Associate, Affiliate Channel Card Acquisitions

Ready to drive card growth through high-impact affiliate marketing? You will turn performance insights into smarter optimizations while partnering across teams and leading publishers to exceed key performance goals.

Job Summary
As an Associate Affiliate Acquisition in Card Acquisitions, you support day-to-day affiliate channel strategy, planning, and reporting to help grow new account acquisitions efficiently. You track performance, translate results into clear recommendations, and help implement optimizations based on what we learn. You work closely with partners across product, analytics, finance, risk, legal and compliance, and external agencies and publishers to align on plans and deliver outcomes.

Job Responsibilities

• Support affiliate channel strategy, planning, and day-to-day execution to drive profitable new account growth
• Track and review campaign performance, identifying trends and opportunities to improve results
• Develop recommendations and help implement optimizations based on channel learnings and performance insights
• Build and maintain strong relationships with affiliate partners, including understanding how partners operate and drive value
• Partner with external agencies and publishers to support campaign planning, pacing, and performance improvements
• Monitor key performance indicators and help develop tactical plans to achieve channel targets
• Work with finance and analytics partners to build business cases that support the channel roadmap and longer-term objectives
• Deliver weekly, monthly, and quarterly reporting to product partners and provide performance updates for senior leaders
• Monitor the competitive landscape and summarize implications to support efficient acquisition growth
• Use data-driven analysis to inform the strategic agenda and recommend next best actions
• Maintain a strong controls environment aligned to internal policies and evolving regulatory expectations

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Bachelor’s degree
• 2+ years of experience in marketing and/or strategy, ideally in affiliate marketing or performance media
• Familiarity with direct response marketing; experience with consumer financial products is a plus
• Strong interpersonal and influencing skills, with the ability to drive outcomes without direct authority
• Ability to communicate complex concepts clearly to different audiences
• Comfort working with large datasets and translating analysis into data-driven recommendations
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
• Strong organization and prioritization skills, with sound judgment and decision-making
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple projects under tight timelines

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Experience partnering directly with affiliate publishers and/or affiliate networks
• Experience building performance reporting and recurring stakeholder updates
• Familiarity with budgeting, forecasting, or business case development in a marketing context

Additional Information

• Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States; immigration sponsorship is not available now or in the future for this role.
• Final job grade level and corporate title will be determined at time of offer and may differ from this posting.
• This role does not provide relocation assistance; candidates must be local to the posted work location(s) or relocate on their own by start date.