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Platform Growth Lead

Platform Growth Lead

CompanyParafin
LocationSan Francisco, CA, USA
Salary$190000 – $215000
TypeFull-Time
Degrees
Experience LevelSenior

Requirements

  • 5+ years experience in a customer success, business development, or partnerships role, preferably with experience working in enterprise and large strategic customer segments.
  • Ability to manage partner relationships with large and complex organizations for a technical product. You’re able to naturally foster relationships and influence across technical, business, and executives/C-suite stakeholders.
  • Proven track record of achieving revenue-based targets and goals by driving account expansion
  • Skilled prioritization based on partner needs, scope of work, and business/customer impact. You are able to clearly prioritize a large number of competing initiatives and clearly communicate rationale for doing so.
  • Sophisticated and keen business sense – you can quickly understand underlying drivers and strategy of our partners’ verticals and businesses.
  • Extremely strong verbal and written communication skills – ability to consolidate and simplify communication around complex ideas, products, or commercial structures for a given audience.
  • Relentless ability to navigate data and people to find answers and close the loop.
  • Strong sense of partner and SMB empathy – we care deeply about our mission to grow small businesses.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the post-sale onboarding, engagement, retention, and growth of our platform partners in collaboration with the Platform Partnerships and Integration Engineering teams.
  • Drive expansion within accounts – identify new strategic opportunities to improve capital marketing, drive new product adoption, and unlock incremental user segments to help partners and Parafin grow.
  • Measure and own overall account health including origination performance, risk optimization, product adoption, usage velocity, account renewals, and customer satisfaction.
  • Recommend and create processes, internal tooling, and self-serve partner solutions to drive more resource-efficient onboarding and product expansion for platforms.
  • Consolidate and share customer feedback and insights with Product, Engineering, Support, and Platform Partnerships to empower and inform improvements to the partner experience.
  • Engage with Product and Engineering teams to help inform product strategy based on a deep knowledge of your partners, their verticals, and their business and customer needs.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Proven ability to build business cases, revenue models, and data analysis to drive strategic decision-making and joint wins
  • Ability to drive urgency and influence doers and decision-makers to make new technical, product, and business investments to scale the partnership with Parafin
  • Familiarity working on API-driven and other technical products
  • Demonstrated ability working with large, enterprise-level partners and customers
  • Experience working closely with product, engineering, and ops teams to solve partner issues and drive partner experience improvements