Strategic Partnerships Head - Y Combinator backed Shopify-like platform
About Merito :
Merito is a curated talent platform where we identify, assess, and connect candidates for matching job opportunities. We are working with the mission to change the way hiring is done. The company is founded by a team consisting of alumni from IIM Ahmedabad, McKinsey with more than 2 decades of experience in recruitment, training, and coaching.
About Our Client :
Our client is headquartered in California and Y Combinator backed Shopify-like platform for creators & knowledge professionals (coaches, instructors, experts, artists etc.) to launch, manage and grow their business online. Founded by IIT/ IIM/ BITS/ Yale/ BCG Alumni and 3X Entrepreneurs, they are well funded and backed by top Indian VC firms along with start-up veterans like Kunal Shah (CRED). The company is founded by alumni from top IITs, IIMs, BITS, Yale including ex-entrepreneurs and from firms such as BCG, Hike, Dunzo and P&G.
Since the launch of its first version in December 2020 they have grown 25X. Creators have earned more than $1 Million since launch through the platform.
We have just closed our series A (yet to announce) and are looking to build out our leadership team across functions.
Job Description :
As a Strategic Partnerships Head you'll be responsible for forming partnerships with affiliates, brands and agencies to meet customer acquisition goals - whatever it takes for the company to grow 100X.
Key Responsibilities :
- Responsible for forming partnerships with affiliates, brands and agencies
- Formulate partnership deliverables that meet business growth objectives.
- Market research to identify most impactful partnerships.
- Manage end to end cycle for striking deals with potential partners.
- Lead the complete strategic partnership team
The successful applicant will be :
- 5+ yrs of experience at early-stage startups; experience in influencer marketing and brand partnerships.
- Excellent communication skills and negotiation skills and the ability to close deals.
- Strong leadership skills and the ability to hire and grow team members
- Very strong orientation towards meeting targets and looking at data-driven insights.
- Experience in influencer marketing and brand partnerships.
- Likes to connect and actively engage with key influencers and decision-makers inside an organization.
- Interested in working on the business side of a SaaS start-up and ready to dig into work and learn all aspects around it.
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Designation: Senior Executive/Assistant Manager.
Responsibilities:
• Key Accounts Management: Retention and maintaining relationship with Existing
Broadcasters, Query Management & Daily Operations
• Executing the Subscription Contracts and ensuring regular, timely payments of
services rendered
• Analyse BARC data to help Broadcasters with data insights
• Identify potential need gaps and maximize every business opportunity across
stakeholders
• Pitching & Monetising BARC Products with Broadcasters
• Collaborate internally with Finance, Legal, Measurement Science, Market/Business
Analytics, Technology, Marcom for all related work
• Onboarding New Broadcasters/ Channels
• Regular MIS management, Involvement in additional projects
Requirements:
• MBA with 2-5 years of experience, preferably in Research
• Understands Broadcast Ecosystem
• Currently working with a Broadcaster, Top 4 Networks ideally
• Work experience in Research Department at a Broadcaster, GEC genre preferably
Key Areas of Responsibility:
● Growth
○ Consumer:
■ Understand the core consumer needs, and collaborate with product and design to build the right consumer experience and optimise conversion funnels.
■ Lead the development and execution of comprehensive growth strategies, focusing on user acquisition, activation, and retention.
■ Oversee and optimise performance marketing channels, including paid advertising, SEO, SEM, and partnerships.
■ Utilise data analytics to identify trends, insights, and areas for improvement in the user journey.
■ Develop and implement strategies to increase customer retention and lifetime value.
○ Partnerships
■ Define the partnerships and spiritual leader outreach strategy to align with the consumer need and company vision.
■ Build a high quality curated leader community by developing a deep understanding of the ecosystem and nurturing leader relationships.
■ Work closely with the content team to align leader onboarding strategy with the overall content strategy.
● Strategic Support:
○ Collaborate closely with the founding team to drive and execute key strategic initiatives.
○ Conduct market research, prepare reports, and provide insights to support decision-making.
● Problem Solving:
● Anticipate challenges and proactively identify solutions to address them.
● Assist in resolving operational issues and roadblocks.
Qualifications
● Bachelor's degree in Engineering; MBA is a plus.
● Previous experience in a Product or Chief of Staff or similar role, preferably in a startup environment.
● Exceptional organisational and project management skills.
● Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
● Flexibility and adaptability to handle evolving responsibilities.
- Identify, prioritize, and reach out to new clients, and business opportunities et al
- Identifies development opportunities; follows up on development leads and contacts; participates in the structuring and financing of projects; assures the completion of projects.
- Writes winning proposal documents, negotiate fees and rates in line with organizations’ policy
- Responsible for handling business research, market surveys and feasibility studies for clients
- Responsible for supervising implementation, advocating for the customer’s needs, and communicating with clients
- Develops, executes and evaluates new plans for expanding increase sales
- Documents all customer contact and information
- Represent in strategic meetings
- Help increase sales and growth
Our client is one of the most innovative and fast growing InsureTech platforms that offers contextual insurance in a blink.
We are a team of consumer obsessed & driven people. We want to reimagine insurance through a consumption lens for millions. We are a B2C and B2B2C platform that wants to simplify the way insurance is experienced with principles of transparency, trust and contextualization. The multiple ideas that we are building upon are all about an experience beyond the way insurance is understood or sold at present in India.
