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# Manager, Creators & Affiliates at Brand Knew

- **Company:** Brand Knew
- **Location:** Los Angeles, CA
- **Compensation:** $70k–$80k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-05-15
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/brandknew/bb9f0741-1a81-4fe5-998b-6894932f5da9

## Job description

We are seeking a performance-focused Creators & Affiliates Manager to join our team. The ideal candidate understands how to identify, vet, brief, and manage creators and affiliates across paid social, performance marketing, and conversion-driven campaigns.

This role will support both Real Money Gaming and DTC clients, helping build creator and affiliate pipelines that can drive high-quality content, qualified traffic, and measurable business outcomes. We’re looking for someone who can move quickly, communicate clearly, manage relationships end-to-end, and understand what makes a creator or affiliate a strong fit for a specific brand, audience, offer, and campaign objective. NOTE: Applications that are not fully and properly filled out will not be considered.

ALSO NOTE: Many applications look exactly the same because people are using AI. We will know if AI is used and will not consider such applications.

## Responsibilities

- Identify, vet, and manage creators and affiliates across RMG and DTC clients, with a focus on performance-driven content, qualified traffic, and measurable campaign outcomes
- Source creators who can produce platform-native video content for paid social channels including Meta, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and other digital platforms
- Evaluate creator and affiliate fit based on audience alignment, content quality, platform presence, category relevance, past performance, brand safety, and client objectives
- Develop clear creator briefs that communicate campaign goals, messaging, offers, content direction, compliance considerations, and deliverable requirements
- Manage outreach, communication, timelines, deliverables, feedback, revisions, approvals, and final asset collection across active creator and affiliate partners
- Maintain organized creator and affiliate pipelines, including outreach status, rates, deliverables, performance notes, and client-specific opportunities
- Track creator and affiliate learnings to inform future sourcing, briefing, content direction, partner selection, and campaign recommendations
- Support the development of scalable creator and affiliate programs across multiple client verticals
- Stay current on creator trends, affiliate opportunities, platform updates, RMG regulations, DTC category trends, and emerging performance channels

## Requirements

- 3+ years of experience in creator management, influencer marketing, affiliate marketing, partnerships, performance marketing, or a related role

- Experience sourcing, briefing, and managing creators for social-first video content, ideally for paid social or performance marketing campaigns

- Experience identifying, vetting, and managing affiliates or performance-based partners is strongly preferred

- Strong understanding of social platforms including TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube Shorts, and emerging creator channels

- Ability to evaluate creators based on content quality, audience fit, brand alignment, performance potential, and campaign needs

- Ability to write clear, actionable creator briefs that translate strategy into content direction

- Strong communication skills and ability to manage outreach, feedback, timelines, deliverables, and partner relationships

- Comfortable balancing multiple clients, priorities, deadlines, and active creator or affiliate conversations at once

- Strong organizational skills and ability to maintain clean trackers, pipelines, and documentation

- Interest in performance marketing, paid social, creator-led acquisition, and affiliate-driven growth

- Experience with RMG, regulated categories, DTC brands, or compliance-sensitive campaigns is a plus

- Ability to move quickly while maintaining strong attention to detail

## Perks

- Opportunity for growth in the company
- Work alongside a great slate of clients and team members
- Fun, creative, and collaborative company culture
- Hybrid & Remote work options

## Compensation

- Commensurate with experience
- Long-term disability insurance
- Health care offering, including dental and vision
- Unlimited Paid Time Off

## About Brand Knew

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Brand Knew is a performance marketing agency that builds scalable acquisition systems for direct-to-consumer brands, real money gaming operators, and financial services, with a dedicated impact division serving nonprofit organizations.
- **Entity Type**: Private (bootstrapped)
- **Headquarters**: Los Angeles, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2009
- **Founders**: Zach Suchin (Founding Partner & CEO) and Jason Schutzbank (Founder and President)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Performance marketing, digital advertising, creative strategy, data analytics
- **Target customers**: B2B – mid-market to enterprise clients in direct-to-consumer (DTC), real money gaming (iGaming, sports betting, daily fantasy), financial services (fintech, prediction markets), and nonprofit/social impact organizations.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Great work and good values aren’t a tradeoff." The agency focuses on clarity over noise, converting attention into measurable business outcomes while maintaining a people-first culture.

