Partner Program Manager
$55,000 to $88,000 USD per year
Own the Stockfilm & Footage.cool Partner Program end to end. Creators, newsletter writers, film educators, archival researchers, and agencies send footage buyers to us, and we pay them a tracked share of every direct sale. The program is built and live; your job is to fill it with the right partners and turn their audiences into licensed footage.
What You Would Be Running
- Four commission tracks: Standard Creator (20% first order, 5% repeat for 12 months), Founding Partner (25% / 10%, pilot cohort), B2B Referral (12% of every invoiced deal), and Cross-Brand Then & Now (18% on combined archival plus modern drone packages).
- Two catalogs: Stockfilm.com, where 115,000+ restored home-movie clips license instantly at a flat $149 with the 4K master, and Footage.cool for modern Baja and Los Cabos drone footage.
- The platform: tracked links on go.stockfilm.com, first-click attribution, partner dashboards at partners.stockfilm.com, and the application queue behind /partners.
Core Responsibilities
- Recruit partners who actually reach documentary producers, editors, researchers, and heritage marketers, and read every application yourself. No auto-approval.
- Place approved partners on the right track, confirm it in writing, and turn down coupon, cashback, and extension sites and anyone bidding on our brand terms.
- Approve commissions and hold the line on the rules: first three commissions reviewed, anything over $500 commission or $2,500 order reviewed, and every museum, enterprise, dataset, and AI-licensing deal reviewed by hand.
- Run deal registration for B2B introductions and keep the 180-day protection window honest on both sides.
- Keep partners earning after week one: clip picks for their audience, seasonal collections, embeddable previews, and reporting they can act on.
- Own compliance. Partners disclose the paid relationship, use our approved claim language, and never misstate licensing terms.
- Watch the numbers that matter: clicks, first-order conversion, average order size, repeat rate inside the 12-month window, and commission cost per referred dollar. Bring rate and window changes to the team with the math attached.
- Work with archive, product, and licensing on what partners need next, from landing pages to payout rails.
Qualifications
- 3+ years running an affiliate, referral, creator, or channel partner program that paid real money to real people.
- Hands-on with attribution and fraud: you have argued about first click versus last click, caught self-referrals, and held a payout that did not look right.
- You write well to creators and to agencies, which are different jobs. Partner emails, onboarding docs, and rejection notes all land better when a person wrote them.
- Comfortable in dashboards and spreadsheets. You can pull the funnel yourself and say what it means without waiting on an analyst.
- Working knowledge of FTC disclosure rules for paid endorsements, and the judgment to enforce them.
- Bonus: footage, stock media, documentary production, or archival licensing experience, and any history with creator-led sales.
First 90 Days
- Clear the application backlog, confirm every partner's track, and get the active ones their links and claim language.
- Recruit a first named cohort of history and documentary creators, editor-facing newsletters, and footage-sourcing agencies.
- Ship a written commission approval standard so every review is consistent and defensible, and publish a payout cadence partners can plan around.
- Report referred revenue, repeat rate, and commission cost monthly, and recommend whether the Founding Partner cohort should stay open.