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, influencer, and community 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, influencer, and community sourced-pipeline target. 

This role will have a ton of ambiguity as we build, but the ideal candidate loves this and is excited about helping define what this looks like at Motion.

• Develop a strategy that will allow us to acquire more partners, influencers, and community members 

• Grow existing relationships

• Work with the Head of Business Development to iron out details of our partner program

• Attract / acquire new partners, influencers, and community members: 

  • Determine how and where we should source partners, influencers, and community members 

  • Partner with marketing to make a splash for initial launch and ongoing events

  • Manage the partner, influencer, and community relationships from initial touchpoint to ongoing referrals 

• 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:

• Familiar with events to attend and channels to develop partnerships in our industry

  • 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.