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# Partnerships Lead at Clair

- **Company:** Clair
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-14
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clair/0a648394-300e-4a5a-b9ca-629524ca9739

## Job description

## About Clair

If you can send your friends money in seconds, why does it still take your employer two weeks to send your paycheck? At Clair, we are on a mission to create financial freedom for America's workers by giving them a digital banking platform that allows them to get paid as soon as they clock out of work. But we're not just another digital bank or on-demand pay provider. We meet Americans at their place of work by embedding our products within the scheduling, workforce management, and payroll apps they already use every day. Learn more about us at [getclair.com/about](http://getclair.com/about)

## About the Role

Clair's business is built on deep, strategic integrations with the platforms that power how Americans work and get paid. As a Partnerships Lead, you'll own and drive some of our most important partner relationships — acting as the driver in how we grow, deepen, and scale those integrations over time. This is a high-impact individual contributor role. You'll work directly with Clair's partnerships and growth leadership to shape partnership strategy, own a portfolio of key accounts, and serve as the primary point of contact for partners at all levels — including executive stakeholders. You'll bring both the strategic thinking to identify what's possible and the operational follow-through to make it happen. If you're someone who thrives on driving product initiatives forward thinking commercially, bringing clarity to complex situations, building relationships, and driving initiatives forward with a high degree of ownership, you'll be right at home in this role.

## What You'll Do

Drive Partner Growth & Expansion Think commercially about each partnership. Identify whitespace opportunities, propose new ways to expand the relationship, and work cross-functionally to bring those opportunities to life. You'll be expected to move the needle on partner-driven revenue and usership growth. Own Partner Relationships Serve as the primary owner of a portfolio of high-value platform partnerships. Build deep, trust-based relationships with key stakeholders — including executive-level contacts — and proactively identify opportunities to grow and deepen each partnership over time. Lead QBRs and business reviews that demonstrate value and drive forward the strategic agenda of each partnership. Lead Partner Onboarding & Launch Own the end-to-end onboarding process for new partners — setting the tone for the relationship from day one, coordinating across Product, Engineering, and Operations, and ensuring a smooth and well-managed go-live. Own Partner Performance Track, analyze, and communicate partner performance across key metrics — adoption rates, user activity, revenue impact — and translate that data into clear, compelling narratives. Be the first to call out trends and lead the team on the discovery. Represent the Partner Internally Be the voice of the partner at Clair. Surface product feedback, flag integration issues, and advocate clearly and persuasively across Product, Engineering, and Leadership to ensure partner needs are prioritized appropriately.

## What We're Looking For

- 4–6 years of experience in product management, partnerships, implementations, consulting, account management, business development, or a related field — with a proven track record of owning high-value external relationships and driving commercial outcomes.
- Strong executive presence — you're comfortable engaging and presenting to senior stakeholders at partner organizations and can represent Clair confidently and credibly in those conversations.
- Product fluency — You can lead scoping conversations with partners as a credible counterpart, not a relay between them and your engineering team. You're comfortable operating without a defined playbook, and when partnership metrics soften, your instinct is to dig into why rather than wait for someone to hand you the diagnosis.
- Commercial mindset — You can collaborate with Product teams, influence implementation decisions, and help partners understand the value and tradeoffs of different solutions.
- Data literate — you can synthesize and tell a compelling story with partner performance data using Excel, Google Sheets, or similar tools. (know how to make a good deck)
- Highly organized and operationally sharp — you manage multiple complex workstreams simultaneously and bring structure to ambiguous situations.
- A strong bias toward ownership — you drive things forward independently and don't wait to be told what to do next.
- Comfortable operating cross-functionally in a fast-moving environment where priorities shift and no two days look the same.

Bonus Points

- Experience in fintech, embedded finance, or SaaS partnerships
- Familiarity with how APIs or software integrations work
- Experience scoping partner-facing product requirements and working with engineering to ship them
- Experience building and leading executive-level business reviews
- Previous product management experience
- Prior experience at a high-growth startup or Series B/C company

Additional Details Location: This is a hybrid position based in New York City. You will be expected to come into the office at least three days a week (Tuesdays, Wednesdays, & Thursdays) to facilitate learning and collaboration. Compensation: The annual base salary for this role is $160,000-$175,000. The base pay for this role is determined using many factors, such as education, skills, and experience, and is reflective of Clair's Series stage and size. Base pay is only one part of Clair's competitive total compensation package, which includes equity, benefits, and additional perks. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.

Clair will only contact candidates from @getclair.com email addresses. We will never ask for payments or sensitive personal information during the hiring process. If you happen to receive anything suspicious, please ignore it.

