Hybrid Partner Optimization Analyst

at Centerfield

• Job title: Partner Optimization Analyst
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $80,000 - $105,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Los Angeles, United States

About the role

• Partner Optimization Analyst for Centerfield managing pricing strategies and analytics to optimize affiliate partnerships and drive profitability. Involves collaboration across teams for operational efficiencies and growth.

Responsibilities

• Proactively manage and evolve our partner pricing approach to ensure competitiveness and profitability.
• Enhance processes and systems that differentiate our partner offering in key verticals.
• Identify and execute opportunities to increase profitability within the Affiliate Channel.
• Oversee setup, configuration, and maintenance of affiliate platforms (Everflow, Impact, PartnerStack, etc.).
• Ensure accurate tracking implementation and resolve any discrepancies across systems.
• Support new partner and offer launches, ensuring smooth integrations and efficient execution.
• Use historical data to build realistic revenue and volume projections for new and existing partners.
• Support AOP and quarterly planning with accurate forecasting and performance insights.
• Model expected affiliate performance to guide leadership decisions on budget and growth initiatives.
• Own all reporting related to affiliate performance, payouts, revenue, and margins.
• Develop dashboards that highlight traffic volume, conversion rates, quality metrics, and profitability.
• Ensure data integrity and communicate key insights clearly to partnership managers and stakeholders.
• Partner with finance, product, and partnership teams to ensure accurate affiliate payouts.
• Monitor margins regularly and proactively flag issues such as overpayment or traffic anomalies.
• Maintain profitability by tracking trends and identifying optimization opportunities.
• Act as the operational “glue” connecting partnerships, finance, and product teams.
• Standardize workflows and create process efficiencies to enable partnership managers to focus on strategic growth.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, Economics, Analytics, or equivalent experience.
• Ability to absorb information quickly and turn complex data into clear insights and next steps.
• Working knowledge of digital and affiliate marketing, including performance metrics such as EPC, CPL, CTR, CVR, and funnel analysis.
• Proven ability to build forecasting models, performance dashboards, and profitability analyses.
• Excellent cross-functional communication skills with a proactive, systems-oriented mindset.

Benefits

• Offers Bonus
• Semi-Annual Bonus