Partner Development Manager, EMEA Strategic Payments Partnerships - Stripe

Who we are 

About Stripe 

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use 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 everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career.

About the team

The Global Payments Partnerships team develops and manages relationships with payment methods and ecosystem partners that enable Stripe’s product strategy and deliver new capabilities to Stripe users. Our team executes on high-impact, cross-functional initiatives across new products, geographic expansion, user advocacy, and policy. These partnerships have a significant impact on Stripe and the products used by millions of our users.

What you’ll do

We are looking for a Partner Development Manager who will deepen our most strategic relationships and execute on high-impact initiatives and strategy with payments technology partners (e.g. EMEA Wallets and BNPLs). These partnerships form the basis of Stripe’s product and as part of these efforts, this person will build internal business cases and identify product requirements, influence cross-functional teams and ensure internal alignment. This will fit into a multi-year global strategic plan for Stripe with our payments partners upon which this person will be instrumental in developing and executing.

Responsibilities

• Manage Stripe’s most critical EMEA payment method partnerships, with a focus on driving the execution of joint initiatives and launching new offerings to benefit Stripe users
• Ensure best-in-class, methodical partner and deal management rooted in milestone management, KPIs and alignment on opportunities of mutual interest
• Leverage industry knowledge to craft thoughtful partnership and product strategies, and execute deals and initiatives that support Stripe’s strategy 
• Gather inputs from and coordinate with internal cross-functional stakeholders (including risk, compliance, product, engineering, treasury) to drive creation and execution of partner (and related product) strategy
• Identify partner stakeholders who will champion Stripe, educate them about Stripe’s value proposition, and build alignment between Stripe and our partner’s executive teams
• Manage strategic planning and deal negotiation/expansion with our key EMEA payments partner(s)
• Manage multiple stakeholders with varying priorities and drive creative solutions and commitment to a shared goal
• Uses strategic and product creativity to collaborate with Stripe leaders to develop new models for global payments systems and networks
• 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

We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Minimum requirements

• 12+ years of experience in strategic partnerships, business development, corporate development or related field
• 3 years of experience related to payments
• Thorough understanding of  EMEA payment method dynamics and business models
• Broad and deep experience executing industry-wide partnership strategies to build innovative product experiences and go to market models
• Experience negotiating commercial deals with local payment methods, including scaling such deals across multiple partners
• Experience working in a product centric environments with significant internal and external dependencies
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence stakeholders internally and externally across a wide variety of functions
• Strong agency, can handle ambiguity in a fast-moving organization, and thrives on a high level of autonomy and responsibility

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