Network Expansion Executive

Hello Clever is building the next generation of payments and loyalty infrastructure by turning every transaction into growth for merchants. We’re an AI-powered fintech operating across 26+ markets, helping businesses move money in real time and convert payments into measurable outcomes like higher repeat rates, bigger baskets, and smarter customer engagement. Our platform combines local account-to-account rails, embedded cashback and loyalty products, and powerful data intelligence through Clever AI, so merchants can launch offers, optimise ROI, and scale faster, all through a single integration. We recently crossed $70M in live ARR and are on track to pass $100M by the end of 2026-just 2.3 years after reaching our first $1M. It’s an exciting milestone that reflects the scale of what we’re building and the opportunity ahead. We’re also proud to be recognised on the global stage, including being named Australia’s fastest-growing fintech, recognised in Forbes Asia’s Top 100, ranked among the AFR Fastest-Growing Companies, and selected for Inc. Magazine’s Best in Business.

About The Role
We’re looking for a Network Expansion Executive to help grow and support Hello Clever’s payment network.
Working closely with the Network Expansion Manager, you’ll help identify, onboard, and support the partners that power and expand our payments ecosystem. This could include payment providers, financial institutions, acquirers, processors, infrastructure partners, and other businesses that help us improve payment coverage, capability, and reach.
You’ll be involved across the full network expansion lifecycle, from researching new payment opportunities and supporting commercial conversations, through to onboarding, launch, ongoing partner coordination, and performance tracking.
This is a great role for someone early in their career who wants to build experience in payments, fintech, commercial partnerships, and network expansion. What You’ll Be Doing
- Helping grow our payment network. Research and identify potential partners that can expand Hello Clever’s payment capabilities, coverage, and reach.
- Supporting new payment partnerships. Assist with outreach, follow-ups, commercial discussions, proposals, and next steps with prospective payment partners.
- Coordinating onboarding and launches. Help move new partners from initial discussion through onboarding, implementation, testing, and go-live.
- Supporting existing payment partners. Act as a day-to-day point of contact for selected partners and help keep relationships, actions, and deliverables moving.
- Working across teams. Coordinate with Product, Operations, Technology, Compliance, Finance, and other internal teams to support payment network initiatives.
- Keeping the pipeline organised. Maintain visibility across prospective partners, onboarding progress, commercial opportunities, and key milestones.
- Tracking network performance. Support reporting on payment network growth, partner performance, coverage, volumes, issues, and opportunities.
- Identifying expansion opportunities. Help spot gaps in our current network and areas where new partners, capabilities, or payment routes could add value.
- Supporting partner meetings. Prepare materials, capture actions, and make sure follow-ups are completed.
- Representing Hello Clever. Attend partner meetings, industry events, conferences, and activations where required.
- Taking more ownership over time. As you grow in the role, you’ll begin managing selected payment partners and network expansion opportunities directly. Who You Are You don’t need to be a payments expert on day one, but you should be interested in learning how payment networks work and how commercial relationships help fintech businesses scale.
You may have experience in payments, fintech, partnerships, business development, account management, banking, financial services, operations, or another commercial role.
We’re looking for someone who:
- Is genuinely interested in payments and fintech.
- Is curious about how payment providers, processors, acquirers, financial institutions, and technology partners work together.
- Is a confident communicator and enjoys building relationships with external partners.
- Is proactive and comfortable following opportunities through from conversation to execution.
- Is highly organised and able to manage multiple partner workstreams at once.
- Has strong attention to detail, particularly when coordinating onboarding, commercial requirements, and launch activities.
- Is comfortable working with data, spreadsheets, CRM tools, and performance reporting.
- Has a commercial mindset and wants to understand how payment partnerships create value.
- Works well across Product, Operations, Technology, Compliance, and other internal teams.
- Is comfortable working in a fast-moving environment where priorities can evolve quickly.
- Is available for occasional travel for partner meetings, industry events, conferences, and other busines