Principal Advisor, AI Partnerships

Fiserv

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Work type
On-site
Location
Sunnyvale, CA
Salary
$183,000–$276,000 / yr
Posted
10 days ago
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About Fiserv

Fiserv is a global leader in financial services technology, providing core banking platforms, payment processing, digital banking, and merchant acquiring solutions to financial institutions and businesses. Industry: Financial Technology & Payments

Fiserv currently has 87 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Principal Advisor, AI Partnerships

As the Principal Advisor, AI Partnerships, you will lead the end-to-end intake, evaluation, onboarding, and governance for third-party vendors building AI-powered agents within the Agent Marketplace. You will collaborate with product, engineering, risk, legal, compliance, and security teams to build a scalable, risk-tiered onboarding model that balances innovation with enterprise-grade controls and regulatory alignment. Your daily work involves defining operational standards, developing governance frameworks for ongoing oversight, and evaluating partners based on technical readiness and strategic fit. You will also identify process gaps and present complex recommendations to senior leadership. The role requires expertise in fintech strategy, risk operations, and vendor management within regulated environments. Key competencies include assessing capabilities in artificial intelligence, automation, software platforms, and application programming interfaces to ensure the marketplace maintains integrity while supporting diverse merchant and financial institution needs.

What you'll do

  • Manage the end-to-end intake, evaluation, onboarding, and governance for third-party AI-powered agents.
  • Develop a risk-tiered partner onboarding model that balances speed with regulatory and enterprise requirements.
  • Establish onboarding standards and approval workflows in collaboration with legal, risk, security, and engineering teams.
  • Evaluate prospective partners based on technical readiness, strategic fit, and operational maturity.
  • Build governance frameworks for ongoing monitoring, issue management, and policy adherence for all partners.
  • Create scalable documentation standards and decision frameworks to support repeatable partner onboarding processes.
  • Align third-party agent enablement with product strategy and commercialization goals.
  • Present partnership recommendations and risk considerations to senior leadership to facilitate informed decision-making.

What we're looking for

  • You must have 8+ years of experience in partnerships, product management, vendor management, fintech strategy, risk operations, or related functions.
  • You must have 8+ years of experience evaluating and onboarding third-party vendors using structured governance and due diligence processes.
  • You must have 8+ years of experience working across legal, compliance, risk, security, product, and engineering teams in regulated industries.
  • You must have 8+ years of experience building or improving operating models, controls, or cross-functional processes for scalable platform growth.
  • You must have experience assessing partner capabilities in AI, automation, software platforms, APIs, or related technology ecosystems.
  • You must have experience presenting complex partnership, governance, and risk recommendations to senior leaders and executive stakeholders.
  • A Bachelor’s Degree in business, technology, finance, public policy, or a related field is required.
  • You must possess valid and unrestricted U.S. work authorization.

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