Affiliate & Partnerships Lead

At TradeZella, we’re on a mission to empower 1 million retail day traders to become consistently profitable. That means building not just a powerful product—but a world-class team of curious, driven people who care deeply about helping traders grow.

About TradeZella

TradeZella is the all‑in‑one trading companion for retail day‑traders, blending journaling, analytics, AI coaching, and community.

We are bootstrapped, highly profitable, and fully remote team.

Our vision is to become the globally loved platform and community where traders master strategy, discipline, and growth.

We believe profitability stems from a repeatable process, disciplined execution, and continuous learning—TradeZella provides the tools and community to support this.

Overview:

We're hiring our Partnerships & Affiliate Lead to take what's already in motion and make it 10x bigger.

The foundation is built. We have an active partnership program, creator relationships, and infrastructure in place but it's nowhere near its ceiling. We need someone who can come in, get under the hood, find what's underperforming, double down on what's working, and run this channel like a business.

You'll own the day-to-day: managing existing partners, recruiting new ones, iterating on the program structure, optimizing payouts and tiers, and pushing every lever that compounds growth.

You'll move fast, write your own outreach, run your own pipeline, and use AI to do the work of a 5-person team.

This role reports directly to Saira (Co-Founder, Head of Marketing) and sits at the center of the marketing team.

High visibility, high ownership, high leverage.

What you'll do

• Take ownership of TradeZella's existing partnerships and affiliate program and grow it aggressively

• Audit what's working and what isn't. Cut dead weight, double down on top performers, fix what's leaking

• Iterate on program structure: payouts, tiers, incentives, exclusivity, content requirements and make it the program every trader-creator wants to be in

• Recruit new creators (YouTube, X, Instagram, TikTok, Discord), with a focus on stocks/options creators — our highest-value ICP

• Manage the full partner lifecycle: outreach → activation → performance → renewal/expansion

• Develop new B2B partnerships with prop firms, brokers, and trading education brands

• Build dashboards, partner reporting, and payout flows — much of it powered by AI

• Run weekly performance reviews on every active partner: what's converting, what's stalled, what's worth scaling

• Show up at industry events and bring back relationships, not business cards

• Translate partner feedback into product and marketing input the team can actually act on

How you’ll live our values

• Extreme Ownership: You’re a builder.

• Transparent Communication: You share progress early and often. You’re clear, concise, and async by default.

• Bias for Action: You ship. Learn. Repeat.

• Excellence: You have high standards and raise the bar for everyone around you.

• Customer Obsession: You think like a trader. You want every user interaction to feel intuitive and empowering.

• Humility: You welcome feedback, value diverse input, and always keep learning.

• 1–3 years of experience in partnerships, sales, business development, creator/influencer marketing, or affiliate programs

• You know traders. This is non-negotiable. You've either traded yourself, worked at a trading-adjacent company (broker, prop firm, trading education, fintech), built relationships in the trader creator ecosystem, or come from inside the community. If you've never met a trader, this isn't the role for you.

• A closer. You've personally pitched and signed deals — not just supported someone else's pipeline

• AI-native. You don't just "use ChatGPT sometimes.” You build agents, automations, and workflows that let one of you do the work of five

• Fast thinker, faster operator. You move from idea to outreach in hours, not weeks

• Operator's mindset. You see a program with leaks and want to plug them. You see a top performer and want to triple their output

• Excellent written communicator. Your cold DMs get replies

• High-trust. You don't need to be told twice and you don't drop the ball