Manager, Business Development - Platform Partnerships

About the role

The BD Manager is a quota-carrying, revenue-producing role responsible for building and scaling the partnership motion across Mastercard Services. The role is responsible for identifying, developing, negotiating, and launching new strategic platform partnerships that accelerate revenue growth and expand market distribution for Ethoca, and other complimentary solutions.

This is a sales-first role focused on acquiring new business through ecosystem partnerships including payment service providers, acquirers, issuer processors, gateways, fraud providers, orchestration platforms, subscription platforms, commerce platforms, and other strategic distribution partners – across Mid-Market and Emerging Enterprise accounts.

Responsibilities

• Identify, qualify, and secure strategic partnership opportunities while building a robust pipeline of platform providers across issuing, acquiring, and merchant-enabler ecosystems.
• Own the full sales cycle from prospecting and discovery through business case development, proposal creation, negotiation, and execution.
• Consistently achieve and exceed annual bookings and revenue targets.
• Develop and execute territory and account plans focused on long-term market expansion.
• Design scalable partnership and commercial models, including reseller, referral, wholesale, embedded, marketplace, and revenue-share structures.
• Evaluate market trends, competitive offerings, and emerging ecosystem opportunities to inform growth initiatives, product strategy, and partnership investments.
• Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, including C-suite, product, commercial, and partnership leaders.
• Lead strategic discussions on fraud prevention, dispute management, customer experience, payments innovation, and consumer engagement.
• Deliver executive presentations, business reviews, and partnership proposals that advance customer objectives and commercial outcomes.
• Partner cross-functionally to onboard new partners, drive post-contract activation, support go-to-market execution, and monitor launch performance.
• Maintain deep expertise in payments, fraud prevention, chargeback management, Mastercard Services, and emerging industry trends.

Requirements

• Experience in business development, strategic partnerships, enterprise sales, payments, fintech, SaaS, or related industries, with a demonstrated ability to originate and close net new business.
• Proven record of achieving or exceeding revenue and bookings targets, supported by strong pipeline management and forecasting discipline.
• Experience negotiating complex partnership agreements and navigating enterprise sales cycles with multiple stakeholders.
• Expertise in consultative, value-based selling, with the ability to influence senior leaders internally and externally.
• Ability to identify scalable growth opportunities, build repeatable partnership models, and balance short-term bookings objectives with long-term strategic value.
• Strong commercial acumen, including experience developing revenue-based business cases, financial models, ROI analyses, and growth projections.
• Ability to leverage data to identify opportunities, quantify value, support recommendations, and translate complex insights into clear commercial actions.
• Strong understanding of payments, fraud, risk, disputes, acquiring, issuing, or related fintech ecosystems preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; advanced business or industry credentials a plus.

Skills

• Business Development
• Strategic Partnerships
• Enterprise Sales
• Payments
• Fintech
• SaaS

Benefits

• Base Salary
• Annual Bonus or Commissions
• Insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance)
• Flexible Spending Account and Health Savings Account
• Paid Leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave)
• Paid Sick and Safe Time (80 hours), Vacation Time, Personal Days, and U.S. Observed Holidays
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Many More...

Pay

The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Schedule

Assuming the role will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role.

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization, and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

• Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;
• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and;
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.