Director, Partnerships

Apply; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Pension plan

Parental leave

Job summary

Ramp is building its UK business and seeks a Director of Partnerships to own the partner ecosystem in the UK. You will craft a focused strategy, build executive relationships, and convert them into durable commercial outcomes, reporting to the VP of Channel Sales in London.

You will collaborate with the UK GTM team and cross-functional leaders to make partnerships a meaningful driver of market entry and growth, with a founder-like mindset and strong commercial rigor.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in sales, partnerships, business development, alliances, or go-to-market leadership.
• Proven revenue ownership, quota or pipeline influence in a complex B2B environment.
• Executive presence and sound judgment with senior partner leaders.
• Builder mindset; launched territory, vertical, or partner motion from a blank page.
• Turn broad relationships into specific opportunities and maintain momentum.
• Strong strategic and analytical thinking to guide investments.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; craft a compelling partnership narrative.
• AI fluency as a daily habit.
• Willingness to travel and work five days per week from London office.

Responsibilities

• Own and execute Ramp’s UK partnerships strategy, identifying partner categories and relationships to accelerate awareness, pipeline, and revenue.
• Build and maintain senior relationships across the UK ecosystem including firms, financial institutions, and technology partners.
• Align UK ecosystem strategy with Ramp’s motions and create leverage across shared relationships.
• Develop a focused partnership plan for priority relationships with articulated value proposition and commercial path.
• Sourcing and influencing pipeline, creating warm paths to target customers, and supporting strategic deals through partners.
• Represent Ramp at executive meetings, industry events, and partner forums with credibility.
• Translate relationship intelligence and market dynamics into input for Sales, Product, Marketing, and leadership.
• Build operating cadence: account plans, scorecards, briefs, pipeline visibility, and follow-through.
• Shape Ramp’s broader UK and European go-to-market as the portfolio grows.

Skills

Senior relationships

Revenue ownership

Executive presence

Builder mindset

Stakeholder management

Strategic thinking

Communication skills

AI fluency

Travel readiness

London-based

Job description

About Ramp

Ramp is building the smart infrastructure for finance teams, embedded in the transaction flow of every dollar a business spends. We automate how over $200B in annualized spend flows in and out of 70,000+ companies: authorizing payments, flagging risk, categorizing spend, and closing books.

The problems are high-stakes, data-dense, and unforgiving.

We hire people with high agency and high urgency. We look for slope over intercept. We care less about where you trained and more about what you’ve built. At Ramp, everyone is a builder who owns problems end to end and makes consequential decisions that shape the outcome.

The median Ramp customer saves 5% and grows revenue 16% in their first year – far in excess of businesses operating without Ramp. We believe every ambitious company deserves the same.

If you want to build systems that directly shape how companies move and manage billions, Ramp is the place to do it.

About the Role

Ramp is building it's UK business from the ground up. We are looking for a Director of Partnerships to be the senior commercial owner of Ramp’s partner ecosystem in the UK: creating the relationships, market presence, and repeatable routes to revenue that help make Ramp a category-defining company in the region.

Reporting to the VP of Channel Sales, you will operate as a founder for Partnerships in London. You will build a focused partner strategy, develop executive-level relationships, and turn the right relationships into durable commercial outcomes. You will work closely with the UK go-to-market team and cross-functional leaders across Sales, Product, Marketing, and Customer Success to make partnerships a meaningful driver of market entry and long-term growth.

This is not a role for someone looking to inherit a mature playbook. The right person is entrepreneurial, commercially sharp, and comfortable creating clarity where there is none. They can move from a first meeting with a senior executive to a clear point of view, an internal plan, and disciplined follow-through.

