Senior Content Manager, Editorial (12-month FTC)

Proton

A better internet, where privacy is the default, is possible. Building this better internet might seem daunting or even unthinkable, but at Proton, this is what we do every day. Proton was founded in 2014 by a group of scientists who met at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). Our first product, Proton Mail, is now the world’s largest encrypted email service. Subsequent Proton products, such as Proton VPN, Proton Calendar, and Proton Drive, give our users full control over how and with whom their data is shared. Today, Proton makes privacy universally accessible. Journalists from outlets like The Guardian and The New York Times, some of the world’s largest organizations, and people in more than 180 countries have signed up for over 70 million accounts. Our diverse and dynamic team is made up of more than 400 members representing over 40 different nationalities. While we are based in Geneva, Switzerland, we have offices in Zurich, Prague, London, Vilnius, Skopje, Taipei, and many more employees working remotely around the world. Join one of Europe’s fastest-growing companies to help us solve challenging problems and build new products that will reach hundreds of millions of people. We want to create more than just one of the world’s most impactful tech companies; we want to create a new internet that serves the interests of all people. We need you, your voice, your ideas, and your ambition to make it happen. Purpose of the role Reporting to the Head of Partnerships, you will be responsible for the global growth of Proton VPN's affiliate program. You will manage a portfolio of strategic partners, identify new growth opportunities, negotiate commercial agreements, and develop initiatives that drive customer acquisition and revenue. This is a highly commercial role requiring a combination of relationship management, business development, strategic thinking, and data-driven decision making. The successful candidate will play a key role in scaling one of Proton's largest acquisition channels while helping establish Proton VPN as a preferred partner across the affiliate ecosystem. What you will do STRATEGIC PARTNER MANAGEMENT * Own and grow relationships with Proton VPN's most strategic affiliate partners globally. * Build joint business plans with key publishers and networks. * Conduct regular business reviews and identify opportunities for incremental growth. * Negotiate commercial agreements, placements, sponsorships, and promotional opportunities. * Establish partnerships across content commerce, influencers, strategic brand to brand, loyalty and reward, niche communities and more. BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT * Identify, recruit, and onboard new affiliate partners across priority markets. * Expand Proton VPN's presence across editorial, comparison, cashback, loyalty, student, content commerce, and emerging partner categories. * Build relationships with agencies, affiliate networks, technology partners, and industry stakeholders. * Represent Proton at industry events and conferences. COMMERCIAL GROWTH * Deliver revenue, subscription, and profitability targets. * Develop quarterly and annual growth plans. * Analyse partner performance and optimise investments accordingly. * Identify opportunities to improve partner activation, engagement, and retention. DATA & PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS * Monitor affiliate performance and identify trends, risks, and opportunities. * Produce forecasts and performance reporting for senior leadership. * Evaluate commercial investments and partnership ROI. * Track competitor activity and market developments. CROSS-FUNCTIONAL COLLABORATION * Partner closely with Product, Marketing, Creative, Analytics, and Regional teams. * Support campaign planning, launches, and seasonal promotions. * Work with internal stakeholders to improve landing page performance, conversion rates, and attribution. Job requirements ESSENTIAL * 5+ years of experience in affiliate marketing, partnerships, performance marketing, or business development. * Proven experience managing strategic affiliate partnerships. * Strong commercial negotiation skills. * Experience working with affiliate networks and tracking platforms. * Excellent analytical and reporting capabilities. * Ability to influence stakeholders across multiple teams. * Strong communication and relationship-building skills. * Experience working within a global business environment. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS * Experience within SaaS, cybersecurity, technology, fintech, or subscription businesses. * Familiarity with platforms such as Impact, CJ, Partnerize, Tune, Awin, or similar. * Experience managing editorial publishers, cashback partners, comparison sites, loyalty platforms, and strategic content partners. * International partnership experience across North America, Europe, and APAC. * Experience owning commercial targets and delivering measurable growth against acquisition goals. BONUS POINTS * Experience working with privacy-focused, cybersecurity, SaaS, or subscription-based businesses. * Passion for online privacy, digital rights, cybersecurity, and protecting user data. * Familiarity with the privacy and security ecosystem, including key publishers, influencers, communities, and industry