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Pipe17 is committed to building trust and making the world more agreeable for our employees, customers and the communities in which we live and work. You can count on us to listen, be honest, and try our best to do what's right, every day. At Pipe17, everything is equal. We each have a responsibility to ensure every team member has an equal opportunity to succeed, to be heard, to exchange ideas openly, to build lasting relationships, and to do the work of their life. We try to set up an environment where every employee can feel deep pride in the work they do.
About Pipe17
Pipe17 is a venture funded software startup headquartered in Seattle, WA with a significant presence in the San Francisco Bay area. Pipe17 is backed by GLP Partners, a leading investor in the ecommerce logistics space.
We offer a post checkout operations platform that seamlessly integrates selling and fulfillment channels with core business applications so they all work together at maximum speed and efficiency to process orders. Using Pipe17 customers achieve a dramatic reduction in operational costs and waste.
About this Position
In addition to selling direct to merchants, Pipe17 partners with ecommerce SaaS vendors, 3rd Party Logistic (3PL) providers, and ecommerce solution developers to help them deliver robust high value solutions to their merchant customers.
We have been partnering with post check out providers since we started the company and we can proudly point to the impact we have had on our partner’s businesses. Working with Pipe17 our partners have been able to expand their markets, close more deals, onboard their customers faster, and reduce their development costs.
We are now looking for someone to take ownership of the partner business development function, further scale up our pipeline of referrals, and drive strategic value. This position reports to our VP of Partnerships and Business Development. We seek an individual that comes from the ecommerce world. Someone that is more “hunter” than “farmer” with a proven ability to engage and work with senior leadership, promote a vision, and craft unique agreements. If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you. We have much to offer.
Responsibilities
- Pipeline Development
- Achieve objective to close and onboard 3 new partners per quarter
- Build a list of target strategic partners and move them to beneficial outcomes
- Conduct initial meetings, qualify partner prospects, coordinate response and close deals.
- Produce weekly pipeline reports for management.
- Provide outlines of partner collateral and web pages for production
- Partner Onboarding
- Conduct onboarding sessions to educate partner sales people and leadership on P17 benefits
- Create incentive programs that maximize referrals (e.g. spiffs)
- Partner Management
- Send out periodic communiques to partners
- Conduct regular check in meetings with partners to assess progress and report to company
- Advocate for partners in product meetings etc.
- Leverage partner relationships for announcements, case studies and other promotional materials
- Product Alignment
- Providing feedback and requirements to the product team to ensure the product meets the needs of both merchants and 3PL customers/partners and provides high value to both
Required Qualifications:
- 5+ years experience in and around the ecommerce industry in a business development role with a track record of success.
- Set of contacts that can be leveraged for relationships
- Mature, self-starter capable of working independently with minimal supervision.
- Start up experience, preferably early stage.
- Player/coach type happy to operate as an individual contributor, learn the business and hire and develop additional staff as the business dictates
- Proven ability to hire and develop talent
Preferred Qualifications:
- Hubspot admin skills, build reports, adjust properties to fit the business as we grow
- Experience working with 3PLs in a business development capacity.
Compensation (US FTE)
- Competitive salary
- Great healthcare + dental + vision coverage
- Retirement plan
- Pick your own equipment. We'll set you up with whatever Apple laptop + monitor combo you want plus any software you need.
- Unlimited vacation policy. Plus we require you to take at least 2 weeks off each year. We see most employees take 4 weeks off per year. This isn't a vague policy where unlimited vacation means no vacation
About Us
Pipe17 is a venture funded software startup headquartered in Seattle, WA with a significant presence in the San Francisco Bay area.
We offer an innovative SaaS platform for ecommerce operations that automates management of order, inventory and product flows between 100+ ecommerce applications. Using Pipe17 our customers grow faster and serve their customers better all while reducing operational costs.
We are a solution business with innovative technology that is 10-100X faster than competitors. Selling both direct and through a growing network of partners, we are growing fast with many happy customers.
Pipe17 is backed by GLP Partners, a leading investor in the ecommerce logistics space. We recently raised a large round of capital to fund our growth, which you can read about here.
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