Performance, Data & Reporting

• Own weekly and monthly program reporting, ensuring clients have clear visibility of performance and progress against targets.
• Build forecasts and trading plans, track performance against them, and provide clear, data-backed explanations for variances.
• Turn program data into actionable insights and recommendations rather than simply reporting numbers.
• Monitor key commercial metrics including revenue, orders, commission, CPA, ROI, EPC, conversion rate, publisher contribution, and program profitability.
• Use data to identify opportunities for optimization, partner development, incremental growth, and improved program efficiency.
• Evaluate publisher and campaign performance to ensure investment is aligned with client objectives and commercial return.
• Own day-to-day program governance, including program validation, tracking, compliance, and fraud monitoring.
• Ensure commission structures, publisher terms, and program policies are implemented accurately and consistently.
• Work with networks, SaaS platforms, clients, and internal teams to resolve tracking, attribution, and payment issues.
• Maintain high standards of program hygiene, documentation, and operational delivery.
• Monitor publisher activity and ensure partners operate within agreed program terms and brand guidelines.

What You'll Bring

• 3+ years' experience in affiliate, partnership, or performance marketing, ideally within an agency environment.
• Hands-on experience managing affiliate programs through at least one major network or SaaS platform, such as Awin, impact.com, CJ, Rakuten Advertising.
• A proven track record of growing affiliate programs through publisher recruitment, partner development, and commercial negotiation.
• Strong client management skills, with confidence presenting performance, strategy, and recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Strong commercial and analytical skills, with the ability to build forecasts, interpret performance data, and turn insights into action.
• Excellent Excel or Google Sheets skills, including the ability to work comfortably with large datasets, reporting, and forecasting.
• Experience managing, mentoring, or supporting junior team members, ideally within a distributed or multi-location team.
• Excellent organization and communication skills, with the ability to manage multiple clients, priorities, and deadlines simultaneously.
• Experience managing affiliate programs across both UK and US markets.
• Experience or exposure to creator/influencer affiliate partnerships, performance PR, or other emerging publisher models.
• Understanding of incrementality, attribution models, and multi-touch or performance-based commission structures.
• Experience across relevant verticals such as retail, ecommerce, marketplaces, health & wellness, or quick commerce.

Why Realtime

Realtime is a global challenger agency that uses tech, innovation, and agility to out-punch the incumbents and bring real, effective change to the brands with which we work. Our motto is simple; "build cool s*** that wows". To accomplish that, we lead the way with full-funnel strategic thinking, AI-backed advertising technology, and award-winning measurement strategies that take our brand partners to the next level. Realtime is built for the AI era and is backed by Pixis – the industry leader in AI advertising and creative tech that is trusted by thousands of brands and agencies globally. As part of the Pixis team, Realtime is the first-mover on the latest and greatest in AI adtech products and testing – and we take those advancements directly to our clients. As part of the Realtime and Pixis team, candidates exploring opportunities with Realtime should expect to find a dynamic, uniquely positioned, and future-oriented organization that loves our people just as much as our clients.