Head of Fintech Partnerships

Location: New York, USA

Starting base salary: $200,000–$250,000 USD per year, plus equity and benefits.

Company

hirify.global is a Series C fintech company building an AI-powered financial companion for Latinos in the US, with remittances, credit, savings, wallet, and cross-border money movement products.

What you will do

• Own the US banking and payment processor partner network, including performance, pricing, redundancy, and fallback routing.
• Manage relationships with stablecoin issuers and yield providers, and evaluate custody and settlement partners for proprietary stablecoin infrastructure.
• Translate product ambitions into partner specifications and SLAs while aligning external capabilities with Product and Engineering roadmaps.
• Lead negotiations with banks, processors, and technology vendors, optimizing pricing, exclusivity, margins, performance, and long-term strategic value.
• Source and assess infrastructure vendors for credit and lending products, ensuring technical integration and compliance alignment.
• Define partnership playbooks and processes, then hire and develop a team of 2–3 partnership managers.

Requirements

• 6–10+ years of experience in fintech, payments, or financial infrastructure, with a proven record of owning complex partner or vendor ecosystems.
• Deep technical familiarity with US payment rails, including ACH, RTP, and card networks, plus familiarity with stablecoin and crypto-native financial infrastructure.
• Experience negotiating complex commercial agreements with banks, processors, and technology vendors, with demonstrated improvements to margins or performance.
• Experience working closely with Product and Engineering teams, including participation in roadmap discussions and architectural reviews.
• Bias for action and comfort building structure in a resource-constrained, hyper-growth startup environment.
• Prior people-management experience or clear readiness to take on leadership responsibilities while scaling the function.
• Equivalent competencies may also be considered.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on financial products serving an underserved Latino immigrant community in the US.
• Radical transparency, constructive feedback, and a strong focus on sustainable product value.
• Equity is a core part of total compensation.
• Benefits include health coverage and additional total compensation provisions discussed during the recruiting process.