Senior Partner Implementation Specialist

AnaVation LLC; Poland; Remote; USD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Partner Implementation Specialist to enhance their Banking as a Service platform. This pivotal role focuses on delivering seamless partner onboarding experiences, from contract signing to go-live. The ideal candidate will possess strong technical and interpersonal skills, enabling them to effectively collaborate with diverse stakeholders. You will be instrumental in understanding partner needs and driving successful integrations, ensuring compliance and operational excellence. Join a dynamic team that values innovation and offers ample opportunities for career growth in the rapidly evolving fintech landscape.

Benefits

Competitive compensation

Equity grants

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401k Matching

Paid parental leave

Flexible vacation policy

Paid holidays

Career growth opportunities

Qualifications

• 5+ years in solution architecture and partner delivery.
• Proven ability to present technical solutions effectively.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical implementations for new partners.
• Define processes to streamline partner onboarding.
• Manage multiple engagements concurrently.

Skills

Solution Architecture

Data Integration

Technical Communication

Project Management

Problem Solving

Education

Bachelor's Degree in a related field

Tools

SFTP

APIs

HTTP

REST

SOAP

OAuth

Job description

Lead is a fintech building banking infrastructure for embedded financial products and services. We operate an FDIC-insured bank headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. Additionally, we have offices in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, and New York City, where our technical, product, design, and legal teams operate.

We are built for a constantly evolving financial landscape, where new ventures and technological advancements emerge daily. Guided by a team of entrepreneurs and technologists with decades of experience navigating intricate banking and payments regulations, Lead blends regulatory and technological expertise to help our fintech partners scale their operations with compliance and creativity.

Simply put, Lead offers the essential attributes that every fintech seeks in a partner bank. First, unparalleled technical expertise from a distinguished team of developers with an extensive understanding of the banking and payments systems. Second, oversight expertise, automated compliance systems, and bespoke program management to navigate the ever-shifting regulatory landscape. Finally, a commitment to transparency and operational rigor to ensure everyone’s money does what it’s supposed to do.

Role Description:

We are hiring a Senior Partner Implementation Specialist to support partner onboarding to our Banking as a Service platform. This key role will be focused on delivering an implementation experience from contract signature to go-live. You will provide guidance and solutions for our partner’s data integration and ongoing integration support.

You will be integral to building out the foundation for a high-impact function at Lead. This position requires technical and interpersonal skills and the ability to form strong partnerships with internal and external stakeholders. You will be a key partner to prospects and partners who are looking to integrate with Lead to use our banking-as-a-service products. We expect you to be an expert in understanding partner use cases, pain points, and challenges, and will heavily influence our ability to acquire and expand strategic partners. The ideal candidate has prior experience managing partner integrations in a fast-paced working environment.

In this role you will:

• Deeply understand the partner’s business goals and product structure
• Lead technical implementations of new partners and serve as the key technical contact as they integrate with Lead.
• Partner with product/engineering, program management, legal/compliance/risk, accounting, and other teams for tasks related to partner onboarding
• Define internal processes to streamline partner onboarding
• Build product examples, documentation, and other critical resources for external and internal parties to operate more effectively and efficiently.
• Successfully manage a number of engagements concurrently
• Effectively manage escalations, scope change, and implementation of projects or programs including monitoring project quality, timeline, risk, and performance
• Inform partners of our product development roadmap with concrete examples, while setting appropriate expectations
• Be an integral part of building out this function from 0 to 1 defining culture, processes, and identity.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of hands-on solution architecture, data integration, partner delivery experience
• Ability to understand, visualize, and document the client’s product construct and how they map to our internal data models used for processing cards, transactions, and loans.
• Excellent knowledge of SFTP, APIs, and related standards such as HTTP, REST, SOAP, and OAuth
• Proven ability to present technical solutions effectively to diverse stakeholder groups
• Experience managing projects with multiple requirements and agendas while maintaining holistic plans and driving to agreed upon schedule
• Outstanding communication and problem-solving skills, customer focus, and results orientation
• Knowledge of financial services and the fintech ecosystem and desire to learn changing trends across, especially as it relates to legal, compliance, underwriting, and risk management.

What we offer:

• At Lead, we design our benefits to support company culture and principles, to foster an efficient and inspiring work environment, and to create the conditions for our team to give their best in both work and life:
• Competitive compensation, including opportunities for equity grants and cash bonus, based on experience, geographic location, and role
• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, 401k Matching, and other wellness benefits, including FSA, HSA and HRA
• Paid parental leave
• Flexible vacation policy, including PTO and paid holidays
• A fun and challenging team environment in a dynamic industry with ample opportunities for career growth