What You Will Be Doing
We are seeking a Manager to join the Financial Partnerships team to support rapid growth and expansion in North America.
Your main responsibility will be to manage strategic partnerships with Checkout's US Sponsor Banks and contribute to the development and execution of our growth strategy in North America.
- Manage and develop sponsor bank partnerships to deliver high‑performing payment solutions and services to our customers.
- Ensure existing processes are followed and deliverables are met by both sides in a partnership, designing and developing new processes to scale those partnerships for growth, efficiency and performance improvement.
- Collaborate effectively with various teams in the partner organization such as Business Development, Relationship Management, Risk, Compliance, Product, and Operations across all levels.
- Facilitate internal cross‑functional collaboration with Product, Risk, Compliance, Underwriting, Legal, Finance, Operations, Commercial and other teams.
- Develop and execute a best‑in‑class partnership management model and act as the single point of contact internally and externally for assigned partnerships.
- Use payments industry knowledge to develop and execute acquiring and issuing strategies to support our growth with new products, services and market segments.
- Leverage industry knowledge and partners' capabilities to act as local market subject matter experts for internal teams.
About You
- 5–10 years experience in payment processing, acquiring, issuing or managing payment partnerships that achieve best‑in‑class performance.
- Strong sense of ownership across operations, project management, business development, and relationship management to deliver business results.
- Excellent collaborator and communicator with the ability to influence stakeholders across internal and external organizations.
- Payments‑obsessed: familiar with the US acquiring and issuing landscape and experienced with bank‑rail payment methods such as ACH, RTP, and FedNow, and passionate about payments innovation.
- Data‑driven, analytical and strategic in problem solving and identifying opportunities to drive growth and efficiency. Proficient in data analysis tools such as MS Excel or Google Sheets and presentation tools such as MS PowerPoint and Google Slides.
- Highly motivated, results‑oriented individual with a strong work ethic and a passion for driving growth.
- Comfortable working across time zones and cultures in a globally distributed team.
