Senior Partner Acquisition Executive

About Lyst

Lyst is a global fashion shopping platform founded in London in 2010 and catering to over 160M shoppers per year. We offer our customers the largest assortment of premium & luxury fashion products in one place, curating pieces from 27,000 of the world's leading brands and stores. In 2025, Lyst joined Zozo, operators of Zozotown, the leading fashion e-commerce platform in Japan. This partnership marks a bold new era for Lyst, as we accelerate our vision and work together to transform the future of fashion shopping through AI and technology. 

At Lyst, we obsess over the customer, providing a search & discovery experience which offers inspiration, fulfilment, and personalisation. We believe that fashion is amazing but shopping for fashion often isn't, and use our technology, data and creativity to bring more joy, greater choice and fewer fails. Our mission is to help fashion shoppers make better choices and help fashion partners find better audiences as the category-leading destination for every fashion shopper.

The Role

We are looking for a Senior Partner Acquisition Executive to join Lyst’s Partnerships tribe. You will work as part of a newly-formed team tasked with expanding Lyst’s partner network by bringing a checkout-first marketplace on Lyst to life. You will look after scaled outreach and onboarding, and will be responsible for a large pipeline of leads. This role requires previous experience of working in a sales environment, converting partners at scale and managing pipelines, as well as the ability to work autonomously and get the ground running.

Responsibilities

• New Partner Acquisition: You will look after mass outreach to potential partners, driving conversations from leads through to contract signing.
• Pipeline Management: Independently manage a pipeline of prospective partners using email automation tools and move them through the signup process.
• Strategic Thinking: Suggest and refine strategies to secure agreements with fashion brands and retailers, demonstrating a proactive and solution-orientated mindset.
• Understanding of Sales and Business Development: Understand how to sell a concept via outreach and work towards targets.
• Performance & Collaboration: Working autonomously but also in collaboration with internal stakeholders – aligning sales efforts with overall company goals.

Requirements

• Experience: A proven background in business development and sales in a fast-paced, tech-driven environment, as well as experience with email automation tools (such as Salesforce or Hubspot). Familiar with generating leads, including the use of LinkedIn.
• Commercial Acumen: The ability to drive results and meet targets, as well as take ownership of and report on pipeline progress. A comprehensive knowledge of Excel and other tools is required for reporting.
• Communication: Strong communication skills with the ability to represent Lyst professionally to external partners and internal stakeholders.
• Planning: Strong time management skills – you will be comfortable managing and prioritising different lead stages and moving them forward in line with goals.
• Adaptability: A proactive, solution-oriented mindset with the ability to manage a pipeline autonomously in a scale-up environment.

Benefits

• Our Ways of Working: We all come into the office on Tuesdays and Thursdays, with the option to work remotely or come into the office on the other days. We believe that in person collaboration and community spirit is super important, which is why we spend some of our time in the office and some of our time at home.
• Time Off: In addition to the 8 statutory bank holidays, you will receive 29 holidays per year. Lyst’s holiday year runs from 1 April to 31 March.
• Remote Working: Work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year
• Competitive Family Leave Package: This includes Enhanced Family Leave for those eligible, paid Time off for Dependents and Support for Fertility Treatment & Loss.
• Clothing Benefit: We want you to enjoy using the Lyst app and site as much as our customers, so we provide you with a clothing allowance to use on Lyst every year. This starts at £250 when you join and increases up to £1,000 with your length of service.
• Private Healthcare: Our healthcare provider is Vitality. Your health is important to us which is why we offer all employees a comprehensive healthcare scheme from the day you start.
• Training Allowance: We’re big on continuous learning and growth, so all employees are currently entitled to an annual training allowance of £1,000. This can be used to attend conferences, industry events, training courses and to purchase resources.
• Pension Scheme: Our pension provider is The People’s Pension. We offer a minimum employee contribution of 5% and 3% employer contribution.
• Eye Tests and Vouchers: Employees can make a saving on their eye test and glasses through our chosen provider. You’ll receive a free eye test every year and a discount towards glasses.
• Cycle-to-Work Scheme: Lyst will purchase a bicycle from your chosen retailer, you will then receive a voucher to pick up your bicycle from them.
• Transport Season Ticket Loan: Employees can apply for an interest free season ticket loan to support your travel to work.
• Social Events: Frequent company wide social events including Christmas & summer parties, sports days, themed drinks, quizzes, cook alongs, as well as smaller team socials. We also have plenty of interest based groups such as football, running club, book club, culinary and more.