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Wantable

Social, Affiliate and Community Manager

Los Angeles , United States
full-time On-site

AI overview

Own and execute social media strategy, affiliate growth, and community engagement while leveraging AI tools to enhance content and performance across multiple platforms.

Reports To: Chief Commercial Officer

Location: Milwaukee, WI (On-Site) or Los Angeles, CA (On-Site)

Employment Type: Full-Time, Salaried, Exempt

About Wantable  

At Wantable, we’re redefining retail through personalization. Our membership-based model and  proprietary technology empower us to curate products that help customers discover confidence  and joy through style. 

As a data-driven fashion company, we combine human intuition with algorithmic intelligence to  deliver personalized assortments – balancing creativity, analytics, and operational precision. 

Wantable exists to create confidence and joy through personalized style. We are seeking a Social, Affiliate, and Community Manager that will own the strategy, execution, and performance of social content, affiliate growth, and community development across expert platforms and brand-owned channels.

About The Role

You’ll lead a growing ecosystem that includes:

  • Social content & channel strategy
  • Affiliate program performance & partnerships
  • Community development across Reddit, StackOverflow, Substack, and other expert-driven spaces
  • Live and interactive community experiences
  • Oversight of the Community Growth & Engagement Specialist

This is a high-ownership, hands-on role that blends creativity, data, AI-enhanced workflows, and direct leadership. You will work quickly, make independent decisions, and operate with minimal bureaucracy. A deep love of fashion, customers, and digital communities is essential.

What You'll Own

Social Strategy & AI-Accelerated Content Leadership

  • Own the social strategy and roadmap for TikTok, Instagram, YouTube Shorts, Pinterest, and Facebook across all Wantable brands.
  • Build human+AI creative workflows that increase output, improve quality, and accelerate execution.
  • Use AI tools (ChatGPT, Sora, Runway, Midjourney, OpusClip, and others) for ideation, scripting, editing, variation scaling, and performance optimization.
  • Identify platform trends, optimize against algorithms, and ship high-performing content with speed.
  • Activate cultural, seasonal, and fashion-driven moments in real time.

Affiliate Program Management & Growth

  • Own the affiliate program strategy, performance, and day-to-day execution across all Wantable brands.
  • Recruit, manage, and nurture affiliate partners, creators, and micro-influencers.
  • Build workflows that ensure affiliate content, UTM tracking, and style verticals align with brand goals.
  • Develop incentive structures, communication cadences, and reporting dashboards.
  • Use AI-assisted analytics to identify high-performing partners, optimize commission structures, and scale revenue.

Community Ecosystem Leadership

  • Oversee and guide the Community Growth & Engagement Specialist, ensuring alignment with social, content, and affiliate strategies.
  • Build Wantable’s presence across Reddit, StackOverflow, Substack, Quora, and other niche expert communities.
  • Develop content briefs, guidelines, and workflows that leverage CS and Stylist teams for authentic engagement.
  • Drive strategic participation across niche communities to build trust, amplify credibility, and grow memberships.
  • Lead moderation, sentiment analysis, and rapid response systems across all community platforms.

Live & Interactive Community Experiences

  • Plan and run live AMAs, livestreams, podcast features, expert Q&As, and interactive events across social and community platforms.
  • Support podcast participation by preparing guests, topics, outlines, and community follow-up content.
  • Repurpose live moments into high-performing clips, posts, reels, and affiliate-ready assets.

Performance, Optimization & AI-Driven Learning Loops

  • Track and optimize KPIs across social, affiliate, and community: engagement, reach, conversion, revenue, retention, and sentiment.
  • Run structured AI-assisted creative tests—hook variations, pacing, visuals, messaging, and affiliate assets.
  • Surface insights weekly to leadership, Product, Creative, and Merch.
  • Build dashboards and automations that minimize manual work and maximize output.

Team Leadership

  • Directly manage and coach the Community Growth & Engagement Specialist.
  • Work cross-functionally with Creative, Studio, Merchandising, Customer Service, and Stylist teams.
  • Foster a fast, low-bureaucracy operating rhythm centered on ownership and results.

Requirements

What You Bring

  • 3–5+ years in social media, community management, influencer/affiliate marketing, or digital content for a fashion, beauty, lifestyle, or DTC brand.
  • Demonstrated success managing social channels and/or affiliate programs that drive measurable revenue.
  • Experience participating in or managing Reddit, Substack, or other forum-based communities.
  • Strong creative instincts paired with data-driven decision-making.
  • Proficiency with mobile editing tools (CapCut, Adobe Suite, Canva) and AI-driven editing/ideation tools.
  • Ability to move quickly, pivot often, and make independent decisions using customer insight and data.
  • Genuine love for fashion, styling, community building, and customer engagement.
  • Comfort capturing content, leading discussions, and hosting live moments.

