Global Partner Marketing Event Lead

About Shopify

Opportunity is not evenly distributed. Shopify puts independence within reach for anyone with a dream to start a business. We propel entrepreneurs and enterprises to scale the heights of their potential. Since 2006, we’ve grown to over 8,300 employees and generated over $1 trillion in sales for millions of merchants in 175 countries.

This is life-defining work that directly impacts people’s lives as much as it transforms your own. This is putting the power of the few in the hands of the many, is a future with more voices rather than fewer, and is creating more choices instead of an elite option.

About you

Moving at our pace brings a lot of change, complexity, and ambiguity—and a little bit of chaos. Shopifolk thrive on that and are comfortable being uncomfortable. That means Shopify is not the right place for everyone.

Before you apply, consider if you can:

• Care deeply about what you do and about making commerce better for everyone
• Excel by seeking professional and personal hypergrowth
• Keep up with an unrelenting pace (the week, not the quarter)
• Be resilient and resourceful in face of ambiguity and thrive on (rather than endure) change
• Bring critical thought and opinion
• Embrace differences and disagreement to get shit done and move forward
• Work digital-first for your daily work

About the Global Partner Marketing Event Lead role

We are looking for a Global Partner Marketing Event Lead to help us deliver high priority partner events to drive commercial business growth. You’ll make this happen by producing events that bring Shopify to life through milestone global and regional partner events (Cloudworld, Google Cloud Summit, WPP stream, etc.) and through our own events (Partner Advisory Council, Partner Days). These initiatives will help drive new and nurture leads into/through the sales funnel ultimately impacting revenue goals. You’ll plan, execute and optimize event marketing and campaigns as part of a cross functional team.

This role requires frequent travel throughout North America and occasionally internationally. 

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with global and regional partner marketing stakeholders and leadership to set goals, develop priority event list, execute event plans and evaluate performance to drive improvement over time
• Build and manage event campaign program scopes of work, resources, budget, contracts, and timelines
• Leverage a deep understanding of internal and external market positioning and our target audiences to make event decisions 
• Build strong relationships with external stakeholders and partners including industry/show organizers, agencies and vendors
• Support Shopify owned partner-facing events including Partner Advisory Council and Regional Partner Days 

Requirements:

• A passion for event marketing and production and a willingness to get hands-on in execution
• Extremely strong project management and communication skills with a proven ability to manage multiple stakeholders, at all levels in different geographies
• You’ve successfully produced a wide range of events (from trade shows to activations to conferences to white glove experiences) for a variety of audiences in terms of complexity, scale and design and can move effortlessly between big picture and intricate details 

• You love working cross-functionally across different teams, building and maintaining relationships across the organization to drive results
• You are an intellectually curious self-starter who is not afraid to ask questions and use answers to bring clarity and direction to your greater team

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