## Products & Services
Brand Knew offers a full-stack growth partnership model across three verticals plus a dedicated impact division:

- **Real Money Gaming Practice**: User acquisition for betting operators, iGaming platforms, daily fantasy sports, and social casino products. Works alongside P&L owners on first-time depositor acquisition, retention, and player value optimization.
- **Direct-to-Consumer Practice**: Strategic growth partnership for DTC brands, focusing on efficient customer acquisition, retention strategy, and profitable scaling across digital channels.
- **Financial Services Practice**: High-value user acquisition for fintech companies, prediction markets, trading platforms, and consumer financial products, navigating regulated environments.
- **Impact Division (Nonprofit Marketing)**: Awareness, donor acquisition, and fundraising efficiency for mission-driven organizations like Stand Up To Cancer, Mayo Clinic, and Goodwill.

**Core capabilities**: Branding, audience development, paid media (Meta, TikTok, Snap, Google, Apple Search Ads, Moloco, TVScientific, AppLovin, Rokt), creative production, influencer/creator identification, partnership ads, analytics infrastructure, full-funnel growth strategy, customer acquisition/retention/LTV optimization, email marketing.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private, bootstrapped)
- **Key Metric**: Total employees – reported as 13 on LinkedIn (with +4.0% monthly growth) and 32 total employees on Built In; annual revenue not publicly available.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Clients include Stand Up 2 Cancer, Nike, Verizon, Mayo Clinic, Goodwill, Bubble Skincare, Netspend, Hilarity for Charity, and Betr. Named "most innovative agency of the year" by TikTok.
- **Growth Signals**: Active hiring across marketing and creative roles; expanding its gaming and impact practices; strong client roster with recognizable brands.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Specialization in regulated gaming**: Widely recognized as the leading performance marketing agency for real money gaming in the U.S., with deep expertise in player value optimization and compliance.
- **Integrated impact division**: Unique ability to serve both for-profit and nonprofit clients under one roof, leveraging the same data-driven acquisition systems for social good.
- **Data-driven, full-funnel approach**: Combines media buying, creative strategy, and data science into unified growth systems, emphasizing clarity and measurable outcomes.
- **Longevity and reputation**: Operating since 2009 with a track record of high-retention client relationships and industry recognition.

## Strategic Focus
- Scale the real money gaming practice as the U.S. market continues to legalize sports betting and iGaming.
- Deepen partnerships with DTC and fintech clients by expanding analytics infrastructure and creative production capabilities.
- Grow the impact division to serve more nonprofit organizations, leveraging the agency’s performance marketing expertise for social impact.
- Continue investing in people and culture to attract top talent in a competitive agency landscape.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as a "creative collective" of curious, analytical individuals who believe great work and good values go together. Emphasizes collaboration, continuous education, and genuine work/life balance.
- **People-first organization**: "The people we hire define our culture. The people we work with define our reputation." Invests heavily in career building over job growth.
- **Work environment**: Hybrid – Los Angeles office with on-site workspace; roles posted as hybrid or full-time in LA.
- **Notable perks**: Intimate sessions with thought leaders and industry pioneers; a focus on clarity and precision in a fragmented media environment.
- **Engineering/creative culture**: Small, nimble team (13–32 employees) where individuals have broad ownership and impact across client work.

## Sources
1. [brandknew.com](https://brandknew.com/)
2. [brandknew.com/company/](https://brandknew.com/company/)
3. [jobs.lever.co/brandknew](https://jobs.lever.co/brandknew)
4. [builtin.com/company/brand-knew](https://builtin.com/company/brand-knew)
5. [linkedin.com/company/brand-knew](https://linkedin.com/company/brand-knew)

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