Senior Strategic Partnerships Manager
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We are actively recruiting for an experienced Senior Strategic Partnerships leader to join the Mercury Partnerships team. In 2025, we plan to launch several new channels that will expand our audience and open up new partnership opportunities for Mercury. We are excited to chat with seasoned Partnerships professionals that have a long tenure of launching new programs from 0-1. A high priority channel we will be focusing on this year is Ecommerce. This will be the first channel you will take ownership of as a Senior Strategic Partnerships lead.
Responsibilities:
Strategic Planning: Leverage your vast partnerships experience to build a strategic plan that highlights the key industries and companies we will target, develop the incentives & product value props we will use to differentiate ourselves from the competition, and illustrate how we will grow the channel over time. You will own strategic partner recruitment end-to-end, beginning with initial partnership scoping, negotiation, signing, launch, and ongoing partner management.
Strategic Partnership Management: Effective at building and maintaining senior-level relationships with strategic partners to drive joint revenue opportunities. Has a proven track record of developing and executing a unique strategy for each partner, including business planning, co-marketing motions, and enablement initiatives. Can easily reference and describe in detail previous programs you have launched from 0-1, the challenges you overcame, and how you achieved the success metrics of these programs.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Values working closely with product, marketing, and other relevant teams to align on strategic initiatives that drive deeper technical integrations and differentiated value propositions. Can speak to specific examples of how you built relationships internally to execute new partner product launches, expand API capabilities, or drive new partner incentives.
Program Ownership: Based on your experience of launching new channels from 0-1, you understand what KPIs are required for success, can get the right reporting in place, and overall use data to guide your focus and program pivots. Data also informs how you approach structuring partnerships and you can speak to specific examples of how data contributed to the successful Partnerships Programs you have launched.
Product: You are a product expert, well-versed in all of the potential ways companies can integrate and partner with Mercury, including API integrations. In addition, you prioritize customer feedback and pain points and can work cross-functionally with product and engineering to prioritize Partner & client feedback thus improving Mercury’s feature set and creating more delightful user experiences for Partners and clients.
Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
8+ years of experience
Ecommerce experience a plus as this will be the first channel you inherit
Fintech experience a plus
You are comfortable with change and can adapt. You should assume priorities will change with little notice. You are comfortable operating in that environment.
Experience managing large, diverse, and strategic partner relationships
Be adept at solving ambiguous problems and building for scale
Highly entrepreneurial and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with the ability to thrive under minimal guidance
Communicate with clarity and purpose in both written and verbal communication
The total rewards package at Mercury includes base salary, equity (stock options), and benefits.
Our salary and equity ranges are highly competitive within the SaaS and fintech industry and are updated regularly using the most reliable compensation survey data for our industry. New hire offers are made based on a job candidate’s experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers. We currently do not have any variable compensation or bonus structures in place.
Our target new hire base salary ranges for this role are the following:
US employees in New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, or the San Francisco Bay Area: $220,800-$276,000
US employees outside of New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, or the San Francisco Bay Area: $198,700-$248,400
Canadian employees (any location): 208,700 CAD - 260,800 CAD
We use Covey as part of our hiring and / or promotional process for jobs in NYC and certain features may qualify it as an AEDT. As part of the evaluation process we provide Covey with job requirements and candidate submitted applications. We began using Covey Scout for Inbound on January 22, 2024. Please see the independent bias audit report covering our use of Covey here.
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Senior Strategic Partnerships Manager
To see similar active jobs please follow this link: Remote Management jobs
We are actively recruiting for an experienced Senior Strategic Partnerships leader to join the Mercury Partnerships team. In 2025, we plan to launch several new channels that will expand our audience and open up new partnership opportunities for Mercury. We are excited to chat with seasoned Partnerships professionals that have a long tenure of launching new programs from 0-1. A high priority channel we will be focusing on this year is Ecommerce. This will be the first channel you will take ownership of as a Senior Strategic Partnerships lead.
Responsibilities:
Strategic Planning: Leverage your vast partnerships experience to build a strategic plan that highlights the key industries and companies we will target, develop the incentives & product value props we will use to differentiate ourselves from the competition, and illustrate how we will grow the channel over time. You will own strategic partner recruitment end-to-end, beginning with initial partnership scoping, negotiation, signing, launch, and ongoing partner management.
Strategic Partnership Management: Effective at building and maintaining senior-level relationships with strategic partners to drive joint revenue opportunities. Has a proven track record of developing and executing a unique strategy for each partner, including business planning, co-marketing motions, and enablement initiatives. Can easily reference and describe in detail previous programs you have launched from 0-1, the challenges you overcame, and how you achieved the success metrics of these programs.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Values working closely with product, marketing, and other relevant teams to align on strategic initiatives that drive deeper technical integrations and differentiated value propositions. Can speak to specific examples of how you built relationships internally to execute new partner product launches, expand API capabilities, or drive new partner incentives.
Program Ownership: Based on your experience of launching new channels from 0-1, you understand what KPIs are required for success, can get the right reporting in place, and overall use data to guide your focus and program pivots. Data also informs how you approach structuring partnerships and you can speak to specific examples of how data contributed to the successful Partnerships Programs you have launched.
Product: You are a product expert, well-versed in all of the potential ways companies can integrate and partner with Mercury, including API integrations. In addition, you prioritize customer feedback and pain points and can work cross-functionally with product and engineering to prioritize Partner & client feedback thus improving Mercury’s feature set and creating more delightful user experiences for Partners and clients.
Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
8+ years of experience
Ecommerce experience a plus as this will be the first channel you inherit
Fintech experience a plus
You are comfortable with change and can adapt. You should assume priorities will change with little notice. You are comfortable operating in that environment.
Experience managing large, diverse, and strategic partner relationships
Be adept at solving ambiguous problems and building for scale
Highly entrepreneurial and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with the ability to thrive under minimal guidance
Communicate with clarity and purpose in both written and verbal communication
The total rewards package at Mercury includes base salary, equity (stock options), and benefits.
Our salary and equity ranges are highly competitive within the SaaS and fintech industry and are updated regularly using the most reliable compensation survey data for our industry. New hire offers are made based on a job candidate’s experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers. We currently do not have any variable compensation or bonus structures in place.
Our target new hire base salary ranges for this role are the following:
US employees in New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, or the San Francisco Bay Area: $220,800-$276,000
US employees outside of New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, or the San Francisco Bay Area: $198,700-$248,400
Canadian employees (any location): 208,700 CAD - 260,800 CAD
We use Covey as part of our hiring and / or promotional process for jobs in NYC and certain features may qualify it as an AEDT. As part of the evaluation process we provide Covey with job requirements and candidate submitted applications. We began using Covey Scout for Inbound on January 22, 2024. Please see the independent bias audit report covering our use of Covey here.
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