Partner Development Lead, Commerce: Afterpay & Cash App

The Role

The Global Payments Partnerships team leads commercialization and business development for Cash App and Afterpay's payments products. Our ambitious team develops go-to-market strategy for our commercial products, builds effective relationships with the largest players in the payments, finance, and technology industries, and drives critical results across the business. We are looking for an experienced partnerships practitioner to source and own relationships with a select list of our biggest and most strategically important partners.

This Partner Development Lead will work closely with our executive leadership team to manage and grow existing partnerships that represent the biggest upside opportunities for our business globally.

You'll partner directly with leaders at both Afterpay and Cash App across Product, Engineering, Sales, Account Management, Marketing, Finance, Compliance, and Legal. You'll drive a global strategy for your partners and execute on that strategy in conjunction with cross-functional colleagues. You will source and own primary responsibility for the performance of your partners, innovate at the cutting edge of payments, and deliver revenue that will drive growth for our core business.

Qualifications

• 9+ years of business development or partner management experience, preferably at an innovative payments company.
• A demonstrated track record of success managing growth partnership programs, ideally in payments or fintech.
• Proven ability to build C-suite relationships and navigate external organizations both to identify internal champions and to influence decision makers. You are an expert negotiator with a strong understanding of commercial contracts and complex negotiating dynamics that may be simultaneously cooperative and competitive.
• A hunger to tackle complicated and impactful business problems.
• Sharp problem solving and communication skills. You're a killer sales person and strategic thinker who comes armed to internal and external conversations with the right data and analysis to make a convincing argument.
• Deep comfort operating in the ambiguity of an ever-evolving product that operates at scale globally.
• A scrappy and humble mindset to work autonomously. You roll up your sleeves to get things done.
• Willingness to travel (primarily domestically but sometimes internationally) for both internal and external meetings.
• BS/BA required; MBA or Masters degree a plus

What We Offer

• Remote work
• Medical insurance
• Flexible time off
• Retail Savings Plans
• Modern Family Planning

Application Guidelines

Candidates may submit up to 9 active applications within a 60-day period. Reapplications to the same role are accepted 90 days after a previous application has been reviewed.

Contact Us

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Pay Ranges

• Zone A: $198,000—$297,000 USD
• Zone B: $184,200—$276,200 USD
• Zone C: $174,200—$261,400 USD
• Zone D: $164,300—$246,500 USD

AI in Our Hiring Process

We may use automated AI tools to evaluate job applications for efficiency and consistency. These tools comply with local regulations, including bias audits, and we handle all personal data in accordance with state and local privacy laws.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Block is an equal opportunity employer evaluating all employees and job applicants without regard to identity or any legally protected class. We will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and "fair chance" ordinances.

Benefits

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