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Bizee

Head of Partnerships & Ecosystem

Bizee, Houston, Texas, United States, 77246

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About Bizee Bizee (formerly Incfile) has helped more than one million entrepreneurs start and manage their businesses. We’re evolving from a formation service into an AI-powered Operating System for Entrepreneurs - intelligent systems that simplify complexity, anticipate needs, and give founders the freedom to build faster.

Our transactional products remain the primary entry point. Long-term growth, retention, and differentiation come from attaching a broader business operating stack - compliance, financial services, software, and professional solutions through scalable partner and affiliate channels.

The Role The Head of Partnerships, Ecosystem & Affiliates owns the design, launch, and scaling of Bizee’s partner monetization and affiliate growth platform.

This is not a traditional business development or relationship-only role. You will build the strategy, operating model, economics, and execution engine that turns partners and affiliates into a repeatable, measurable growth lever increasing ARR per customer, improving Net Revenue Retention, and expanding lifetime value.

This is a platform, revenue, and distribution role.

What You’ll Own

End-to-end partner ecosystem and affiliate channel strategy

Partner-and affiliate-sourced ARR

Expansion and retention impact driven by partner and affiliate attach

Design and scaling of partner categories, including:

Horizontal SMB software and services

Vertical-specific solutions

Core business services (banking, payroll, accounting, hiring, IT, marketing)

AI and automation partners

Affiliate and referral programs, including:

Content creators and influencers

SMB communities and professionals

Agencies and service providers

Platform and software affiliates

Partner and affiliate monetization models:

Revenue share

Bundles

Embedded offers

Affiliate and referral commissions

What You’ll Do Build the Partner & Affiliate Ecosystem

Design a partner and affiliate ecosystem aligned to the SMB lifecycle (formation → compliance → growth)

Define where partners and affiliates attach across the customer journey

Establish partner and affiliate segmentation, tiers, and governance

Create repeatable, scalable economics (revenue share, bundles, commissions, incentives)

Build & Scale the Affiliate Channel

Design and launch a scalable affiliate and referral program

Define affiliate commission structures aligned to LTV, retention, and payback

Recruit, onboard, and activate high-performing affiliates

Develop affiliate enablement, messaging, and co-marketing playbooks

Own affiliate performance metrics including conversion, CAC efficiency, LTV quality, and incrementality

Drive ARR, Expansion, and Retention

Increase ARR per customer through partner and affiliate attach

Improve Net Revenue Retention via embedded partner value and affiliate-driven bundles

Partner with Sales to convert transactional demand into multi-product stacks

Partner with Growth and Lifecycle to optimize affiliate conversion, onboarding, and monetization flows

Partner with Product & Platform

Collaborate with Product on marketplace UX, APIs, and embedded partner experiences

Inform platform roadmap priorities based on ecosystem and affiliate leverage

Ensure partner and affiliate solutions feel native to the Bizee platform, not bolted on

Operationalize & Measure

Partner with RevOps and Finance to implement partner and affiliate attribution, routing, and reporting

Define clear rules for attribution windows, channel conflicts, and incrementality

Build dashboards showing partner- and affiliate-driven ARR, NRR, and LTV

Continuously refine strategy based on performance data

Role Boundaries & Collaboration

This role owns:

Partner and affiliate strategy, recruitment, economics, and revenue outcomes

Lifecycle Automation & Marketing Operations owns:

HubSpot implementation and tracking for partners and affiliates

Affiliate lifecycle journeys (onboarding, activation, expansion)

Technical integrations, data flows, and attribution plumbing

What You’ll Bring

8-12+ years of experience in partnerships, ecosystem, affiliate, platform BD, or strategic growth roles

Proven experience building partner ecosystems and/or affiliate programs at scale

Strong understanding of SMB software stacks and business services

Experience structuring revenue-sharing, bundled, embedded, and affiliate monetization models

Data-driven mindset with a focus on ARR, NRR, LTV, and payback

Comfort operating cross-functionally with Sales, Product, Growth, RevOps, and Finance

Builder mentality comfortable starting from zero and scaling systems

Benefits Disclaimer Bizee is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Bizee is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

The compensation offered to the successful applicant may vary based on factors including experience, skills, education, location, and other job-related reasons.

This employer participates in E-verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.

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