I'm currently an EA, and had a few thoughts.
Our team ALSO has an affiliate manager, whose job is to recruit new affiliates, maintain existing ones, and make sure promotions are communicated and hyped.
I'm personally not responsible for anything that increases revenue directly. You can obviously run your business how you want, but my job description as an EA is to move stuff out of the way so all the revenue-generators have the space to do that. Zone of genius and all that.
Part of the benefit of being a remote EA (and in my case never ever being on the phone) is that I get to giggle to my heart's content over whatever strikes my funny bone, so long as I don't let it get in the way of a professional response.
Best of luck in finding someone that can move your mountains out of the way to let you get the big work done.
