Business Development Specialist

at  Makeship

ABOUT THE COMPANY

Makeship exists to empower influencers, creators, and brands of all sizes to develop and launch limited-edition products that matter to their fans. Leveraging our design, manufacturing, and marketing expertise, we work with our partners to bring their products to life through our community-powered crowd-funding platform. Each product is given a window of 21 days to be funded by the community before we produce and ship to fans worldwide. We put our brand behind every product and guarantee quality and ethical sourcing. We’re profitable, have grown the team from 2 to 70 people in 4 years, and we’re growing at an average annual growth rate of 200%+.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We are looking for a Business Operations Specialist who’ll help build better business systems and processes to help Makeship scale. We are looking for a versatile and curious problem solver who can build and automate processes. As a Business Operations Specialist, you’ll learn how to use various platforms and no/low-code technologies to serve content creators, internal teams, and millions (no exaggeration) of fans on our crowdfunding platform. You will collaborate with teams in product design, software development, sales, finance, and marketing. You will also be joining one of Canada’s fastest-growing start-up companies!

ABOUT THE ROLE

As a member of the Technology and Operations team, you’ll play a huge role in shaping our culture, our process, and the future of Makeship. Every day, you’ll collaborate learn more about the content creation space, and watch your work make an impact (on the company and their community!). We want this to be the best work experience of your life, so we’ll pay you well, offer great benefits, invest deeply in your growth, and welcome you with our branded swag.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Managing and building automations and processes in Airtable, Zapier, and similar platforms
• Automating product launches and implementing 3rd party apps on Shopify
• Communicating with stakeholders to understand pain points and requirements
• Designing, implementing, and documenting new/improved business workflows
• Supporting internal teams when they have issues with core systems/processes
• Build and manage forms and interfaces for content creators to perform tasks on