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.