About this Account Manager - Creator Affiliate role at Later
Later is the world’s most intelligent influencer marketing company, built to give brands the confidence to create unforgettable campaigns. By combining real creator relationships, trusted intelligence, and expert guidance, Later removes fear and guesswork from one of marketing’s most visible investments.
Built on a native, AI-powered platform and more than a decade of proprietary data—including billions of social interactions, impressions, and $2.4B+ in verified influencer-driven purchases—Later helps teams understand what will work before they launch.
By combining trusted insight with expert guidance, Later removes guesswork from influencer marketing, enabling brands to choose the right creators, execute fully managed campaigns, and drive meaningful growth across awareness, engagement, and revenue. Trusted by leading enterprise brands including Nike, Wayfair, Unilever, and Southwest Airlines, Later bridges creativity and performance so campaigns don’t just look good—they deliver results. Learn more at later.com.
About this Position
As an Account Manager (Creator Affiliate), you will serve as a strategic leader and trusted partner for our customers, helping them build and scale full-funnel creator marketing programs that drive measurable business outcomes. You will play a critical role in connecting creator partnerships, affiliate marketing, paid amplification, and performance measurement to help customers achieve revenue, acquisition, and retention goals.
In this role, you will foster a proactive, customer-first mindset, think creatively, exercise curiosity, and serve as a strategic advisor. You will be counted on to build and nurture strong relationships with customer stakeholders, providing consultative recommendations and data-driven solutions that maximize creator performance and business impact.
In this Role, You'll Get To:
- Lead and manage the success of your portfolio of customers by establishing and nurturing strong relationships, positioning yourself as a trusted advisor and primary point of contact from onboarding through renewal and growth.
- Develop and execute full-funnel creator marketing strategies that leverage creators across awareness, consideration, conversion, and retention objectives, aligning programs to customer business goals and KPIs.
- Advise customers on affiliate and performance creator marketing best practices, including creator recruitment, commission structures, offer strategy, attribution models, conversion optimization, and performance measurement.
- Analyze creator, affiliate, and campaign performance data to identify growth opportunities, optimize investment allocation, and deliver actionable insights that improve efficiency, ROAS, revenue, customer acquisition, and other key business metrics.
- Manage high-volume communications with customers and creators, guiding strategy from creator sourcing and activation through content execution, affiliate enablement, optimization, and reporting.
- Partner with customers to build scalable creator ecosystems by identifying high-performing creator segments, recruiting affiliate partners, and developing long-term creator growth strategies.
- Build and deliver strategic presentations to stakeholders within your book of business, including business reviews, performance reports, growth plans, attribution insights, and creator marketing roadmaps.
- Project manage creator and affiliate programs, ensuring operational excellence across campaign execution, creator onboarding, tracking implementation, promotional calendars, and performance optimization workflows.
- Effectively manage contractual deliverables and customer expectations, including budget management, creator forecasting, performance pacing, KPI tracking, and ongoing stakeholder communication through recurring status meetings and strategic planning sessions.
- Act as the voice of the customer, creator, and marketer by sharing market trends, platform changes, creator economy insights, and product feedback with internal strategy, product, research, and design teams.
We're Looking for Someone Who Has:
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- 5+ years of experience in creator marketing, influencer marketing, affiliate marketing, performance marketing, paid social, customer success, account management, or related digital marketing disciplines.
- Demonstrated experience managing performance-driven creator programs with a strong understanding of affiliate marketing, creator attribution, conversion measurement, and revenue-focused KPIs.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret creator, affiliate, and campaign performance data and translate insights into actionable recommendations.
- Experience developing and executing full-funnel marketing strategies that connect creator activity to business outcomes such as revenue growth, customer acquisition, ROAS, CAC, and LTV.
- Exceptional project management skills with the ability to manage multiple customers, campaigns, timelines, and cross-functional stakeholders in a fast-paced environment.
- Previous agency, SaaS, customer success, or account management experience preferred, with a proven ability to act as a strategic consultant and trusted advisor.
- Strong communication, presentation, and relationship-building skills with both internal and external stakeholders.
- A growth-oriented, solutions-focused mindset with the ability to navigate ambiguity, solve complex challenges, and drive measurable results.
- High attention to detail, strong organizational skills, and the ability to effectively manage priorities across customer accounts.
- A high degree of integrity, empathy, and commitment to delivering exceptional customer experiences.
- Expertise in the Later Influence platform and creator marketing ecosystem, with the ability to drive customer adoption, performance, and long-term program success.
How You Work
- Driven by Impact: You deliver results that matter—prioritizing high-value work, meeting deadlines, and adapting quickly while keeping outcomes clear.
- Strategic & Customer-Centric: You anticipate risks and opportunities, connect decisions to long-term growth, and build trust through proactive insights.
- Curious & Growth-Oriented: You seek knowledge, ask sharp questions, and apply learnings fast—challenging the status quo with a mindset of improvement.
- Collaborative & Resilient: You thrive in change by staying resourceful, solution-focused, and positive—removing roadblocks, sharing insights, and keeping morale high.
- Accountable & Honest: You own your work, hold yourself and others to a high bar, and use transparent feedback to drive growth.
- Emotionally Intelligent: You build trust through empathy and collaboration, foster inclusion, and inspire others with grit, optimism, and integrity.
Our approach to compensation:
We take a market-based & data-driven approach to compensation. We leverage data from trusted third-party compensation sources to help us understand the market value of a role based on function, level, geographic location, and scope. We evaluate compensation bi-annually, including performance and market-related factors.
Our salaries are benchmarked against market Total Cash Compensation for the geographic location of our job posting. Compensation for some roles is structured as On Target Earnings (OTE = base + commission/variable) while for others it is structured as Salary only.
To comply with local legislation and ensure transparency, we share salary ranges on all job postings. Skills, experience and other factors help determine the final salary we offer which may vary from the original range posted.
Additionally, all permanent team members are eligible to participate in various benefits plans as part of their overall compensation package.
Salary Range:
$90,000-105,000 OTE
*Co-op team members, independent contractors, and freelancers are not eligible for company benefits.
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Where we work:
We have offices in Boston, MA; Vancouver, BC; Chicago, IL; and Vancouver, WA. For select positions, we are open to hiring fully remote candidates. We post our positions in the location(s) where we are open to having the successful candidate be located.
Diversity, inclusion, and accessibility:
At Later, we are committed to fostering a culture rooted in an inclusion-first mindset at every level of the company, embracing the importance of hiring and building teams for culture add rather than culture fit. We openly build and maintain unbiased hiring, pay, and promotion practices to create a foundation for an equitable workplace, paving the way for systemic change.
We are committed to creating a diverse environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, or age. Please let us know if you require any accommodations or support during the recruitment process.
