Startup & VC Partnerships Manager

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San Francisco, CA, USA
In-Office
200K-300K Annually
Expert/Leader
Fintech • Payments • Professional Services
Finix offers everything SaaS companies need to build a world-class payments experience.
The Role
The Business Development Manager will grow Finix's strategic partnerships with startup accelerators and venture capital firms, managing opportunities and negotiations to drive revenue growth.
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About Us

Finix is building the global operating system for fintech, starting with payments. From startups to publicly traded companies, Finix processes tens of billions of dollars annually both in-store and online. Finix was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco.

To date Finix has raised over $200M, including a $75M Series C led by Acrew Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners and backed by American Express Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Homebrew, Inspired Capital, Visa, and others


About Role:
 
Finix is looking to hire an exceptional business development leader to grow and manage Finix’s strategic partnerships within the startup ecosystem, including accelerators and venture capital firms.  

What You’ll Be Doing:

  • Partner with startup accelerators, incubators, and startup community leaders (ex. YC, Techstars, etc) to embed Finix as the preferred payments solution for their cohorts
  • Build a repeatable GTM strategy that identifies and targets top startups through various top-of-funnel activities
  • Create and maintain a strategic account plan for key ecosystem relationships with clear success metrics to drive adoption across VC portfolios
  • Plan and execute events targeting founders and investors (demo days, conferences, hosted dinners) and own the follow-through
  • Actively hunt for new partnership opportunities within Silicon Valley at events, investor conferences, and networking forums
  • Establish and cultivate strong relationships with senior executives within our partners’ organizations
  • Operate in a fast-paced environment, juggling priorities of multiple internal and external constituencies
  • Coordinate with marketing on event promotion, content creation, and follow-up campaigns

About You:

  • 5+ years of experience in business development, partnerships, or similar roles
  • Prefers building authentic relationships over transactional one-off wins
  • Extremely self-motivated extrovert who loves to hustle
  • Experience working closely with the leading Silicon Valley companies and venture capital firms at senior levels
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to speak to different constituencies such as finance, business development, product, engineering, and sales internally and externally.
  • Ability to flourish with minimal guidance, be proactive, and handle uncertainty and ambiguity.
  • Deep fluency in the VC ecosystem, you know the key players, how funds work, and where the interesting deals are happening
  • Comfortable evangelizing Finix to founders and investors with enough product depth to be credible

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Finix is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other protected class.

Role: Business Development, VC & PE
Level: IC4
Location: San Francisco, CA
Base Salary Range: $200,000 - $300,000 OTE + Equity + Benefits

Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries at our headquarters in San Francisco, California. Individual pay is determined by work location, job related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Skills Required

  • 10+ years of experience in business development or private equity
  • Experience with Tier 1 SaaS and technology companies
  • Strong commercial orientation and negotiation skills
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Bachelor's degree
  • Master's in Business Administration preferred
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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
156 Employees
Year Founded: 2015

What We Do

Finix is on a mission to create the most accessible financial services ecosystem in history. To do so, we are building the global operating system for fintech, starting with payments. Since 2015, we’ve been busy creating a payments management solution specifically for SaaS platforms—from startups to publicly traded companies—that want to earn more revenue, reduce churn, and delight customers. With one developer-friendly API, Finix helps companies accept payments, manage payouts, and onboard merchants—all in the same place. Finix offers everything SaaS companies need to build a world-class payments solution.

Why Work With Us

Our diverse team of fintech professionals is dedicated to building accessible payments tools that democratize financial access. From employee development to customer success, we believe in the campsite rule—“leave it better than you found it”—ensuring every client and Finixian is better after working with us.

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