gradient-labs - Partnerships Lead
Requirements
• Track record: experience building or significantly growing a partnerships function, ideally at a B2B SaaS company selling into financial services or another regulated industry. • Range and drive: equally credible managing a hyperscaler alliance and courting a boutique advisory firm, with as much bias for cold outreach and starting relationships from scratch as for growing what already exists. • Commercial judgment: able to structure a partnership agreement, negotiate terms, and know when a partnership is worth pursuing vs. a distraction. • First-hire mindset: comfortable with ambiguity and building process where none exists. Excellent written and verbal communication, since you'll represent Gradient Labs externally to senior stakeholders at much larger organisations.
Responsibilities
• Manage and grow existing partnerships • Own the day-to-day relationships with our current technology and consulting partners, find mutually valuable expansion opportunities (new use cases, stakeholders, co-sell motions), and represent Gradient Labs in partner-facing forums and joint planning sessions. • Build new partnerships proactively • Map, prioritise, and open up the partner landscape across: • Hyperscalers (AWS, Microsoft, Google Cloud) • Core banking and financial infrastructure providers (Fiserv, Jack Henry, FIS, Temenos, Mambu, 10x, and independent/regional providers) • Global consultancies and systems integrators (Deloitte and similar): influence relationships and joint go-to-market for large transformation programmes • Boutique advisory and consulting firms: trusted-advisor relationships that shape vendor selection, especially at mid-sized financial institutions • BPOs: partners who embed or resell our platform as part of broader operations offerings • Carry each relationship from cold outreach through to a structured partnership (referral, co-sell, technical integration, or reseller), negotiating and structuring partnership terms with legal, sales, and leadership. • Build the function • Set up how we track and report on partnership impact (sourced and influenced pipeline, co-sell revenue), create repeatable playbooks by partner type, and make the case for hiring the team around you as the function matures.
Benefits
• Financial services technology is increasingly bought through partners, not around them. Core banking providers, hyperscalers, and consultancies shape a huge share of vendor selection, especially outside the largest institutions. • We've recently closed our Series A extension with backing from investors such as Redpoint, Octopus Ventures and CommerzVentures, and we have serious momentum. In this role you'll define how Gradient Labs shows up across the partner ecosystem, drive partner-sourced revenue as a core growth channel, and build the playbook from the ground up.
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