Growth Partnership Executive

About Lendable

Lendable is on a mission to build the world's best technology to help people get credit and save money. We're building one of the world’s leading fintech companies and are off to a strong start:

• One of the UK’s newest unicorns with a team of just over 700 people

• Among the fastest-growing tech companies in the UK

• Profitable since 2017

• Backed by top investors including Balderton Capital and Goldman Sachs

• Loved by customers with the best reviews in the market (4.9 across 10,000s of reviews on Trustpilot)

So far, we’ve rebuilt the Big Three consumer finance products from scratch: loans, credit cards and car finance. We get money into our customers’ hands in minutes instead of days.

We’re growing fast, and there’s a lot more to do: we’re going after the two biggest Western markets (UK and US) where trillions worth of financial products are held by big banks with dated systems and painful processes.

Join us if you want to

1. Take ownership across a broad remit. You are trusted to make decisions that drive a material impact on the direction and success of Lendable from day 1

2. Work in small teams of exceptional people, who are relentlessly resourceful to solve problems and find smarter solutions than the status quo

3. Build the best technology in-house, using new data sources, machine learning and AI to make machines do the heavy lifting

About the role

We’re entering a once-in-a-company moment: a major step-change in our D2C marketing investment, a full rebrand of the company and product under the Zable brand, and a marketing function being built out at pace under a newly-appointed CMO. This is one of the most exciting marketing builds in UK fintech right now, with the financial strength, customer base, and product depth to back it up.

Partnerships and sponsorships are a core part of our growth engine going forward, and we’re building the team to power them. We’re looking for a Growth Partnerships Executive to manage day-to-day partner relationships and run sponsorship activations end-to-end. Reporting to a Head of Growth Partnerships we’re hiring in parallel, you’ll be the operator behind every deal, making sure activations land, partners feel looked after, and every pound of partnership spend delivers measurable growth.

What we're looking for:

Essential:

• 1-2+ years in partnerships, sponsorships, BD or growth roles for a consumer brand

• Track record of running activations end-to-end and delivering measurable results

• Strong account / relationship management skills

• Comfortable with the data, channel economics, attribution and ROI

• Highly organised and detail-oriented, you can run multiple activations in parallel

• Strong commercial communicator, you can hold your own with senior partners

• Demonstrable use of AI in your workflow

Desirable:

• Experience in fintech or financial services

• Experience with sport, entertainment, media or large brand sponsorships

• Experience with affiliate, influencer or embedded finance partnerships

• Some deal structuring experience

You’re a good fit if you’re:

• A natural relationship-builder, partners trust you, and so does your team

• A strong project manager, you keep things moving and on-budget

• Commercially minded, you measure success in growth, not vanity

• Hands-on and resourceful, you make things happen

• Curious about AI and how it changes the partnerships discipline

What you'll be doing

Activation:

• Run sponsorship and partnership activations end-to-end, brief, plan, ship, measure

• Manage the day-to-day with partners: planning, comms, escalations

• Coordinate across creative, growth, lifecycle and legal

Partner Management:

• Own the partner relationship, be the trusted operator they call first

• Manage budgets and timelines across activations

• Spot opportunities to expand existing partnerships

Performance & Optimisation:

• Track partnership performance against targets, CAC, LTV, ROI

• Build the playbooks and tooling that scale the function

• Use AI to scale research, brief-writing and reporting

Cross-functional:

• Partner with creative on activation assets

• Partner with finance and legal on contracts and accruals

• Report on partnership performance to the Head of Growth Partnerships

Life at Lendable

• Winning team: the opportunity to scale up one of the world’s most successful fintech companies

• Flexible working: flexible approach tailored to each role. Hybrid roles require three days in-office weekly; fully remote roles include regular opportunities for in-person connection through socials and off-sites

• Socials & connection: opportunities and events to come together, socialise, and get to know each other beyond the office walls

• Health coverage: support for your physical and mental wellbeing, including private health cover

• Retirement & savings: long-term financial wellbeing through retirement savings plans