AI Ecosystem Partnerships Manager

AI Ecosystem Partnerships Manager — Agentic Payments

Location: San Francisco Bay Area (Hybrid)

Employment type: Full-time

Role: Individual contributor, working directly with the CEO

Help AI agents turn intent into real purchases.

About Snaplii

Snaplii is a profitable U.S. fintech building an agent-ready wallet. We have already demonstrated a payment flow using Meta's Muse, and we're looking for someone to help bring our wallet to more consumer, shopping, and other AI agent teams with real payment needs.

The opportunity

You'll work directly with our CEO to find promising AI startups, build relationships with founders and developers, understand their payment needs, and help move suitable opportunities into pilots with our product team.

This is a hands-on role for an early- to mid-career operator who enjoys starting conversations and following through. Your work will connect what founders need with what our product team builds and launches.

What you'll do

• Find and prioritize consumer agents, shopping agents, and other AI startups where payment capability could solve a real problem.
• Start conversations through personalized outreach, introductions, LinkedIn, X, meetups, hackathons, and founder events.
• Understand how an agent team handles purchases today, what is missing, and whether an additional payment option would offer clear value.
• Work with founders, our CEO, and product colleagues to define practical pilot opportunities, agree on next steps, and follow through on launch and feedback.
• Maintain clear records of partner conversations, needs, next steps, and pilot progress, and share what you learn with the team.

What you'll bring

• Practical experience in business development, partnerships, growth, community, or a startup project, with examples of what you personally initiated and delivered.
• Familiarity with the Bay Area startup community and the ability to participate regularly in local founder and developer meetings.
• Professional working proficiency in English and Mandarin Chinese, including business conversations and written follow-up.
• Clear communication, initiative, and sound judgment about which relationships and use cases are worth pursuing.
• Curiosity about AI agents, wallets, and payments, plus the ability to learn a product well enough to discuss customer needs and coordinate with technical teammates.

Experience organizing AI events, building developer communities, launching a startup project, or helping customers adopt a product would be especially relevant. Meaningful project and community experience is welcome alongside formal employment.

Why join

• Work directly with the CEO on a defined business priority.
• Build relationships across AI startups and developer communities.
• Develop practical experience across partner discovery, customer conversations, pilot coordination, and product adoption.
• Help develop a new area of agent payments within an established, profitable fintech business.

Compensation & Benefits

• Base salary: US$100,000 – 140,000
• Total target compensation (base + performance bonus): US$110,000 – 160,000
• Visa sponsorship available for qualified candidates (e.g. H-1B)

The actual offer will reflect relevant experience, skills, and the responsibilities of the role.

How to apply

Apply through LinkedIn with your profile or resume. Highlight one partnership, growth, community, or startup project you helped move forward and your personal contribution. Relevant public event or project links are welcome.

We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and assess applicants on job-related skills and experience.