Clara is the leading spend management platform in Latin America. More than 40,000 businesses run on our corporate cards, bill pay, financing and B2B payments, and in 2025 the Financial Times named Clara the fastest-growing company in Latin America. We're ~400 people, backed by Kaszek, monashees, Coatue, DST Global, ICONIQ, General Catalyst and Goldman Sachs, among others.
What you'll do
We’re looking for a Partnerships Expert to build Clara’s financing partnerships motion in Mexico. This is a role for someone who has already built a partner program inside a BNPL or embedded-finance company — recruiting merchants, platforms, and originators, writing the commercial offer, and making the channel produce volume. You will translate that craft to Clara: partnerships that put flexible financing, funded spend, and working-capital products in front of the companies that already trust another platform. You own the results of this motion end-to-end.
In this role, you will:
- Build the financing channel: Map and recruit the partner types that can originate or distribute Clara financing: platforms, vertical software, lenders, and commercial networks where a company already makes a spend or credit decision.
- Own the commercial design: Structure offers that work for both sides — origination economics, co-brand or co-sell, data and underwriting handoff, and a clean split that does not give away Clara’s book.
- Be strategically hands-on: Personally source, negotiate, and launch the first partners. This is not a vendor-management seat. You will be in the room until the motion is repeatable.
- Connect product to distribution: Work with Product, Credit, Capital Markets, Legal, and Compliance so a partner can originate without breaking underwriting, KYB, or funding covenants.
- Navigate internally: Be the single counterpart for partners and the translator for Sales and Success so financed volume is attributed, serviced, and expanded.
- Operational excellence: Run onboarding, SLAs, portfolio health, QBRs, and a kill-or-scale cadence. Financing partners that do not produce quality volume exit the program.
- Drive growth: Monitor originated volume, approval rates, ticket size, delinquency contribution, and partner-sourced revenue in HubSpot and Metabase. Pivot the mix when the book tells you to.
- Workflow efficiency: Use Google Drive, Slack, and N8N to keep partner communication, document collection, and status flows tight as the portfolio grows.
Must have
- Experience: Minimum 5 years in Partnerships, Business Development, or Channel inside BNPL, consumer/SMB lending, embedded finance, or a related credit product in Mexico.
- Channel craft: You have built or scaled a partner/merchant/originator program — not only managed a handful of strategic logos. You know how to recruit, enable, and pay a network that produces volume.
- Credit fluency: Enough command of underwriting, risk appetite, and unit economics to negotiate with partners without promising what Credit will not book.
- Execution: Player-coach. Strategy plus direct negotiation and launch.
- Performance driven: Proven volume, merchant, or originator growth through an indirect channel.
- In-person collaboration: Based in Mexico City, hybrid, with regular office time and partner visits.
- Tech-savvy: Experience or strong interest in AI tools to automate partner operations.
Nice to have
- Analytical skills: Metabase, spreadsheets, SQL, or Python — especially cohort, approval, and loss views.
- Relationships across Mexican fintech, acquirers, or commercial platforms.
- Experience with corporate cards, expense management, or working-capital products.
- Automation: N8N or Slack integrations.
- A good sense of humor.
- A high talent-density team driven to make an impact in Latin America — low ego, high ownership.
- Competitive salary and stock options (ESOP) from day one.
- An annual learning budget and accelerated development paths.
- English is our working language, with Spanish and Portuguese every day.
- Clarity — Open and direct communication: we say what we mean and give context where it matters.
- Simplicity — If it can be simpler, it should be.
- Ownership — We own everything we do, end to end. When something needs to happen, we don't wait.
- Pride — We hold ourselves to a high standard, and it shows in what we deliver.
- ABC (Always Be Changing) — We adapt fast, embrace change, and keep learning.
- Inclusivity — Diverse ideas, stories and perspectives build a better Clara.
Claridians split their time between the office, customers and home. We don't set a minimum number of office days for most roles, but we expect you to spend time there naturally, and most days during your ramp-up or when your leader asks.
If you meet the must-haves, apply — the nice-to-haves are a bonus, not a requirement.
Skills Required
- Minimum 5 years of experience in Partnerships, Business Development, or Channel roles within BNPL, consumer or SMB lending, embedded finance, or related credit products in Mexico.
- Experience building or scaling partner, merchant, or originator programs that recruit, enable, and compensate networks producing volume.
- Working knowledge of underwriting, risk appetite, and unit economics.
- Ability to combine strategy with direct partner negotiation and launch execution.
- Proven volume, merchant, or originator growth through an indirect channel.
- Based in Mexico City and able to work in a hybrid environment with regular office time and partner visits.
- Experience or strong interest in AI tools for automating partner operations.
- Analytical skills using Metabase, spreadsheets, SQL, or Python.
- Relationships across Mexican fintech, acquirers, or commercial platforms.
- Experience with corporate cards, expense management, or working-capital products.
- Experience with N8N or Slack integrations.
Clara Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Clara and has not been reviewed or approved by Clara.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity grants are emphasized across several descriptions, with stock options commonly included and in some instances available from day one. Feedback suggests this ownership component is a meaningful part of total rewards.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off offerings are portrayed as flexible, including references to flexible vacation and flexible time off policies. Feedback suggests this supports work–life balance for many roles.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellness support is cited through mental‑health platforms, coaching and meditation programs, and monthly wellness reimbursements in some contexts. Feedback suggests these offerings complement core benefits where available.
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What We Do
Clara is the leading payment platform for companies in Latin America. Our end-to-end solution includes our locally-issued corporate cards, Bill Pay, crossborder payments, and our highly-rated software platform used by thousands of the most successful companies across the region. Clara is backed by top global and regional investors such as Coatue, DST Global, General Catalyst, monashees, Kaszek, Canary, A*, BoxGroup, SV Angel, GFC, Picus Capital, Avid Ventures, ICONIQ Growth, Goldman Sachs, and prominent angel investors. Driven by our six core values (Ownership, Pride, ABC, Simplicity, Clarity and Inclusivity) we’ve reached a unicorn valuation in record time, have been recognized as a Great Place to Work and as one of the most promising startups according to Linkedin’s ranking “Top Startups 2021”. We’re looking for the best talent worldwide to join our team and be part of this journey, so you can't afford to miss this chance! We are: * Shaping business finances in Latin America * Driven by our 6 core values * Proud of our inclusive and caring culture * Certified as a Great Place to Work and a Top LinkedIn Startup
