Applause is raising the bar for digital quality and employee experience. Recognized as a Top Workplace, Applause provides award-winning software testing and UX research solutions to top brands. Our fully managed services leverage a global team and the world's largest independent testing community. We improve digital experiences for global innovators like Google, Microsoft, PayPal, Starbucks, Vodafone, and BMW.

As a Partnership Manager you will Identify, evaluate, and pursue strategic partnership opportunities aligned with business goals.

Key Responsibilities:
- Lead partner relationships, and drive partner engagements across PSP Banks, NPCI, and ecosystem partners.
- Drive launches, go-to-market, business growth, compliance, transformation and cost
- optimization initiatives for merchant acquiring business
- Resolve critical escalations, regulatory issues, leading XFN and partner teams
- Drive contractual and legal alignment and agreement closure for work streams.
- Drive thought leadership on the industry and ecosystem with cross-functional partners.




- Drive business growth and cost optimization for acquiring work streams and more.

Job Requirements and Preferred Skills:
- Master degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 6+ years of experience in business development, partnerships, product management in the Banking/ Payments verticals
- Experience working with C-level executives and cross-functionally across all levels of management.
- Experience in leading cross-functional teams on partner programs for launching recent product features, adherence to compliance, improve reliability, etc
- Expert in managing partnerships, negotiating deals, contracts with banks, fintech, regulators
- Experience in the payments or banking industry including regulators,working with digital payments, and merchant acquiring
- Well versed in leading operations/ cross-functional teams on escalations, formulating SOPs
- Experience driving results in an organization
- Excellent partnershi

📌 Partner Manager (Hyderabad)
🏢 Applause
📍 Hyderabad