Global Head of Partnerships

1 мес. назад

United KingdomEuropeHeadOnsite

Lead global partnerships strategy to enhance commercial value and accelerate company growth in fintech.

Требования

Partnership Guru: Extensive experience in Partnerships, Business Development, or Product Strategy within Fintech or Enterprise SaaS. The best candidates will have experience across commercial, delivery and product partnerships, and exposure to the end-to-end cycle of originating a partner to delivering a partner-enabled solution to a client.
Commercially Driven: You know when a partnership makes sense, strategically and commercially. When they do make sense, you know how to set the right incentives to deliver maximum value for both sides. You have a track record of closing complex, multi-million pound deals, understand how to align technical product roadmaps alongside partners, and know how to have the right conversations to move partnerships forward.
Solution-Minded: You have a passion for financial technology and can identify which combination of and partner tech solves industry problems most efficiently, commercially and technically.
Expert Navigator: You can effectively influence internal and external teams, exciting people about what’s possible, while simultaneously anticipating and navigating the procurement, legal, and risk hurdles inherent in deals in our industry.
Effective Leader: You have experience managing and developing teams through rapid scale, focusing on clear accountability and the transition from a "deal-support" to a "market-making" model.
A Master Communicator: You navigate high-level negotiations with global incumbents and agile startups alike, building trust through clarity and commercial logic.
Traits we value:
Commercial Rigour: You prioritise opportunities based on ROI, market demand, and strategic impact.
Ambitious Outlook: You are motivated by the challenge of replacing legacy banking tech and believe in the AI-powered future of finance.
Metrics Driven: You are able to set and enforce leading, present, and lagging metrics on performance, both for our partners and our team
Decisiveness: You are comfortable making high-stakes calls and moving at the pace of a Series E scale-up.
Directness: You value transparency and provide clear, actionable insights to your team and your peers.
Empowering: You know getting work done through others and developing others yields better results long term

Условия

Highly competitive salary
Pension plan (match up to 5%)
Life insurance - three times annual salary
Competitive maternity (six months fully paid) and paternity leave (four weeks fully paid)
Shared parental leave (matched to our maternity leave for the same point in time)
25 days holiday and bank holidays
Flexible working hours
Cycle-to-work scheme
Electric car scheme
Season ticket loan
Access to outstanding learning materials and courses
Sports and hobby clubs, subsidised by
All the latest tech you need
Start the day properly with fresh fruit and cereals
Huge range of healthy (and not-so-healthy) snacks, smooth
We actively hire candidates who demonstrate technical excellence in their field and welcome people of all ages and backgrounds, providing everyone with equal access to professional development. You are encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't accurately match the job description. We also encourage applications from those with different abilities, including candidates with ADHD, autism, dyslexia or dyspraxia.

Другое

's mission is bold – to properly and permanently rid the world's banks of legacy technology. To achieve this, we have developed the foundations of modern banking through core and payments technology which run natively in the cloud. What we are attempting is hard and means we need great people working together to build great technology.
We have grown rapidly in the past few years – growing our team to more than 550 individuals across offices in London, New York, Singapore, Sydney and our newly established Engineering Hub in Lisbon. We have raised more than £500m in funding and our investors include Molten Ventures, Eurazeo, Intesa Sanpaolo, Temasek, Nyca Partners, JPMorgan Chase Strategic Investments, Standard Chartered Ventures, and more.
We have created a culture that enables our team to produce the best work in the industry while ensuring we have fun along the way. We're regularly cited as having a fantastic workplace culture and have been recognised by Sifted magazine as having one of the highest Glassdoor ratings for a UK fintech company and the industry's most generous employee share package. Named one of the world's most innovative fintechs by Global Finance Magazine, we were also recognised by the Financial Times as one of Europe's fastest-growing companies for two consecutive years—and a UK Best Employer for 2026.
A key element of that is a strong partnerships ecosystem that delivers commercial value, enhances our proposition, and accelerates the value our clients see on the ground. Therefore, we are now looking for a Head of Global Partnerships to architect, enable, lead that ecosystem, bringing Vault Core and Vault Payments to every bank and fintech on the planet. As Global Head of Partnerships, you’ll lead a global team to enhance our partner ecosystem, creating a market-leading engine which gets our products live with our clients more efficiently, enhances the value our products have for our clients, and accelerates our overall growth in existing and new markets. A successful leader will possess strong commercial acumen and a hunger to deliver outstanding partner and client outcomes, but also a
Ecosystem Strategy & Architecture: Identify and prioritise partnership categories, from global payment networks to AI-driven specialists, that enhance our competitive position and solve critical client needs.
Commercial Deal Architecture: Design and negotiate high-stakes commercial agreements, including joint go-to-market (GTM) strategies and related revenue sharing and incentives that drive profitable ARR growth for and our partners.
Commercial Enablement & GTM: Develop the playbooks and sales enablement tools required to turn joint-solutions into sellable product sets that accelerate sales cycles and open new territories.
Team Leadership & Scaling: Manage and scale a high-performing team of five Partnership Managers, shifting the focus from "introductions" to "executed commercial outcomes" while building repeatable global processes.
Market-Product Alignment: Collaborate with Product Leads to ensure that product partnerships and related third-party integrations are high-quality, reliable, and add immediate value to our core banking and payments products.
Strategic Intelligence: Act as a primary feedback loop for the CPO, providing data-backed insights on market trends and competitor moves to inform "build-vs-buy-vs-partner" decisions.
Partner Enablement & Quality Control: Establish and enforce "Vault-Certified" standards, defining the technical and operational benchmarks partners must meet to ensure confident and efficient deliveries, and working alongside others to structure and deliver programmes which help partners to be confident in selling or delivering our solutions.
Regional Expansion: Develop and execute partnership plans that support our growth in North America, EMEA, LATAM and APAC, ensuring our ecosystem is not only strong globally, but also is localised and compliant to in-region requirements.
Performance & ROI Optimisation: Implement a rigorous framework for tracking ecosystem health, focusing on metrics such as partner-influenced pipeline, integration adoption, and impact on customer time-to-value.