Partnership Marketing Associate

HG Overview

Hamster Garage is a partnership management agency. We manage the partnerships and affiliates channel for the world's most ambitious brands. This includes affiliate marketing but also brand partnerships, podcasts, influencer marketing, etc. We work with leading brands like Canva, Uber, Tesla, Slack, Xero, InVideo, etc., and are in a high growth phase. We are looking to add team members to grow with the agency and want you to help us leave our mark on the industry!

We are looking to hire an associate to staff our accounts. The ideal candidate will have internship-level experience and should be able to work well in a team environment. This is a hybrid role based in our Chicago office with the ideal candidate being able to work in the office at least two days per week. This role will assist to drive meaningful growth through traditional and unique opportunities for leading global brands.

This is an exciting and critical position in building and scaling user acquisition with a top‑tier agency in the growth stage. The associate will have exposure to many different aspects of Partnership Marketing and overall company building in a fast‑paced, collaborative team environment.

• Internship level experience. 1+ years of work experience in a client‑facing capacity is a plus.
• Be able to establish and build strong relationships with key publisher affiliates and networks around the world – scaling the publisher while driving continued innovation through the channel.
• Excellent written and verbal skills. There will be a great deal of coordination through email and calls, so it is imperative to represent HG in the most professional manner possible.
• Strong communication skills. The role involves interacting with various publishers and clients.
• Comfortable with Google Spreadsheets and Microsoft Excel. We work with a lot of data and need to be able to extrapolate and summarize data to optimize and make decisions to present to our clients.
• KPI‑driven and results‑oriented to drive innovation in the execution.
• Experience with Microsoft PowerPoint. There will be many instances that require presenting our work to clients, which will require creating decks as client deliverables.
• The candidate will need to be a quick learner.
• Strong attention to detail and analytical skills.
• The candidate will have a good eye for design.
• Resourcefulness is vital to this position. There will be many scenarios that require the Associate to be able to research solutions independently for discussion purposes with the team.
• The ideal candidate will be able to provide creative and innovative solutions to address brands’ user acquisition needs.