Senior Account Manager, Banking & Investing

Launch Potato•Jersey City, NJ

20h•$150,000 - $170,000

About The Position

Launch Potato is seeking a hands-on Partnerships & Business Development expert to grow banking, deposits, and investing partners and bring on new partners. Approximately 70–80% of the role focuses on growing existing partners through larger budgets, better economics, and broader distribution; the remaining work involves acquiring new partners, primarily through warm relationships, with outbound outreach especially on the investing side. The Senior Account Manager works alongside the Head of Partnerships, who focuses on the largest strategic partners. The role owns the operations for those strategic accounts and has full operational and strategic responsibility for other banking, deposits, and investing partners. The position connects partner needs to placements across FinanceBuzz and Launch Potato’s publisher network and contributes to developing the strategy for these categories. The goal is to work closely with the Head of Partnerships during the first 90 days and operate independently by about day 120. The role combines account growth, partner operations, business development, negotiation, and coordination with internal teams. It manages partner campaigns from onboarding through optimization, develops proposals and new-partner opportunities, and maintains accurate pipeline and forecasts. Compensation is a base salary of $150,000 to $170,000, set according to level and expertise based on initial interviews, plus an annual bonus based on company EBITDA and personal performance. There is no commission.

Requirements

Direct experience on the advertiser side of a financial comparison publisher, marketplace, or performance network, managing bank, deposit, or investing partners.
A demonstrated record of growing accounts, including the ability to explain how a partner’s budget was increased and what drove that growth.
Sales ability, including opening doors and closing deals; comfort with cold outreach, especially to investing apps.
Ability and willingness to personally manage operational details such as URL approvals, budget changes, CPA adjustments, placement coordination, and widget coordination.
Ability to work independently and mobilize internal teams to get work done.
Fluency in performance economics, including CPA, CPL, CPC, and revenue share.
Business acumen to use performance, revenue, and unit-economic data in negotiations.
Strong communication, relationship-building, and negotiation skills across multiple partners and opportunities.

Nice To Haves

Publisher experience or familiarity with publisher terminology.
Experience in wealth management, financial advisory, RIAs, or advisor networks.
Existing relationships with banks, fintech companies, investment platforms, or related financial-services companies.
Experience selling customer acquisition, media, lead generation, or performance-based marketing.

Responsibilities

Grow existing banking, deposits, and investing partners through budget growth, better unit economics, broader product coverage, and increased share of wallet.
Run operations for the company’s largest strategic banking partners alongside the Head of Partnerships.
Own partner operations from onboarding through campaign management, reporting, issue resolution, and optimization.
Develop proposals that connect partner goals with placements, audiences, and distribution across FinanceBuzz and the publisher network.
Maintain accurate pipeline information, forecasts, partner updates, and next steps.
Represent Launch Potato at industry events and partner meetings.
Build a pipeline of new partners across banking, deposits, investing, and wealth.
Reach decision makers through relationships, referrals, events, and outbound outreach.
Manage new-partner conversations from first outreach through pitching, deal negotiation, contracting, and launch.
Develop a clear understanding of each partner’s growth goals, economics, products, and target customers.
Coordinate with account management, product, media, analytics, compliance, legal, and finance to execute partner initiatives.
Direct internal traffic and connect partner activity to media opportunities as the role develops.