Strategic Brand Partnerships Lead

About This Role

As Strategic Brand Partnerships Lead at Chime, you will be responsible for developing and driving data-driven, authentic and culturally-relevant partnership programs. You will source and lead high-profile, sophisticated relationships with vendors and partners across a variety of verticals and deliver innovative programs that result in awareness, affinity, and long-term brand love. This highly cross-functional role reports to the Director of Strategic Brand Partnerships and will work with internal teams as well as external agencies and partners.

The base salary offered for this role and level of experience will begin at $130,050 and up to $180,600. Full-time employees are also eligible for a bonus, competitive equity package, and benefits. The actual base salary offered may be higher, depending on your location, skills, qualifications, and experience.

In this role, you can expect to

• Leverage data and insights to build and execute 360 integrated partner marketing campaigns and activations end-to-end across a multitude of owned, paid, and partner marketing channels.
• Own and lead the day-to-day relationships, operations, and performance tracking of new and existing partnerships to drive business results.
• Translate campaign performance, competitive analysis, and market assessments into strategic opportunities for innovation and growth.
• Lead sourcing, building, and driving strategic partnerships and co-marketing opportunities across a wide range of verticals (inclusive of sports, entertainment, music and lifestyle partners).
• Work closely with cross-functional internal partners across Brand Marketing, Creative, Growth, Legal, Compliance, PR, and more to bring partnerships to life.

To thrive in this role, you have

• Be an excellent communicator. You’ll be working with numerous internal team members while representing Chime externally.
• Strong project management skills that demonstrate the ability to lead multiple projects simultaneously with competing priorities and deadlines.
• Results-driven, with a passion for using data to build marketing campaigns that tackle business problems and advance our brand narrative.
• Excellent communication and problem solving skills.
• Be an organized, diligent multitasker. With numerous high-priority initiatives, and many stakeholders, you’ll need to manage deadlines and deliver results.
• Strong analytical skills, comfortable reviewing and analyzing business performance metrics, KPIs, ability to shift when the data tells you.
• Shown ability to identify and integrate strategic partnership opportunities that build brand awareness.
• Out-of-the-box thinker ready to get creative and take risks building a consumer brand from ground level.
• BS/BA in Marketing or related field with 8+ years leading end-to-end partner marketing campaigns at an agency and/or in-house at a tech, consumer finance or innovative, fast-paced consumer brand.
• Be a consumer of culture. You’ll source innovative and culturally-relevant partnerships, so you’ve got to live and breathe the culture yourself.

A Little About Us

We created Chime because we believe everyone deserves financial peace of mind. By eliminating unnecessary fees and helping people grow their savings automatically, we’ve empowered millions of Americans to take control of their finances.

Chime is the largest and fastest-growing U.S. player in the challenger-banking space. Through our banking partners, we offer access to bank accounts with fee-free overdraft, provide members the chance to receive early access to their paychecks, help them improve their credit, and more!

We’ve built one of the most experienced leadership teams in Fintech and were recently valued at over $25.5B. We’ve raised over $1.7B in funding from leading investors including Sequoia Capital Global Equities, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, General Atlantic, Tiger Global, Dragoneer, DST, Coatue, Iconiq, Menlo Ventures and others.

What We Offer

• 💚 A challenging and fulfilling opportunity to join one of the most experienced teams in FinTech and help create a completely new kind of banking service
• 🖥 Virtual events to connect with your fellow Chimers- think cooking classes, music festivals, mixology classes, paint nights, etc., and delicious snack boxes, too!
• 🏝 Generous vacation policy and company-wide Take Care of Yourself Days
• 💰 Competitive salary based on experience
• ✨ 401k match plus the usual medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits

We know that great work comes from great, and inclusive teams. At Chime, we specifically look for individuals of varying strengths, skills, backgrounds, and ideas. We believe this gives us a competitive advantage to better serve our members and helps us all grow as Chimers and individuals.

We hire candidates of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital or family status, disability, Veteran status, and any other status. Chime is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know. To learn more about how Chime collects and uses your personal information during the application process, please see the Chime Applicant Privacy Notice.