# Director, Partnerships **Company**: Ramp **Location**: London **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: executive **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Sales **Industry**: Finance **Apply**: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ramp/4e6fffef-bb23-4623-ad86-95b840dd51be?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_2de504fc-a37 ## Description ## About the Role Ramp is building its UK business from the ground up. We are looking for a Director of Partnerships to be the senior commercial owner of Ramp’s partner ecosystem in the UK: creating the relationships, market presence, and repeatable routes to revenue that help make Ramp a category-defining company in the region. Reporting to the VP of Channel Sales, you will operate as a founder for Partnerships in London. You will build a focused partner strategy, develop executive-level relationships, and turn the right relationships into durable commercial outcomes. You will work closely with the UK go-to-market team and cross-functional leaders across Sales, Product, Marketing, and Customer Success to make partnerships a meaningful driver of market entry and long-term growth. ## Responsibilities - Own and execute Ramp’s UK partnerships strategy, identifying the partner categories and individual relationships that can accelerate awareness, pipeline, customer value, and long-term market position - Build and maintain senior relationships across the UK ecosystem, including accounting, private equity and venture capital firms, professional-services and consulting firms, financial institutions, technology partners, and other high-leverage channels - Work alongside the UK Channel Partner Managers, aligning the broader ecosystem strategy with Ramp’s dedicated motions and creating leverage across shared relationships - Develop a focused partnership plan for priority relationships: articulate the joint value proposition, define the commercial path, and create mutual accountability for progress - Generate measurable commercial impact by sourcing and influencing pipeline, creating warm paths to target customers, and supporting strategic deals through partner relationships - Represent Ramp with credibility at executive meetings, industry events, and partner forums, building the company’s reputation as a serious, long-term UK partner - Serve as the internal voice of the UK partner market, translating relationship intelligence, customer needs, and market dynamics into actionable input for Sales, Product, Marketing, and leadership - Build the operating cadence for the function, including account plans, partnership scorecards, executive briefs, pipeline visibility, and clear follow-through across internal and external stakeholders - Help shape Ramp’s broader UK and European go-to-market strategy as the market, team, and partnership portfolio grow ## Requirements - 10+ years of experience in sales, partnerships, business development, alliances, or go-to-market leadership, with a demonstrated record of building senior relationships and driving commercial outcomes - A proven track record of owning revenue, quota, influenced pipeline, or similarly concrete commercial goals in a complex B2B environment - Executive presence and sound judgment: you can earn credibility with senior partner leaders and represent Ramp confidently in consequential conversations - A builder mindset. You have launched a territory, vertical, business line, or partner motion, and know how to create a plan and operating rhythm from a blank page - The ability to turn broad relationships into specific opportunities, navigate multiple stakeholders, and maintain momentum through long sales and partnership cycles - Strong strategic and analytical thinking, with the ability to decide where Ramp should invest and make a clear, data-informed case to senior leadership - Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to build a compelling partnership narrative and align cross-functional teams around it - AI fluency as a daily habit. Ramp is a builder culture: if you do not instinctively reach for AI before doing things manually, this role will be a hard adjustment - Ability to work five days per week from Ramp’s London office, with willingness to travel across the UK and continental Europe as needed ## Nice to Haves - Experience selling or partnering into private equity, financial services, consulting, enterprise technology, or high-growth software companies - Experience in fintech, financial software, payments, spend management, or the office of the CFO technology ecosystem - An established UK network of senior commercial, investment, operating, or technology leaders - Experience building a new market or international go-to-market motion - Fluency in an additional European language ## Benefits - Flexible PTO - Centralized home-office equipment ordering - Health and wellness stipend - Budget for intra-office travel - Weekly coffee stipend - Private medical insurance through Freedom Elite - Virtual GP and at-home care via eMed x Livi - Workplace pension through Penfold, with salary sacrifice option - Parental leave: up to 16 weeks (birthing + bonding) or 8 weeks (bonding only) at 100% pay with additional time available at reduced pay ## Skills ### Required - sales - partnerships - business development - alliances - go-to-market leadership - AI fluency ### Nice to have - private equity - financial services - consulting - enterprise technology - high-growth software companies - fintech - financial software - payments - spend management - CFO technology ecosystem --- Source: [Apply at jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ramp/4e6fffef-bb23-4623-ad86-95b840dd51be?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)