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# Senior Affiliate Manager at highwinds.com

- **Company:** highwinds.com
- **Location:** Fort Worth, TX
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2025-11-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/highwinds-com/am9icG9zdDoXVdmR_Q_JFymDd7rhgt_V

## Job description

## About Highwinds

At Highwinds, we're not just navigating the lead generation landscape; we're charting its future. We are a team of innovators, data scientists, and digital strategists dedicated to connecting our clients with their next great customers through precision, technology, and a relentless drive for results. As a dynamic and growing competitor in the performance marketing space, we thrive on fresh ideas, bold strategies, and a collaborative spirit. The quality of our partnerships is paramount, and we are looking for a master relationship-builder to lead our affiliate channel.

## The Role

The Senior Affiliate Manager is a critical driver of our supply-side strategy, responsible for the growth and optimization of our affiliate network. You are an expert negotiator and a strategic thinker who understands that true partnership is the key to scalable success. You will own the full lifecycle of our affiliate relationships—from recruitment and onboarding to performance optimization and compliance. Your mission is to build a robust and diverse network of high-quality affiliate partners who deliver consistent, high-intent traffic that fuels our clients' growth.

## Key Responsibilities

- Strategic Recruitment: Proactively identify, evaluate, and recruit new high-value affiliate partners and publishers across a variety of channels (email, search, social, display, native).
- Relationship Management: Cultivate and nurture strong, lasting relationships with our top affiliate partners. Act as their primary point of contact, providing strategic guidance, support, and a world-class partner experience.
- Performance Optimization: Continuously monitor affiliate performance, analyzing key metrics like Cost Per Lead (CPL), Conversion Rate (CVR), and lead quality. Provide partners with actionable, data-driven insights to help them scale their campaigns profitably.
- Negotiation & Terms: Lead negotiations for payout structures (CPL, CPA, Rev-Share), insertion orders, and other commercial terms. Ensure agreements are competitive and aligned with company goals.
- Compliance & Quality Control: Uphold the highest standards of quality. Work closely with our data and compliance teams to enforce program terms, monitor traffic sources, and mitigate fraud.
- Competitive Intelligence: Stay ahead of the curve by monitoring industry trends, new publisher technologies, and competitive affiliate programs to ensure Highwinds remains a top choice for partners.
- Reporting & Analysis: Prepare and deliver regular performance reports to leadership, showcasing the health of the affiliate channel and identifying key areas for growth.

## Qualifications & Experience

- 5+ years of direct experience in affiliate management, with a strong background in the lead generation or performance marketing industry, ideally in the subprime financial vertical.
- A proven track record of successfully recruiting, managing, and scaling a high-performing affiliate program that resulted in significant revenue growth.
- A strong existing network of publisher and affiliate contacts is highly desirable.
- Deep understanding of performance marketing metrics (CPL, CPA, EPC, ROI) and the nuances of various digital traffic sources.
- Exceptional negotiation, communication, and interpersonal skills. You build trust and rapport with ease.
- Highly analytical and comfortable using data to make decisions and tell a story.
- Hands-on experience with major affiliate tracking platforms (e.g., Everflow, CAKE, HasOffers).
- Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, or a related field.

Why Join Highwinds?

- Own a Key Channel: Your work directly impacts the core supply of our business. You will own and build a critical revenue-generating channel.
- Innovative Culture: Join a team that values curiosity, challenges the status quo, and celebrates every win.
- Career Growth: This senior role offers significant autonomy and the opportunity to build out a team as the channel grows.
- Competitive Compensation: We offer a competitive salary plus a generous performance-based commission/bonus structure.

## About highwinds.com

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Highwinds is a loan lead generation platform that connects U.S. lenders with high-intent, fully vetted borrowers through a performance-focused affiliate network and internal media buying operation.
- **Entity Type**: Private (historical venture-backed company; currently owned by StackPath post-2017 acquisition, though the lead-gen business operates under the Highwinds brand)
- **Headquarters**: Las Vegas, United States (with offices in Winter Park, Florida, and Port Elizabeth, South Africa; historical HQ was Winter Park, FL)
- **Founded**: 2002
- **Founders**: Steve Miller, Lance Crosby (original Highwinds Network Group, Inc.)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Financial services / performance marketing — specifically loan lead generation for the consumer lending vertical.
- **Target customers**: B2B — lenders ranging from small independent lenders to enterprise-level lending networks, plus publisher/affiliate partners who supply leads.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: Guided by the philosophy that "performance is personal, growth is intentional, words matter, and people come first" — Highwinds aims to deliver quality, security, and long-term partnership in an industry crowded with noise.

