Senior Partner Manager

Chime Chime · Fintech · Chicago, IL · Business Operations

Senior Partner Manager role at Chime, a fintech company, focused on managing and scaling partner-delivered operations within the global support ecosystem. The role involves owning performance governance for BPO partners, using data to diagnose trends, and driving action plans to ensure high-quality, efficient member experiences. It requires experience in Customer Experience, Partner/Vendor Management, or BPO operations, with a strong analytical and cross-functional initiative leadership capability. Experience in regulated environments is preferred.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own performance governance for assigned Partner/BPO operations, including SLAs, quality, productivity, staffing adherence, operational efficiency, and member experience outcomes.
  2. Lead daily, weekly, and monthly partner performance reviews with clear metrics, action plans, owners, timelines, and expected business impact.
  3. Translate operational performance trends into root-cause insights, risk assessments, and data-backed recommendations.
  4. Drive accountability with external partners by identifying performance gaps, aligning on corrective actions, and ensuring sustained follow-through.
  5. Lead complex, cross-functional initiatives that improve member and service experience, from problem definition and stakeholder alignment through execution, change management, and post-launch measurement.

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of experience in Customer Experience, Partner/Vendor Management, BPO operations, or a related operational leadership role.
  • Professional experience directly related to BPO partner management, ideally within financial services or another highly regulated environment.
  • Proven ability to own partner performance across SLAs, quality, productivity, staffing, operational efficiency, and member experience outcomes.
  • Strong analytical skills, with the ability to use data to identify trends, diagnose root causes, assess risks, and build clear, actionable recommendations.
  • Experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives from problem definition through execution, change management, and measurement of impact.
  • Strong influence, relationship-building, and communication skills, including the ability to drive alignment and accountability without direct authority.
  • Sound business judgment, high ownership, comfort operating autonomously in ambiguity, and willingness to travel domestically and internationally approximately 25% of the time.
  • Proficiency with tools such as Excel, Google Sheets, Looker, Google Slides, Jira, or similar reporting, presentation, and project-management tools.

Nice to have

  • Experience in Complaints, Disputes, Escalations, Social Media support, Risk, or other specialized servicing environments is highly desired.

What the JD emphasized

  • highly regulated environment