[Hiring] Affiliate Lead @AIOS (YC W20/S21)

Role Description

As Affiliate Lead at AIOS, your fundamental role is to turn affiliates into a cleanly attributable, scalable, and profitable customer acquisition channel, starting with Bolt Pharmacy (UK).

This is not a “link in bio” creator affiliate program role. This is not a coordination-only, admin role.

You will own the program end to end, beginning with recruiting high quality affiliates that you forge lasting partnerships with. You’ll be in the weeds iterating offers, systems, and comms to elevate overall affiliate performance.

• Grow affiliate-attributed revenue
• Ensure attribution is tidy
• Increase the output of our strongest existing partners, and cut underperformers
• Build offers, promotions, and incentives that affiliates can win with (while keeping us profitable)
• Make the program operationally reliable, measurable, and easy to scale
• Protect our brands by maintaining a high bar for content compliance, claims, and attribution

Great performance means affiliates become a predictable and increasingly important growth channel. Attribution is clean and cannibalization is minimalized. If you really nail the role, you’ll be a leading candidate for our future Head of Affiliate hire and other Senior Growth Hires.

This is a full-time, fully remote role, and you’ll work async in the timezone of your choice — as long as you’re around until midday Pacific Time for calls as needed.

You’ll report directly to Marie Boes (AI Growth Lead).

You’ll also work most closely with:

• Dave Lane (Head of Performance)
• Michael McCann (Head of CRO)
• Richie Cartwright (CEO + Interim Head of Growth)

Qualifications

• 3+ years growing affiliate, publisher, partnership, creator, and performance-based acquisition channels.
• Experience managing programs through platforms such as Everflow, TradeTracker, etc.
• Metric-minded: Think in attribution, revenue, CAC, contribution margin, activation, conversion, retention, refunds, and payback periods.
• Hunter: Ability to source, pitch, negotiate with, and close high-quality affiliates.
• Judgement: Quickly identify which affiliates have real potential, and cut the rest.
• Workstreams: Run day-to-day without things falling through the cracks.
• Analytics: Diagnose affiliate performance using data and turn insights into a clear action plan.
• Systems thinking: Build repeatable workflows, reporting, documentation, and automations.
• Compliance: Balance rapid growth with accuracy in a regulated category.
• Performance marketing: Understand direct-response creative, landing pages, conversion funnels, and attribution.

Requirements

• Experience in regulated consumer sectors such as healthcare, pharmaceuticals, or financial services.
• Existing relationships with high-quality global publishers, comparison sites, or content businesses.
• Understanding of how affiliates use search-led content, reviews, and editorial placements.
• Experience managing affiliate activity across multiple countries and regulatory environments.
• Multi-brand experience in operating affiliate programs across several brands.
• Startup or scale-up experience in a rapidly evolving environment.
• Familiarity with AI tools for partner research, outreach, and program administration.

Benefits

• Compensation: $100k-$200k/yr, including equity
• Healthcare: Comprehensive medical insurance (if appropriate)
• Vacation: PTO with a yearly minimum (≥2wks/yr + local national holidays)
• Remote: Fully distributed team functioning remotely
• Personal development: Budget for books, courses, coaching ($1200/yr)
• Personal wellness: Budget for gym, health apps ($1200/yr)
• Coaching: Free biweekly health coaching
• Equipment: Macbook & work-from-home equipment provided as needed

Our Cultural Standards

• Belief in the mission: Dedicated to transforming the lives of patients.
• Unwavering integrity: Maintain impeccable ethics in ambiguity.
• Only the paranoid survive: Embrace challenges with conviction.
• If we’re average we fail: Focus on excellence and reject incompetence.
• Commitment to candor: Foster transparency and honest feedback.
• A maniacal sense of urgency: Execute with intensity and speed.
• Enduring frugality: Spend wisely and avoid wastefulness.
• Bulldozing barriers: Be relentlessly resourceful and capable.
• Keep your head down: Focus on meaningful work over status.
• The power of focus: Identify and excel in your One Thing.

How to Apply

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