Marketing Operations & Partnerships Manager

About Tertulia for Authors

At Tertulia, we’re redefining how authors connect with readers. Our new platform Tertulia for Authors makes it effortless for authors to create a beautiful, professional website in minutes, directly from their ISBN. Authors can instantly showcase their work, capture emails, build an audience, and drive book sales without needing any technical skills. We're scaling fast and looking for a hands-on growth marketer to take our acquisition engine to the next level.

The role

We’re hiring a hands-on Marketing Operations & Partnerships Manager to keep our marketing engine humming and to operationalize partnerships. We’re scaling fast and looking for a hands-on Marketing Operations & Partnerships Manager to keep our marketing engine running smoothly and bring new partnerships to life. You’ll be the bridge between creative ideas and clean execution — managing campaigns, partners, and freelancers to deliver programs that drive trials and revenue.

If you love both strategy and scrappy execution — and you get a thrill out of seeing a campaign go live — you’ll fit right in.

What you’ll do

1) Marketing operations (non‑negotiable)

• Keep our Meta paid ads engine running smoothly, including sourcing and managing talent, producing content (we have freelance video producer and paid ads manager), and supporting rapid analysis/iteration.
• Execution for well‑established initiatives (e.g., affiliates): onboarding partners, tracking links/UTMs, payouts, reporting.
• Coordinate designers, video editors, and copywriters — ensuring clear briefs, timely delivery, and brand consistency
• Build and maintain the marketing calendar, campaign checklists, and process docs; keep projects unblocked and on time.
• Keep the website and landing pages fresh: brief simple design updates, publish content, monitor conversion basics.
• [SECONDARY PRIORITY] Ship lifecycle and CRM touchpoints (emails, in‑app messages, nurture, announcements) with clean copy and QA – this is a secondary priority after the paid ads machine is iterating smoothly.

2) Partnerships execution (non-negotiable)

• For larger deals sourced/negotiated by Sebastian & Lynda: drive the post‑signature launch plan (assets, landing pages, UTMs, comms, enablement, reporting) and ongoing optimization.
• Proactively source and close smaller opportunities over time (e.g., affiliate outreach to Facebook group admins, niche communities, newsletters, creators) using lightweight, repeatable playbooks.
• Create partner one‑pagers, FAQs, and enablement kits; keep partners informed and engaged.

3) Product & brand sensibility (non‑negotiable)

• You must have good judgement including a good product and brand sensibility
• Understand the Tertulia for Authors product and our audience well enough to be able to operate efficiently, making good efficient decisions independently (and knowing when to escalate) and writing on-brand copy across all your work. 

4) Growth & measurement (very nice to have)

• Stand up and maintain simple dashboards (e.g., GA/Mixpanel/ChartMogul/Sheets) for campaign and partner performance.
• Run lightweight experiments (A/B subject lines, LP copy, offers) and share clear readouts.

5) Paid Meta Management (nice to have)

• Although you will own running the “creative pipeline” for Meta and other ad platforms, the ability to launch the campaigns in Meta Ads manager is not a job requirement. We have a good freelancer who will continue setting up and making adjustments to the campaigns and a senior growth advisor who is reviewing performance, but your ability to make smaller tweaks and/or use the platforms to monitor/analyze performance would be nice to have.

What you’ll bring

• 3+ years in hands‑on marketing operations at a small tech company (consumer subscription ideal) or comparable high‑ownership environment.
• Partnerships execution experience: turning signed agreements into live programs with assets, tracking, and reporting.
• Excellent writing & communication: crisp short‑form copy; confidence answering user/partner questions.
• Project management chops: you keep calendars, briefs, and contractors organized without heavy supervision.
• Analytical comfort (nice to have): basic proficiency with Meta Ads Manager, Google Ads admin, Mixpanel, GA, etc would be a nice bonus. Same thing with lifecycle marketing platforms like Braze, Klaviyo, Sendgrid, etc.

Backgrounds we’re open to (and not)

• Yes/Preferred: small tech startup experience; consumer subscription products; high‑ownership IC roles.
• Nice to have: familiarity or experience with the book industry.
• Not a fit: agency backgrounds for this role (though we may work with small agencies to help us execute e.g. video creation); no exclusively big tech background.

How we’ll work together

• You’ll collaborate directly with Sebastian (CEO and Co-Founder) and Lynda (Co-Founder) on higher‑level partnerships and priorities, then drive execution.
• Remote‑friendly; core collaboration hours aligned to U.S. time zones.

What success looks like

• Meta “machine” (and eventually other paid ad platforms) is humming, with new creative being created and tested, iterated on a weekly/bi-weekly basis.
• Affiliates and other recurring programs growing and running efficiently, with clean tracking and timely payouts.
• New partnerships go from “signed” to “live” quickly, with clear enablement and measurable results.
• Our copy and surfaces feel consistently on‑brand—and you can ship them end‑to‑end.
• You’ve partnered with analytics to ensure the dashboards related to the projects you’re working on are updated and reliable.

Compensation & logistics

Competitive salary, benefits, and early‑stage equity. We’re an equal opportunity employer. No agencies.

How to apply

Send an email to [email protected] with the subject line “Marketing Ops & Partnerships – Your Name.” 

To be considered your email MUST include: 1) a brief note expressing your interest in the role, 2) your LinkedIn or CV, 3) 2–3 short writing samples (e.g., a marketing email, a landing page, a partner one‑pager), 4) a short description of a recent successful marketing activity where you played a principal role, including why you consider it a success.