
Strategic Partnerships Head - Y Combinator backed Shopify-like platform
About Merito :
Merito is a curated talent platform where we identify, assess, and connect candidates for matching job opportunities. We are working with the mission to change the way hiring is done. The company is founded by a team consisting of alumni from IIM Ahmedabad, McKinsey with more than 2 decades of experience in recruitment, training, and coaching.
About Our Client :
Our client is headquartered in California and Y Combinator backed Shopify-like platform for creators & knowledge professionals (coaches, instructors, experts, artists etc.) to launch, manage and grow their business online. Founded by IIT/ IIM/ BITS/ Yale/ BCG Alumni and 3X Entrepreneurs, they are well funded and backed by top Indian VC firms along with start-up veterans like Kunal Shah (CRED). The company is founded by alumni from top IITs, IIMs, BITS, Yale including ex-entrepreneurs and from firms such as BCG, Hike, Dunzo and P&G.
Since the launch of its first version in December 2020 they have grown 25X. Creators have earned more than $1 Million since launch through the platform.
We have just closed our series A (yet to announce) and are looking to build out our leadership team across functions.
Job Description :
As a Strategic Partnerships Head you'll be responsible for forming partnerships with affiliates, brands and agencies to meet customer acquisition goals - whatever it takes for the company to grow 100X.
Key Responsibilities :
- Responsible for forming partnerships with affiliates, brands and agencies
- Formulate partnership deliverables that meet business growth objectives.
- Market research to identify most impactful partnerships.
- Manage end to end cycle for striking deals with potential partners.
- Lead the complete strategic partnership team
The successful applicant will be :
- 5+ yrs of experience at early-stage startups; experience in influencer marketing and brand partnerships.
- Excellent communication skills and negotiation skills and the ability to close deals.
- Strong leadership skills and the ability to hire and grow team members
- Very strong orientation towards meeting targets and looking at data-driven insights.
- Experience in influencer marketing and brand partnerships.
- Likes to connect and actively engage with key influencers and decision-makers inside an organization.
- Interested in working on the business side of a SaaS start-up and ready to dig into work and learn all aspects around it.

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About CoinCROWD
CoinCROWD is building the future of crypto spending with CROWD Wallet, a secure, user- friendly wallet designed for seamless cryptocurrency transactions in the real world. As the crypto landscape continues to evolve, CoinCROWD is at the forefront, enabling everyday consumers to use digital currencies like never before.
We’re not just another blockchain startup, we’re a team of innovators, dreamers, and tech geeks who believe in making crypto fun, easy, and accessible to everyone. If you love solving complex problems and cracking blockchain puzzles while sharing memes with your team, you’ll fit right in!
We’re on a mission to make crypto investing as easy as sending a WhatsApp message, simple, secure, and jargon-free. Backed by strong tech and a user-first philosophy, we are building the most trusted crypto experience for the users.
Role Overview
We are looking for a strategic and driven Partnerships Manager to lead, develop, and scale strategic alliances that drive user acquisition, brand credibility, and revenue growth. This is a high-impact role that requires an entrepreneurial mindset and the ability to execute end-to-end partnerships, from identifying the right partner to launching collaborative campaigns.
Key Responsibilities
- Identify, evaluate, and onboard strategic partners (financial institutions, fintechs, influencers, web3 projects, communities, and brands) aligned with CoinCROWD’s growth goals.
- Structure, negotiate, and close partnership deals that generate user growth, transactions, and retention.
- Manage and nurture existing partnerships to maximize mutual value and ensure execution of joint marketing plans.
- Collaborate closely with marketing, product, compliance, and leadership teams to ensure seamless partnership integration and performance.
- Track KPIs and report ROI on partnership initiatives using data-backed insights.
- Stay updated with industry trends and competitive landscape to identify whitespace opportunities.
What We’re Looking For
- 2–10 years of experience in partnerships, business development, or strategic alliances in fintech, crypto, or tech startups.
- Strong network and understanding of the fintech/crypto ecosystem.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
- A go-getter with a bias for execution and ability to thrive in fast-paced environments.
- Analytical mindset with a clear understanding of growth funnels and partner ROI.
Good to Have
- Prior experience in a crypto/blockchain startup or platform.
- Familiarity with influencer and creator-led partnerships.
- Experience launching co-branded campaigns or API integrations with partners.
Why CoinCROWD?
- Work at the forefront of the crypto revolution across the globe.
- Ownership-driven culture with flat hierarchies.
- Smart, humble, and passionate team.
- Opportunity to shape strategy from the ground up in a high-growth phase.
Ready to build the most trusted crypto brand together?
Apply now!
Key Responsibilities
- Recognizes and seizes opportunities to contribute to agency new business
- Build product GTM narrative, and clearly explain products, value proposition, commercial and engagement model
- Organize Product trainings and roadshows across agencies
- Accountable for maintaining a positive relationship with Media agency, and providing clear lanes of communication and support
- Responsible for development of direct reports
- Establish regular check-ins with key stakeholders
- Understand who and when to pull in Tech Product team to support client-direct conversations, and more specific requests
- Manage & prioritize incoming requests from agencies
- Partner with business stakeholders to define product application & usage goals and working to ensure solutions are properly integrated, applied, and activated
- Provide feedback to product team share client & agency specific feedback, areas for improvement, opportunities, etc.
