Partner Sales Manager job in Minneapolis

About the Role:

Sezzle is looking for an experienced partnerships sales rep to contribute to all aspects of Sezzle’s partnerships strategy. Your responsibilities will include identifying and creating new partnership opportunities, maximizing value from existing partnership relationships, marketing and promoting our partners, serving as primary point of contact and account manager for key partners, and generally helping Sezzle to build a best-in-class eCommerce partnership program. In addition, you will be asked to contribute to and manage other initiatives and strategic projects to help Sezzle achieve its goals and build the business.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with strategic partnerships, eCommerce platforms, digital agencies, eCommerce technology companies, in-depth payments ecosystem knowledge and in-store solutions. A general understanding of eCommerce technologies and experience with payments are both required.

This is a full-time position, preferably based out of MN headquarters.

About Sezzle:

Sezzle is a cutting-edge fintech company whose long-standing mission is to financially empower the next generation. Only one in three millennials own a credit card, and the vast majority of millennials possess a subprime credit score or no score at all. To address these problems, Sezzle has built a payment platform that increases purchasing power for consumers by offering interest-free installment plans at online stores. This increase in purchasing power for consumers leads to increased sales and basket sizes for the 40,000+ eCommerce merchants that currently work with Sezzle.

As the first and only B-Corp in the payments space, Sezzle’s goal is to help everyone pursue financial freedom, and to invest in social good and ethical initiatives that shape a better world.

At Sezzle, we’re committed to putting purpose alongside profitability. We work hard to maintain rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency to build a better world. The employees at Sezzle lean into significant societal and cultural shifts, ensuring internal and external focus on positive impacts that benefit our community.

Responsibilities:

• Working closely with the partnerships team exhibiting detailed communication and collaboration skills
• Identifying, evaluating, and engaging partners and finding growth opportunities
• Working closely with the tech team to develop new integrations and helping create new partner-driven product solutions
• Collaborating with the sales and marketing team to promote our partnerships and drive value for our merchants
• Negotiating complex partnership agreements and manage executive-level relationships with partners
• Planning and coordinating partner events -meetups, lunch & learns, conferences
• Building internal partnership processes and best practices
• Analyzing and reporting on partnership program success internally to leadership and externally to partners
• Managing projects and relationships that require strategic thinking, quantitative analysis, and problem-solving

Ideal Skills & Experience:

• 3+ years of business development experience at a payments company, eCommerce platform, technology company, or a digital agency, strategic partnerships experience a plus
• Deep understanding of the eCommerce and POS industry landscape and key players involving eCommerce technologies, platforms and experience with payments is required
• The candidate brings a deep and robust contact list of innovative partners in the payments, platform, tech partner and BNPL space
• Bachelor’s degree, MBA a plus
• Excellent presentation, verbal and written communication skills
• Detail oriented with ability to creatively construct partner deals
• Salesforce.com experience
• Organized, with an ability to prioritize time-sensitive assignments
• Entrepreneurial drive
• Problem-solving mindset
• Track record of working with a cross-functional team to move projects forward
• Skilled at quantitative analysis and leveraging data to make decisions

About You:

• A+ character. We are team-first here at Sezzle.
• A hard-working mentality. It’s early and there is still a lot to build.
• An excellent communicator.
• A fun attitude. Life’s too short. We can have fun while we work hard on cool things.
• Smarts. We need people that are smart enough to make decisions on their own and also smart enough to know when they need input from others.

Perks & Benefits:

• Competitive salary and benefits
• Generous stock options
• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• Life and long-term disability insurance
• 401k with match
• Collaborative workspace, commuter benefits, full-stocked kitchen, weekly lunches and much more!
• The opportunity to join Minneapolis’s fastest growing startup alongside a team of motivated and driven individuals

What Makes Working at Sezzle Awesome?

At Sezzle, we are more than just brilliant engineers, passionate data enthusiasts, out-of-the-box thinkers, and determined innovators; we are skilled musicians, yogis, cyclists, chefs, golfers, dog-lovers, and rock-climbers. We believe in surrounding ourselves with not only the best and the brightest individuals, but those that are unique and purpose-driven in all that they do. Our culture is not defined by a certain set of perks designed to give the illusion of the traditional startup culture, but rather, it is the visible example living in every employee that we hire.

Sezzle provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information or characteristics, marital status, familial status, veteran or military status, status regarding public assistance, membership or activity in a local commission, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.