[Hiring] Publisher Development Manager @Levanta

Role Description

Levanta is hiring a Publisher Development Manager to lead publisher acquisition and growth across our live Amazon markets in EMEA — UK, Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands, and Spain. This role is squarely focused on Amazon: identifying, onboarding, and optimizing sub-networks, comparison shopping sites, media buyers, and content publishers that drive GMV for Amazon-side brands in these markets.

You'll report directly to the VP of Marketplace and work closely with our Creator team, which is deeply technical and hands-on with tracking and integrations — you won't have a dedicated engineer on partner calls, so you'll need to be comfortable troubleshooting tracking and attribution issues yourself, escalating only when something is genuinely broken on our end. This is a relationship-driven, technically fluent role: equal parts partnership development and hands-on problem-solving.

What You'll Do:

• Strategic partnership development:
  • Identify and cultivate relationships with sub-networks, comparison shopping sites, and high-value content publishers across the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands, and Spain.
  • Build a prioritized target list of publishers and sub-networks in each market, with a tailored outreach approach per segment.
  • Negotiate partnership terms that align with our Amazon-side business goals.
• Partnership optimization & growth:
  • Analyze the performance of existing EMEA publisher partnerships, including underperforming ones, and build plans to re-engage or grow them.
  • Work directly with partners to optimize product feeds, improve conversion, and unlock growth.
  • Track the competitive landscape across EMEA affiliate/publisher ecosystems and surface new opportunities.
• Technical implementation & troubleshooting:
  • Own technical onboarding for new publisher partners — API integrations, tracking setup, and attribution accuracy — largely independently.
  • Troubleshoot tracking and integration issues directly with partners; escalate internally only when something requires engineering.
  • Maintain clear technical documentation partners can use to self-serve during setup.
• Performance analysis & reporting:
  • Track and report on partnership performance — GMV, conversion rate, activation status — across the EMEA portfolio.
  • Surface trends and insights that inform where to prioritize time and resources next.
• Cross-functional collaboration:
  • Partner with our Creator team to keep messaging and territory approach consistent as the EMEA publisher program grows.
  • Share partner feedback with Product to inform the roadmap where relevant.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of experience in affiliate marketing, partnership development, or business development — direct experience with sub-networks, comparison shopping sites, or similar publisher types required.
• Hands-on experience with API integrations and a strong working understanding of affiliate attribution and tracking technology.
• Comfort troubleshooting technical integration issues independently, without a dedicated engineer on the call.
• Familiarity with affiliate platform technologies (Impact, CJ, AWIN, or similar) and comfort reading technical documentation.
• Strong negotiation skills.
• Self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity, entrepreneurial — this role builds a lot of its own process rather than following an established playbook.
• Based in the UK or Netherlands.
• Fluent English required.

Nice to have:

• German, French, or Spanish language skills — our biggest secondary markets after the UK.

Success Metrics:

• Number of strategic partnerships activated (sub-networks, comparison shopping sites, content publishers) across EMEA markets.
• GMV and revenue generated through activated EMEA publisher partnerships.
• Partnership activation rate and time-to-revenue.
• Performance improvement of existing/underperforming partnerships.

Benefits

• A dynamic and supportive work environment where innovation and creativity are encouraged.
• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Open vacation and sick policy, take the time you need.
• Opportunity for professional growth and advancement within a rapidly expanding startup.
• A culture that values diversity, inclusion, and the impact of every team member on our success.

This role is location specific to the United Kingdom or the Netherlands.