Media Buyer, Affiliate Marketing

Company Description

Welcome to Our World We’ve been leading the charge in the affiliate industry from day one—establishing performance marketing and paving the way for future innovations. We're known for maintaining one of the largest, most reliable partnership platforms with impeccable, personalized service. Founded in Santa Barbara, California in 1998, CJ (formerly Commission Junction) stands as the most trusted name in performance marketing.

We specialize in building partnerships between top brands and reputable publishers to drive revenue and business growth. CJ’s industry-leading solutions make us the platform of choice for over 3,800 global brands across sectors like retail, travel, finance, technology, and home services. As part of Publicis Groupe, our savvy data capabilities, cutting‑edge tech, and strategic expertise facilitate genuine connections, allowing brands to reach consumers wherever they are.

A Quick Peek at Affiliate Marketing Think back to your last online purchase. Did an influencer tip you off about a great product and offer a discount? Or perhaps you relied on a trusted review site to make your decision? Whatever path you took, affiliate publishers likely played a role by influencing, informing, or helping you find the best deal. CJ connects brands with these publishers, creating valuable resources for shoppers like you.

Media Buyers play a key role in support of CJ's Media Investment team. Media Buyers play a critical role in nurturing publisher portfolios, implementing advertisers media plans, and ensuring maximum effectiveness of campaigns across digital inventories.

Do these things interest you? You will:

• Negotiate rates and placements with media vendors, publishers, and affiliate networks to secure cost‑effective inventory.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with affiliate partners, ensuring clear communication about goals, performance, and deliverables.
• Explore opportunities for bulk buys, exclusive placements across Media/CPA/CPC/Programmatic Media Models.
• Identify and develop new affiliate channels for revenue generation occasionally requiring you to sell the value of channel to prospective publishers.
• Manage budgets allocated for affiliate‑focused media buys, ensuring efficient use of resources.
• Build relationships with clients (publishers) to foster long‑term success.
• Develop and inform processes for network scale and media enablement.
• Line man manage Media Buying Assistants on media execution and long‑tail portfolio.

What we look for:

• Bachelor's Degree or related work experience and minimum of 2 years’ experience in the online marketing industry—ideally digital performance marketing.
• Strong relationship‑building skills with an established network of publishers, affiliate partners, and media vendors.
• Ability to identify, pitch, and close new opportunities with affiliates or partners to drive incremental revenue.
• Skilled at presenting compelling business cases and value propositions to internal and external stakeholders.
• Demonstrated success in managing budgets, optimizing campaigns against performance objectives, and achieving revenue growth.
• You are respectful to varying opinions and perspectives.

This is a hybrid role requiring 3 days a week in office. CJ is the leader in Performance Marketing. We take pride in our innovative technology, comprehensive data solutions and our people. We equip our teams with advanced tools, training and career development opportunities all to provide modern solutions, strategies and support to deliver high quality results for our clients. We work in an enthusiastic, collaborative team setting that values outstanding performance.

We're a community of creative and passionate problem solvers who go the distance to tackle the tough questions, think creatively, and drive resourceful growth, for our clients—and ourselves. We foster and embody an inclusive and collaborative culture where diverse perspectives are sought, relationships are valued, and people feel accepted with a sense of belonging in expressing themselves authentically. We pride ourselves in having a workplace…