trends. * Experience managing similar affiliate or partnership programs within categories such as VPN, secure email, password management, cloud storage, or broader privacy-focused technology products. SUCCESS IN THE FIRST 12 MONTHS * Grow Proton VPN's affiliate revenue and customer acquisition globally. * Strengthen relationships with strategic publishers and networks. * Launch new partnerships across key international markets. * Improve partner activation and program diversification. * Deliver measurable growth against affiliate channel targets. * Establish Proton VPN as a preferred advertiser across the affiliate ecosystem. * Develop a scalable growth roadmap for the VPN affiliate program. Why should you join Proton? * Be part of a movement - Proton is not just a product or service but a community-driven movement united by a shared vision of online freedom. Our services are open source, audited, and supported by community contributions. We give back to our community by maintaining core encryption libraries and by supporting other organizations furthering the same goals as us. Proton is free, open source, neutral, independent, and community first, while remaining financially sustainable. * Work with smart and dedicated people - Our team is diverse, collaborative, and tight-knit with people coming from all walks of life, including many of the world’s top academic institutions and organizations, such as MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Caltech, Cambridge, and ETH. * Join a strong brand - Our encrypted email service - Proton Mail - has grown to be a staple of online security and privacy. Proton has been featured in multiple popular television and film productions, such as Mr. Robot, Knives Out, Sounds of Metal, and more. * Grow with us - We’re one of Europe’s fastest-growing startups, doubling in size every year. Our growth gives you limitless career and educational opportunities as well as the opportunity to work side-by-side with many world-leading experts in their fields. * Have your voice heard - We value your opinion and encourage you to speak up and share your ideas and thoughts. At Proton, no problem is someone else’s problem. We collectively strive to do the right thing and be the undisputed best in the world at everything we do. * Benefits – these vary by location and type of contract but expect support on your vacation, parental leave, refreshment if working from the office, learning and development opportunities, equity for shared success, flexible working hours and remote work, company events and team building activities. Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion At Proton, we believe diversity drives innovation and strengthens our mission to provide privacy as a default for all. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where all individuals, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, physical ability, or socio-economic background, feel valued and empowered. We strive to create equal opportunities, promote open dialogue, and support continuous learning to ensure every voice is heard and respected. If you need any extra support or reasonable adjustments during the hiring process, please let your talent partner know. Candidate Privacy Notice When you apply for a position, refer a candidate, or are considered for a role at Proton Technologies AG (Proton, we, us, or our), your information is stored in Greenhouse, in accordance with their Service Privacy Policy. This information is used to evaluate your suitability for the posted position. We also retain this information for consideration for future roles that you may apply for or that we believe may align with your background and skills. If we no longer have a legitimate business need to process your information, we will either delete or anonymize it. Should you have any inquiries about how we use or manage your information, or if you wish to access, correct, or delete your data, please contact our privacy team at careers@proton.ch. Proton does not accept unsolicited resumes from any sources other than directly from candidates. We will not pay a fee for any placement resulting from an unsolicited offer, even if the candidate is subsequently hired by Proton. To learn more about our privacy policy, please visit our privacy policy page. #LI-ONSITE

Awin

Purpose of position Our Key Account Management team is looking for an Account Manager to assist in leading the affiliate programme for Boots UK, one of the UK's most recognised health and beauty retailers. This is an exciting opportunity to develop your strategic, analytical, and relationship management skills while driving growth through innovative affiliate partnerships. As the day-to-day point of contact for Boots UK on the Awin network, you will provide expert guidance on affiliate marketing best practices, with a particular focus on upper-funnel activity, including content publishers, influencers, and editorial partnerships. Working closely with the wider Awin Boots team, including the Client Strategy Lead, Lower Funnel Account Manager, Senior Account Manager, AdOps team, and the Boots Upper Funnel Specialist and Executive, you will identify opportunities to expand reach, engage new audiences, and drive both brand awareness and performance growth. You will be responsible for developing, activating and nurturing relationships with key content and influencer subnetwork