- Display strong consulting and collaboration skills
- Exhibits enthusiasm for clients’ business and industry. Maintains leading edge of knowledge of clients’ business and industry
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience, ideally in a digital or media agency or consultancy
- Strong knowledge of leading data and technology tools
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including demonstrated ability to create and deliver professional presentations and customer deliverables requiring little review/input from others.
- Strong attention to detail, excellent organization skills, and ability to manage multiple projects
- Demonstrable track record of success in operations and client engagement in a cross-functional environment, including product, tech, or media.
- Has deep knowledge and experience with paid media agencies

Job Description
- Lead the Data Solutions function and be the POC for all Agency Digital and Data leads to liaise on client requirements, and ensuring the appropriate solutions are rolled out.
- General agency pitch support for data as needed but more proactively creating consulting frameworks around client 1st PD data architecture, guidance, and recommendation around CDPs implementation, vs DMP, Mar-tech stack
- Establish working relationship and SOP for implementation delivery for Mar-Tech projects
- Contribute to team projects as the executive sponsor for client data initiatives, support the agencies in audience planning strategies utilising all data assets
- Own the setup elements such as first party data, tag integration (tag management systems, custom data integrations, CRM connections, etc.), custom data partner integration development.
- Work with data partners to integrate their data sets into [m]insights (Onboarding & Testing Data Sets)
- Manage the Mar-tech partners, working on JBPs to achieve shared goals of client enablement
- Work closely with the global and regional product team to test and rollout new features, special with the cookieless future of audience planning tools
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in Technology Consulting role within Adtech/Martech
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in a relevant field (Data, Technology, IT, Marketing)
- Certifications (or advanced knowledge) in DMP, CDP, Mar-tech & digital analytics platforms
- A strong understanding of all digital marketing channels
- Familiar with advanced analytics and data management concepts
- Proven ability to build and grow relationships with key stakeholders
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Flexibility to work in a cross-functional team but also have the initiative to problem-solve independently.
- Highly organised with demonstrated project management capabilities
Key Responsibilities:
- Student and Employer Engagement:Build and maintain relationships with employers to understand their hiring needs and promote opportunities for our students.
- Collaborate with faculty and departments to identify potential job placements that align with students' skills and aspirations.
- Provide information and guidance to students about available job and internship openings, application procedures, and interview techniques.
- Job Placement Coordination:Facilitate the job placement process by matching students with suitable job opportunities based on their qualifications and career goals.
- Coordinate job fairs, networking events, and employer presentations to create platforms for students to connect with potential employers.
- Assist students in preparing and refining their resumes, cover letters, and portfolios to enhance their chances of securing interviews.
- Database Management:Maintain an organized database of job listings, employer contacts, and student profiles for efficient job matching and tracking.
- Ensure accurate and up-to-date records of student placements and employment outcomes to measure the effectiveness of the placement program.
- Student Support: Offer career counseling and guidance to students by helping them define their career goals, identify their strengths, and develop job search strategies. Conduct mock interviews and provide feedback to students to enhance their interview skills and confidence.
- Employer Relations:Reach out to potential employers to create partnerships and expand the range of job opportunities available to students.
- Collect feedback from employers about student performance to continuously improve the quality of our graduates.
Experience & Skills Required
Previously worked in any MNC for at least 6 months or worked in Top brand Engineering Colleges / universities for at least 2 years in placement division .
- Excellent communication and Drafting skills related to placement to industries
- Awareness of Trending Technologies .
- Ready to Visit companies in Hyderabad / Bangalore / Pune
- Must have knowledge of recruitment pattern of product based companies .
- Ready to take challenge of placement even in recession , who can see the rising SUN behind the clouds before others .
- Impressive Personality with the capability of convincing others with SWOT analysis .
If you are passionate about helping students launch their careers and are excited about contributing to our placement efforts, we encourage you to submit your resume outlining your qualifications and motivation for applying.
About The company:
NoBrokerHood started in the year 2018, aimed to make life more convenient and secure for residents in any
housing society. NoBrokerHood offers a plethora of services and features which enables its customer, as a user, to
manage multiple activities inside residential buildings, housing societies, and gated communities. From finding
domestic help to monitoring visitor entry and maintenance or utility bill payment, it’s all done from your phone. It
also further strengthens the safety of your society by keeping visual and digital records of all entries and exits –
accessible anytime and anywhere – and automates staff entry through a facial recognition or biometric process
About the role:
It is about generating sales and solving customer's problems with regards to marketing/advertising. You will work as
an extended marketing arm of the brands and all the actions strongly exhibit a Customer-First approach. The
primary role is to identify potential brands/companies, onboard new clients, and ensure the retention of the existing
ones. In the process of onboarding and retention, you are also exposed to campaign planning and execution based
on the client's brief.
• What makes this role interesting?
