VP of Partnerships

October 29

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Constructor

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Search • E-commerce • Product Discovery • Personalization • SaaS

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2015

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🛍️ eCommerce

🏢 Enterprise

💰 $55M Series A on 2021-09

Description

• About Us • Constructor is the only search and product discovery platform tailor-made for enterprise ecommerce where conversions matter. • Constructor's AI-first solutions make it easier for shoppers to discover products they want to buy and for ecommerce teams to deliver highly personalized experiences that drive impressive results. • Optimizing specifically for ecommerce metrics like revenue, conversion rate and profit, Constructor generates consistent $10M+ lifts for some of the biggest brands in ecommerce, such as Sephora, Petco, home24, Maxeda Brands, Birkenstock and The Very Group. • Constructor is a U.S. based company that was founded in 2015. • About You • You are an accomplished and visionary executive. • Reporting directly to the CRO and serving as a key member of the senior leadership team, you will be tasked with driving growth globally by building and executing a strategic vision from the ground up across select GSIs, Agencies, RSIs plus cloud and technology partners in adjacent ecommerce spaces to deliver joint success and financial results. • This role is essential for fostering growth, developing innovative GTM strategies and ensuring alignment with Constructor’s short-term and long-term plans. • As VP of Partners & Alliances, you will be responsible for building and leading the global partner team to drive engagement with partners across our GTM model, in collaboration with functional owners in marketing, sales and customer success. • In order to thrive, you will have to be a business leader, alliance pro, customer outcome driven sales leader with strong change and management capabilities to build, lead and mentor teams both internally and with partners. • You will be able to demonstrate how you’ll build a partner program from the ground up with the ability to drive incremental qualified pipeline and revenue, developed playbooks and partner enablement materials as well as clearly defined and executed joint marketing offerings and campaigns with partners.

Requirements

• Own the vision: develop a cohesive partner strategy that aligns the go-to-market efforts across Sales, Marketing and Customer/Partner Success. Facilitate regular cross-team collaboration sessions to identify areas for synergy and ensure alignment in partner engagement efforts. • Lead with data: establish metrics and performance indicators to measure the success of partnership initiatives. Monitor and analyze partnership performance to ensure targets are met and identify areas for improvement. • Become a trusted partner: Partner closely with CRO, sales execs, marketing, product, finance, customer success and operations leadership to provide the partner perspective into business planning, product roadmaps and GTM strategy, and jointly plan strategic initiatives such as entering new markets, verticals or geographies. • Build a high performing organization: Recruit and retain A-Player talent and establish a high-performing partnerships organization, creating processes and frameworks to support sustainable growth and effective collaboration with direct sales. • Build a scalable and repeatable Partner Program and engagement model for onboarding, enabling, and growing partnerships. • Drive tangible results: achieve a significant increase in pipeline and revenue from select Global SIs, Global Agencies and RSIs across EMEA and NA. • Actively recruit new strategic partners and engage complementing e-commerce software providers, solution integrators and agencies. • Develop joint co-selling motions and deal execution with ISV and cloud partnerships. • Develop senior level (C-suite, VP, Director) relationships across the strategic e-commerce and SI landscape, introducing senior internal team members and Account Executives when appropriate. • Enable better deployment and customer support through our strategic partners to always deliver for our customer-base. • Transform to Solution Selling: Partner with CRO and sales leadership to evolve the partner ecosystem from a product-centric to a solution-selling model, where our teams consistently position solutions based on customer needs. • Be able to hustle and operate tactically to get things done. Operate both strategically and tactically in a dynamic environment. Align the right resources to the task at hand; foresee and plan around obstacles but get your hands dirty yourself in order to truly understand and make the right decisions vs. leading from an ivory tower.

Benefits

• Unlimited vacation time — we strongly encourage all of our employees take at least 3 weeks per year • Fully remote team — choose where you live • Apple laptop provided for new employees • Training and development budget for every employee, refreshed each year • Parental leave for qualified employees • Work with smart people who will help you grow and make a meaningful impact • Work from home stipend! We want you to have the resources you need to set up your home office