Influencer Marketing Manager

Influencer Marketing Manager
Malaysia (Remote)

About the Opportunity

Our client is a fast-scaling fashion-tech company redefining affordable premium menswear; cutting out traditional retail middlemen to deliver factory-direct quality at a fraction of standard pricing. With an initial focus on the UK, Australia, and New Zealand, they're backed by an experienced founding team and building toward category leadership in men's essentials. They're now looking for a senior affiliate and creator partnerships operator to build their KOL programme from the ground up, globally. This is a high-visibility role reporting directly to the founder, working alongside a small, senior team that values speed, ownership, and building over managing.

The Role

• Build and own the full KOL and affiliate partnerships strategy from zero, across launch and growth markets globally
• Recruit, onboard, and manage a roster of 1,000+ active KOLs within Year 1, focused on incremental revenue and category coverage
• Source pipelines across men's lifestyle, fitness, fashion, and outdoor verticals via cold outreach, warm referrals, creator networks, and agency relationships
• Negotiate commission structures and deal economics - affiliate tiers, exclusive codes, gifting, hybrid and flat-fee arrangements and manage contracts, payouts, and incentives
• Drive partner activation and retention, identifying what converts and continuously optimising payout structures against ROI
• Manage KOL gifting at scale, including sourcing, vetting, logistics, and post-campaign reporting
• Negotiate UGC and content rights into partnerships, feeding creator content into the paid creative pipeline (targeting 100+ usable assets per quarter)
• Own the affiliate platform and creator CRM/tech stack, covering outreach, deliverables, payments, and attribution
• Build and lead a team of junior outreach and partnerships specialists as the function scales
• Report on affiliate-attributed revenue and overall programme efficiency

Ideal Candidate

• 4-6 years in affiliate marketing, creator/influencer marketing, or partnerships at a D2C brand, agency, or affiliate/creator network
• Hands-on experience running affiliate success for D2C brands; recruiting, activating, and scaling KOLs against measurable revenue outcomes
• Personally onboarded 300+ KOLs or creators in any market
• Experience managing a small team (2+ direct reports) in an outreach or partnerships capacity
• Confident negotiator who can say no to a lower-value creator without damaging the relationship
• Comfortable owning both strategy and execution in a fast-paced, fast-changing environment
• Data-driven, with a good handle on the economics of nano/micro-tier affiliate models
• No prior AI-fluency required - tooling and workflows are trained on the job
  

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