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 2025 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 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 closing 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 SVP of Business Development & Strategic Partnerships, and working closely with executive leadership and cross-functional teams, you will play a pivotal role in accelerating Flex’s growth. This position offers a hybrid work model with flexibility for remote work
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Partnership Development and Execution:
- Sell, close and 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
Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in FinTech/SaaS business development, strategic partnerships, enterprise sales, corporate development, business operations, 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
- Bachelor’s degree required
The compensation range for this role will be commensurate with the candidate's experience and Flex's internal leveling guidelines and benchmarks. This is a commission earning role. OTE (On Target Earnings) of $240,000-$260,000.
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.
We offer many employee benefits. For full time, U.S. based employees we offer:
- Competitive pay
- 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision
- 401(k) + company equity
- Unlimited paid time off with a PTO minimum + 13 company paid holidays
- Parental leave
- Flex Cares Program: Non-profit company match + pet adoption coverage
- Free Flex subscription
For full time non-US employees, we offer
- Competitive Pay
- Company Equity
- Unlimited PTO
What We Do
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 2024 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.
Why Work With Us
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 based out of NYC, but we have employees located globally (US, Canada, Brazil, and Israel). We value the unique and dynamic perspectives our team brings every day.
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