Director, Strategic Partnerships & Business Development

Full description

Drip Capital is a global digital trade finance fintech company with offices in the United States (Palo Alto), India (Mumbai) and Mexico (Mexico City). Using data and technology, our mission is to solve the $3+ trillion global trade finance gap by providing working capital solutions and enabling trade seamlessly to our SMB (small-mid businesses ) globally. In its short history, Drip has financed over $3.5 billion in trade, across 60,000 unique transactions with 6,000 businesses in 100+ countries on our platform. We solve our customers’ biggest pain point to growth: access to capital. Drip has ambitious growth plans and are always looking for smart, tenacious and passionate people who are looking to make an impact for our SME clients.

Drip is backed by leading venture firms such as Accel, Sequoia, Wing VC and Y Combinator. The Company was recently named amongst one of five FinTech firms operating in the digital business finance on the Top 250 global FinTech Firms by CB Insights.

The Role

Reporting to the Chief Business Officer, the Director, Strategic Partnerships & Business Development is responsible for identifying, developing, and executing on partnership opportunities for Drip’s US Growth Business. Our clients, US SMBs, work with many stakeholders in their ecosystems who are eager to partner with Drip. The role requires an experienced business development or strategic sales professional who can build relationships in different verticals (banks, trade associations, logistics, etc), understand their capabilities, identify opportunities for mutually beneficial partnerships, structure and negotiate opportunities to help shape Drip’s US business growth.

This is an amazing opportunity for any entrepreneurial, self-starter professional with a demonstrated ability to think strategically and analytically. You will have the opportunity to create a meaningful impact for Drip, our partners and our clients.

What you’ll do

• Define and execute on a comprehensive and proactive partnership strategy to build, manage and progress partnership opportunity pipeline
• Develop a solid understanding of Drip’s products in order to identify the right partnership opportunities
• Build and foster strong relationships with external partners to create win-win relationships with Drip and partners
• Manage the “full stack” - Own the full deal process from ideation to post-closure, and work collaboratively across Sales, Customer Success, Product, Marketing, Legal, and Risk teams to achieve your ambitious goals
• Expand Drip’s reach in the US SMB ecosystem by positioning our Company as an integral partner for clients seeking to ease the friction of accessing working capital solutions. This involves representing Drip in our clients’ ecosystem (conferences, events, etc)

About you:

• 5+ years of experience in business development or strategic partnerships, ideally in the SMB B2B space, with a successful track record of sourced, negotiated, and launching new partnerships
• An extremely proactive, self-starter mentality with excellent organizational skills
• Strong quantitative skills, strategic thinking and sound business judgment, along with the ability to think creatively
• Ability to thrive in an unstructured, fast-paced environment
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to identify and provide comprehensive solutions for varying partner needs
• Humble, ownership and growth mindset
• BA/BS degree
• Experience in a high-growth technology company

Location:

Palo Alto, California. Open to consider remote candidates who are willing to travel to Palo Alto each quarter.