Founding Partnerships Lead
New York City, NY - USA
Job Summary
At were redefining email marketing for e-commerce brands by automating a lot of the day-to-day manual grunt work that goes into email marketing from segmentation to creating campaigns without designers to personalization.
While increasing LTV and driving measurable growth we help brands stay focused on what matters most - the customer.
Why join us
Were a fast-moving team building a high-growth company thats transforming the e-commerce industry. As our first partnerships hire youll build an entire top-of-funnel engine from scratch - owning how shows up across the agency landscape the tech ecosystem and every industry event that matters.
This is a true 01 role with founder-level autonomy and the opportunity to define how a category-defining company goes to market.
Recent wins
Onboarded some of the largest e-commerce brands in the industry (Fabletics Sur La Table J. Jill One Kings Lane Backcountry etc) - turning them into loud believers in our product and vision
Brands seeing 15-20% lifts in email sales and up to 70% reduction in operational expenses
Built a differentiated AI-native platform that agencies and brands are actively seeking out as the legacy ESP stack starts to show its age
Wed like to work on
Building an agency partner program from scratch - identifying the top retention growth and full-service agencies landing them and turning them into a durable referral and co-sell channel
Developing tech partnerships across the e-commerce ecosystem (Shopify Klaviyo ecosystem adjacencies CDPs loyalty platforms reviews SMS etc.) that drive integrated pipeline
Owning our presence at every major e-commerce and retention event - turning conferences dinners and field marketing into a repeatable pipeline engine
Designing the commercial structures (referral economics co-marketing tiering enablement) that make the obvious partner of choice
Role Responsibilities
Build agency partnerships function from scratch - sourcing pitching closing and activating agency partners as a core top-of-funnel channel
Own tech/platform partnerships end-to-end: identify the right ecosystem players negotiate the relationship and drive pipeline through integrations co-marketing and co-sell motions
Run our events and field marketing strategy for partnerships - selecting events owning the pre/during/post playbook and turning spend into measurable pipeline
Partner with the founding team on messaging positioning and commercial terms for every partner segment
Stand up the systems playbooks and reporting that let this function scale - attribution partner enablement QBRs tiering co-marketing calendars
Work hand-in-hand with sales and CS to ensure partner-sourced and partner-influenced pipeline actually converts and retains
Act as the face of in the partner ecosystem - at events on podcasts in agency Slack communities and everywhere retention marketers spend time
Hire and grow the partnerships team behind you as the function scales
What were looking for (ideally)
6 years in partnerships BD or GTM roles with meaningful time building programs from 01 rather than inheriting an existing motion
Prior experience in e-commerce SaaS MarTech or retention-adjacent platforms - you know the Klaviyo / Attentive / Postscript / Shopify orbit and the agencies that live in it
A deep rolodex in the e-commerce agency world or a clear track record of building one quickly
Comfort working with brands and agencies operating at $50M-$500M GMV - you understand what their operators actually care about
Strong commercial instincts - you can design referral economics co-sell motions and partner tiers that actually drive revenue not just logos
Event and field marketing chops - youve planned executed and measured partner events dinners and conference presences that produced pipeline
AI-first operator - you instinctively reach for AI to draft outreach build partner lists synthesize event leads generate enablement content and run the function with 10x the leverage of a traditional partnerships hire
Founder-mentality: you build systems not tickets. Youre comfortable operating in ambiguity setting your own priorities and owning outcomes end-to-end
Exceptional storytelling and relationship skills - partnerships lives and dies on trust and you build it fast
Compensation Benefits
Base depends a lot on the person but we reward A players
Equity included
If youre curious ambitious and hungry to build something big feel free to email our founder directly - wed love to hear from you.
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