Teams at 8am (Formerly AffiniPay)

Leads the ISV payments partnership function, building and developing Partner Account Manager teams, expanding the partner ecosystem, and driving partner revenue, adoption, retention, and satisfaction. Owns partnership strategy, commercial negotiations, pricing, renewals, KPIs, and payment capability roadmaps. Collaborates with Product, Engineering, Marketing, Legal, Risk, and Compliance to launch integrations and payment types while representing the company with strategic partners.

Owns strategic relationships with major payments and fintech partners while leading 8am’s embedded finance product agenda. Responsibilities include partner strategy, commercial negotiations, roadmap execution, cross-functional alignment, executive engagement, performance reporting, risk mitigation, and identifying new payment, lending, credit, fraud, and co-marketing opportunities. The role requires senior-level expertise in payments partnerships, embedded finance, financial products, commercial economics, and regulated product launches, with approximately 20% travel.

Lead and manage the Dispute Defense team to minimize chargeback risk and fraud, oversee dispute responses and collections, ensure timely submissions, monitor chargeback ratios, report win rates, collaborate with processing partners, and drive process improvements and AI-driven automation to reduce manual workflows.