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.

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