Senior Partnerships Manager

About Us

You Lend is a leading global embedded financing platform powering the growth of the world’s most innovative e-commerce, payments, and technology companies. Our technology enables platforms and payment providers to offer fast, flexible capital to their merchants
-fully embedded, fully branded, and without taking balance sheet risk.

Backed by EQT and part of the Banking Circle Group, You Lend has scaled rapidly across the UK and Europe and is now accelerating its expansion across the United States. The US market represents our largest growth opportunity, and Atlanta is a key commercial hub in that strategy.

We power embedded finance for global platforms including eBay, Amazon, Grubhub, Shift4, and Stripe - and we’re just getting started in the US.

As embedded finance becomes mission-critical to platforms, You Lend is positioned at the centre of this transformation.

As a Senior Partnership Manager atYouLend, you willbe responsible for managing relationships with

YouLend’skey strategic partners in the payments, e-commerce, fooddeliveryand technology space.

You willbe responsible for delivering ongrowthtargets, andwill interact daily with senior external stakeholders in a broad range of departments. In thisroleyou willbe responsible for creating and delivering the strategy forYouLend’skey 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 recordof successfully managing commercial partnerships and building strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders across all departments including Product,Salesand Risk.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• You Lendis backed by EQT, one of the world’s leading private equity firms
• You Lendis scaling rapidly across North America, with some exciting brands launching imminently
• Clear path for progression as the US business scales
• Award-Winning Workplace:
  
  You Lendhas beenrecognizedas 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:
  
  You Lendhas beenrecognizedas a “Top 250 Fintech Worldwide” company by CNBC.

• We have developed powerful solutions, won some significant partnerships, and are growing at a rapid pace.
• But the global opportunity is still massive, and You Lend is a raw organisation where we are only just getting started.

• High-growth (>100% growth during 2025), so clear outlook to compensation (bonus or share option…