Senior Partnerships Manager

YouLend•Atlanta, GA

17h

About The Position

As a Senior Partnership Manager at YouLend, you will be responsible for managing relationships with YouLend’s key strategic partners in the payments, e-commerce, food delivery and technology space. You will be responsible for delivering on growth targets, and will interact daily with senior external stakeholders in a broad range of departments. In this role you will be responsible for creating and delivering the strategy for YouLend’s key partners, with the focus always on delivering value for our partners. Operating in a fast paced high-growth environment, the ideal applicant will have a proven track record of successfully managing commercial partnerships and building strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders across all departments including Product, Sales and Risk.

Requirements

Autonomous individual with 5+ years’ experience in a partner facing sales role, for example as a Key Account Manager, Senior Partnership Manager, or Relationship Manager.
Strong aptitude for establishing and maintaining effective working relationships and the ability to interact effectively with people at all levels of an organization.
Experience owning revenue targets and driving measurable commercial growth
Track record managing complex, high-value B2B partnerships
Proven ability to assess partnerships with a strategic lens and identify key areas for partnership growth/improvement.
Ability to multi-task and effectively prioritize different projects or tasks at once.
Comfortable using data to drive strategy and influence outcomes
Ability to operative operate autonomously in a high-growth, fast-changing environment

Nice To Haves

Experience in embedded finance, merchant cash advance, working capital, or lending
Experience working with US payment processors, ISV’s or marketplaces
Experience scaling partnerships from early-stage to high-growth

Responsibilities

Full commercial ownership of key US strategic partnerships
Revenue growth and performance against ambitious US expansion targets
Quarterly and annual joint business planning
Executive stakeholder management and governance
Identification and launch of new product initiatives within partner ecosystem
Performance analysis, forecasting, and data-driven growth strategy
Cross functional execution across Product, Risk, Sales and Operations
Negotiation of commercial expansions, renewals, and upsell opportunities

Benefits

Why join YouLend?
YouLend is backed by EQT, one of the world’s leading private equity firms
YouLend is scaling rapidly across North America, with some exciting brands launching imminently
Clear path for progression as the US business scales
Award-Winning Workplace: YouLend has been recognized as one of the “Best Places to Work in 2024 and 2025” by the Sunday Times for being a supportive, diverse, and rewarding workplace.
Award-Winning Fintech: YouLend has been recognized as a “Top 250 Fintech Worldwide” company by CNBC.
It’s just getting fun: We have developed powerful solutions, won some significant partnerships, and are growing at a rapid pace. But the global opportunity is still massive, and YouLend is a raw organisation where we are only just getting started.
Lots of upsides: High-growth (>100% growth during 2025), so clear outlook to compensation (bonus or share option appreciation) and career growth (through growth with business).
Well-capitalized with supportive private equity backing.
Part of Banking Circle Group with a fully licensed Luxembourg bank, which can provide a balance sheet and support European expansion in otherwise complex regulated markets.
Motivating work environment: A high-quality team that pushes each other to succeed through direct feedback and aligned incentives.
Strong and transparent team culture, we have each other’s backs.
Independent work environment where results matter.
Data-driven culture and emphasis on speed (anti-red tape).
We offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes:
Health Care Coverage. Youlend covers 80%; employee contribution is 20% of the premium.
Medical Plan (medical insurance and prescription drug coverage)- Choice of 5 different plans through United Healthcare.
Dental plan coverage
Vision plan coverage
Benefits can be for: Employee only; Employee & Spouse; Employee & Child; Employee & Family
Retirement - 401K match. Employee match $1 for $1 up to 5% of salary.
Basic Life & AD&D Insurance.
International travel insurance covered if traveling abroad for work purposes.
Paid Time Off (PTO)- 20 working days (4 weeks) + US public holidays
Paid Office Parking
At YouLend, we champion diversity and embrace equal opportunity employment practices. Our hiring, transfer, and promotion decisions are exclusively based on qualifications, merit, and business requirements, free from any discrimination based on race, gender, age, disability, religion, nationality, or any other protected basis under applicable law.