• Complete understanding of Sales
• Exposure to a variety of clients from different industries
• Get to work with the marketing team of various companies (small, mid, large)
Job Description
The role has 2 distinct areas of responsibility:
• Day to Day work
• Relationship Management
You Are Expected To
• Identify new brand/company basis trends, market knowledge, current advertisers
• Reach out and make connections with identified brand/company
• Understanding clients business, identifying their marketing problems, and collecting the marketing campaign
brief
• Plan the advertising campaign basis the brief and get a go-ahead from clients to execute the advertising
campaign
• Collaborate with internal teams to ensure that the campaigns are performing/executed as per the commitment.
• Coordinate with clients for smooth flow of work and reporting of ongoing advertising campaigns
• Ensuring that the monthly/yearly revenues targets are being achieved
• Preparing Daily Task Reports
• The work hours are equally split between - answering emails/calls and campaign execution & campaign
planning
Relationship Management
• Forge strong business relationships with the clients
• Build a culture of high performance & innovation in the team
• Experience and skills required
To be successful in this role, you’ll need to have the following skills:
• Communication: Excellent communication skills in English.
• Agility: Ability to change according to business requirements.
• Motivation: Demonstrate a positive, ‘can-do’ attitude. Willing to roll up your sleeves and
get things done.
• Data-driven: Keen interest in analyzing performance data and transforming it into actionable strategies.
• Growth-driven: Keen to grow as an individual.
Benefits
• Performance Bonus
• Private Health Insurance
An ideal candidate will be around 35-40 years old woman, with a pleasant personality, having experience of Hotel, Travel, Banking, or Media Industry with entrepreneurial instincts. This position is based out of Mumbai
Our client is one of the most innovative and fast growing InsureTech platforms that offers contextual insurance in a blink.
We are a team of consumer obsessed & driven people. We want to reimagine insurance through a consumption lens for millions. We are a B2C and B2B2C platform that wants to simplify the way insurance is experienced with principles of transparency, trust and contextualization. The multiple ideas that we are building upon are all about an experience beyond the way insurance is understood or sold at present in India.
Roles & Responsibilities:
1. Stakeholder management:- Managing the existing partners on Ecosystem. With customers at the core, ensuring that the best propositions from the partners are being sourced & enhanced for the end users
2. Business Development:- Originating new partners on the Ecosystem while ensuring that commercials are sorted out
3. Strategize member enrolment programme and lead cross-functional teams to deliver on mutually agreed targets
4. Work alongside the Data team to build unique dashboards for internal reviews and channelise data towards the partners
5. Work with the Product team to co-build various capabilities on the platform
6. Work with the marketing team to design campaigns & attractive promotions for enrolments.
Required Skills and Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in a similar role with Digital platforms or digital roles
- MBA from Top B schools
- Eye for a consumer's mindset
- Experience of working in digital first platforms or differentiated build-outs
- Data driven approach to decision making
- Ability to multitask and work on a diverse range of requirements.
Work Location: Hybrid - Mumbai
About the Ecosystem Platform:
We are building India's largest mobility ecosystem embedded with features that all vehicle owners are going to love & use frequently. This would be a digital-only platform covering entire India and empowering the complete range of vehicles. In the last 3 months while being in stealth mode, we have scaled this platform to over 160,000 vehicles which range from Maserati & Rolls Royce to Suzuki & Hyundai on 4-wheelers and Harley Davidson & KT to Hero & TVS. This platform represents India's largest pool of data w.r.t. vehicles and aspires to build a strong bond between various brands and their end users over our Mobility Ecosystem. On a daily basis, we are registering new members every day to enjoy the benefits currently offered.
Our plan is to scale this to over 10mn members in the next 24 months and empower this with various experiences in an end-to-end manner. This is a very exciting platform which could give an opportunity to complete imagination
A sneak peak into the opportunity:
- 7+ million active customer base in our company (Mostly acquired in last 6 months)
- Created community for 2 & 4 Wheeler vehicle owners (currently in the beta version and onboarded 120K+ users in no time)
- A rapidly growing team in tech + product with some of the finest folks in the industry - A rapidly growing team of Sales, Marketing, Tech and PMs
- An opportunity to build products that influence insurance awareness and buying at the grassroot level.
Regards
Team Merito
1. Understanding the goals of partnership for Pushstart & Troopod.
2. Planning and strategizing partnership plans & models.
3. Creating, and maintaining an organized database for all potential partners.
4. Evaluating the potential partners, coordinating & discussing with the team to ensure
that Alliance and Partnership goals are synchronized with organizational goals, and
finalizing the targeted partners.
5. Establishing a systematic process for partner outreach and relationship
management.
6. Managing inbound & outbound partnerships, negotiating and finalizing the deals with
partners and alliances.
7. Implementing & Tracking the end-to-end process of finalized partnerships.
8. Strategizing newer ways to grow current partnerships that benefit the company.
9. Forecasting, measuring, and reporting the results of various projects with partners.
Core Requirements:
1. Min 1 year of experience in strategic partnerships & alliances with excellent
communication skills.
2. Strategic thinker with Networking aptitude.
3. Knowledge of Sales and Marketing know-how.
4. Team player and multitasker with organizational skills.

