Strategic Partnerships Associate

**About Sezzle**:
Sezzle is a cutting-edge fintech company dedicated to financially empowering the next generation. With only one in three millennials owning a credit card and the majority lacking their desired credit scores, Sezzle addresses these challenges through a payment platform that offers interest-free installment plans at online stores. By increasing consumers' purchasing power, Sezzle drives sales and basket sizes for thousands of eCommerce merchants that it partners with.

**About the role**:
A Strategic Partnerships Associate will assist with managing partnership implementation by coordinating with internal teams and external stakeholders and existing relationships. The associate tracks partnership performance using KPIs, supports internal and external communications, manages projects and commercial priorities, solves partner-related issues, ensures compliance with requirements, and develops sales and training materials. We are seeking a talented and motivated Strategic Partnerships Associate who is best in class with a high IQ plus a high EQ. This role presents an exciting opportunity to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment within a rapidly growing team, with abundant prospects for career advancement.

**What You'll Do**:

- Project Management: Help manage the implementation and execution of partnership agreements by coordinating internally with relevant teams (marketing, legal, finance) and externally with partners.
- Reporting and Metrics: Support the tracking and reporting on the success of partnerships, using key performance indicators (KPIs) to ensure they are meeting the company's objectives.
- Support Communications: Work with stakeholders to support communications internally and externally
- Solve Problems: Remove friction from workflows by solving customer and partner problems
- Develop Materials: Develop sales and marketing materials that support the launch of new and existing partnerships in conjunction with establishing and maintaining process and documentation

**What We Look For**:

- Education: Bachelor's Degree
- Experience: 1+ years of business development, client relations, or project management experience
- Skills:

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for crafting proposals, presentations, and internal/external communications
- Strong interpersonal skills for relationship building with partners and internal teams.
- Strong detail orientation to ensure accuracy in contracts, proposals, and communications.

**Preferred Knowledge & Skills**:
Problem-Solving:

- Capable of identifying challenges within partnerships and proposing solutions to optimize outcomes.

Adaptability:
- Managing unexpected issues or changes in the partnership landscape.

Project Management:

- Ability to manage multiple partnership projects simultaneously, ensuring smooth execution from start to finish.
- Strong organizational skills to keep track of deadlines, deliverables, and partnership performance.

Collaboration & Cross-Functional Coordination:

- Ability to work effectively across teams (e.g., marketing, legal, product, finance) to coordinate the successful execution of partnerships.
- Comfortable working with various stakeholders, both internally and externally.

Strategic Thinking & Analysis:
- Proficiency in analyzing data to track performance and provide insights for decision-making.

Attention to Detail:

- Strong detail orientation to ensure accuracy in contracts, proposals, and communications.
- Ensures that all partnership terms, deadlines, and deliverables are met as expected.

Technical Skills:

- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, Google Suite, and CRM platforms (e.g., Salesforce).

Time Management:

- Ability to prioritize tasks and manage time effectively in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong multitasking capabilities to balance multiple partnership initiatives.

Industry Knowledge:
Familiarity with payments, alternative payment methods, and market trends are a plus, particularly in sectors where partnerships are key to business growth (e.g., tech, e-commerce, finance).

**About You**:

- **You have relentlessly high standards** - many people may think your standards are unreasonably high. You are continually raising the bar and driving those around you to deliver great results. You make sure that defects do not get sent down the line and that problems are fixed so they stay fixed.
- **You're not bound by convention** - your success—and much of the fun—lies in developing new ways to do things
- **You need action** - speed matters in business. Many decisions and actions are reversible and do not need extensive study. We value calculated risk-taking.
- **You earn trust** - you listen attentively, speak candidly, and treat others respectfully.
- **You have backbone; disagree, then commit**:

- you can respectfully challenge decisions when you disagree, even when doing so is uncomfortable or exhausting. You have conviction and are tenacious. You do not compromise f