partners, and delivering insight-led recommendations to optimise programme performance. As an active member of the Team Boots, you will bring fresh ideas and innovative approaches to help Boots UK maximise affiliate revenue while strengthening its presence across the upper-funnel affiliate ecosystem. Key Tasks * Deliver excellent service and relationship management to client and publisher within Health and Beauty * Be the internal owner of all assigned partners and be fully informed and able to provide information when required for the client * Generating reports and providing analysis on performance, and ensuring commentary is accurate and insightful with a view at improving activity * Taking ownership of and streamlining processes * Regular client calls and the ability to be reactive and supportive of client goals * Initiate and implement ideas to grow affiliate activities in line with the needs of clients and assist client and the wider Awin Boots team in the creation of quarterly and yearly strategies * Producing competitor benchmarks for your clients, while proactively advising on industry trends and identifying opportunities for Boots within upper funnel * Take ownership in delivery and service level to client and pro-actively providing insight to Team Leader * Optimising existing publisher relationships and recruiting new and exciting publisher opportunities for advertisers within upper funnel * Presenting confidently, both internally and externally, on a range of topics. * Ensuring that you and your clients are up to date with all technology and tracking optimisations, and that all campaigns make the best use of these Skills & Expertise * Up to 1+ years’ account management experience in a relevant digital marketing role ideally * Retail industry affiliate experience would be ideal (health and beauty experience isn’t essential) * Enthusiastic, committed, and passionate about digital * Numerate with a good level of knowledge of MS Office packages * Ability to see the bigger picture and identify areas of opportunity and risk * Professional and with a proven track record of successful client and team relationship building, including strong networking skills * Seeks ownership and readily accepts accountability * Strong time management and organizational skills to maintain own work flow and meet deadlines * Confident and excellent communicator with a keen attention to detail * Competent and experienced with creating forecasts and justifying the rationale Our Offer * Flexi-Week and Work-Life Balance: We prioritise your mental health and wellbeing, offering you a flexible four-day Flexi-Week at full pay and with no reduction to your annual holiday allowance. We also offer a variety of different paid special leaves. * Remote Working Allowance: You will receive a monthly allowance to cover part of your running costs. In addition, we will support you in setting up your remote workspace appropriately. * Flexi-Office: We offer an international culture and flexibility through our Flexi-Office and hybrid/remote work possibilities to work across Awin regions * Development: We’ve built our extensive training suite Awin Academy to cover a wide range of skills that nurture you professionally and personally, with trainings conveniently packaged together to support your overall development.  Established in 2000, Awin is proud of our dynamic, social and inclusive culture. Like all businesses, we’ve had to adapt and nurture our culture in a virtual environment. Our virtual ‘Life @ Awin’ hub brings our colleagues from across the globe together for various social activities. Diversity & Inclusion are paramount to us, and we proudly pursue and hire diverse team members. We champion uniqueness and authenticity; this is who we are at our core. Our network of affiliate partnerships are diverse and transparent, as are the employees powering our vision to build the world’s leading open partner ecosystem. We welcome all backgrounds, identities, and experiences. If you need support at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know. Awin is part of the Axel Springer group. Learn more at axelspringer.com/en/, and explore the Axel Springer Essentials here: axelspringer.com/en/inside/the-essentials-what-we-have-adapted-and-why   Apply now to begin the next stage of your career at a progressive company that supports both your professional and personal development.     #LI-MM1

Payhawk

Company Mission Payhawk is a leading global spend management solution for scaling businesses. Headquartered in London and combining company cards, reimbursable expenses and accounts payable into a single product; its future-facing technology enables finance teams to control and automate company spending at scale. The Payhawk customer base includes fast-growing and mature multinational companies in 32 countries including LuxAir and Wagestream. With offices in New York, London, Berlin, Munich , Barcelona, Paris, Amsterdam, Vilnius and Sofia; Payhawk is backed by renowned investors such as Lightspeed Venture Partners, Greenoaks, QED Investors, Bek Ventures and Eleven Ventures. Our values include supporting flat hierarchies, taking ownership and responsibility, seeking and providing feedback, managing constructive critique, and speaking our minds. We understand that the best ideas don’t all come from the same place, so we encourage diversity and inclusion in all areas of our work. The future of fintech is about more than money, and we believe in work-life balance, continual learning, and empowered teams. We’re also on a journey to measure and improve our environmental and social impact. From virtual cards to digital subscriptions, our software and automation help take paper out of the equation for our customers, too. We’re changing the world of payments, and we’re looking for an exceptional team to help us.  