Overview:

Zenith is looking for a hard-working Associate Director, Affiliate Partnerships to manage always-on affiliate strategy and activation for Walmart. You'll lead a team of affiliate and commerce specialists, manage a portfolio of publisher, creator, and platform partnerships, and serve as a trusted commerce advisor to client and integrated teams. The AD effectively demonstrates experience, knowledge, and hands-on skills to push fresh thinking while balancing client, agency and team needs with the assistance of the VP and EVP. This position reports directly to VP Commerce.

Responsibilities

• Develop affiliate and social commerce strategies aligned to client marketing, campaign, and profitability goals.
• Act as the senior affiliate and social commerce voice in the room, presenting performance results, recommendations, and industry perspectives to senior client collaborators.
• Own always-on channel performance and optimization across core performance levers, including traffic, conversion, ROAS, AOV, repeat rate, LTV, and contribution margin.
• Manage and grow relationships with publishers, creator platforms, influencer networks, and commerce technology partners.
• Develop commission strategies, incentive frameworks, and partner tiering models that drive productivity and retention.
• Own end-to-end affiliate operations, including onboarding, attribution, commissions, invoicing, payouts, governance, and lifecycle management.
• Demonstrate financial competence through experience managing invoicing, reconciliation, and budget ownership.
• Build scalable workflows and documentation, finding opportunities to automate and simplify processes.
• Lead and develop a team of affiliate and commerce specialists, setting clear expectations and ensuring high-quality delivery across multiple clients, partners, and campaigns while keeping collaborators aligned on priorities, risks, and tradeoffs.
• Maintain a detailed understanding of the affiliate landscape, industry trends, challenges, and driven activity, and translate insights into scalable opportunities for clients.

Qualifications

• B.A. or B.S., preferably in Marketing, Advertising, or a related field.
• 4+ years of experience in affiliate marketing, partnerships, social commerce, or performance marketing, including experience leading programs across multiple partners, clients, or categories.
• 2+ years of experience managing junior staff.
• Hands-on fluency with Impact.com, CJ, or a comparable affiliate platform; you have managed programs directly, not just reviewed dashboards.
• Proven track record working with publishers, creator platforms, influencer networks, or commerce partners, including commission strategy development and commercial negotiations.
• Strong understanding of affiliate economics, including GMV, ROAS, AOV, CAC, commission cost, and contribution margin, with the financial acumen to manage budgets, forecasts, and reconciliations.
• Ability to translate data into clear, well-articulated, and actionable insights.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present to clients and maintain client correspondence and internal documentation.
• Serves as a resource to others in the resolution of complex problems and issues.
• Diligent with a proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to manage projects, resources, stakeholders, and participants effectively.
• Ability to orient, train, assign, and review the work of junior team members.
• Acts as a resource to others in the resolution of complex problems and issues.

Additional information

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

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Compensation Range: USD $106,780.00 - USD $170,937.00/Annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 8/10/2025.