Anchor closed $40M in top-tier VC funding, and grew 500% last year, transforming the $74B services payments market. Our platform automates billing and collections so businesses can focus on growth.We're hiring an AI-First Director of Partnerships to build and scale Anchor's partner ecosystem and drive partner-sourced revenue. This is a quota-carrying leadership role for someone who's equal parts builder and closer, skilled at turning relationships into revenue and ideas into scalable, AI-powered programs.You'll define a new playbook for building, activating, and growing fintech alliances, combining creativity, commercial instincts, and AI-driven precision. AI isn't a layer on top of this role. It's about identifying the right partners, activating them faster, measuring what matters, and scaling what works.Reporting to the COO. Player-coach. Entrepreneurial mindset. AI hands-on experience. Deeply tech savvy - you build, configure, and adopt tools yourself, you don’t wait for someone else to set them up. High-energy. Fast-paced. Hungry to grow.The AI-First MandateAnchor is building an AI-first organization from the ground up. This isn’t a transformation project - it’s how we operate by default. As the leader of Partnerships, you will be expected to drive exponential value by turning every process in your function into an AI-first workflow: using AI to identify and score partner opportunities, automate activation and enablement sequences, track performance without manual reporting, and scale what works faster than any traditional partnerships motion could.You will be accountable for continuously auditing your function and eliminating work that AI can own. If a human is doing it and AI can do it better or faster, you build the system. Speed of AI adoption and measurable productivity leverage per partner are core performance metrics in this role.? This position is hybrid-based in Austin, TX, with a mix of office and remote work (4 days from the office, 1 day from home), with part of the team distributed globally.