Partner Marketing Manager Lead
Avant is dedicated to building premier digital banking solutions for the middle class through a combination of technology, analytics and superior customer service. Since 2012, Avant has connected over 1.5 million customers to over $7.5 billion in loans and 500,000 credit cards. A high growth financial technology company, Avant has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, TechCrunch, Fortune, Bloomberg, and has raised over $600 million of equity capital. Visit www.avant.com for more information.
We need a proven team and channel leader to help develop and refine our marketing partners across all Avant’s product offerings. The position will be heavily focused on working with external partners/affiliates/vendors and collaborating with internal stakeholders and teams. This is a high-visibility position and will be responsible for a large portion of Avant’s acquisition pipeline. Come join a fast-paced organization with great opportunities for personal growth and channel management experience.
What you do at Avant:
- Lead our partner success team by building the strategy, roadmap and performance benchmarks
- Develop relationships with existing affiliate partners, monitor and stay up to date with their goals and initiatives. Uncover new opportunities to grow existing partnerships.
- Onboard, build, monitor and report channel KPI’s on a set frequency and manage issues or opportunities.
- Optimize affiliate conversion funnels, collaborate experiments and tests. We believe in iteration and failing better, faster. Independently recognize and drive communication across internal and external business stakeholders.
- Manage project roadmaps. Align on goals, set milestones, create realistic deadlines and hold your team and yourself accountable to hit those deadlines.
- Facilitate productive cross-team collaboration to support channel optimization/enhancements (ie. with product teams, business development, tech, etc.).
- Assist in sourcing new partnerships, including direct acquisition, decline monetization, joint-marketing partnerships, and any relevant tech vendors.
- Solve difficult problems in a collaborative and supportive environment. Work across functions to remove roadblocks and ensure dependent tasks are managed and completed on time.
Why you are a fit for Avant:
- Bachelor’s Degree
- 3-4 years team lead, management experience. 4-6 years experience in the financial or affiliate space.
- Proven team leader, high EQ and knows how to motivate a team to hit performance goals.
- Understands the value of clear and concise communication; ability to collaborate with people at all levels of the organization
- Strong verbal and written presentation skills (ie. Affiliate partner meetings + PowerPoint) Knows to break down complex issues into manageable pieces
- Have a proven track record of delivering qualified traffic and results
- Basic understanding of SQL, advanced knowledge is a plus! Knowledge of Excel or similar analytical tools.
- Naturally detail-oriented; you make sure that all I’s are dotted and t’s are crossed
- A self-motivated individual; takes accountability and ownership of their work
- Familiarity with personal finance topics and strong interest and passion for the “fintech” industry
Why Avant is a fit for you:
At Avant, we believe our values make a difference:
We value, support, and help each other grow
We are committed to active inclusion and diversity
We are transparent and believe the best idea wins
We succeed when our customers succeed
We get sh!t done… responsibly
And we keep it fun!
We believe that ideas are more important than titles, everything is more fun together, everyone drives change, and everyone is an owner. While we believe the perks and benefits that we offer are terrific, nothing excites us more than having the ability to collaborate with intelligent, highly-motivated and talented people on challenging problems as we work to change the face of online lending.
Avant is an equal opportunity employer and individuals seeking employment are considered without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation or gender identity), age, disability or genetic information or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state or local law, regulation or ordinance.