Full-Time
Senior Vice President Partnerships
Posted on 9/3/2025
Later
1,001-5,000 employees
Social media management and influencer marketing
Compensation Overview
$175k - $225k/yr
Chicago, IL, USA
Remote
Open to fully remote candidates in North America.
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- 10+ years of progressive leadership in enterprise sales, partnerships, or business development, ideally within SaaS, martech, or creator economy businesses.
- Proven success in negotiating and closing large, complex enterprise deals with brands and agencies.
- Deep expertise in the creator economy, social media, and influencer marketing, with strong industry relationships.
- Track record of scaling partnership or enterprise sales teams and building repeatable processes.
- Exceptional executive relationship-building and negotiation skills.
- Proficiency with CRM and analytics tools (e.g., Salesforce) to drive strategy and decision-making.
- Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or advanced degree is an asset.
- Develop and own Later’s enterprise partnership and sales strategy, aligning it with company-wide revenue and growth objectives.
- Identify and prioritize new market opportunities across enterprise brands and agency ecosystems.
- Translate industry and customer insights into strategies that ensure Later’s offering remains innovative and differentiated.
- Build and manage a high-value pipeline of enterprise prospects, driving substantial net new revenue.
- Lead complex enterprise negotiations, structuring deals that deliver measurable impact for clients and scalable value for Later.
- Partner with product and marketing to ensure solutions meet evolving enterprise needs in influencer marketing, branded content, and measurement.
- Establish scalable sales processes that optimize velocity and strengthen partner satisfaction.
- Act as a senior cross-functional leader, aligning partnership goals with broader business strategy.
- Build trusted relationships with senior decision-makers at global brands, agencies, and platform partners.
- Represent Later externally at conferences, industry forums, and key client engagements as a thought leader and brand ambassador.
- Partner closely with internal teams to ensure seamless delivery of enterprise solutions.
- Shape and grow the Partnerships function into a best-in-class team capable of scaling globally.
- Inspire, mentor, and hold your team accountable to high performance standards, aligned with Later’s values and culture.
- Influence company direction by bringing enterprise client and partner perspectives into executive decision-making.
- Conduct competitive and market analyses to identify gaps and opportunities.
- Implement data-driven decision-making, leveraging insights to continuously refine strategy and execution.
- Stay ahead of emerging creator economy trends, evolving Later’s enterprise positioning accordingly.
- Driven by Impact: You deliver results that matter—prioritizing high-value work, meeting deadlines, and adapting quickly while keeping outcomes clear.
- Strategic & Customer-Centric: You anticipate risks and opportunities, connect decisions to long-term growth, and build trust through proactive insights.
- Curious & Growth-Oriented: You seek knowledge, ask sharp questions, and apply learnings fast—challenging the status quo with a mindset of improvement.
- Collaborative & Resilient: You thrive in change by staying resourceful, solution-focused, and positive—removing roadblocks, sharing insights, and keeping morale high.
- Accountable & Honest: You own your work, hold yourself and others to a high bar, and use transparent feedback to drive growth.
- Emotionally Intelligent: You build trust through empathy and collaboration, foster inclusion, and inspire others with grit, optimism, and integrity.
Later offers a suite of social media tools for marketers, brands, and influencers, including Later Social Media Management, Later Influence, and Later Link in Bio. It works by providing planning, scheduling, and analysis for posts; automating influencer campaigns with ROI tracking; and routing traffic from a single bio link to multiple destinations, all through subscription plans. It differentiates itself by combining influencer marketing, social media management, and link optimization with real-time ROI insights and expert services for large brands. Its goal is to help marketers achieve predictable, measurable returns from social media and build the first Social Revenue platform.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
Seed
Total Funding
$3.8M
Headquarters
Vancouver, Canada
Founded
2014
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Enterprise business doubled YoY in Q1 2026 with Nike, Unilever clients.
- Mavely $250M acquisition adds social commerce, grows workforce to 375.
- Later 360 launched February 2026 unifies reporting from engagement to sales.
What critics are saying
- Hootsuite erodes market share via Threads integrations in 6-12 months.
- Sprinklr steals Fortune 500 clients with superior AI analytics in 12-18 months.
- TikTok creator marketplace cuts Later demand in 3-6 months.
What makes Later unique
- Later Influence leads enterprise influencer marketing with $2.9B verified purchases.
- Later EdgeAI predicts performance using decade of data from 16M creators.
- Later Social pioneered link-in-bio tool with Meta, TikTok integrations.
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Benefits
Hybrid work environment
Education & conference budget
Wellness spending account
Flexible hours & work schedule
Technology bonus
Annual company retreat
Vacation & wellness days
Parental leave top-up
Learning & development workshops
Stock options
Company News
Later, an influencer marketing platform, has reported over 100% year-over-year growth in enterprise business for Q1 2026. The company now powers $2.9 billion in verified influencer-driven purchases and has delivered more than $250 million in cumulative creator payouts. Global brands including Nike, Southwest Airlines, Wayfair and Unilever are using Later's platform to manage creator programmes at scale. The company attributes its growth to brands consolidating their creator and social programmes around data-driven, performance-focused solutions. Later appointed Mohsin Hussain as chief technology officer, effective 1 April 2026. Hussain joins from LiveRamp, where he served as CTO. He will accelerate innovation behind Later EdgeAI, the company's AI-enabled technology that helped marketers manage 70% more creators per campaign and achieve 40% higher engagement last year.
Later, an influencer marketing platform, has appointed Paige Kelly as General Manager, Creator. She will lead the growth of Later's creator community and strengthen connections between the company's enterprise clients and hundreds of thousands of creators. Kelly joins from Wayfair, where she spent 14 years helping scale the company from 400 to over 12,000 employees, including through its 2014 public offering. She most recently headed Wayfair's housewares vertical, global supplier acquisition and branded product strategy. At Later, Kelly will expand creator resources, accelerate campaign opportunities and deepen community engagement. The company has been hosting creator meetups across major US cities including New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. Later's platform leverages over a decade of proprietary data and has facilitated $2.4 billion in verified influencer-driven purchases.
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