Flex

Senior Director, Strategic Partnerships – New Verticals

Flex

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: New York City • California, New York • 🇺🇸 United States

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Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Spearhead Flex’s expansion into nascent, non-discretionary payment categories (insurance, HOAs, utilities, auto)
  • Originate, negotiate, and close high-value, complex enterprise partnership deals for Flex’s embedded split pay/BNPL offering
  • Shape market entry strategy and collaborate with senior leadership on GTM approach
  • Work closely with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Finance to ensure successful technical deployment and long-term partnership health
  • Develop, prioritize, and manage a robust pipeline of strategic opportunities and convert prospects into marquee accounts
  • Act as a trusted advisor to C-level executives at prospective partners and lead complex deal negotiation
  • Lead partnerships from signed agreement through technical deployment to successful go-live

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in strategic partnership and/or enterprise sales within high-growth FinTech environments
  • Proven track record of defining and executing growth strategies and new markets, sourcing and closing first-of-kind opportunities with senior decision-makers for Payments/FinTech (especially BNPL)
  • Demonstrated ability to close deals in new markets with new product/service offerings
  • Exceptional communication, influencing, and complex negotiation skills; ability to operate at C-level
  • Strategic thinking with strong bias for action; comfortable with ambiguity and rapid iteration
  • Strong financial and legal acumen, including building deal models and navigating legal agreements
  • Proven leadership and ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders (Product, Engineering, Marketing)
  • Comfort with ambiguity and ability to build structure in loosely defined situations
  • Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or advanced degree strongly preferred
Benefits
  • Competitive pay
  • 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision
  • 401(k) + company equity
  • Unlimited paid time off + 13 company paid holidays
  • Parental leave
  • Flex Cares Program
  • Free Flex subscription
  • Relocation assistance (may be eligible for candidates relocating to NYC or SF)

ATS Keywords

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Hard skills
enterprise salesstrategic partnershipdeal negotiationgrowth strategiesfinancial acumenlegal acumendeal modelsmarket entry strategytechnical deploymentpipeline management
Soft skills
communicationinfluencingnegotiationstrategic thinkingbias for actioncomfort with ambiguityleadershipcross-functional collaborationtrusted advisorproblem-solving
Certifications
Bachelor's degreeMBA
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