Partner Acquisition Executive

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 Partner Acquisition Executive to join the Partner Acquisition team, which looks after onboarding new affiliate partners to Lyst. You will be responsible for reaching out to partners and taking them through how an affiliate partnership with Lyst works: guiding them through the benefits of joining Lyst. In this role you will be supported by Partner Acquisition Managers to work with team strategies and keep processes up-to-date, ensuring that Lyst has the strongest partner assortment for our fashion-loving users.

Responsibilities

• New Partner Acquisition: Efficiently qualify and manage inbound inquiries while proactively outreaching to new affiliate partners in line with team strategies and leading partner negotiations.
• Relationship Management: Nurture relationships with affiliate networks, and be responsible for managing day-to-day interactions with them.
• Understanding Processes: Work to team processes, ensuring they run smoothly from outreach to onboarding, and take ownership of partner acquisition-related tasks.
• Understanding of Affiliate Networks: Maintain an up-to-date understanding of the affiliate landscape, and have a knowledge of and interest in the fashion industry.
• Experience: A background in sales and/or account management. Having worked with affiliate networks or with fashion brands in the past would also be desirable.
• Sales & Negotiation: Proven ability to handle objections and articulate a clear value proposition to move partners from initial conversations to live on the Lyst platform.
• Commercial Understanding: A genuine interest in the business of fashion and the e-commerce landscape, with the ability to interpret performance data (e.g., conversion rates, AOV) to build a compelling business case for why a brand should join Lyst.
• Ability To Prioritise: Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage and prioritise multiple conversations at different stages.
• Collaboration & Communication: You will be comfortable communicating externally, as well as collaborating with internal stakeholders and teams.
• Self-Starter: We are looking for someone who can work autonomously as well as take direction from other team members in order to work towards collective targets and goals.
• CRM Proficiency: Experience using CRM tools (like Salesforce, HubSpot, or Pipedrive) to manage an outreach pipeline and maintain data.

Our Ways of Working

We all come into the office on Tuesdays and Thursdays, with the option to work remotely or come into the office on the other days. We believe that in person collaboration and community spirit is super important, which is why we spend some of our time in the office and some of our time at home.

Benefits

• Time Off: In addition to the 8 statutory bank holidays, you will receive 29 holidays per year. Lyst’s holiday year runs from 1 April to 31 March.
• Competitive Family Leave Package: This includes Enhanced Family Leave for those eligible, paid Time off for Dependents and Support for Fertility Treatment & Loss.
• Clothing Benefit: We provide a clothing allowance to use on Lyst every year. This starts at £250 when you join and increases up to £1,000 with your length of service.
• Private Healthcare: Our healthcare provider is Vitality. We offer all employees a comprehensive healthcare scheme from the day you start.
• Training Allowance: An annual training allowance of £1,000 for conferences, training courses and resources.
• Pension Scheme: The People’s Pension. 5% employee contribution and 3% employer contribution.
• Eye Tests and Vouchers: Free annual eye test and discount towards glasses.
• Cycle-to-Work Scheme: Lyst purchases a bicycle from a retailer, with a voucher for collection.
• Transport Season Ticket Loan: Interest-free season ticket loan.
• Social Events: Regular company-wide events and interest-based groups.

We want to build a world where fashion works for everyone, and we want teams that are just as inclusive. Diversity and inclusion is an integral part of our culture at Lyst. We recognise and celebrate the value and impact diversity brings to our company and are committed to ensuring this is a consistent focus, for which we are held to account. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and equally, and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply for this role. We are happy to talk about flexible working arrangements. Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Lyst we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.