You'll Thrive Here If You

  • Love building content and community every day.
  • Enjoy using AI to accelerate production and sharpen creativity.
  • Prefer a lean environment with little bureaucracy.
  • Are energized by fast iteration, hands-on leadership, and measurable results.
  • Care deeply about fashion, customers, and building communities people trust.

How We Work At Wantable

  • High ownership. You are trusted to make decisions that directly impact customers and financial performance.
  • Hard-working and hands-on. We move fast, stay scrappy, and focus on impact.
  • Independent thinkers. We value leaders who confidently make data-driven decisions without layers of approvals.
  • Low bureaucracy. We avoid committees, long processes, and unnecessary steps.
  • Love of fashion & product. We combine data with intuition to create experiences customers love.
  • Results over pedigree. What you’ve built matters more than where you’ve been.

Benefits

Why Wantable?

  • Be part of a dynamic, fast-growing company that has innovation and creativity embedded in its DNA.
  • A chance to shape our customers’ journey and leave a lasting impact on their self-confidence, one order at a time.
  • Join a collaborative environment where your ideas matter, your efforts are rewarded and you can see results in real time.

We have a laid-back, casual environment in a state-of-the-art HQ in Walkers Point.

We offer flexible schedules, paid parental leave (mothers AND fathers), and a private room for nursing mothers.

Even more exciting: paid vacation and seven paid holidays per year, plus a 50% discount on all merchandise. You’ll be eligible for the discount on your first day.

Important, but maybe less thrilling: we have ample parking, we offer medical (traditional and high deductible), dental, and vision insurance, as well as a 401K (both pre-tax and Roth options).

Perks & Benefits Extracted with AI

  • Health Insurance: we offer medical (traditional and high deductible), dental, and vision insurance, as well as a 401K (both pre-tax and Roth options).
  • Merchandise discount: 50% discount on all merchandise. You’ll be eligible for the discount on your first day.
  • Paid Parental Leave: We offer flexible schedules, paid parental leave (mothers AND fathers), and a private room for nursing mothers.
  • Paid Time Off: Even more exciting: paid vacation and seven paid holidays per year, plus a 50% discount on all merchandise.
Wantable

Wantable is a fast-moving company with a vision and roadmap to be a leading next-generation eCommerce retailer. We’re looking for exceptional, smart and fashion-forward people to join our dynamic and growing team.Are you ready to work for a purpose-led brand with such a strong commitment to its customer, it will inspire you every day to be your best you?As a try-before-you-buy retailer, we use passion, hustle and hard work to fuel our customers’ self confidence by delivering stylist-picked looks to their door. We believe clothes have much more than a material value, we believe they have the power to transform how you feel. Wantable is headquartered in Walker’s Point, Milwaukee, a bustling, up-and-coming neighborhood just south of downtown. We’re a diverse and dedicated crew, making a difference for our customers and our community. Are you ready to dive in, and give us your all?Wantable team members enjoy free food, coffee, and drink in our HQ's beautiful new Wantable Cafe. We have a laid-back, casual environment in a state-of-the-art new HQ.We took the lead in 2020 when the pandemic struck and allowed every employee that could work from home to do exactly that, and now as we get a little closer to normal, we're allowing our employees to decide for themselves if now is the right time to return to work. Our hybrid work environment will help maintain our flexible, family-friendly, work-life balance. We offer flexible schedules, paid parental leave (mothers AND fathers), and a private room for nursing mothers.Even more exciting: paid vacation and six and a half paid holidays per year, plus a 50% discount on all merchandise. You’ll be eligible for the discount on your first day. Fulfillment Center employees receive a shoe credit every six months!Important, but maybe less thrilling: we offer medical (traditional and high deductible), dental, and vision insurance, as well as a 401K (both pre-tax and Roth options). We have ample parking, and if you take the bus we’ll fully reimburse your fare receipts.We also have seriously fun company events. We like to work hard and play hard.HOW WE WORK:Care: Make genuine, one-of-a-kind relationships.Communicate: Be real, honest, and uplifting.Support: Be a coach, team player, problem solver + gamechanger.Grow: Listen. Learn from data. Be nimble, flex!Show up: Go above and beyond with products, style, and service.Create a ripple: With equality + inclusivity, enrich the lives around us.

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