Affiliate & Partnerships Manager (Remote, Europe)

About LearnWorlds

LearnWorlds is a cloud-based e-learning platform empowering individuals, businesses, and communities to leverage the power of learning. With approximately 12,000 customers in over 150 countries, we offer adaptable solutions for creating, selling, and managing online courses. Our team is fully remote, with optional office spaces in Athens, Crete, and Limassol.

Role Purpose

As an Affiliate and Partnerships Manager, you will drive the growth of our global partner ecosystem by identifying, recruiting, onboarding, and activating high-quality affiliates, publishers, creators, e-learning agencies, and consultancies. Your primary focus will be partner acquisition and activation, converting promising relationships into qualified leads, trials, customers, and revenue.

What You Will Do

• Identify high-potential partners (affiliates, publishers, creators, agencies, consultancies, implementation partners) who are a strong fit for LearnWorlds.
• Run proactive outreach campaigns, qualify opportunities, and convert contacts into active partners.
• Automate and scale partner research and outreach processes.
• Manage the full partner acquisition lifecycle: outreach, intro calls, negotiation, approval, onboarding, and activation.
• Educate new partners on LearnWorlds, our audience, value proposition, and promotion strategies.
• Assess partner quality and promotional methods, escalating issues or recommending restrictions as needed.
• Collaborate with internal teams (marketing, sales, content, creative, data, finance, legal, product marketing) to create resources and support partner success.
• Monitor partner performance across platforms like PartnerStack and Rakuten.
• Track key metrics: applications, approved/activated partners, traffic, trials, customers, revenue, conversion rates, and ROI.
• Prepare clear performance updates for stakeholders.

What You'll Need

• 2+ years of experience in affiliate marketing, partner acquisition, partnerships, performance marketing, or a similar growth-focused role.
• Experience in SaaS, EdTech, creator economy, online learning, marketplace, or B2B software is a strong plus.
• Proven experience recruiting and activating affiliates or partners online, including outreach, discovery calls, negotiation, onboarding, and follow-up.
• Strong affiliate acquisition mindset with excellent negotiation and conversion skills.
• Hands-on experience with affiliate platforms such as PartnerStack, Impact, Awin, Rakuten, CJ, ShareASale, or similar.
• Experience with outreach, CRM, or automation tools is a plus.
• Interest in using AI and automation to improve workflows.
• Good understanding of affiliate business models, commission structures, attribution, tracking, and ROI.
• Strong analytical skills to translate data into actionable insights.
• Excellent written and spoken English, with strong communication, negotiation, and relationship-building skills.
• Organized, proactive, commercially minded, and comfortable managing multiple priorities.
• Comfortable working across different time zones, with occasional early/late calls and balancing working time.

Benefits

• Private life and health insurance plan.
• Fully remote work option.
• Personal annual training budget.
• Annual home office allowance.
• Company laptop.
• 23 days of paid time off.
• 3 early summer Fridays in July and August.
• Access to AI tools at work.
• A free LearnWorlds School to build and sell your own courses.
• Work on a globally top 5 e-learning platform.
• Opportunity to grow and shape the future of e-learning.
• Entrepreneurial, international, and highly motivated team with flat hierarchy.
• Company retreats & other onsite team activities.