Senior Director, Strategic Partnerships

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San Francisco, CA, USA
In-Office
288K-360K Annually
Senior level
Fintech • Payments • Real Estate • Software • Financial Services
Flex splits your rent, and rent-associated costs, into smaller, stress-free payments throughout the month.
The Role
The Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships will develop, manage, and scale enterprise partnerships, driving strategy and execution to maximize business results and P&L impact.
Summary Generated by Built In

Flex is a growth-stage, NYC headquartered FinTech company that is creating the best rent payment experience. It’s hard to believe that it’s 2026 and paying rent on time is expensive, inflexible, and difficult. We’re here to change that! Flex enables our users to pay rent throughout the month on a schedule that better fits their finances and budget. Our mission is to empower as many renters as possible with flexibility over their most significant recurring expense. After deliberately keeping a stealth profile as we built up unprecedented investor support and an enthusiastic user base, we are looking for motivated individuals to help us keep our mission growing. Will you be a part of the team?

About the Role

Flex is seeking a tenacious, results-driven Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships to build, manage, and scale large revenue-driving enterprise partnerships for the company. This role is ideal for a high-agency strategic operator with a proven track record launching and growing partnerships that drive measurable P&L impact. You will take full ownership, driving strategy, execution, and long-term relationship management to maximize business results for your partnerships. Reporting to the Head of Strategic Partnerships and working closely with executive leadership and cross-functional teams, you will play a pivotal role in accelerating Flex’s growth. 

What You'll Do

Strategic Partnership Development and Execution:

  • Launch new strategic partnerships aligned with Flex’s growth objectives
  • Define and implement strategies & operating models to maximize enterprise value and strategic alignment
  • Lead the creation of joint business plans, including legal agreements, financial modeling, and partnership economics
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with Sales, Marketing, Product, Engineering, Support and Legal teams at Flex and partner organizations to maximize execution and impact

Partner Management & Operations:

  • Manage and expand relationships with Flex’s largest strategic partners, fostering trust and long-term collaboration
  • Build and deliver on your partnership business plan; drive progress on key partner initiatives, resolving issues and aligning stakeholders to deliver measurable wins
  • Track, analyze, and report on partnership performance metrics, identifying areas for improvement and ensuring accountability
  • Design and oversee partnership GTM efforts working closely with product, sales and marketing teams 
  • Manage day-to-day operations, monthly and quarterly business reviews 

Leadership and Strategy:

  • Build, lead, and mentor a high-performing team of business development professionals and cross-functional stakeholders aligned to and supporting your partnerships
  • Develop and implement scalable processes, frameworks, and best practices to support partnership acquisition and growth
  • Align partnership efforts with Flex’s broader organizational objectives, serving as a strategist and thought leader
Key Qualifications
  • 12+ years of experience in FinTech/SaaS business development, strategic partnerships, strategic account management, or at a top-tier strategy consulting firm
  • Proven success in sourcing, structuring, and closing complex, high-impact strategic partnerships or enterprise client deals
  • Demonstrated ability to deliver end-to-end results through launch and post-launch phase, working closely with cross-functional stakeholders internally and externally
  • Exceptional leadership skills, with experience building and scaling high-performing teams and fostering collaboration across diverse groups
  • Superior communication, negotiation, and presentation skills, with a proven ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels
  • Superb organizational skills and detail orientation, strong ability to bring order to chaos 
  • Highly analytical, with a strong understanding of B2B and B2C FinTech business models
  • Thrives in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with the ability to move strategic initiatives from concept to execution with urgency
  • Self-motivated, with a relentless drive to deliver measurable business impact

Flex takes a market-based approach to pay, ensuring compensation is commensurate with a candidate's experience and our internal leveling guidelines. For candidates located in our Tier 1 markets (NYC/ SF), the OTE (on-target earnings) pay range for this role is $288,000 - $360,000 USD. For all other U.S. locations, Flex utilizes a geographic pay differential based on a cost of labor index. If you are located outside of the Tier 1 states listed above, your starting pay will be adjusted to align with the market conditions of your specific geographic zone. Please speak with your recruiter for additional information regarding the specific range for your location.

Life at Flex

We understand that it takes a diverse team of highly intelligent, curious, determined, empathetic, and self aware people to grow a successful company. Our HQ is located in New York City, but we have employees located throughout the US, Australia, Canada and South America. We are growing quickly, but deliberately, with a focus on building an inclusive culture. Our dynamic team has incredible perspectives to share, just as we know you do, and we take great pride in being an equal opportunity workplace.

Offices

Roles posted in New York, San Francisco, and Salt Lake City are hybrid positions with on-site expectations of 2-3 days per week in our local offices. For candidates outside of these areas, you may be eligible for our relocation assistance program.

Benefits

For full-time U.S. employees we offer:

  • Competitive medical, dental, and vision
  • Company equity
  • 401(k) plan with company match 
  • Unlimited paid time off + 13 company paid holidays
  • Parental leave 
  • Flex Cares Program: Non-profit company match + pet adoption coverage
  • Free Flex subscription

 For full-time non-U.S. employees, we offer:

  • Competitive compensation + company equity
  • Unlimited PTO

Skills Required

  • 12+ years of experience in FinTech/SaaS business development or strategic partnerships
  • Success in sourcing and closing complex strategic partnerships
  • Experience building and mentoring high-performing teams
  • Exceptional leadership and communication skills
  • Highly analytical with strong understanding of FinTech business models

Flex Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Flex and has not been reviewed or approved by Flex.

  • Healthcare Strength Day-1 medical, dental, and vision coverage is explicitly offered and framed as “best-in-class coverage and options,” suggesting strong baseline health benefits. Additional listings also describe broad health-support elements such as IVF/adoption and gender transition benefits, reinforcing depth in healthcare-related coverage.
  • Retirement Support A 401(k) is available, with a stated company match starting in early 2026, indicating improving retirement support. This rollout appears to address earlier gaps where matching was not consistently present.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Unlimited PTO plus company holidays (and, in some descriptions, shutdown days) indicates a wide time-off policy on paper. Hybrid work flexibility and office-day meal credits can add to the overall rewards value for NYC-based employees.

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The Company
HQ: New York, NY
419 Employees
Year Founded: 2019

What We Do

Flex, an NYC-headquartered FinTech company, has created a trusted rent payment experience. It’s hard to believe that it’s 2024 and paying rent on time is expensive, inflexible, and difficult; we’re here to change that! We enable our users to pay rent throughout the month on a schedule that better fits their finances and budget, while also helping them build credit. Our mission is to empower as many renters as possible with flexibility over their most significant recurring expense.

Why Work With Us

We believe it takes a diverse team of curious, determined, empathetic, and self aware people to grow a successful company. We value the unique and dynamic perspectives our team brings to solve critical problems that impact the lives of our users and the financial decisions they make.

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