Need more convincing? Apart from getting to work with our incredible team, here are some of the benefits you can expect when you join Clair:

- Medical, Dental, & Vision Coverage, with option to extend to your family
- Fully-paid parental leave
- Company-sponsored 401k, HSA, and FSA
- Unlimited vacation for salaried roles, generous PTO for hourly roles
- Work from home setup allowance
- Access to your earnings every day on Clair
- Company-sponsored short-term and long-term disability insurance

## Equal Opportunity Employer Information

Clair is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity at our company. We actively seek a diverse applicant pool and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. For questions, please email us at careers@getclair.com

## About Clair

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Clair provides embedded earned wage access (on-demand pay) through partnerships with HR platforms, allowing employees to access their pay as it’s earned with no interest, no mandatory fees, and no changes to payroll.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funding stage not publicly disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: New York City, NY, USA
- **Founded**: Not publicly available (earliest mention in awards: 2022)
- **Founders**: Nico Simko (CEO & Co-Founder) and Erik Webb (COO & Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Financial technology (Fintech), Earned Wage Access (EWA), Embedded Finance
- Target customers: B2B – HR platforms (payroll, workforce management, HCM, wallets) that embed Clair’s EWA solution; B2B2C – end users (employees) of those platforms
- Mission or purpose statement: “Clair is on a mission to redefine payday by making earned wages instantly accessible … to create more financial freedom for America’s workforce.” [getclair.com/about](https://getclair.com/about)

## Products & Services
- **Clair for Payroll**: Embedded EWA solution that integrates with payroll platforms (e.g., Gusto) – no changes to payroll, no employer cost, automatic repayment at next payroll run. [getclair.com](https://getclair.com/)
- **Clair for Workforce Management**: EWA solution integrated with WFM platforms, offering advances based on hours worked, with zero setup for employers. [getclair.com](https://getclair.com/)
- **Clair Embedded API**: White-label API that product, design, and engineering teams can use to build EWA directly into their own apps, minimizing integration effort. [getclair.com](https://getclair.com/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Over 5 million professionals nationwide have access to Clair through partner platforms. [getclair.com/careers](https://getclair.com/careers)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Partners include Pathward®, N.A. (national bank for compliance); HR platforms such as Gusto (case study cited). Financial partners and investors are listed on the careers page but not named publicly. [getclair.com/careers](https://getclair.com/careers) | [getclair.com](https://getclair.com/)
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - 3x higher employee conversion with embedded solution vs. employer-integrated
  - 80% employee availability after employer opt‑outs
  - 20% average adoption rate (among eligible employees)
  - 99% of users take their first advance within 2 minutes of starting enrollment
  - Median time from initial contract to beta go-live: 4 months
  - NPS of 80. [getclair.com](https://getclair.com/)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Compliance-first**: Clair partners with a regulated bank (Pathward, N.A.) and ensures adherence to state-by-state EWA legislation, reducing regulatory risk for platforms and employers.
- **Zero burden on employers**: No changes to payroll, no added HR work, no setup fees, and no cost to offer the benefit. Automatic repayment at payroll run.
- **Unique underwriting model**: Uses real-time earnings data from partner platforms to offer no-interest, non-recourse wage advances.
- **Embedded distribution**: Deep integration into existing payroll/WFM apps drives high adoption and conversion without requiring employers to sign up separately.

## Strategic Focus
- Deepening partnerships with digital payroll, HCM, and workforce management platforms to scale EWA reach.
- Maintaining compliance leadership as the regulatory landscape evolves.
- Building out its embedded fintech engine to offer additional financial solutions (e.g., savings, credit) through the same channels.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Certified Great Place to Work® (2021–2023). 100% of employees say it’s a great place to work (vs. 57% at a typical U.S. company). [greatplacetowork.com](https://www.greatplacetowork.com/en/certified-company/7026198)
- **Values**: “Take ownership,” “Listen, learn, then speak boldly,” “Adapt to make an impact,” “Find an opportunity to have fun.” [getclair.com/careers](https://getclair.com/careers)
- **Work environment**: HQ in New York City. Remote/hybrid policy not explicitly stated; open positions listed on Ashby suggest remote-friendly roles.
- **Perks/Engineering culture**: Mission-driven team building meaningful financial solutions; autonomy and end-to-end ownership; fast growth with “challenging—and rewarding” work. [getclair.com/careers](https://getclair.com/careers)
- **Recognition**: Ranked #55 Fortune Best Small Workplaces™ 2022, #41 Fortune Best Workplaces in New York™ 2023 (Small and Medium). [greatplacetowork.com](https://www.greatplacetowork.com/en/certified-company/7026198)

## Sources
1. [getclair.com](https://getclair.com/)
2. [getclair.com/careers](https://getclair.com/careers)
3. [getclair.com/about](https://getclair.com/about)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/clair](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clair)
5. [greatplacetowork.com](https://www.greatplacetowork.com/en/certified-company/7026198)

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