Agency Partner Manager
Motion
About Motion
Motion is growing fast (3x YoY), our product is sticky and we recently raised $30M in Series B funding. We've doubled our headcount this year and have just over 50 team members.
But we’re just getting started and we need your help!
We’ve built a new category of software to bridge the gap between performance marketers and creative teams. Our platform combines creative analytics, research, and strategy. Motion is the command center for Creative Strategists.
Our customers are top ecom and DTC brands like Vuori, True Classic, The Farmer’s Dog, HexClad, and thousands more. They’ve used Motion to analyze over $6B in media spend.
About this role:
You’ll be responsible for building out our partner program from 0.5 to 1. You will onboard net new agency partners with the goal of having them love our product leading to client referrals. The ideal outcome is a repeatable process has been developed resulting in a predictable partner-sourced-pipeline target.
Priority will be placed on building an agency partner program, but future evolution could include: Affiliate program development, tech partner program development, etc.
Develop a strategy that will allow us to onboard agency partners onto Motion so that they adopt all features and refer clients
Work with the Head of Business Development to iron out details of our partner program
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Manage and grow relationships:
Referrals: Implement a range of 1:1 and 1 to many activities such as events/webinars, emails, etc. to get people excited about participating in the program
Support: Be the point person to manage any questions a partner may have
Collaboration with: CS, ops, product, and marketing to align on GTM strategies
Who you are:
You live in Canada (Greater Toronto area ideally)
You’re a 0 to 1 person and love start ups. Where others see ambiguity, you see opportunity - What’s the problem? What’s step 1? What’s the goal? These are all questions you’re inspired to answer and build solutions for.
Revenue minded vs. marketing/influencer minded - the person in this role should have the ability to close deals
Superior relationship builder who is immediately trustworthy (will be the face of Motion in many scenarios - events, webinars, etc.)
Worked in B2B SaaS (preferably servicing DTC Ecomm)
Experience at a hyper growth company
Sold to a similar ACV and deal cycle - high velocity and volume (~30 day close, ~8 demos/day)
Dedicated to becoming an expert in our industry, buyer, and product
Held and exceeded a quota
Nice-to-haves:
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Familiar with the performance marketing agency ecosystem
Could already be a known face in our industry with existing relationships
Built process that allowed for scale: documenting existing process, identifying how many partners a program manager can take on, etc.
👉 Check out this deck to learn more about expectations and our culture!
What you’ll love about Motion:
Super competitive compensation + commission + equity, 20 days PTO, full healthcare benefits, work from home stipend
Fully remote team with incredible offsites and retreats to build camaraderie. Our last retreat was a week-long stay at Lake Muskoka.
We’ve found product market fit but we’re still so early that you will have a major impact.
Our team is very ambitious, super capable and low on egos
Our customers are some of the leading brands and agencies in D2C e-commerce
We want Motion’s impact in the “creative-tech” industry to be up there with the Webflows, Canvas and Figmas of the world.
We have a deep understanding of the problem space through many years of tinkering in the industry.
We know exactly what it’s going to take for Motion to win.
We’d love for you to join us on the ride!
Motion has thrived in 2023, and 2024 has been a defining year here. We are finishing the year with fresh funding and exceptional signals from our clients. On top of this, our founding team has built successful companies before. This role offers an incredible opportunity to get in on the ground floor (we are only about 50 people right now) to help us build a category defining company in the “creative-tech” space.