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Partner Development Manager, Strategic Partnerships

San Francisco, CANew York, NYSeattle, WAChicago, ILRemote8+ YOE
Summary

This role involves evaluating and developing business cases for new strategic partnerships across various verticals, managing strategic planning and negotiation, and fostering relationships with key partners. The manager will work cross-functionally to scale partnerships and increase team velocity.

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Evaluate and develop the business case to support Stripe’s product and engineering investment in new strategic partnerships across verticals (e.g. AI, Platforms, Payment Methods)
  • Manage strategic planning, negotiation and new partnership development
  • Ensure highly structured, methodical deal management rooted in milestones, KPIs, and alignment with partners on opportunities of mutual interest
  • Navigate the largest partners, in partnership with product, operations, marketing and sales, to execute deals supporting Stripe’s strategy
  • Develop and grow Stripe’s relationships with partners, including their senior executives and leadership
  • Partner with cross-functional teams (Product, Engineering, Go-to-Market Partnerships, Product Marketing, Operations) to design and implement strategies and processes that will enable us to scale our partnerships and increase our velocity as a team

Minimum requirements

  • 8+ years of partnerships experience with 2+ years of business development experience, establishing partnerships with financial institutions, fintech, payment method, or equivalent strategic, complex partners
  • Strong agency, can handle ambiguity in a fast-moving organization, and thrives on a high level of autonomy and responsibility
  • Strong communication skills, in both verbal and written form, and ability to influence internal and external stakeholders across a wide variety of functions
  • Technical acumen, an ability to understand Stripe’s product portfolio and strategy and use this understanding to define requirements with partners and evaluate new partnership opportunities
  • 2+ years experience defining and executing partnership strategies to build innovative product experiences
  • 2+ years experience negotiating commercial deals with top financial and technology institutions, including scaling such deals across multiple partners
  • Interest in and intellectual curiosity about payments, economic infrastructure, and Stripe’s partners
Skills
Partnership DevelopmentBusiness DevelopmentStrategic PlanningNegotiationDeal ManagementTechnical AcumenCommercial DealsFintechPayment MethodsAI