Strategic Partner Manager, Banking Operations

  • Full-time
  • Alternate Location: New York, United States

Company Description

It all started with an idea at Block in 2013. Initially built to take the pain out of peer-to-peer payments, Cash App has gone from a simple product with a single purpose to a dynamic ecosystem, developing unique financial products, including Afterpay, to provide a better way to send, spend, invest, borrow and save to our 47 million monthly active customers. We want to redefine the world’s relationship with money to make it more relatable, instantly available, and universally accessible. This is our mission, and it’s why working at Cash App means so much more than a job.

Today, Cash App has thousands of employees working globally across office and remote locations, with a culture geared toward innovation, collaboration and impact. We’ve been a distributed team since day one, and many of our roles can be done remotely from the countries where Cash App operates. No matter the location, we tailor our experience to ensure our employees are creative, productive, and happy.

Check out our locations, benefits, and more at cash.app/careers!

Job Description

The Cash App team is focused on building financial service products for individuals; making it easier to send and receive money, powering purchases using Cash Card or Cash App Pay, offering discounts through Boost, and buying/selling Bitcoin and stocks. Cash App has experienced tremendous user growth, and with growth comes opportunities and challenges. The Cash App Operations Team works with external partners and across multiple internal teams to manage scalable platforms and processes for a fast-growing mobile payment app.

We are looking for a relationship-centric individual to manage key partners supporting Cash App’s banking products. This individual will be responsible for driving operational excellence with those partners; leading projects to improve efficiency, lower costs, or enhance customer experience; investigating and resolving operational issues; participating in cross functional initiatives for Cash App; and supporting product development through partner alignment.

You will:

  • Optimize critical partnerships for Cash App through detailed and proactive partner management, working with product, finance, compliance and engineering to define, iterate, stabilize and enable new initiatives and features
  • Manage partners through recurring reviews to ensure continuous improvement
  • Drive partner and customer escalations to resolution, follow-up and handle internal escalations from numerous cross functional partners including customer service, risk, compliance and engineering
  • Collaborate with partners - both internal and external - to improve platform resilience, resolve partner incidents, document processes, drive accountability and performance in line with contracts
  • Collaborate across multiple internal partners including engineering, product, design, finance, legal, compliance and risk
  • Analyze multiple sources of data to inform business decision making and optimize operations

Qualifications

You have:

  • 8+ years of operations and partner management experience, preferably at a fast-paced, high-growth financial technology company with complex, large-scale operations
  • Extensive understanding of card program operations, including experience working with financial institutions
  • Experience with developing and evolving processes to ensure scalability with a high volume product
  • Strong relationship building skills with leaders and technical teams & the ability to develop consensus and drive stakeholders to a decision
  • Deep analytical skills that can drive the development of reporting, tools and other business processes to smooth operations and enable analysis of nascent industry movements
  • Experience influencing outcomes with internal & external stakeholders
  • Strong ability to build & leverage cross functional relationships
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Strong negotiation skills
  • Attention to detail, exceptional organizational skills, sense of urgency, accountability
  • Project management experience a plus

Additional Information

Block takes a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on your location. U.S. locations are categorized into one of four zones based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. The successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future.

Zone A: USD $184,100 - USD $225,000
Zone B: USD $174,900 - USD $213,700
Zone C: USD $165,700 - USD $202,500
Zone D: USD $156,400 - USD $191,200

To find a location’s zone designation, please refer to this resource. If a location of interest is not listed, please speak with a recruiter for additional information. 

Benefits include the following:

  • Healthcare coverage
  • Retirement Plans including company match 
  • Employee Stock Purchase Program
  • Wellness programs, including access to mental health, 1:1 financial planners, and a monthly wellness allowance 
  • Paid parental and caregiving leave
  • Paid time off
  • Learning and Development resources
  • Paid Life insurance, AD&D. and disability benefits 
  • Perks such as WFH reimbursements and free access to caregiving, legal, and discounted resources 

This role is also eligible to participate in Block's equity plan subject to the terms of the applicable plans and policies, and may be eligible for a sign-on bonus. Sales roles may be eligible to participate in a commission plan subject to the terms of the applicable plans and policies. Pay and benefits are subject to change at any time, consistent with the terms of any applicable compensation or benefit plans.

We’re working to build a more inclusive economy where our customers have equal access to opportunity, and we strive to live by these same values in building our workplace.

Block is a proud equal opportunity employer. We work hard to evaluate all employees and job applicants consistently, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.

We believe in being fair, and are committed to an inclusive interview experience, including providing reasonable accommodations to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process. We encourage applicants to share any needed accommodations with their recruiter, who will treat these requests as confidentially as possible. 

Learn more about our efforts to promote inclusion and diversity at block.xyz/inclusion

Additionally, we consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, assessing candidates in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) is a global technology company with a focus on financial services. Made up of Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, and TBD, we build tools to help more people access the economy. Square helps sellers run and grow their businesses with its integrated ecosystem of commerce solutions, business software, and banking services. With Cash App, anyone can easily send, spend, or invest their money in stocks or Bitcoin. Spiral (formerly Square Crypto) builds and funds free, open-source Bitcoin projects. Artists use TIDAL to help them succeed as entrepreneurs and connect more deeply with fans. TBD is building an open developer platform to make it easier to access Bitcoin and other blockchain technologies without having to go through an institution.

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