Commercial Lead - Partnerships

Plaid · Fintech · San Francisco, CA · All Cost Centers

Plaid is seeking a Commercial Lead for Partnerships to facilitate commercial partnerships with major fintech and financial services companies. This role involves negotiating contracts, developing pricing strategies, and collaborating with internal teams to drive successful renewals, upsells, and cross-sells. The ideal candidate has experience in strategic partnerships, business development, or GTM strategy, with a proven track record in regulated industries.

What you'd actually do

  1. Collaborate closely with Plaid’s Partnerships, Account Management, and Sales teams to negotiate key Partnerships contracts
  2. Creatively enable new deals with top prospects while staying true to Plaid’s operating practices
  3. Drive successful renewals, upsells, and cross-sells with top Partners to increase usage and adoption of key Plaid products
  4. Craft pricing strategies that work for Plaid, prospects, and existing Partners/Customers.
  5. Evolve and improve commercial terms, practices, and processes

Skills

Required

  • 5-8 years of experience in strategic partnerships, business development, finance/consulting, sales or GTM strategy
  • Proven track record of negotiating complex deals, including multi-product or multi-party agreements in regulated industries such as financial services or fintech.
  • Demonstrated success working cross-functionally with Product, Legal, Engineering, and GTM teams
  • Strong executive communication skills
  • Experience building scalable commercial frameworks (e.g., pricing strategies, decision processes)
  • Deep interest in fintech, open finance, and technical products

Nice to have

  • customer-facing ownership of complex, high-value commercial agreements
  • Comfort with ambiguity and change, with a bias for action and a growth mindset suited to fast-paced, high-growth environments.

What the JD emphasized

  • negotiating complex deals
  • regulated industries