Manager, Partner Success

Mastercard; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 118,000 - 171,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard Open Banking is seeking a seasoned Partner Success Manager to oversee a portfolio of strategic B2B partners across North America, driving onboarding, adoption, and revenue growth. You will coordinate with Product, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success to translate partner feedback into actionable strategies.

As a trusted partner advocate in a matrixed organization, you will monitor performance, deliver insights, and lead governance to ensure alignment with Mastercard’s growth plans

Qualifications

• Experience in partner success, product management, consulting, or related roles.
• Experience in partner-led or ecosystem models, with an understanding of indirect customer engagement
• Proven success improving retention, increasing adoption, and identifying growth opportunities with channel partners
• Proven ability to ideate and co-create new solutions with our Partners
• Collaborative, proactive leader who builds strong relationships and contributes to a high-performing culture
• Strong communication and storytelling skills, translating complexity into clear, executive-ready narratives
• Strong data fluency, with experience using analytics and AI-driven insights to inform performance and strategy
• Ability to define success metrics, interpret partner and customer signals, and translate insights into scalable actions
• Customer-centric mindset with a focus on scalable, innovative solutions
• Proven ability to influence and collaborate across Product, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success in a matrixed environment
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving capabilities with a data-driven approach

Responsibilities

• Monitor partner performance, product adoption, usage, satisfaction, service levels, and revenue outcomes; identify risks and opportunities using partner feedback and operational data.
• Use monitoring, troubleshooting, and analytical tools to synthesize actionable insights, guide decisions, and support future growth.
• Establish a consistent governance cadence, including executive-ready quarterly business reviews, performance reporting, action tracking, and escalation management.
• Maintain market and addressable-opportunity insights to inform partner plans, prioritization, and strategic recommendations.
• Serve as the primary relationship lead for a diverse portfolio of strategic B2B partners using multiple Mastercard Open Banking Solutions in North America.
• Ensure a disciplined transition from Business Development to ongoing partner management, accelerating onboarding, speed to first revenue, product implementation, and scalable adoption.
• Align partner plans with broader Mastercard account strategies, particularly where end customers are supported by Customer Account Management or other Customer Success teams.
• Partner with Marketing to develop collateral, resources, portal content, events, customer summits, and thought leadership that strengthen partner engagement and enablement.
• Growing the Business and Partner Advocacy
• Develop and execute joint growth plans that expand partner relationships, increase product adoption, and grow volume and revenue across existing and new opportunities.
• Drive successful renewals and identify expansion opportunities across new products, use cases, end customers, and markets, including Mastercard-influenced opportunities.
• Engage regularly with partner stakeholders, including senior and C-suite leaders, to communicate value, review business results, resolve concerns, and advance shared priorities.
• Represent the voice of the partner internally, translating feedback and market needs into actionable recommendations that improve Mastercard products, services, and partner experience.
• Champion Partner Success best practices and contribute to internal initiatives that strengthen service quality, scalability, and partner outcomes.

Skills

Partner management

Relationship building

Data fluency

Communication skills

Strategic thinking

Job description

Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.

Title And Summary

Manager, Partner Success

Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.

Title And Summary

Manager, Partner Success

Job Title

Manager, Partner Success – Mastercard Open Banking

Overview

Mastercard Services leverages the company’s unique data, analytics, technology, and expertise to help customers grow, optimize performance, and manage risk. It delivers solutions across areas like fraud and cybersecurity, customer acquisition and engagement, open finance, and business insights—making commerce smarter, safer, and more personalized through data driven products and advisory capabilities. One of our strategic objectives is to diversify our revenue via new distribution pathways, including through Partners. As such, we are increasing our focus around Partner Success to support the growth of both our partner and MA revenue.

We are seeking an experienced Partner Success Manager to effectively manage a portfolio of strategic B2B partners who utilize multiple Mastercard services products or solutions to mitigate risk and prevent fraud, leverage modern payment solutions, or deliver unique data sets that driver commercial results and personalization. The Partner Success Manager will support partners throughout the onboarding process, provide ongoing relationship management, and drive revenue growth through expansions and strategic initiatives. This individual will serve as a partner advocate within a matrixed organization.

The Role

• Performance, Insights & Governance
• Monitor partner performance, product adoption, usage, satisfaction, service levels, and revenue outcomes; identify risks and opportunities using partner feedback and operational data.
• Use monitoring, troubleshooting, and analytical tools to synthesize actionable insights, guide decisions, and support future growth.
• Establish a consistent governance cadence, including executive-ready quarterly business reviews, performance reporting, action tracking, and escalation management.
• Maintain market and addressable-opportunity insights to inform partner plans, prioritization, and strategic recommendations.
• Cross-Functional Partnership
• Serve as the primary relationship lead for a diverse portfolio of strategic B2B partners using multiple Mastercard Open Banking Solutions in North America.
• Ensure a disciplined transition from Business Development to ongoing partner management, accelerating onboarding, speed to first revenue, product implementation, and scalable adoption.
• Align partner plans with broader Mastercard account strategies, particularly where end customers are supported by Customer Account Management or other Customer Success teams.
• Partner with Marketing to develop collateral, resources, portal content, events, customer summits, and thought leadership that strengthen partner engagement and enablement.
• Growing the Business and Partner Advocacy
• Develop and execute joint growth plans that expand partner relationships, increase product adoption, and grow volume and revenue across existing and new opportunities.
• Drive successful renewals and identify expansion opportunities across new products, use cases, end customers, and markets, including Mastercard-influenced opportunities.
• Engage regularly with partner stakeholders, including senior and C-suite leaders, to communicate value, review business results, resolve concerns, and advance shared priorities.
• Represent the voice of the partner internally, translating feedback and market needs into actionable recommendations that improve Mastercard products, services, and partner experience.
• Champion Partner Success best practices and contribute to internal initiatives that strengthen service quality, scalability, and partner outcomes.

All About You

• Experience in partner success, product management, consulting, or related roles, with a track record of delivering measurable outcomes
• Experience working in partner-led or ecosystem models, with an understanding of indirect customer engagement
• Proven success improving retention, increasing adoption, and identifying growth opportunities with channel partners
• Proven ability to ideate and co-create new solutions with our Partners
• Collaborative, proactive leader who builds strong relationships and contributes to a high-performing culture
• Strong communication and storytelling skills, translating complexity into clear, executive-ready narratives
• Strong data fluency, with experience using analytics and AI-driven insights to inform performance and strategy
• Ability to define success metrics, interpret partner and customer signals, and translate insights into scalable actions
• Customer-centric mindset with a focus on scalable, innovative solutions
• Proven ability to influence and collaborate across Product, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success in a matrixed environment
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving capabilities with a data-driven approach

Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact [e-mail] and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

Corporate Security Responsibility

• Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;
• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.

In line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance); flexible spending account and health savings account; paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave); 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire; 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays; 401k with a best-in-class company match; deferred compensation for eligible roles; fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities; eligibility for tuition reimbursement; and many more. Mastercard benefits for interns generally include: 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time; jury duty leave; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations.

Pay Ranges

Chicago, Illinois: $118,000 - $171,000 USD

Salt Lake City, Utah: $118,000 - $171,000 USD