About Lightricks
Lightricks is a pioneer in innovative technology that leads to breakthrough moments throughout the creation process. With a mission to push the limits of technology to reimagine the way creators express themselves, the company brings a unique blend of cutting-edge academic research and design to every user experience. Lightricks’ photo and video editing tools, including Facetune, Videoleap, and Photoleap, offer endless possibilities and inspiration, while the company’s creator services, Popular Pays, provides content creators the ability to partner with brands to monetize their work and talents. We focus on putting creators in the center and empowering them from the moment inspiration strikes.
About Popular Pays
Popular Pays is the leading platform for agile advertising. Advertising is in a moment of transition and we’re betting that the way that work gets done in the future is a powerful mix of creativity + technology. We’ve built the modern approach to advertising: a global network of creators, a platform to streamline operations, and an expert service team to guide you along the way. The results are that our customers' creative gets to market faster, makes a bigger impact, and we add flexibility into their operations.
Our Culture:
We expect each other to be good enough to teach, but willing to listen and learn. It’s important to us to: build a great product, be intentional about our culture, have a diverse team, and foster community between our creators, brands, and ourselves
Why this Role
The partnerships team sits at the intersection of our revenue team and product, and the primary goal is business development. This person will be responsible for collaborating with our product, sales, marketing, finance and customer success teams to identify and drive revenue and growth initiatives through and with our most strategic partners such as Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter.

• We've barely scratched the surface on what we can do with Partnerships.
• We have a Team of dedicated resources already that you will be able to help grow within the organization.
• This is an opportunity to put your stamp on both leadership and an exciting industry.

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What will you do with Popular Pays as a Team Lead:

• Be the strategic leader in terms of how we leverage our existing partners (partner and ecosystem) and how we can grow and capitalize on additional partner relationships
• Create a systematic, process-driven approach to partner outreach and relationship management
• Collaborate with senior management across Revenue, Product, and Marketing to align our internal goals with new and existing partner relationships
• Research partners, identify key players, and generate interest

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You may be fit for this role if you have:

• Previous working experience in strategic partnerships for (5+) years, could blend with partner or client-facing sales experience. (Business Acumen)
• Experience in the MarTech (marketing/advertising) landscape with a focus on social media
• Some management experience of people and growing individuals
• Ability to set a strategy and also be able to execute against that strategy operating as both a player and a coach
• Ability to network complex sales and marketing organizations, and understand decision making processes and navigate complex sales cycles
• Ability to work cross functionally with a wide variety of stakeholders
• Nice to Have: Any pre-existing relationships with any of the platforms (Youtube, Meta, TikTok, Snap, Pinterest, etc) OR existing relationships in the social media landscape and marketing industry, including agencies and holding companies

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