Vice President of Retail Business Development and Strategic Partnerships

inMarket is a mobile consumer engagement platform that reaches over 50MM shoppers in over one million locations across the U.S. Located on Abbot Kinney Blvd in Venice, CA with offices in Chicago and New York, inMarket is a 7 year old bootstrapped start-up that was founded by award-winning tech entrepreneurs (Inc. 500, Fast 50, TechCrunch Disrupt) who successfully exited their previous company at nine figures.

* Responsible for Business Development partners and the strategic relationships. * Responsibilities include discovery and evaluation of potential app and location based relationships as well as ensuring revenue generation of new and existing relationships. * Use personal contacts with C-suite executives to expand inMarket's location portfolio and relationships. * Provides direction and vision, and sets performance standards. Define and execute effective methods to add significant retail, QSR, and other location based partners in enterprise level, annual service agreements. * Works externally with distribution partners in identifying, evaluating and managing new business opportunities and marketing initiatives. * Actively and continuously pursues new business in order to expand organizational growth. * Help identify and develop new products for partner segments that create value for Partners and the company. * Acquires new relationships and expands existing relationships. * Other duties as assigned based on divisional needs

* Phenomenal track record successfully closing enterprise services or partnerships to Fortune 500 companies * Existing C-level and senior level relationships in the grocery, pharmacy, QSR and big box retail sector * Track record of pushing innovative new initiatives to completion in corporate environments. * Experience working in nascent (startup) spaces where a degree of uncertainty always exists and ongoing product development is constant * Proven public speaking ability and previous stints as a speaker at major trade shows * Desirable: M & A experience at finding companies for purchase and negotiating successful deals.