Roles & Responsibilities:
1. Stakeholder management:- Managing the existing partners on Ecosystem. With customers at the core, ensuring that the best propositions from the partners are being sourced & enhanced for the end users
2. Business Development:- Originating new partners on the Ecosystem while ensuring that commercials are sorted out
3. Strategize member enrolment programme and lead cross-functional teams to deliver on mutually agreed targets
4. Work alongside the Data team to build unique dashboards for internal reviews and channelise data towards the partners
5. Work with the Product team to co-build various capabilities on the platform
6. Work with the marketing team to design campaigns & attractive promotions for enrolments.
Required Skills and Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in a similar role with Digital platforms or digital roles
- MBA from Top B schools
- Eye for a consumer's mindset
- Experience of working in digital first platforms or differentiated build-outs
- Data driven approach to decision making
- Ability to multitask and work on a diverse range of requirements.
Work Location: Hybrid - Mumbai
About the Ecosystem Platform:
We are building India's largest mobility ecosystem embedded with features that all vehicle owners are going to love & use frequently. This would be a digital-only platform covering entire India and empowering the complete range of vehicles. In the last 3 months while being in stealth mode, we have scaled this platform to over 160,000 vehicles which range from Maserati & Rolls Royce to Suzuki & Hyundai on 4-wheelers and Harley Davidson & KT to Hero & TVS. This platform represents India's largest pool of data w.r.t. vehicles and aspires to build a strong bond between various brands and their end users over our Mobility Ecosystem. On a daily basis, we are registering new members every day to enjoy the benefits currently offered.
Our plan is to scale this to over 10mn members in the next 24 months and empower this with various experiences in an end-to-end manner. This is a very exciting platform which could give an opportunity to complete imagination
A sneak peak into the opportunity:
- 7+ million active customer base in our company (Mostly acquired in last 6 months)
- Created community for 2 & 4 Wheeler vehicle owners (currently in the beta version and onboarded 120K+ users in no time)
- A rapidly growing team in tech + product with some of the finest folks in the industry - A rapidly growing team of Sales, Marketing, Tech and PMs
- An opportunity to build products that influence insurance awareness and buying at the grassroot level.
Regards
Team Merito
- Operating as the lead point of contact for any and every matter specific to the client
- Developing a trusted advisor relationship with key customer stakeholders
- Designing and implementing strategies for clients, considering their specific requirements
- Ensuring the timely and successful delivery of their solutions according to customer needs and objectives
- Communicating clearly the progress of monthly/ quarterly initiatives to internal and external stakeholders
- Preparing reports on web performance metrics and analysing digital campaigns success also forecasting them
- Identifying and growing opportunities within territory and collaborating with sales teams to ensure growth attainment
- Staying up-to-date with digital technology trends
What you need to have:
- BA/ BS degree or equivalent
- Should also have an in-depth understanding of how digital and online marketing tools add value to company strategy and performance.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate, present and influence credibly and effectively at all levels of the organization, including executive and C-level
- Experience in delivering client-focused solutions based on customer needs
- Proven ability to manage multiple projects at a time while paying strict attention to detail
- Excellent listening, negotiation, presentation and analytical skills
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills
JOB DETAILS:
Seniority Level: Mid-Senior Level
Industry: Marketing & Advertising
Employment Type: Full-Time
Job Functions: Marketing, Business Development, Operations
Job Location: Bengaluru
Experience: 2+ Years
WHAT WILL BE YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES?
1. Identify and hunt publishers and understand their challenges in monetization and marketing.
2. Identify and onboard publishers, cultivating a relationship of trust with them.
3. Coordinate Google DFP, Admob, Facebook Audience Network, and Ad Manager integration and setting up of ad placements for Publishers
4. Expand the relationships with existing Publishers by continuously proposing solutions that meet their objectives.
5. Work with ad networks and internal teams to run successful ad monetization strategies.
6. Serve as the link of communication between publishers and Advertisers.
7. Resolve any issues and problems faced, troubleshoot, and deal with complaints to maintain relationships.
8. Prepare regular reports of progress and forecasts for these stakeholders using key account metrics.
WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
1. 2+ years experience in operations/marketing/business development roles preferably Mobile App Monetisation expertise - including device SDK implementations across demand & supply partnerships on mobile.
2. Know the process of ad implementation through SDKs.
3. Should have a good understanding of Google DFP, AdMob, FAN, and Ad Manager.
4. Understand revenue trends of networks and suggest changes on apps, to increase revenue.
5. Reach out to potential ad network partners for monetization.
6. Hands-on experience in configuring and managing ads through mediation tools for mobile and online.
7. Should have a keen interest in market research for ad monetization.
8. Analytical mindset with good communication and interpersonal capabilities, able to work independently.
SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
1. Google AdMob
2. Google Ad Manager
3. DoubleClick For Publisher (DFP)
4. Facebook Audience Network (FAN)
5. App Monetisation
WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU?
1. An opportunity to be a part of a fast scaling start-up in the AdTech space that offers unmatched services and products.
2. To work with a team of young enthusiasts who are always upbeat and self-driven to achieve bigger milestones in shorter time spans.
3. A workspace, that is wide open as per open door policy at the company, located in the happening center of Bangalore.
4. A well-fed stomach makes the mind work better and therefore- free lunch with a wide variety on all working days of the week, a stocked up pantry to satiate your want for munchies, a Foosball table to burst stress and above all a great working environment.
5. We believe that we grow as we grow. Once you are a part of our team, your growth also becomes essential to us, and in order to make sure that happens, there are timely formal and informal feedback sessions.