AFFILIATE MANAGER
EUROPE E-COMMERCE
DFO PERFORMANCE
REMOTE / EUROPE
This is not a coordinator role.
This is not brand marketing.
This is not for someone who needs affiliate training.
DFO Performance is hiring an experienced Affiliate Manager to grow and manage e-commerce affiliate partnerships across Europe.
You own partners, sales, traffic quality, margin, and outcomes.
Your scoreboard:
EPC. CVR. AOV. CPA. ROI. Revenue. Margin. Refund rate.
THE SEAT
You recruit affiliates who can drive real e-commerce sales.
You manage campaigns that need to perform every day.
You understand the difference between cheap traffic and profitable traffic.
You know how to scale content, coupon, cashback, loyalty, comparison, CSS, influencer, email, and shopping partners.
You protect brands from bad placements, fake volume, low-quality traffic, margin leaks, and weak partners.
You scale winners fast.
You cut poor performers faster.
This role is revenue, judgment, pressure, and execution.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
- Recruit, onboard, and scale affiliates, publishers, creators, media buyers, and commerce partners.
- Manage e-commerce campaigns across DTC, retail, beauty, wellness, gadgets, fashion, home goods, and related categories.
- Track EPC, CVR, AOV, CPA, ROI, revenue, refunds, payouts, and margin daily.
- Build partner plans for content, coupon, cashback, loyalty, comparison, influencer, CSS, email, and shopping traffic.
- Review partner traffic sources, placements, creatives, offers, promo codes, and landing pages.
- Negotiate commissions, placements, exposure packages, tenancy fees, bonuses, caps, and campaign terms.
- Identify fraud, fake orders, self-referrals, brand bidding violations, coupon abuse, low-quality traffic, and bad partner behavior.
- Work inside affiliate platforms, reporting dashboards, e-commerce stores, analytics tools, and tracking systems.
- Scale profitable partners.
- Pause weak traffic immediately.
- Own outcomes without hand-holding.
WHO SHOULD APPLY
You should have:
2+ years in affiliate marketing, partner marketing, performance marketing, or e-commerce.
- Experience managing affiliates, publishers, creators, media buyers, or commerce partners.
- Strong understanding of EPC, CVR, AOV, CPA, ROI, revenue, margin, refunds, and commission structures.
- Experience managing live e-commerce campaigns.
- Ability to read reports and make fast performance decisions.
- Strong written English.
- Direct communication style.
- High accountability.
- European affiliate market experience.
PLATFORM EXPERIENCE HELPS
Experience with any of the following is a plus:
Awin, Impact, CJ, Partnerize, Rakuten, TradeTracker, Tradedoubler, Everflow, HasOffers, Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, GA4, Looker Studio, or similar platforms.
DO NOT APPLY IF
- You have never managed affiliates.
- You only have brand marketing experience.
- You need training on affiliate basics.
- You cannot read performance reports.
- You do not understand e-commerce economics.
- You are slow to respond.
- You avoid hard conversations.
- You are uncomfortable cutting bad partners.
- You think affiliate management is only relationship management.
- You do not want to be measured by results.
WHY DFO PERFORMANCE
DFO is a performance company.
You work on campaigns tied directly to revenue.
You work with operators who understand traffic, offers, tracking, optimization, and scale.
Performance is visible.
Results matter.
Strong people get more responsibility quickly.
This is a growth seat, not a holding pattern.
LOCATION
Remote position based in Europe.
Best candidate markets:
1. United Kingdom
2. Germany
3. Netherlands
Must be available for European business hours.
COMPENSATION
Competitive compensation based on experience.
Performance upside available for candidates who can grow revenue while protecting margin and traffic quality.
APPLY
Send your resume and include:
1. Countries or regions you have managed.
2. E-commerce verticals you have worked in.
3. Platforms you have used.
4. Types of affiliates or commerce partners you have managed.
5. Your biggest e-commerce affiliate growth win.
6. How you evaluate traffic quality and partner profitability.
Applications without real affiliate or e-commerce performance experience will not be considered.
