Founding Partnerships Lead
Date Posted
12 Aug, 2025
Work Location
Salary Offered
$160000 — $220000 yearly
Job Type
This is a full-time role as a Partnerships Lead, located onsite in New York, NY.
We’re looking for a relationship-driven, entrepreneurial leader to own and scale our partnerships with compliance consultants, regulatory experts, and other industry influencers. These partners are key to our go-to-market strategy: they advise the same firms we sell to, and their trust drives both credibility and revenue.
You’ll be responsible for identifying the right partners, forging high-leverage referral + provider relationships, and building scalable systems to manage and grow these partnerships over time.
You will work directly with the founding team to design and build the future of the financial system. We pride ourselves on having a culture that rewards impact and success generously. We’re focused first and foremost on empowering each other to do our best work, today and into the future. You'll be on a team that works incredibly hard and seeks other exceptional people excited to do the same.
Responsibilities
First week:
- Understand the core problems Hadrius solves, our ICP, our value proposition, the Hadrius platform, pricing structure, and roadmap
- Work with our existing sales team to ramp up on our CRM and existing sales methodology
- Get up to speed on existing partner relationships and existing KPIs to maximize
- Riding along on your first sales calls with clients, and taking a few independently by the end of the week
- Work with partners: booking 1 new relationship and supercharging 3 existing relationships
First month:
- Drive $50k ARR in weighted pipeline from partners
- Schedule and organize 2 partner events
- Align goals for the next 3 months to scale the partner strategy + begin implementing the action plan to bring this to fruition
- Productive approach to entire partner process: closing, activating, and scaling
- Continue to expand your pipeline and deepening your understanding of customer needs and our offering
- Track your metrics along with the rest of the team, and contribute to strategy sessions to improve sales velocity and efficiency
First 3 months & beyond:
- Closed and activated 30 new partners
- Organized and launched 6 events with our channel partners
- Driven $500k ARR in weighted pipeline from referrals/partnerships
- Clear path forward to scaling the partnerships motion to $1m+ ARR in weighted pipeline each month
About You
- Exceptionally skilled: You are a highly competent person with a bias for urgent action.
- Coachable: Open to learning the Hadrius way and raising the bar while you’re at it.
- Grit: You’re consistently the hardest working person on your team.
- All-in: This is not a 9-5. We have a massive opportunity ahead of us and are looking to multiply our sales speed. We are optimizing for the best folks and happy to compensate generously.
- Passion for our mission: Genuinely excited about our tech and our mission to end financial crises.
- Team-first mentality: You are interested in building for the long-term alongside founding team members, and committed to mentoring others and being mentored.
- Autonomy: Exercise a high-degree of autonomy and sales authority
Qualifications
- 3+ years of professional experience in the compliance/financial services industry
- Bonus points if you’ve built partnership channels before
- You are excited to “step up” and drive efficiencies across our sales process beyond just your own pipeline
- Previous experience in a fast-paced startup environment
Benefits
- 401k (100% match up to 6%)
- Destination Airbnb company work retreats 2-4 times a year
- Healthcare, dental, vision, etc.