Head of Strategic Partnerships, North America

Job Description

Job Description

About Prezzee

Prezzee is a global leader in digital gifting and payments, having sold over 140 million gift cards through partnerships with more than 1,500 brands and serving over 6 million customers worldwide. Our mission is to change lives through the power of giving—leveraging borderless payment technology to help people connect and create memorable moments that truly matter.

Founded in Australia nearly 10 years ago, Prezzee now operates across the United States, Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand, delivering seamless, secure gifting experiences to a global audience.

About the Role

Having recently launched in Canada, we're rapidly expanding our global partner ecosystem across digital commerce, consumer finance, entertainment, and customer engagement technologies in North America.

As the Head of Strategic Partnerships — North America, you'll lead Prezzee's expansion by identifying and securing high-impact partnerships across key sectors like digital commerce, consumer finance, BNPL, and entertainment platforms. Your focus will be on delivering revenue growth, expanding Prezzee's strategic partner network, and establishing strong, long-term partnerships that create mutual value.

You'll bring a personalized, "white-glove" approach to relationship building, collaborating closely with global teams and partners like Afterpay, while designing and executing a partnership strategy tailored for the US market. Your leadership will be crucial in building and scaling the North American partnerships team.

This role is based in either our Chelsea NYC or San Jose, California, office

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a North America–focused partnership strategy to drive revenue, customer acquisition, and market growth.
• Leverage your network and leads to build new strategic customers and expand existing channels, including BNPL and cross-regional APIs.
• Manage day-to-day collaboration with key partners such as Afterpay to maximize partnership value.
• Build and maintain deep, trust-based relationships with strategic partners, aligning collaboration to client needs and innovation.
• Lead contract negotiations to secure marketing funds, co-op budgets, and maximize deal value while ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.
• Track and analyze partnership performance to optimize ROI and growth opportunities.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Sales, Legal, Product, and Marketing teams to drive partnership success.
• Represent Prezzee with senior partners and stakeholders as a trusted advisor and thought leader.
• Support design and scaling of the North American partnerships team, fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, and growth.

What you bring

Why Prezzee?

Join Prezzee and become part of a vibrant, fast-growing company where your impact truly matters. Here, you'll be empowered to shape the future of digital gifting while enjoying a supportive culture that values your wellbeing and growth. We offer :

Prezzee is an Equal Opportunity employer. We believe diversity is key to building the best products for our customers, team culture and growing our global business. Our diversity mission is for our people to be their most authentic selves, to inspire, innovate and celebrate within a culture of belonging. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status.

We are looking for people to help create human connections, make magic and shape the future of gifting so even if you don't think you quite meet all of the skills listed or tick all the boxes, we'd still love to hear from you! Please let us know if you require any adjustments as part of the application and recruitment process, We also encourage you to let us know of your pronouns at any point of the process.

This position can be based in our New York City, Chelsea office or our San Jose office. Base salary ranges between $180,000 to $220,000 USD. Our salary range is based on the industry benchmark for position, location, function and level of individual experience. The total compensation package for this position includes Short Term Incentives (STI) and benefits.