Partner Development Manager, Financial Connections

Who we are

About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companiesfrom the worlds largest enterprises to the most ambitious startupsuse Stripe to accept payments grow their revenue and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyones reach while doing the most important work of your career.

About the team

The Financial Connections team sources develops and manages relationships with our most critical financial institutions banking and ecosystem partners. Our team drives the expansion of Stripes merchant and consumer offerings by building partnerships with the leading companies in these areas. Our team executes on high-impact cross-functional initiatives with these partners across new product initiatives. These partnerships have a significant impact on Stripe and the products used by millions of our users.

What youll do

We are looking for a Partner Development Manager who will be responsible for driving our open banking partnership strategy and executing partnerships with top financial institutions in support of Stripes Financial Connections business ( You will focus on growing our portfolio of partners with the largest banks and credit unions in the US expanding Stripes direct connectivity coverage to ensure consumers have seamless access to their financial data. You will own end-to-end deal strategy and executionfrom sourcing and qualification through negotiation and launchwith many of the top financial institutions across North America. As part of these efforts you will collaborate closely with cross-functional stakeholders including Product Engineering Legal Finance Risk and others. You will also lead relationship management partnering closely with external partners executive leadership to grow our mutual businesses together over the long term.

Responsibilities

• Own a partnership portfolio of top financial institutions and drive them through the full partnership lifecycle from initial outreach to scaled growth on Financial Connections
• Leverage deep knowledge of the open banking ecosystem to guide internal cross-functional stakeholders (including product risk compliance engineering security) through an evolving business and regulatory landscape implementing thoughtful partnership strategies that accelerate Stripes connectivity across the financial ecosystem
• Identify and effectively analyze new partnership opportunities ultimately making recommendations to relevant decision makers and cross-functional stakeholders
• Negotiate strategic partnership agreements with banks and credit unions navigating complex legal compliance and technical requirements
• Develop and maintain executive-level relationships at key financial institutions partnering with Stripe leadership on strategic long term objectives
• Exhibit an operationally focused mindset with an ability to lead teams through complex relationship management activities by setting a clear vision and running tight processes

Who you are

You are a skilled deal maker and a strategist by nature. You understand how to work closely with Product and Engineering teams and can formulate partner strategies that drive tangible and measurable results. You are genuinely motivated by the vision of open banking where consumers have the freedom to access share and use their financial data with any technology platform they choose.

Minimum requirements

• 5 years of experience in partnerships business development corporate development or related field
• Experience negotiating commercial deals with financial institutions including bilateral data access or API agreements
• Exceptionally strong communication skills in both verbal and written form and ability to influence stakeholders across a wide variety of functions including at executive levels
• Technical acumen especially an ability to understand product strategy and use this understanding to define requirements for scaling products through partnerships
• Experience developing partnership strategies and identifying sourcing and analyzing new partnership opportunities
• Strong agency can handle ambiguity in a fast-moving organization and thrives on a high level of autonomy and responsibility

Preferred qualifications

• 2 years of experience working directly with banks credit unions or fintechs on data access open banking or API connectivity initiatives
• Familiarity with open banking standards (FDX) regulatory frameworks (CFPB 1033) and the competitive landscape of financial data aggregation
• Experience managing complex multi-stakeholder deal processes involving legal compliance information security and technical integration teams at large financial institutions