In affiliate marketing, an affiliate manager’s duties including recruiting new affiliates to the program and tracking their performance. An affiliate program centers on a pay-for-performance model, and, in this role, you enter into negotiation with connections in the hopes of developing a larger pool of affiliates to promote a sales campaign or product launch by your parent company. Your responsibilities include developing new ways to optimize your network and implementing initiatives designed to increase the productivity of your affiliates. In addition to your networking and sales work, you must also track metrics and analyze the strengths and weaknesses of your programs.