Shopify has no office in mainland China, Hong Kong, or Taiwan. This role is what we have instead.
Chinese merchants are building some of the fastest growing direct-to-consumer brands in the world, and they are building them for customers outside China. Greater China export is a top global priority, with product, infrastructure, and go-to-market investment landing behind it now. None of it reaches merchants without partners, and no partner in this market commits to a platform they have not met in person.
You are the face of Shopify partnerships in Greater China. In market, in the room, at the dinner, on the stage. You build the relationships that turn into merchants, and you find the opportunities nobody has written down yet.
You build on an ecosystem of more than a thousand active agencies, system integrators, developers, and technology partners, alongside the domestic commerce platforms that hundreds of thousands of Chinese merchants already sell on. Uniquely across Asia Pacific, technology partners here outnumber agencies, which changes what the ecosystem can do and how you build it. You own it end to end, and you are accountable for what it produces: merchants launched, merchants that survive and grow, and a partner base that gets measurably better at Shopify every quarter.
The work is genuinely unfinished. Partner capability is uneven, merchant success after launch is low, and the operating model is still being built. You will be making calls with incomplete data, in a market that moves faster than most, on one of the biggest openings Shopify has.