Senior Specialist - Strategic Partnerships

Company Description

We’re Checkout.com. You might not know our name, but companies like eBay, Spotify, Klarna, Uber, and Sony do, because we’re behind many of the digital experiences you use every day.

We are where the world checks out, enabling over 10 billion transactions yearly for more than one billion global shoppers.

Whether you want to book a holiday, order food, renew a subscription, or check out online, there’s a good chance our tech powers the payments behind the scenes. Our platform helps the most ambitious businesses deliver effortless digital experiences, at scale.

If you want to do career-defining work, you’ve come to the right place. We move fast, think globally, and believe great teams are built by hiring exceptional people with conviction, curiosity, and the desire to make an impact.

With 20 offices across six continents and London as our HQ, we’re shaping the future of fintech – and we’re just getting started.

We’re looking for a high-ownership self-starter who can originate, structure, and close strategic partnerships that drive measurable revenue impact. Our ideal candidate is an operator with strong drive and bias for action - they move fast, take on meaningful challenges, and are recognized for the impact they deliver. At Checkout.com, ambition and the quality work done gets met with opportunity, and growth is in your hands.

We view partnerships as a core growth engine for Checkout.com - not a support function.

This role exists to turn partnerships into a repeatable, scalable revenue channel through disciplined execution, strong commercial instinct, and relentless ownership.

What you’ll be accountable for

1. Deal Origination & Ownership

• Source and develop high-impact partnerships (including but not limited to advisories/consultants, ISVs/fintechs, SIs and agencies) to go deep with.

• Lead end-to-end partnership cycle: from first conversation → commercial structuring → negotiation → signature → go-live

• Own pipeline generation and progression, through collaboration with Sales Managers for different product pillars.

• Drive clear commercial outcomes: sourced / influenced revenue, pipeline contribution, conversion, partner growth and profitability.

2. Commercial Structuring & Negotiation

• Design scalable partnership models with provided guidance (referral, reseller, embedded)

• Navigate partner negotiations across commercial, legal, and operational dimensions

• Balance short-term revenue vs long-term strategic positioning within your portfolio, be able to forecast and plan ahead

• Operate with precision - all numbers, assumptions, and deal logic must be bulletproof

3. Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Act as the single-threaded owner across Sales, Legal, Product, Partner Engineering, and Marketing.

• Drive momentum and remove blockers - you own the outcome of the partnerships in your portfolio.

• Ensure internal alignment and readiness for launch (onboarding, integration, enablement, GTM)

4. Partner Performance & Revenue Delivery

• You’ll get recognized on partnerships converting into live merchants and revenue, not pipeline logos

• Track and manage performance against targets (Net Revenue, Total Processed Volume, Product Penetration, Conversion Rate, etc.)

• Identify and execute on growth levers, solo or in collaboration with the team (e.g. joint GTM, integration optimisation)

5. Operational Excellence

• Maintain high standards of forecasting accuracy, CRM hygiene, and reporting

• Contribute to building repeatable frameworks (tiering, integration health, GTM motions)

• Raise the bar on quality of output across the team - every deliverable has meaning.

What “good” looks like in this role

• You own your number - and consistently deliver against it

• You operate with speed and clarity, even in ambiguity

• You don’t wait for direction - you create momentum

• You can go from strategy → execution → revenue, without dropping the thread

• You build credible relationships externally and internall