Partnerships Lead
Cross-border commerce doesn't scale on cold outbound alone. The fastest-growing merchants come through the people who already have their trust — their PSP, their orchestrator, their investors. Outpost needs someone to own that channel.
We operate as Merchant of Record, Tax of Record, and Customs of Record across 58+ jurisdictions — becoming the legally liable entity for payments, tax, and customs so our merchants don't have to be. We work alongside the payments stack, never against it. Stripe, Adyen, Checkout.com , Nuvei and Worldpay are partners, not competitors.
This is the first partnerships hire. You'll build the partner channel from scratch.
The Role
This is a Partnerships Lead role for someone who thinks commercially, moves like an operator, and can turn a network into a repeatable pipeline.
Partnerships are already our second-biggest source of customer flow, after the founders' organic outreach. Investor introductions are our single strongest channel — Netflix came through Checkout.com angels, iyzico through Speedinvest, Buyee through Sozo. Today that motion runs through the CEO. Your job is to own it, systematise it, and scale it.
You'll work directly with the CEO, engineering, and operations to turn PSPs, orchestrators, and investors into signed merchants — and to build the commercial scaffolding (MSAs, referral agreements, embedded-API terms) that doesn't exist yet. This isn't relationship-building for its own sake. Every partner earns its place in GMV.
What You'll Get
Yes, the work is intense . But in return, you'll get exposure most people wait 10–20 years to access.
You'll sit across the table from PSPs, acquiring banks, orchestrators, and top-tier fintech investors — owning strategic commercial decisions from day one. We won't handhold, but we'll coach you hard. If you're hungry, you'll leave with a world-class partnerships skillset and a network across the entire cross-border payments ecosystem.
What You'll Do
Own the partner channel:
Build Outpost's partnerships function from scratch — pipeline, process, and commercial playbook
Deepen the PSP and orchestrator relationships that refer us merchants ( Checkout.com , Adyen, Nuvei, EBANX, Primer, Airwallex, GoCardless) and open the ones that don't yet
Run the investor-referral engine (Ribbit, BTV, Speedinvest, Sozo, Sony Innovation Fund) — keep them warm, make the asks specific, convert intros into signed merchants
Set the strategy for which partners are worth our time and which aren't
Close and manage deals:
Own referral deals end to end — scope, negotiate, close, and track (up to 1% of GMV over 24–36 months on MoR; up to 20% of net revenue on ToR)
Drive the Nuvei build-out: Phase 1 referrals (Papaya, €1.1B GMV), Phase 2 embedded API
Handle the commercial conversation and the technical one — you know what you're selling and where the funds flow
Build the infrastructure:
Build the PSP partner MSA, the referral revenue-share agreement, and the embedded-API SLA from a blank page
Work with engineering on the Partner Portal (first tenant: Nuvei) so partners can see their merchants and economics without an email thread
Create the reporting and playbooks that let the channel scale without adding headcount
Example Projects
Take Nuvei from referral partner to embedded-API partner and land the first three merchants through the new integration
Build the referral revenue-share agreement template and get it signed with Speedinvest and two PSPs
Map every investor in the cap table to a warm merchant intro and convert five into pipeline
Design the Partner Portal spec with engineering so Nuvei can self-serve merchant and economics data
Open a net-new PSP partnership (e.g. Stripe or Worldpay) from first meeting to signed MSA
Build the partner-attribution model so we know exactly how much GMV each channel drives
What We're Looking For
Ideal background:
4–7 years in partnerships, BD, or commercial roles at a payments company or fintech (Stripe, Adyen, Revolut, Checkout.com , Mollie, or similar)
Payments/fintech experience is mandatory — you understand how money moves, how PSPs price, and where approval rates and settlement live
Track record of closing commercial partnerships, not just sourcing them
Bonus: existing network across PSPs, orchestrators, e-commerce platforms, or the fintech VC ecosystem
Bonus: MoR, cross-border, or tax-compliance experience
Bonus: comfortable drafting your own commercial terms before legal gets involved
Signals we care about:
Commercial to the core — you think in GMV, take rates, and revenue share
Ridiculous bias for action — you solve, not observe
Strong EQ — you read a room, a partner, a blocker
Technically fluent — you can hold your own with an engineer on an API integration
Fluent in ambiguity and chaos — this is a build-from-scratch role
Curious and resourceful — you can figure anything out
Hands dirty — your default mode is to do, not delegate
What this role is not:
Not a relationship-manager seat where you nurture accounts but don't close
Not a role that waits for a template, a team, or a process to exist before moving
Not a single-channel specialist who only wants to work one partner type
Why This Role Is Different
This isn't about managing an existing partner book. It's about building the channel that scales Outpost past $1BN GMV from the ground up. You won't just be in the room — you'll be defining how we grow through partners.
You'll have exposure to every part of the business: payments, product, tax, operations, and the investor base. You'll work directly with the founding team. You'll take a motion the founders run by hand and turn it into the engine behind the company's growth.
We expect whoever is in this role to grow rapidly, and we'll back you every step of the way.
Outpost Team
Our team were leaders at Revolut, Airwallex, Adyen and Wayflyer — and we're backed by top-tier investors who have built or backed some of the world's leading fintechs.
Team memberRoleExperience Will Mahon-HeapCEO / Founderex. Revolut, ex. Wayflyer, ex. lawyerArtur ZheykarsHead of Engineeringex. Revolut, ex. Align TechnologyStef van HeugtenFounding Head of Taxex. Adyen, ex. VU AmsterdamAnca MaszniFounding Strategy and Operationsex. VC, ex. Ophelos, ex. Wayflyer
What We Offer
Equity and salary in a well-funded startup
Ability to own your work and move fast
World-class training from operators who've scaled globally
A global mission with real impact
Low politics, high output
Chance to grow into Head of Partnerships as we scale
A culture of builders, not talkers
Working Style
We work together in person in London , 4–5 days a week . We believe the hardest problems are solved in the room.
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