Affiliate Growth Lead, US

The role

The Affiliate Growth Lead will build and scale relationships with US finance and investing creators and affiliates. This role focuses on driving funded accounts and trading volume through business development, partnerships, and performance marketing.

What you will do

• Own business development for US finance and investing creators and affiliates.
• Develop and execute the US creator and affiliate strategy.
• Own partner acquisition and relationship development.
• Structure CPA, revenue-share and hybrid partnerships.
• Set up and manage tracking, attribution, payout and reporting.
• Work with Legal and Compliance on disclosure and content review.
• Partner across Growth, Marketing and Product teams.
• Coordinate with the NORAM Pro KOL Business Development team.
• Track trading volume, funded accounts, retention and CAC per partner.
• Identify emerging creators, communities and affiliate publishers.

Required qualifications

• Deep experience in business development, partnerships, influencer management or affiliate-led growth in the US.
• Track record of running performance-based creator or affiliate programs for a brokerage, trading platform or investing product.
• Experience growing margin, options, futures or other leveraged or active-trading products.
• Strong existing network and understanding of the US finance and investing creator ecosystem.
• Working knowledge of crypto and digital assets.
• Ability to explain crypto trading products clearly to audiences new to them.
• Demonstrated ability to originate, negotiate and grow commercially meaningful partnerships.
• Hands-on experience with affiliate networks and tracking platforms.
• Record of turning creator or affiliate activity into measurable outcomes.
• Familiarity with US financial advertising rules, including FTC paid-endorsement disclosure.
• Experience getting creator content through compliance review.
• Strong relationship-building skills.

Nice to have

• Experience working in wealth management or fintech.
• Experience at a crypto exchange or digital-asset firm.
• Existing relationships with US crypto-native creators.

Before you apply

• May ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments.

About the company

Payward is the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks. Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions.