Affiliate Marketing Manager

Sorare is at the intersection of sports, gaming and NFTs. Through tradable digital cards, Sorare is designing a collective fantasy sport experience where you can manage your favorite Football, Baseball and Basketball players, hone your passion to earn prizes and be part of a community. Anyone, anywhere, can connect with the game on Sorare. The company’s mission is to build “the game within the game” and to give fans, players and clubs the platform to celebrate, share and own the game.

Founded in 2018, Sorare has seen tremendous growth. The platform had a card sales volume of over $300M (€270M) since January 2021 across 160 countries. Sorare is backed by a world-class team of investors including Softbank, Benchmark, Accel Partners, footballers such as Gerard Piqué, Antoine Griezmann and Rio Ferdinand, and key tech investors such as Alexis Ohanian.

As the Affiliate Marketing Manager, you will be responsible for leading multiple projects from inception to completion in support of our global affiliate program. You will source and recruit new partners, support and optimize existing partners, analyze performance data and prevent fraud.

The program is less than one year old, there are many aspects of the program to define, iterate and improve, to make sure that Sorare has the most attractive program at the the intersection of NFT, Gaming and Sports industry. You will play a crucial role in making sure this acquisition channel grows, whilst protecting the brand value of Sorare.  

Responsibilities

• Recruiting, negotiating, onboarding, and managing affiliate partners
• Conducting analysis or help designing experiments to optimize key elements of the program
• Develop a clear understanding of operational/product/marketing metrics affecting performance
• Develop strategies and manage projects and agencies to support and grow the affiliate marketing acquisition channel
• Work with several stakeholders internally to ensure all relevant obligations are met to protect our users, business and brand (with the wider Growth team, Legal, Comms etc)

Requirements

• Have at least 5 years of full-time experience in an Affiliate Marketing role, 8 years in a digital marketing role that includes affiliate marketing 
• Prior experience with a technology consumer brand 
• Data driven, analytical thinker who is able to constantly be running tests and making optimization and exploring new opportunities through data
• Strong negotiation skills and experience managing vendors and partners
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills in English
• Creative, problem-solver and strong attention to detail 
• Desire to work in Paris full-time