Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. NerdWallet is a financial technology company focused on bringing clarity to consumers’ financial decisions. The Business Development Lead will support the Consumer Lending vertical by managing and growing partner relationships, developing partnership strategies, identifying new business opportunities, and optimizing economics to drive sustained revenue growth. This individual contributor will collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, including the category General Manager and Product leads.
Responsibilities
- Cultivate and grow NerdWallet’s relationships with existing clients to meet revenue and performance targets across multiple high-impact partnerships
- Drive and deliver short and long-term revenue growth through optimization and innovation
- Identify, socialize, and execute new business initiatives in collaboration with key internal and external stakeholders
- Define and implement operational processes and standards to improve working efficiency and effectiveness
- Provide a positive and results-oriented work environment among team members and partners
Skills
- • Results oriented and analytical: Ability to identify and understand key business drivers, set meaningful goals, and track progress towards results
- • Strategic and methodical: Ability to analyze, learn, and understand situations quickly and holistically and focus on the activities that matter the most
- • Highly productive: Able to manage partner needs across multiple products while simultaneously coordinating with various internal stakeholders
- • Strong communicator and influencer: Ability to craft unified messages across different audience types: partners, team, collaborators, and executives
- • Creative: Ability to draw upon and leverage past learnings and observations to find opportunities to solve problems and drive growth
- • Organized: Excellent time management and organizational skills. Experience balancing numerous different priorities and demands
- • Entrepreneurial: You love working through ambiguous challenges and building new things
- • 6+ years of experience in strategic and B2B partnership roles, with a demonstrated track-record of developing, nurturing, and successfully executing a strategy
- • Experience working with or for other digital affiliates, online-based businesses, and/or consumer acquisition
- • Proven track record of delivering and exceeding business results
- • Understanding of business models, products and strategies
- • Intellectual curiosity and desire to become an expert
- • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- • This role will be remote (based in the U.S.)
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement for employees based in the U.S.
- Industry-leading medical, dental, and vision health care plans for employees and their dependents
- Flexible Vacation Time Off, 11 holidays, and holiday company shutdown
- New Parent Leave for employees with a newborn child or a child placed with them for adoption or foster care
- Mental health support
- Paid sabbatical after 5 years for Nerds to recharge, gain knowledge, and pursue their interests
- Health and Dependent Care FSA and HSA Plan with monthly NerdWallet contribution
- Monthly Wellness Stipend
- Cell Phone Stipend
- Wifi Stipend (Only remote Nerds are eligible for the Wifi Stipend)
- Work from home equipment stipend (Only remote Nerds are eligible for this stipend)
- Co-working space subsidy (Only remote Nerds are eligible for this subsidy)
- Nerd-led group initiatives – Employee Resource Groups for Parents, Diversity, and Inclusion, Women, LGBTQIA, and other communities
- Hackathons and team events across all teams and departments
- Company-wide events like NerdLove (employee appreciation) and our annual Charity Auction
- 8 hours of volunteer time off per quarter
- Company match for donations to favorite causes
- 401K with 4% company match
- The opportunity to be the first to test and benefit from new financial products and tools
- Financial wellness and guidance through Northstar
- Unlimited access to a Certified Financial Planner (CFP) through Northstar
- Disability and Life Insurance with employer-paid premiums
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