Apple

Business Development & Partnership Manager (Merchant)

Apple$125K — $150K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7+ years of experience in financial technology, preferably at a merchant or digital payment company.
  • Strong analytical skills for assessing opportunities quantitatively and qualitatively.
  • Successful track record of scaling business programs on an international level.
  • Bachelor’s degree in a related field is required.
  • Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with a knack for influencing without authority.
  • Self-starter comfortable in fast-paced settings with a talent for handling ambiguity.
  • Deep passion for payments, emerging technologies, and e-commerce.

Responsibilities

  • Engage with senior-level partners and guide strategic partnership initiatives.
  • Craft compelling business cases backed by market analysis and financial modeling.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with various teams to optimize product integration and launch.
  • Influence the product roadmap using insights from merchant partners and the payments ecosystem.
  • Provide regular updates to executives on the strategy and performance of partnerships.
  • Conduct ongoing market segmentation and competitive analysis to identify growth opportunities.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work with leading technology in payments and e-commerce.
  • Engagement with executive leadership and high-profile partners.
  • Exposure to a fast-paced, innovative work environment.
  • Collaborative team culture focused on achieving setting goals.
  • Potential for international travel to engage with global partners.
Full Job Description
Description

Engage at senior levels with merchant partners and guide executives internally and externally through partnership vision and tactical execution. Build compelling business cases including market segmentation, competitive analysis, financial modeling, and long-term growth strategy. Partner cross-functionally across Product, Engineering, Marketing, Finance, Operations, and Legal to drive integration, testing, launch, and ongoing optimization. Influence product roadmap through insights gathered from partners and the broader payments landscape. Provide regular executive-level updates on partnership strategy, performance, and growth opportunities. Some travel may be required.

Minimum Qualifications

5-7+ years of professional experience in financial technology at a merchant or digital payment company.

Strong analytical skills; ability to evaluate opportunities from both quantitative and qualitative perspectives.

Demonstrated success scaling new business programs internationally.

B.A. / B.S.

Preferred Qualifications

Ability to develop and leverage collaborative relationships to drive broad adoption of Apple Pay services and functionality.

Experience working with e-Commerce Product Teams.

Experience building and presenting executive-level business cases.

Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence without authority.

Self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced environment and manages ambiguity while delivering projects to completion with minimal guidance.

Deep understanding and passion for payments, emerging technology and e-commerce.

Strong problem solving, conflict resolution, time management, and organizational capabilities.

Energetic and collaborative team player who feeds off of goal setting and achievement.

Proficiency with Apple products and applications preferred.

5-7+ years experience in the mobile payment industry.

MBA

About Apple

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. Apple provides many products and services, including iPhone; iPad; iPod; Mac; Apple TV; a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications; the iOS and OS X operating systems; iCloud; and accessories, service, and support offerings. It sells its products worldwide through its retail stores, online stores, direct sales force and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers to the consumer and also sells third-party iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod compatible products, including application software and accessories through its online and retail stores. Introduced in 1984, the Macintosh was the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). That feature and others such as an improved floppy drive design and a low-cost hard drive that made data retrieval faster helped Apple cultivate a reputation for innovation. Apple was named as the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and in the world from 2008 to 2012 by the Fortune magazine. The company was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne on April 1, 1976, and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

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Size
154,000 employees
Market Cap
$2,074.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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