Head of Affiliates
Head of Affiliates
Remote
Permanent or Full-time Contractor
Competitive package
Meta Hire Group is working with a leading Crypto Casino and Sports Betting brand who are looking for a Head of Affiliates to be a part of building the affiliate programme from zero.
Reporting directly to the Founder, you will have total autonomy over deal frameworks, team hiring, and strategy. It’s a role for someone who already knows what a market-leading programme looks like and simply wants the environment to build it properly.
Responsibilities:
Building the affiliate programme from zero, deal framework, CPA benchmarks, platform, tracking, reporting, and partner pipeline operational before the first Affiliate Manager joins.
Personally owning the top 10–15 partner relationships, sourcing, negotiating, activating, and growing the most commercially significant affiliates on the programme.
Setting the commercial and channel strategy defining where to play, how to structure deals, and how to make the programme every serious affiliate wants to be on.
Hiring and leading the affiliate team: Affiliate Manager and Strategy & Ops Manager in Phase 1, with headcount added only when the programme proves it needs it.
Owning the numbers: Active users and revenue targets, tracked weekly, with full accountability for hitting them.
Building the brand: conferences, community presence, and a reputation for fast payments and real data; making the brand known in the affiliate world for the right reasons.
Requirements:
5+ years in affiliate or partnerships at a gaming or crypto operator, operator-side only, not agency or network.
Has owned a revenue or acquisition target and is personally accountable for hitting it.
Has structured and negotiated CPA, rev share, and hybrid deals independently, not just executed within someone else's framework.
Has hired and led a team, this is a people leader role from day one.
Understands multiple affiliate channels and can model a deal before signing it.
Industry presence, attends the major conferences and has a partner network they can activate from week one.
About Meta Hire Group:
Born in UAE Operating Globally. MetaHire Group is a specialist recruitment consultancy positioned at the high-velocity intersection of emerging technology, global gaming, and digital performance. With over a decade of elite expertise, we partner with visionary founders to architect the high-performance leadership teams defining the new economy.
- Department
- Marketing & Operations
- Locations
- Dubai
- Remote status
- Fully Remote
About Meta Hire Group
Born in Dubai, operating globally. We are specialising in HR consultancy operating at the high-velocity intersection of emerging tech, global gaming, and digital performance. With over a decade of elite expertise, we partner with visionary founders to architect the high-performance leadership teams defining the new economy.
Our Specialized Verticals:
- iGaming
- Gaming & Interactive Media
- Performance & Growth (Affiliate, SEO & Content)
- Artificial Intelligence
- Blockchain & Web3
- Longevity & HealthTech