## Products & Services
- **Loan lead generation platform**: Fully vetted, high-quality borrower leads delivered to U.S. lenders. Includes comprehensive borrower screening, precision verification, best-in-class compliance, data protection, and real-time data/reporting with no hidden surprises.
- **Affiliate network**: A robust network of publishers and lead sources supplying high-intent borrower traffic; the company emphasizes lead quality over volume.
- **Internal media buying / customer acquisition (in development)**: Highwinds is actively building an in-house acquisition engine across Meta, Google, Native, Display, and Programmatic channels to scale profitable loan customer acquisition.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company).
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue reported at approximately **$70M** by data aggregators (not officially confirmed); **$310M** in total historical funding raised across prior rounds.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: General Catalyst Partners, Alta Communications, Silicon Valley Bank, Comerica Bank, Cerberus Business Finance, and Goldman Sachs BDC/Goldman Sachs Asset Management (historical funding); parent company is StackPath.
- **Growth Signals**: Currently hiring a founding Media Buyer to build its internal media buying operation from the ground up; distributed workforce across 5 countries (Ukraine, US, Poland, Brazil, Italy); retains a 3.9/5 employer rating across 32 reviews on aggregated platforms.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Quality-over-volume positioning**: Differentiates by delivering fully vetted leads with precision verification when many competitors prioritize raw volume.
- **Compliance & trust infrastructure**: Emphasizes best-in-class compliance and data protection for lenders navigating a complex regulatory environment.
- **Transparency**: Real-time data and reporting provide lenders visibility into lead acquisition with no hidden surprises.
- **Resilient brand with infrastructure history**: Originated as a global content delivery network (70+ points of presence across 5 continents) before pivoting to fintech lead generation — evidence of technical depth and adaptability.

## Strategic Focus
- **Build out internal media buying**: Hiring an entrepreneurial operator to lead acquisition strategy, create processes, identify new traffic opportunities, and eventually build a team.
- **Scale profitable customer acquisition** across Meta, Google, Native, Display, and Programmatic, with a focus on consumer finance, personal loans, fintech, and adjacent verticals.
- **Deepen lender relationships**: Continuing to prioritize long-term partnerships and sustainable growth over transactional lead volume.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: Data-driven, entrepreneurial, fast-moving environment where employees have "freedom to test ideas, challenge assumptions, move quickly, and make a measurable impact." The CEO is directly involved in hiring and visible in company communications.
- **Remote/hybrid policy**: Hybrid workspace — employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work; some roles (e.g., Senior Affiliate Manager) list "In-Office or Remote" as acceptable. Workforce is already distributed across 5 countries, suggesting cross-cultural, distributed collaboration.
- **Notable perks/compensation signals** (from aggregated job/salary data):
  - Junior Systems Engineer: ~$109,377/year
  - Technical Product Manager: ~$135,907/year
  - NOC Technician: ~$55,988/year
- **Employee ratings**: Overall 3.9/5 — Culture 4.2, Work-Life 4.2, Compensation 4.0, Career 3.8.
- **Current openings**: Media Buyer (remote-friendly, Fort Worth/remote per job listings) and Senior Affiliate Manager are recent examples; roles emphasize ownership, testing, analytics, and measurable business impact.

## Sources
1. [LinkedIn – Highwinds Company Profile](https://linkedin.com/company/highwindsllc)
2. [Built In – Highwinds Careers, Perks + Culture](https://builtin.com/company/highwinds)
3. [Wikipedia – Highwinds Network Group](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hwcdn.net)
4. [Datanyze – Highwinds Company Profile](https://www.datanyze.com/companies/highwinds/507344938)
5. [Highwinds LinkedIn Post – Hiring a Media Buyer](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/highwindsllc_join-our-team-activity-7468660885595787264-Ivrs)
6. [Gem Careers – Highwinds](https://jobs.gem.com/highwinds-com)

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