Sid Murlidhar
Director, Ecosystem Partnerships at Shopify
Sid Murlidhar
Director, Ecosystem Partnerships at Shopify
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Director, Ecosystem Partnerships
2022 - Current
Leads ecosystem partnerships for Shopify overseeing a global team that recruits and manages the top technology partners in our ecosystem building apps on the world’s largest platform for commerce resulting in over 10,000 apps and over $500M in revenue for partners.
Senior Director, Platform Partnerships
2020 - 2022
Led Slack's platform & strategic partnerships team that partners with the leading enterprise SaaS companies globally, resulting in over 2400 apps available in the Slack App Directory.
Sr BD Manager, Strategic Partnerships
2018 - 2020
• Manage Slack’s key, multi-dimensional strategic partnerships in close collaboration with the Exec team. • Led Salesforce partnership resulting in 10x growth in MAUs for the Salesforce for Slack integration.
Product Lead
2016 - 2017
• Defined PlanGrid’s product strategy and roadmap. • Led PlanGrid’s international expansion by localizing the product in 40 locales. • Developed new product offering, PlanGrid Daily Reports, to report project progress.
Co-founder and CEO
2015 - 2016
• Conceptualized and prototyped an Android device for collaboration between remote teams. • Pitched to 40+ investors and secured $400k in seed financing.
Head of Product Partnerships
2014 - 2015
• Led Cyanogen’s entry into India by partnering with Micromax to launch a portfolio of phones. • Established the systems integration playbook with ODMs and OEMs to launch 5 phones. • Led board meetings laying out the platform, device support and monetization strategy. • Recruited and scaled the product partnerships team from 0 to 5 people in 6 months.
Product Advisor
2013 - 2015
• Advised Refresh on their product roadmap with the goal of increasing engagement and user growth. • Worked with their CEO and designers to redesign the app to focus on note creation, follow ups and a more intuitive interaction model. • Also helped flesh out new viral features such as Intros. Koi Vinh, design director of NY Times tweeted the following ".@RefreshApp just debuted major overhaul. Pretty nice. I really like this app." The app was also featured by Apple as the Best New app.
Entrepreneur in Residence
2013 - 2014
• Helped partners source deals and conduct due diligence on potential investments • Researched and incubated startups in the fields of AI, search and personal assistants
Mobile & Platform Product Partnerships
2009 - 2013
• Lead several mobile product partnerships at Facebook helping grow Facebook's mobile user base from 50M to over 500M monthly active users. • Conceived, built and launched Facebook Zero, a way to get free access to Facebook on your mobile phone, on 66 carriers in 55 countries that added over 50M users in it’s first year. • Built the world’s largest SMS and carrier partnership program by enabling carriers to manage the deployment of Facebook services on their networks by themselves (self-serve). • Managed OEM and carrier partners including device bring up and carrier certification for Facebook Home and the HTC First smartphone, also known as the ‘Facebook Phone’. • Led developer outreach to increase adoption of mobile SDKs with leading app publishers on the Android and iOS app stores. • Managed Netflix, Hulu and other video partners to help build engaging social video experiences on Facebook’s Open Graph platform.
Sr. Product Manager
2007 - 2009
• Lead the commercialization of an innovative cross-platform mobile social networking product. • Lead ideation sessions with User Experience teams to conceptualize innovative features. • Driving new features for Good Mobile Messaging, Good’s flagship product, currently used by over 9,000 customers. • Actively participated in the Group’s strategic planning process to advise Execs on new areas of profitable growth. • Partner with Carriers and OEMs including Verizon, AT&T, O2 and Telstra among others to determine device support, product releases, feature prioritization and new product concepts.
Product Manager
2006 - 2007
• Shipped a major release of Good’s flagship product, Good Mobile Messaging 4.9.3, on time. • Responsible for Good’s offering on the Nokia Series 60 devices and the Symbian platform. • Responsible for forecasting and determining effectiveness of marketing programs for the Verizon channel. • Worked with Finance and Operations to define key business metrics that drive the group’s business. • Executed Beta programs with customers to solicit feedback on new releases and features. • Authored several Product Requirement Documents interfacing with engineering, customers and sales.