Strategic Partnerships & Market Expansion Manager / U.S. Launch Fintech Scale-Up

About the Company

We are supporting a hyper-growth fintech providing an all-in-one payment orchestration platform for subscription-based and recurring revenue businesses.

With a single integration to over 100 PSPs worldwide the platform enables merchants to:

Optimize costs

Maximize revenue

Simplify recurring billing

Unlock flexible routing & smart retry logic

Access advanced tools: fraud detection CRM integration accounting reconciliation and analytics

After strong traction in Europe the company is now gearing up to scale across the U.S. and high-growth international markets. As such were hiring a strategic Payment Partnerships Manager to lead the PSP acquisition strategy and play a critical role in global growth.

Your Mission

Youll be the face of the company to PSPs and acquirers globally; a true dealmaker trusted partner and internal connector between strategy product and commercial.

Tasks

• Source and sign PSP/acquirer partnerships especially in the U.S. and high-opportunity markets
• Negotiate and finalize MID agreements securing favorable terms for merchants
• Act as the main relationship owner for PSPs supporting merchant onboarding and long-term collaboration
• Collaborate with product & tech teams to ensure PSP compatibility integration and routing logic
• Contribute to GTM strategy by building the payment rails needed to unlock new verticals regions and revenue streams
• Provide market intelligence on the payments landscape (especially high-risk markets and U.S. infrastructure gaps)

Requirements

Profile Were Looking For

This is a role for someone entrepreneurial technical enough to grasp payment flows and confident in high-level business negotiations.Must-Haves:

• 3 years experience in payments fintech or e-commerce working with PSPs gateways or acquirers
• Experience with MID onboarding payment stack optimization or international PSP sourcing
• Strong deal negotiation skills with a commercial mindset
• Confident communicator ; able to pitch influence and maintain high-level relationships
• Fluent in English; other languages are a plus
• Ability to work independently and handle ambiguity ; this is a builder role
• Existing network of U.S PSP/acquirer contacts

Nice-to-Have:

• Existing network EU PSP/acquirer contacts

• Experience working for a PSP acquiring bank or payment orchestration platform (e.g. Stripe Adyen Checkout Primer Payoneer Spreedly)

• Familiarity with high-risk verticals international processing and merchant compliance

What Success Looks Like

• 50100 PSP partnerships signed in the first 1218 months
• Merchant onboarding SLAs reduced by 2550%
• New PSP integrations accelerated through internal coordination
• Revenue and approval rates increase via smarter routing and PSP diversification
• Strategic contribution to U.S. go-to-market and payment infrastructure scalability

Benefits

Whats In It for You

• Salary up to 80000 base uncapped bonuses (average 2K per signed PSP deal)
• Opportunity to lead a strategic lever in a well-funded fintech scale-up
• Autonomy and direct access to the C-suite
• Full Remote flexibility
• Real career growth opportunities and international exposure
• Work in a no-BS delivery-first culture where output matters more than politics

InterestedSend your CV to or apply via LinkedIn.