Block
Senior Partnerships Manager, Australia
Melbourne, Australia. Posted 5 months ago
The role
The Senior Partnerships Manager will develop and own a portfolio of strategic partners in Australia. This role involves designing, negotiating, and scaling partnerships to drive lead generation, co-sell, and product enablement.
What you will do
- Evaluate, identify, and secure high-impact partners
- Lead executive-level negotiations and close deals
- Partner with Product, Operations, Marketing, Sales, and Legal for execution
- Deliver results in lead generation, seller acquisition, and pipeline contribution
- Launch product partnerships with GTM plans and co-marketing initiatives
- Build and sustain C-level relationships with partners
- Define and track KPIs for partnership success
Required qualifications
- 8+ years in the payments space across roles such as business development, strategic partnerships, and/or product partnerships
- Proven track record of structuring, launching and scaling high-impact partnerships
- Strong negotiation and relationship management skills
- Extensive experience working at the executive level
- Ability to connect partnership strategy to measurable seller acquisition and revenue outcomes
- Experience working cross-functionally with global teams
Nice to have
- SaaS, fintech, or payments background
- eCommerce experience
- in-store experience
Benefits
- Remote work
- medical insurance
- flexible time off
- retirement savings plans
- modern family planning
About the company
Block, Inc. builds technology to increase access to the global economy through brands like Square, Cash App, Afterpay, TIDAL, Bitkey, and Proto.