Partnerships Associate

North One is looking for a to join our high-performing team 🚀 We are a remote-first venture-backed startup at the heart of the FinTech movement that is reshaping financial services and banking for small businesses across America. We are backed by some of the best VCs in the world and are solving important problems. 

North One is a business banking and financial management platform for small businesses across America. We don’t stop at being a faster, easier and simpler version of a bank - we’re focused on creating better financial outcomes for our customers by changing the definition of what a bank can be and do.  We’re building a digital finance department for every small business in America with our business bank account as its foundation. 

Our mission is to build a business banking and financial management platform that lets anyone run a successful small business. Our team deeply believes in the transformative power of entrepreneurship and wants to democratize taking ownership of your economic independence.

We ❤ Partnerships. As our Strategic Partnerships Associate you’ll help us continue to build our product whilst building and maintaining our external partnerships. Reporting to our AVP of Strategic Partnerships, you’ll be joining a team who have helped build companies like Chime, Twitter, Instacart, E*Trade, McKinsey, Etsy, eBay and more.

We’re a team of A-players who are all in on solving big, important problems. Feeling it?

As a Strategic Partnerships Associate, you’ll fully own the relationship between North One and our sponsor bank - from managing the execution of ongoing work to exploring new product features. As the point of contact for ongoing initiatives, you’ll bridge our internal teams with our core strategic partners to handle inquiries, resolve conflicts, and provide solutions in a timely manner.

• You have 1-3 years of professional work experience managing external partners or parties; preferably in the Alliances or Strategic Partnerships spaces in fintech, tech or financial services
• You have excellent project management skills
• You excel at keeping track of multiple ongoing initiatives, each with many moving parts, and coordinate across teams to drive things to completion
• You’re curious and enjoy working in an ambiguous and cross-functional environment 
• You’re a natural analytical thinker that takes numbers and analyses to influence decisions
• You have experience collaborating with senior executives or stakeholders
• You are ambitious, goal oriented and have a service mindset 

• You’ve worked in a fast-growth startup
• You have experience working within the US banking system or within a sponsor bank model
• You’ve worked with a BaaS partner or payment processor partner
• You come from a family of small business owners
• You have a non-traditional or diverse background (personal or professional). You’ve lived a life that is different, where you've been challenged or have chosen to challenge yourself

If you are close to what we’ve described but aren’t sure, apply. Let’s figure out together if this is where you could shine.

As a valuable member of North One’s team, you’ll get:

• Get the right coverage for what matters most.
• You decide where you work. You can work from home, visit one of our in person hubs, or work while you travel.
• Enjoy an annual budget to deepen your expertise
• We measure success around outcomes, not hours worked.
• We’ll make sure you have the right tech to do your best work.

Few people have been trained for this sort of role and research shows that women and people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply if they haven’t satisfied every requirement. If you are to what we’ve described, but aren’t sure, apply. Let’s figure out together if this is where you could shine.