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.
Slack is a cloud-based communication and collaboration platform for teams.
Raised $1,391,100,000.00 from Light Street Capital, Meyer Ventures and Employee Stock Option Fund.
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.
PlanGrid is a provider of cloud-based construction document collaboration platform.
Raised $69,100,000.00 from Employee Stock Option Fund.
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
Foundation Capital is a venture capital firm made up of former entrepreneurs and helps companies and businesses grow.
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.
Stay N' Alive Productions, LLC is a social media marketing firm that provides clients with measurable profits.
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.
Motorola exists to invent, build and deliver the best mobile devices on the planet, improving the lives of millions of people.
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.
Good Technology Corporation provides application, systems, and data security solutions.
Raised $478,875,005.00 from SharesPost Investment Management.