Product Platform Director-Payments-Executive Director

Job responsibilities

• Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for one or more foundational payments platforms supporting shared capabilities across products and segments.
• Lead platform ownership across the end-to-end payments lifecycle, including pay-in processing, network and payment-method economics, compliance with payment brand rules, and post-transaction events.
• Build and operate systems of record and reusable services (APIs, workflows, data models, controls) consumed by multiple solution teams.
• Balance long-term platform health (scalability, reliability, reuse) with near-term delivery of regulatory, network-mandated, and risk-driven commitments.
• Ensure platforms support commercial outcomes, including margin integrity, cost-of-payments optimization, and transparent economics.
• Drive strong governance, controls, and audit-ready evidence as platform features, not downstream processes.
• Leverage data, analytics, and AI to automate repetitive processes, surface anomalies, and identify hidden risk or opportunity in large data sets.
• Partner closely with Technology, Risk, Compliance, Finance, Operations, and Solution teams to deliver consistent and scalable outcomes.
• Act as senior decision owner for platform-level tradeoffs, issue resolution, and prioritization in complex or ambiguous situations. Communicate platform posture, risks, and progress clearly to senior leadership.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 8+ years of experience or equivalent expertise delivering products, projects, or technology applications
• Broad understanding of payments ecosystems, including networks, payment methods, fees, operating rules, and lifecycle events.
• Extensive knowledge of the product development life cycle, technical design, and data analytics
• Proven ability to influence the adoption of key product life cycle activities including discovery, ideation, strategic development, requirements definition, and value management
• Experience driving change within organizations and managing stakeholders across multiple functions

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Recognized thought leader within a related field