Financial Partnerships Lead (Fintech)

Location: Hybrid in San Francisco, CA or New York City, NY; office attendance at least two days per week, on Tuesdays and either Wednesday or Thursday.

Base salary: $235,000+ annually, varying based on professional background, experience, and location; compensation also includes benefits and equity.

Company

hirify.global is building financial infrastructure for private markets, including funds software and services, the Nova payments network, and wealth and investment products.

What you will do

• Develop and own Nova’s financial partnership strategy in collaboration with Product.
• Define partner selection processes, map the market, negotiate commercial terms, and model partnership economics.
• Lead the search for bank, infrastructure, and credit partners as Nova expands its offerings.
• Maintain network resilience by managing deposit concentration, redundancy options, and partner replacement or renegotiation.
• Serve as the senior escalation point for partners across working teams and executive stakeholders.
• Lead third-party oversight with Risk, Compliance, and AML, including audits, diligence requests, and issue remediation.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in bank partnerships, fintech partnerships, treasury or deposit programs, or banking.
• Experience managing partner banks, sweep networks, payment providers, or infrastructure providers.
• Knowledge of how banks oversee fintech partners, including third-party risk, BSA/AML, and FDIC insurance for custodial deposits.
• Experience negotiating complex commercial agreements with counsel and modeling economics before signing.
• Ability to discuss APIs, payment rails, and reconciliation with engineers and explain partner limits to Product in clear terms.
• Ability to manage several high-stakes relationships simultaneously, make decisions with incomplete data, and write decision-ready leadership memos.
• Ability to identify ways AI can reduce workload and increase leverage.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with a high degree of agency on financial infrastructure for private markets.
• Collaborate within a company of approximately 200 people building products for funds, payments, wealth, and venture investing.
• Benefits support personal and professional life.
• Compensation includes competitive base salary, benefits, and equity.