Head – Global Partnership and Market Development
About the job
- Ability to identify and respond to different partner expectations, needs, and communication styles, and to lead and forge solutions and strategic partnerships.
- Deep understanding of the global e-commerce landscape and ecosystem, with business acumen to support management in formulating market-entry strategy and product-localization efforts and to provide leadership to the team and stakeholders.
- Strong project management skills, including identifying critical paths, engaging and motivating stakeholders and teams, and holding them accountable for commitments.
- Process-oriented mindset, organization, and attention to detail.
- Experience working with cross-functional and cross-cultural teams and stakeholders.
- Comfort working in a fast-paced, multi-tasked, high-energy working environment.
- Build and develop commercial and technology partnership ecosystems to support product localization and market entry in priority markets, and be responsible for merchant-count and GMV targets through the partnership network and P&L.
- Set global commercial partnership strategy and lead recruitment and identification of a professional, lean international partnership team.
- Grow India partnerships by nurturing long-term relationships, formulating strategy and a roadmap to make SHOPLINE a preferred choice in certain partner segments, and developing the partnership team into a growth engine.
- Lead discussions among cross-functional teams, including Product, Engineering, Marketing, Support, Legal, and Finance, to execute opportunities that support merchant success.
- Assist company management in shaping global expansion strategy, including formulating market-entry strategy and product-localization efforts based on an understanding of different markets.
- Play a pivotal role in building the global operation center and capability centers to support market development in prioritized markets.
- E-commerce SaaS, social commerce, and/or retail experience is strongly preferred.
- Sales, business development, and startup experience are an added advantage.
About the company
SHOPLINE provides a total commerce platform that helps businesses establish and grow their online presence in Asia. Merchants set up stores with customizable themes, sell across multiple channels, and use built-in social commerce tools like Livestream, Chatbot, and a Message/Broadcast Center to turn social engagement into sales, all through a subscription-based platform with optional premium features. It differentiates itself by deep focus on the Asian market and an ecosystem of over 350,000 brands, emphasizing seamless channel integration and social selling. Its goal is to enable brands and merchants to scale online, boost sales across social and e-commerce channels, and build lasting customer relationships from a single dashboard.
Company Size
501-1,000
Company Stage
Early VC
Total Funding
$1.2M
Headquarters
Sham Shui Po District, Hong Kong
Founded
2013
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What believers are saying
- SHOPLINE said August 2026 it serves 700,000-plus merchants worldwide, up from 600,000.
- March 2026 YouBiz, June 2026 Trozo, and August 2026 F&F fund expand distribution.
- June 2025 shipped PayPal, Avalara, multi-store syncing, and AI-powered merchant tooling.
What critics are saying
- Shopify settled a July 2026 copyright suit over SHOPLINE's Seed theme copy claims.
- March 2026 YouBiz and June 2026 Trozo integrations deepen partner dependence and switching leverage.
- Any future template or IP dispute can trigger merchant churn and platform distrust quickly.
What makes SHOPLINE unique
- SHOPLINE unifies storefronts, social commerce, live shopping, and POS for merchants.
- Its partner ecosystem exposes Open API integrations, agencies, affiliates, and app developers.
- It targets Asian omnichannel merchants with localized support across Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore.
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