeholders.

Partner with cross-functional teams to brief and coordinate partner needs related to creative assets, promotional mechanics, tracking enhancements, and product updates.

Manage partner communications cadence (newsletters, promo announcements, product updates, policy changes) to keep partners informed, enabled, and aligned.

Maintain accurate internal documentation for partner details, placements, terms, and promotional calendars to support operational clarity and auditability.

Monitor competitive activity, affiliate marketing trends, and emerging traffic sources; share relevant learnings and opportunities with leadership.

Identify opportunities to improve program workflows and efficiency, including leveraging AI-enabled tools and automation where appropriate.

Requirements

5–7 years of experience in affiliate marketing, partnerships, or performance-based marketing roles, with demonstrated impact on revenue growth and program performance.
Proven experience managing an affiliate program or partner portfolio, including onboarding, partner communications, performance monitoring, and optimization.
Hands-on experience with affiliate tracking platforms (Impact preferred) and comfort troubleshooting tracking, attribution, and reporting issues.

Strong working knowledge of tracking and measurement concepts (attribution models, conversion reporting, order validation, reversals, promo code governance).

Experience assessing traffic sources and identifying potential fraud, compliance concerns, or quality issues; ability to escalate risks with clear context and recommendations.

Analytical and outcomes-oriented: able to translate performance data into insights, testing plans, and clear recommendations.

Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present performance updates and proposals clearly to stakeholders and leadership.

Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities, meet deadlines, and operate effectively in a fast-paced environment.

Collaborative working style; ability to coordinate cross-functionally and drive work forward within defined guardrails and approval pathways.

Comfort adopting new tools and technologies, including AI-enabled workflows, to improve throughput and quality.

Alignment with Bark’s mission and values, with a practical, feedback-oriented approach to continuous improvement.

Benefits:

Competitive compensation commensurate with experience

Equity stake in Bark

Paid time off 

Paid sick time

Health Benefits:

Medical

Dental

Vision

Healthcare Support

On-Demand Primary Care

Online Mental Health Therapy

Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

Supplemental Life Insurance

401(k)

Voluntary Long-term and Short-term Disability Insurance

Next Steps:

Please be sure to add [email protected] to your contact list to ensure delivery of all correspondence from us.

We recognize people come with a wealth of experience and talent beyond just the technical requirements of a job. If your experience is close to what you see listed here, please consider applying. Diversity of experience and skills combined with passion is a key to innovation and excellence. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply to our positions. Please let us know if you require accommodations during the interview process.

Bark is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.