ABOUT THE ROLE We want to build a brand finance loves, and content is how that brand demonstrates its relevance, authority, and point of view. As Content & AI Enablement Team Lead, you will lead our global editorial agenda and build the systems that help high-quality content scale across Payhawk. This is a player-coach role. You will own our most important top-of-funnel content programs, remain hands-on with strategic writing and editing, and enable Product Marketing, SEO, Demand Generation, and regional teams to produce strong content through clear workflows, tools, templates, and standards. RESPONSIBILITIES LEAD OUR GLOBAL CONTENT STRATEGY *       Define the themes, problems, and perspectives Payhawk should own with finance leaders. *       Turn company, customer, market, and product insight into a focused editorial plan. *       Build a coherent top-of-funnel narrative across our brand, platform, products, customers, and leadership. *       Own the global content calendar and resolve competing priorities, duplication, and timing conflicts. CREATE FLAGSHIP CONTENT *       Lead original research, reports, customer-story campaigns, executive thought leadership, newsletters, event-led content, and selected video formats. *       Turn customer conversations, events, leadership insight, and proprietary evidence into distinctive content with a clear point of view. *       Design content programs that can be reused across channels, formats, regions, and buyer stages. *       Write and edit Payhawk’s most strategically important content. BUILD OUR AI-ENABLED CONTENT OPERATING SYSTEM *       Identify where AI, automation, and better process design can improve content quality, speed, and capacity. *       Build repeatable workflows for research, briefing, drafting, repurposing, localisation, review, distribution, and performance analysis. *       Create reusable prompts, templates, playbooks, quality checks, and structured knowledge sources. *       Combine AI tools, automation, and human review in ways that protect accuracy, originality, brand consistency, and trust. *       Evaluate new tools based on measurable business value. *       Train teams to use the systems and track adoption. ENABLE TEAMS TO SELF-SERVE *       Give Product Marketing, SEO, Demand Generation, and regional teams the workflows and tools they need to create product and mid-funnel content. *       Define clear ownership, handoffs, and review requirements. *       Build self-service toolkits for repeatable formats such as explainers, campaign assets, localisation, and executive social content. *       Reduce reliance on the central content team without lowering quality. LEAD THE FUNCTION *       Manage, coach, and develop a small team of content managers. *       Set clear priorities, standards, and development goals. *       Manage external writers, creators, agencies, and production partners where needed. *       Build a content model that scales through systems, expertise, and enablement rather than headcount alone. REQUIREMENTS *       7–10 years of experience in B2B content marketing, editorial, brand publishing, or a related discipline. *       Native-level English proficiency, with excellent writing, editing, and verbal communication skills. *       Experience leading a content team or function. *       Experience in SaaS, fintech, enterprise technology, financial services, or another complex B2B category. *       Experience creating content for senior business audiences. *       Evidence of building repeatable content processes and operating models, not only individual assets. *       Experience working across Brand, Product Marketing, SEO, Demand Generation, Sales, Web, Design, and regional teams. *       Strong stakeholder management and the confidence to challenge low-value requests.   AI AND AUTOMATION EXPERIENCE You should be able to show how you have used AI and automation to redesign a real content or marketing process. We are looking for: *       Advanced practical experience using large language models. *       Experience building repeatable, multi-step AI workflows. *       Strong prompt, context, and knowledge-management skills. *       Experience with no-code or low-code automation tools. *       Understanding of human review, AI quality evaluation, and governance. *       The ability to document workflows and train others to use them. *       The ability to translate content needs into requirements for technical or systems teams. Experience with APIs, agentic workflows, retrieval systems, scripting, automated claims checking, or AI evaluation frameworks is useful, but not required. Company Benefits * 30 days holiday paid leave * A week exchange policy to another Payhawk office (Amsterdam, Berlin, Sofia, Barcelona, Paris) * Sports card fully funded by us * Regular team-wide events * 150EUR of monthly commuting allowance Payhawk is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.