Overview

We’re exponentially growing our affiliate program, and we’re looking for the best in the affiliate industry to join us for the ride. To be a good fit for this role, you’re a skilled affiliate manager with industry experience or talented growth hacker who sees opportunities that other people miss. You need to be a creative thinker who can develop the perfect pitch to a potential affiliate, with the tenacity to make the deal happen from start to finish. We want someone who hustles to make sure that every new affiliate we take on improves the performance of our affiliate program. We’ve created an industry-leading program that affiliates from around the world are excited to join — but with your help we’ll make it even better.

The Goal: Contribute to the tremendous growth of the affiliate program.

You’ll be working on things like:

  • Constantly identify, engage and develop affiliate partners across different verticals that will help drive significant revenue and referrals.
  • Gather contact information for potential publishers and draft relevant, targeted messages for them for recruitment.
  • Provide affiliate partners with insight about how they can make money with Shopify.
  • Analyze affiliate performance to maximize revenue, identify opportunities, and optimize campaigns.
  • Support general affiliate program initiatives that foster growth.

You’ll need to have:

  • Affiliate marketing or lead generation experience is required — we’re open to innovative thinkers that are skilled at business development or online marketing.
  • A solid understanding of publisher segments and affiliate technological requirements.
  • Experience in identifying, contacting, and recruiting top partners.
  • Superior communication skill.
  • Enjoy presenting in front of large audiences
  • Passion about commerce and the web.
  • A love of experimenting with new innovative ideas.
  • An outside of the box thinker

Shopify is a commerce platform that helps merchants sell online, in-person, and everywhere in between. We have offices in Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, and Waterloo, and remote employees all over the world. The best part about working at Shopify? The freedom to be you. We value authenticity, openness, and diversity in everything we do. You’ll also get to learn and grow with the best in the business. We want you to do the best work of your career, and we’ll give you everything you need to make it happen.

If you are an enthusiastic, creative Affiliate Marketer and are interested in this role, please click ‘Apply Now’ and tell us why you think you should be Shopify’s next Affiliate Manager!

About Shopify

Shopify is a leading cloud-based, multichannel commerce platform designed for small and medium-sized businesses. Merchants can use the software to design, set up and manage their stores across multiple sales channels, including web, mobile, social media such as Pinterest and Facebook, brick-and-mortar locations, and pop-up shops. The platform also provides a merchant with a powerful back-office and a single view of their business.

The Shopify platform was engineered for reliability and scale, using enterprise-level technology made available to businesses of all sizes. Shopify currently powers over 200,000 businesses in approximately 150 countries, including: Tesla Motors, Budweiser, Wikipedia, LA Lakers, the New York Stock Exchange, GoldieBlox, and many more.

Your personal growth is important to us, and we’ll give you everything you need to make it happen: learning budgets, mentorship opportunities, one-on-one coaching, skill development workshops, you name it. We encourage you to experiment, take risks, and pursue the things you care about. And if you make a mistake? That’s ok – learn from it, and share your experience with the team.

We hope you’ll love it here, but we also know that it’s not all about work. We’ll help you maintain a healthy balance with a gym allowance, parental leave, childcare benefits, flexible work hours, and catered meals to give you more time for the things you care about most.

We’re growing quickly, so there are plenty of opportunities to learn and grow. You’ll have the creative freedom to make a real difference in the world of commerce, and the chance to work with some of the best in the business.