Job Description
Learning is the only human superpower. It’s a gateway through which knowledge becomes a virtue, a value, a product, a skill, a prerequisite, a motive, and a competitive advantage.
LearnWorlds’ vision is to enable individuals, businesses, and communities to leverage the power of learning, improving lives, and cultivating a brighter, more resilient future for everyone.
Our mission is to stand out as the ultimate adaptable e-learning solution, tailored to meet the diverse, advanced and intricate business models of contemporary organizations.
We are committed to delivering unmatched flexibility in our offerings, ensuring that businesses, individuals, and communities can effortlessly embrace knowledge empowerment as a cornerstone of their growth and success.
The cloud-based e-learning platform offers tailor-made solutions, from creating whole e-learning websites to author online courses as well as providing the right tools to sell them on a B2B/B2C function. Today, LearnWorlds has c.12,000 customers in more than 150 countries and our team is fully remote. However, we also offer the option of working from the office for those who want to mix things up. We have offices in Athens, Crete, and Limassol.
Role Purpose
As an Affiliate and Partnerships Manager at LearnWorlds, you will help grow our global partner ecosystem by identifying, recruiting, onboarding, and activating high quality affiliates, publishers, creators, e-learning agencies and consultancies.
Your main focus will be partner acquisition and activation. You will run proactive outreach, manage inbound applications, and help turn promising partner relationships into qualified leads, trials, customers, and revenue.
You will work across our affiliate and partner ecosystem, including PartnerStack, Rakuten, direct affiliates, publishers, sub-networks, agencies, consultants, and selected reseller opportunities. Because our partner network is global, occasional flexibility may be needed for early or late calls across time zones, with working time balanced accordingly.
What you will do
Identify high potential affiliates, publishers, creators, e-learning agencies, e-learning consultancies, implementation partners, consultants, and other education focused partners who are a strong fit for LearnWorlds.
Run proactive outreach campaigns, qualify opportunities, and turn promising contacts into active partners.
Find ways to automate and scale partner research and outreach, including list building, segmentation, personalized messaging, follow ups, and outreach tracking.
Manage the full partner acquisition process, from first outreach and intro calls to negotiation, approval, onboarding, and activation.
Help new partners understand LearnWorlds, our audience, our value proposition, and the best ways to promote us.
Assess partner quality and promotional methods, including PPC behavior, brand bidding, coupon/discount usage, traffic hijacking, attribution risk, and potential channel cannibalization. Escalate or recommend partner restrictions, suspension, or termination where needed.
Work with internal teams to create and share partner resources, such as onboarding emails, product messaging, campaign briefs, presentations, promotional ideas, email copy, and enablement materials.
Monitor partner performance across channels such as PartnerStack and Rakuten.
Track key metrics such as applications, approved partners, activated partners, traffic, trials, customers, revenue, conversion rates, and ROI.
Prepare clear updates for the Head of Affiliate and Partnerships and other internal stakeholders.
Work with marketing, sales, content, creative, data, finance, legal, and product marketing to support partner success, campaigns, tracking, reporting, payouts, and compliance.
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 is a must.
Strong affiliate acquisition mindset, with the ability to identify good fit partners, build trust, negotiate, and convert potential partners into active LearnWorlds promoters.
Hands on experience with platforms such as PartnerStack, Impact, Awin, Rakuten, CJ, ShareASale, or similar tools.
Experience with outreach, CRM, or automation tools is a plus.
Interest in using AI and automation to improve partner research, outreach, onboarding, reporting, follow ups, and internal workflows.
Good understanding of affiliate business models, including revenue share, CPA, commission structures, attribution, tracking, partner quality, and ROI.
Strong analytical skills, with the ability to turn performance data into clear actions.
Excellent written and spoken English. Strong communication, negotiation, and relationship building skills.
Organized, proactive, commercially minded, and comfortable managing several priorities at the same time.
Comfortable working with partners across different regions and time zones, with occasional early or late calls when needed and the ability to balance working time accordingly.
Private life and health insurance plan
Fully remote work if you prefer to work from home, apart from when we have team meetings a few times per year
Your personal annual training budget
An annual home office allowance to set up your personal space
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 in one of the globally top 5 e-learning courses platform
An opportunity to grow alongside us and shape the look and feel of tomorrow’s e-learning
An entrepreneurial, international, and highly motivated team with a flat hierarchy that will both challenge you and help you reach your highest potential
Company retreats & other onsite team activities (see the video of our latest retreat).
Note: For candidates based in the EU/EEA, LearnWorlds will provide the applicable salary range for the position prior to the job interview. Salary ranges are determined using objective and gender-neutral criteria, including role, level, and employment location. Final compensation may vary based on skills, experience, job-related qualifications, and employment location.
