Senior Product Partnerships Manager - Payroll ✓
📍 San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Portland, OR, or Remote within United States
Published: 29 June 2026
Updated: 1 day ago
📝 Description
📋 What you will do
- Manage a portfolio of strategic expansion partnerships within the payroll vendor ecosystem
- Lead vendor selection processes, including evaluating RFPs and making recommendations
- Structure and lead negotiations, evaluating deal economics and contract levers
- Build genuine trust with partners while holding them accountable to commitments
- Proactively identify and respond to partner incidents, integration issues, and escalations
- Facilitate productive cross-functional discussions across product, legal, finance, and engineering
- Bring insights from the partner ecosystem back into Mercury’s product roadmap
🛠 Stack and skills
Product Thinking
Operations Management
Vendor Management
RFP / Contract Negotiation
Fintech / Payroll Ecosystem
✅ What we expect
- Creative problem solver who thinks of new ways to address partner and product issues
- Proven ability to drive cross-functional initiatives through communication and collaboration
- Capacity to manage both tactical operations and overarching strategy
- Senior-level expertise in managing end-to-end strategic partnerships
- Strong relationship-building skills with external stakeholders
🎁 What we offer
- Opportunity to build a full stack of financial tools for startups
- Environment focused on creating dashboards with thought and simplicity
- Scalable role within a complex ecosystem of banking and tech partners