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Mastercard’s Global SME Partnerships team is expanding its ecosystem of fintech partners to deliver best in class products and value added services to small business and mid market issuers around the world. This is a high visibility, high impact role requiring a rare mix of deal making, product understanding, partner management, and GTM orchestration. You’ll sit at the intersection of fintech innovation, issuer needs, and Mastercard’s SME strategy—translating ecosystem opportunities into scalable commercial wins.
Job Responsibility:
Fintech Sourcing & Evaluation: Identify high potential fintechs
Conduct deep commercial and technical assessments
Build and maintain a pipeline
Deal Structuring & Negotiation: Lead end to end negotiation of reseller agreements
Drive commercial models, legal and compliance alignment, data, integration, and operational evaluation
Partnership Commercialisation Through Issuing Banks: Act as the bridge between fintech partners and regional small business & mid market teams
Support regional account managers in positioning solutions, structuring terms, accelerating time to value
GTM Strategy & Execution: Build joint value propositions
Lead creation and execution of joint GTM campaigns, sales enablement, co marketing assets, market education webinars
Track performance
Long Term Relationship and Portfolio Management: Serve as global relationship owner for key fintech partners
Ensure ongoing governance, quarterly business reviews, roadmap alignment, resolution of operational issues, renewal and expansion planning
Build multi year growth plans
Requirements:
Significant experience in partnerships, business development, corporate development, or strategic alliances, ideally in fintech, payments, SaaS, or banking technology
Demonstrated track record of sourcing and evaluating technology partners, leading complex commercial negotiations, executing multi market or global partnerships
Strong understanding of issuer economics, SME banking needs, fintech business models, payments, card programs, and digital financial services
Experience working with regional account teams and navigating matrixed organizations
Ability to manage multiple high stakes partnerships across geographies
Exceptional communicator and relationship builder, comfortable engaging C suite fintech founders and senior bank executives
Strong commercial instincts with the ability to balance partner value with strategic priorities
High ownership mindset
thrives in ambiguity and can drive initiatives from concept to execution
Collaborative operator who activates cross functional teams across Product, Legal, Marketing, Sales, and Operations
Nice to have:
Experience in payments, banking & SME specific software
Background working with or selling to the financial services vertical