Desiree Motamedi, VP, Global Head of Product Marketing, Shopify

Desiree Motamedi – VP, Global Head of Product Marketing at Shopify. Desiree is a global marketing leader at Shopify, dedicated to the overall success of its product awareness and adoption, and ensuring that the company is at the forefront of Commerce trends. She is a leader of Inbound, GTM, and Outbound marketing efforts, with over 20 years of experience.

She previously worked at Meta as a Senior Global Marketing Director, defining a strong brand and driving pipeline results for the company’s work collaboration tool, Workplace. Earlier in her career, Desiree built a vibrant developer community in her role at Google as a Marketing Lead, and prior to that, she began her career at Adobe, where she led the effort to repackage Creative Suite and Flash Media Server.

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