Marketing Partnerships Manager (Remote, Americas)

The Shopify Creator Team helps influential entrepreneurs build innovative brands and commerce experiences that are powered by Shopify. These efforts will grow brand awareness for Shopify and make entrepreneurship more culturally relevant via spectacle launches and the conversations they'll drive across communities.

Reporting into the Marketing Lead, Creator Team, you will support a wide range of priorities within the marketing and partnership efforts for the team, including; internal communications, managing external partners, program and project management, contributing to and maintaining team processes, and building alignment with key stakeholders across the Shopify organization. These activities will play a critical role in supporting and growing the Marketing discipline within the Creator Team. Vision and strategy for these deliverables will be collaborated with the Marketing Lead, led by the Director of Marketing, Creator Team, and informed by the Business Planning Director, Creator Team and VP, Creator Team.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate an in-depth understanding of creator industry trends and adapt strategy based on them.
• Understand partnership mechanics and draft advantageous agreements with creators, VIPs, and their teams that provide favorable outcomes for Shopify.
• Understand the return on investment of partnerships with the ability to analyze expected returns through impressions, social coverage, and media coverage.
• Conceptualize, document, and pitch unique and creative activities to partner with influential creators.
• Manage partnership activities across a wide variety of formats, including social media, content creation, out-of-home advertising, press & media activities, paid advertising, and IRL events.
• Set expectations early and hold partners accountable to agreements.
• Work with and lobby internal Shopify teams that we need to leverage or collaborate with to execute our team's work efficiently and effectively.
• Report against agreed-upon KPIs and track partnership health during and after project completion.
• Assist HR with onboarding when necessary.
• Implement, maintain, and improve team systems and operations, processes, and best practices (ie. Asana, Google Drive).
• Ensure all security and legal requirements are followed in the execution of our team's work.
  

Qualifications

• Experience in marketing, operations, and project and/or program management.
• Experience supporting or leading spectacle marketing campaigns and partnership projects. IE: Jimmy Butler's Coffee Brand Launch
• Ability to to draft, manage, and execute partnership deals.
• Experience communicating with and managing celebrity clientele.
• Knowledge of working with external agency partners (creative, development, and public relations agencies) and managing projects across all phases including briefing, scoping, estimation, contract, planning, execution, and billing.
• Experience with capacity planning, cross-functional prioritization, and collaboration across numerous teams and business units.
• Ability to thrive in chaos, resolve ambiguity and think quickly on your feet.
• Experience in using data & analytics to measure the impact of your work.
• Ability to function as a connector; you know how to keep teams highly aligned.
• Experience working with multiple stakeholders. Relationship management is your secret weapon.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and a relentless attention to detail.
• Excellent understanding of ecommerce and brand-building best practices.
• Knowledge of the ecommerce ecosystem. There are many moving parts and you need to see how they fit together.
• Creator-focused in all that you do.
  

Closing date: Thursday, February 3rdat 11:59PM EDT. Successful candidates can expect to hear back from us by Thursday, February 10th at 11:59PM EDT.

Shopify is now permanently remote, and working towards a future that is digital by default. Learn more about what this can mean for you: https://www.shopify.com/careers/work-anywhere

Our belief is that a strong commitment to diversity & inclusion enables us to truly make commerce better for everyone. We encourage applications from Indigenous peoples, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities, and/or people with intersectional identities. Please take a look at our Sustainability Reports to learn more about Shopify's commitments to our communities, and our planet: https://www.shopify.com/about/environment#SustainabilityReports

At Shopify, we understand that experience comes in many forms. We're dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team - so if your experience is this close to what we're looking for, please consider applying.

Shopify is now permanently remote, and we're working towards a future that is digital by design. That location you see above? Consider it merely an example of hundreds of potential locationsShopify is hiring. Learn more here: https://www.shopify.com/careers/work-anywhere

Our belief is that a strong commitment to diversity & inclusion enables us to truly make commerce better for everyone. We encourage applications from Indigenous peoples, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities, and/or people with intersectional identities. Please take a look at our Sustainability Reports to learn more about Shopify's commitments to our communities, and our planet.

At Shopify, we understand that experience comes in many forms. We're dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team - so if your experience is this close to what we're looking for, please consider applying.

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At Shopify, we put a lot of care and time into who we hire. We believe that in order to build the best products, we need to build high impact teams. Our recruitment process centres around what we call the Life Story interview, a conversational-style interview where we get to learn more about you.
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