Join Shopify as a Senior Lead for External Partnerships & Social to enhance Shop's cultural presence through strategic partnerships and organic social management.
Shop is the consumer brand inside Shopify. Shop has hundreds of millions of users and lets customers discover new brands, pay quickly and safely via Shop pay, and track deliveries.
- Own how Shop shows up in culture: partnerships with brands and media companies, and organic social presence.
- Source, structure and ship at least one co-marketing partnership a month with brands selling on Shop.
- Build relationships with media companies and cultural properties.
- Own Shop's handles end to end — strategy, calendar, content, publishing, community management and reporting.
- Define what a good partnership looks like before it launches: reach, new buyers, engagement, GMV, cost per outcome.
- Own the partnership and social budget, forecast it, and defend the spend with results.
- Brief creative well and edit hard.
- Keep merchant-facing teams aligned on one calendar and one story.
- Run agencies and freelancers, hire selectively, and stay in the work.
- 10–15 years in partnerships, brand marketing or social at a consumer tech company or a consumer brand.
- Real fluency in culture and brands.
- Track record sourcing and closing co-marketing partnerships.
- Experience with media or non-endemic partnerships.
- Hands-on ownership of a brand's organic social presence at scale.
- Budgeting and forecasting experience.