Essential Responsibilities:
- Oversee tactical plans to execute the payment partnership strategy effectively.
- Cultivate and manage relationships with mid-to-senior-level stakeholders at partner organizations.
- Negotiate agreements that align with strategic goals and deliver value to both parties.
- Coordinate with internal teams (e.g., product, marketing, legal) to implement partnership initiatives.
- Monitor partnership performance metrics to ensure alignment with business objectives.
- Identify opportunities for collaboration to enhance product offerings and market reach.
- Respond proactively to changes in industry regulations and competitive trends.
- Drive partnership goals and progress to internal stakeholders.
- Facilitate knowledge sharing between internal teams and external partners to drive innovation.
- Support the Director in shaping long-term strategies and preparing for executive-level discussions.
Expected Qualifications:
- 8+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead negotiations with potential external partners and ecosystem participants while engaging with various internal colleagues to ensure successful delivery of solutions in a complex, rapidly changing environment spanning traditional, centralized and decentralized financial vectors.
- Drive growth among key existing partnerships on behalf of PayPal Crypto
- Identify, explore, and bring to market new partnerships, collaborations, and distribution opportunities that expand the utility and ubiquity of PYUSD and PayPal Crypto products
- Serve as a subject matter expert of our stablecoin, PayPal USD, and the PayPal Crypto product portfolio while working with PayPal’s robust global merchant account and sales teams.
Ideal Experience
- Expert domain expertise across business development and commercial negotiation, especially in fintech and/or payments with international and cross-border components.
- Knowledge of blockchain protocols, TradFi, Centralized, DeFi, and Agentic ecosystems, with an established network among both retail and institutional crypto platforms.
- Demonstrated business and product knowledge within the payments ecosystem, particularly in high-risk verticals for B2B, B2C and B2B2C use cases.
- Data-driven decision making skills along with a customer/ partner-centric perspective with results that display a high ability to influence external stakeholders.
- Documented track record displaying successful negotiation and delivery of high-impact partnerships that achieve measurable results.
Critical Leadership Capabilities
- Problem solving mindset
- Demonstrates accountability, attention to detail and ability to handle complex situations with multiple workstreams and internal/external stakeholders.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to work across the organization andinteract/influence/negotiateeffectively at all levels of management and peers
- Empathy and ability to address problems from the partner and end-user point of view
- Initiative and ownership to resolve day to day obstacles and judgment to escalate where/as needed
Travel Percent:
The total compensation for this practice may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. For more information, visit .
The US national annual pay range for this role is $123,500 to $212,850
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