Partnerships Expert (Financing) - Mexico City (Hybrid)

Clara · Mexico City

Clara is the leading platform in Latin America for companies to execute and manage every payment operation. More than 50,000 leading and fast-growing businesses run on our corporate cards, bill pay, financing and B2B payments, and in 2025 the Financial Times named Clara the region’s fastest-growing company. We’re passionate about helping every company we work with become more effective—and, through that, raising the region’s competitiveness. We’re ~400 people, backed by Notable Capital, Coatue, Kaszek, monashees, DST Global, ICONIQ, General Catalyst and Goldman Sachs, among others.

What you'll do

We’re looking for a Partnerships Expert to build Clara’s financing partnerships motion in Mexico. This is a role for someone who has already built a partner program inside a BNPL or embedded-finance company — recruiting merchants, platforms, and originators, writing the commercial offer, and making the channel produce volume. You will translate that craft to Clara: partnerships that put flexible financing, funded spend, and working-capital products in front of the companies that already trust another platform. You own the results of this motion end-to-end.

In this role, you will:

Build the financing channel: Map and recruit the partner types that can originate or distribute Clara financing: platforms, vertical software, lenders, and commercial networks where a company already makes a spend or credit decision.
Own the commercial design: Structure offers that work for both sides — origination economics, co-brand or co-sell, data and underwriting handoff, and a clean split that does not give away Clara’s book.
Be strategically hands-on: Personally source, negotiate, and launch the first partners. This is not a vendor-management seat. You will be in the room until the motion is repeatable.
Connect product to distribution: Work with Product, Credit, Capital Markets, Legal, and Compliance so a partner can originate without breaking underwriting, KYB, or funding covenants.
Navigate internally: Be the single counterpart for partners and the translator for Sales and Success so financed volume is attributed, serviced, and expanded.
Operational excellence: Run onboarding, SLAs, portfolio health, QBRs, and a kill-or-scale cadence. Financing partners that do not produce quality volume exit the program.
Drive growth: Monitor originated volume, approval rates, ticket size, delinquency contribution, and partner-sourced revenue in HubSpot and Metabase. Pivot the mix when the book tells you to.
Workflow efficiency: Use Google Drive, Slack, and N8N to keep partner communication, document collection, and status flows tight as the portfolio grows.

Must have

Experience: Minimum 5 years in Partnerships, Business Development, or Channel inside BNPL, consumer/SMB lending, embedded finance, or a related credit product in Mexico.
Channel craft: You have built or scaled a partner/merchant/originator program — not only managed a handful of strategic logos. You know how to recruit, enable, and pay a network that produces volume.
Credit fluency: Enough command of underwriting, risk appetite, and unit economics to negotiate with partners without promising what Credit will not book.
Execution: Player-coach. Strategy plus direct negotiation and launch.
Performance driven: Proven volume, merchant, or originator growth through an indirect channel.
In-person collaboration: Based in Mexico City, hybrid, with regular office time and partner visits.
Tech-savvy: Experience or strong interest in AI tools to automate partner operations.

Nice to have

Analytical skills: Metabase, spreadsheets, SQL, or Python — especially cohort, approval, and loss views.
Relationships across Mexican fintech, acquirers, or commercial platforms.
Experience with corporate cards, expense management, or working-capital products.
Automation: N8N or Slack integrations.
A good sense of humor.

Where we work

This is a hybrid role: you'll split your time between the office, customers and home. We don't set a minimum number of office days for most roles — you'll spend time in the office naturally, and most days during your ramp-up or when your leader asks.

Why Clara

A high talent-density team driven to make an impact in Latin America — low ego, high ownership.
Competitive salary and stock options (ESOP) from day one.
An annual learning budget and accelerated development paths.
English is our working language, with Spanish and Portuguese every day.

How we work

Clarity — Open and direct communication: we say what we mean and give context where it matters.
Simplicity — If it can be simpler, it should be.
Ownership — We own everything we do, end to end. When something needs to happen, we don't wait.
Pride — We hold ourselves to a high standard, and it shows in what we deliver.
ABC (Always Be Changing) — We adapt fast, embrace change, and keep learning.
Inclusivity — Diverse ideas, stories and perspectives build a better Clara.

If you meet the must-haves, apply — the nice-to-haves are a bonus, not a requirement.

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