What You'll Do

• Own and execute Ramp’s UK partnerships strategy, identifying the partner categories and individual relationships that can accelerate awareness, pipeline, customer value, and long-term market position

• Build and maintain senior relationships across the UK ecosystem, including accounting, private equity and venture capital firms, professional-services and consulting firms, financial institutions, technology partners, and other high‑leverage channels

• Work alongside the UK Channel Partner Managers, aligning the broader ecosystem strategy with Ramp’s dedicated motions and creating leverage across shared relationships

• Develop a focused partnership plan for priority relationships: articulate the joint value proposition, define the commercial path, and create mutual accountability for progress

• Generate measurable commercial impact by sourcing and influencing pipeline, creating warm paths to target customers, and supporting strategic deals through partner relationships

• Represent Ramp with credibility at executive meetings, industry events, and partner forums, building the company’s reputation as a serious, long‑term UK partner

• Serve as the internal voice of the UK partner market, translating relationship intelligence, customer needs, and market dynamics into actionable input for Sales, Product, Marketing, and leadership

• Build the operating cadence for the function, including account plans, partnership scorecards, executive briefs, pipeline visibility, and clear follow-through across internal and external stakeholders

• Help shape Ramp’s broader UK and European go‑to‑market strategy as the market, team, and partnership portfolio grow

What You Need

• 10+ years of experience in sales, partnerships, business development, alliances, or go‑to‑market leadership, with a demonstrated record of building senior relationships and driving commercial outcomes

• A proven track record of owning revenue, quota, influenced pipeline, or similarly concrete commercial goals in a complex B2B environment

• Executive presence and sound judgment: you can earn credibility with senior partner leaders and represent Ramp confidently in consequential conversations

• A builder mindset. You have launched a territory, vertical, business line, or partner motion, and know how to create a plan and operating rhythm from a blank page

• The ability to turn broad relationships into specific opportunities, navigate multiple stakeholders, and maintain momentum through long sales and partnership cycles

• Strong strategic and analytical thinking, with the ability to decide where Ramp should invest and make a clear, data‑informed case to senior leadership

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to build a compelling partnership narrative and align cross‑functional teams around it

• AI fluency as a daily habit. Ramp is a builder culture: if you do not instinctively reach for AI before doing things manually, this role will be a hard adjustment

• Ability to work five days per week from Ramp’s London office, with willingness to travel across the UK and continental Europe as needed

Nice to Haves

• Experience selling or partnering into private equity, financial services, consulting, enterprise technology, or high‑growth software companies

• Experience in fintech, financial software, payments, spend management, or the office of the CFO technology ecosystem

• An established UK network of senior commercial, investment, operating, or technology leaders

• Experience building a new market or international go‑to‑market motion

• Fluency in an additional European language

Why Ramp

• Own one of Ramp’s most important external‑facing growth mandates as we build the UK business

• Work directly with senior leaders across Channel, Sales, Product, and Marketing, with the autonomy to shape the market strategy and the accountability to deliver commercial outcomes

• Build at the intersection of fintech, AI, and enterprise software at a company redefining how businesses manage spend

Benefits available to all full‑time Ramp employees (Global)

• Flexible PTO

• Centralized home‑office equipment ordering

• Health and wellness stipend

• Budget for intra‑office travel

• Weekly coffee stipend

United States

• 100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for you, with partial coverage for dependents

• One Medical annual membership

• 401(k), including employer match on contributions made while employed by Ramp

• Fertility HRA (up to $10,000 per year)

• Parental leave: up to 16 weeks (birthing + bonding) or 8 weeks (bonding only) at 100% pay

• Pet insurance

• In‑office perks: lunch, snacks, drinks, and more

• Relocation expense coverage to NYC or SF (if needed)

Canada

• Group medical, dental, and vision coverage through Sun Life

• Life, AD&D, and disability coverage

• Fertility drug coverage (up to $4,000 lifetime)

• Group Retirement Plan with employer match (RRSP + DPSP)

• Parental leave: up to 16 weeks (birthing + bonding) or 8 weeks (bonding only) at 100% pay, with additional time available at reduced pay

• Employee Assistance Program and virtual care through Lumino Health

United Kingdom

• Private medical insurance through Freedom Elite

• Virtual GP and at‑home care via eMed x Livi

• Workplace pension through Penfold, with salary sacrifice option

• Parental leave: up to 16 weeks (birthing + bonding) or 8 weeks (bonding only) at 100% pay with additional time available at reduced pay

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