Channel Manager
About the job
- A bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Economics, or a related field.
- Experience in channel management, strategic partnerships, or business development, preferably in payments, fintech, e-commerce, or technology.
- Professional proficiency in written and spoken English.
- Proven experience in team management, coaching, and performance development.
- A strong analytical mindset and ability to make data-driven decisions.
- Communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Strategic thinking, planning, prioritization, and problem-solving abilities.
- Ability to build and manage effective relationships with senior executives and strategic business partners.
- Presentation and storytelling skills, with the ability to communicate effectively to diverse audiences.
- Manage and grow end-to-end partnerships with e-commerce platform providers and strategic business partners for iyzico's Virtual POS and B2B payment solutions.
- Develop new partnerships, identify potential partners, and execute partnership initiatives aligned with channel growth objectives.
- Monitor existing partners' commercial performance, analyze revenue and transaction volume, and identify growth opportunities.
- Manage partner segmentation, prioritization, and lifecycle processes to build a scalable and sustainable partner ecosystem.
- Manage partner agreements, commercial terms, and collaboration processes to ensure effective partnership governance.
- Prepare weekly, monthly, and quarterly channel performance reports, develop management presentations, and track action plans.
- Analyze partner performance, sales, and operational data to identify improvement opportunities and recommend actionable solutions.
- Collaborate with Sales, Product, Marketing, Operations, and Technology teams to deliver partner initiatives successfully.
- Lead the Channel Management team by setting goals, supporting team development, and driving performance.
- Develop new channel models and strategic partnerships that support iyzico's long-term growth strategy.
About the company
Iyzico provides a Turkish online payments gateway that lets merchants accept multiple payment methods (credit cards and bank installment options) through a single integration. Its platform uses a unified integration with fraud-detection powered by machine learning to protect merchants and customers, and for marketplaces it handles escrow and fund splitting between vendors. Compared with peers, it focuses on Turkey with a single gateway covering many banks and payment options, plus built-in marketplace management, and it later leveraged PayU’s global reach after acquisition. Its goal is to help e-commerce merchants of all sizes grow online sales by simplifying payments, improving conversion rates, and providing a secure, scalable payments infrastructure.
Company Size
201-500
Company Stage
Acquired
Total Funding
$24M
Headquarters
Istanbul, Türkiye
Founded
2013
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- 2026-03-12, Tencent Cloud backed iyzico's first European cloud production platform.
- 2026-02-11, Starbucks Turkey adopted iyzico ile Öde, proving stronger consumer distribution.
- 2026-07-03, the women entrepreneur program crossed 200 million TL in cumulative volume.
What critics are saying
- Stripe Turkey, PayTR, and Param compress pricing and steal enterprise merchants in 2026.
- Paynet integration through 2026 can break operations, distract engineers, and trigger merchant churn.
- European expansion depends on Tencent Cloud compliance; a failed launch stalls growth outside Turkey.
What makes iyzico unique
- 2026-01-01, iyzico unified Paynet, adding B2B collections and marketplace payouts.
- iyzico serves 120,000-plus merchants and 6 million consumers across Turkey.
- PayU's fraud engine and multi-market routing support cross-border expansion and risk controls.
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Benefits
Health Insurance
Meal Benefits
Phone/Internet Stipend
Commuter Benefits
Flexible Work Hours
Mental Health Support
Growth & Insights and Company News
6 month growth
-11%1 year growth
-11%2 year growth
-11%iyzico, the Turkish fintech company providing payment solutions to over 30,000 merchants including Amazon, H&M, Zara and sahibinden.com, has been acquired by global fintech company PayU in a $165 million deal. PayU, a subsidiary of Naspers, will be buying a majority stake in iyzico, founded in 2013 and the brainchild of Barbaros Özbuğutu and Tahsin Isın.
Turkish fintech Iyzico is set to acquire Paynet, a B2B and B2B2C payment solutions provider headquartered in Istanbul, from parent company the Arena Group in a deal worth $87 million.
iyzico is to acquire Paynet from Arena Group in a deal worth around $87m.
iyzico, an Istanbul, Turkey-based financial technology company, acquired Paynet, a provider of B2B payments and collections services in the Turkish fintech landscape, for USD87M from Arena Group.
iyzico and Patika have launched a Front-end Practicum to strengthen aspiring women programmers in front-end web development, one of the most demanded fields in tech.