Set the vision and long-term strategy for Upwork’s global payments and financial infrastructure.
Lead a multi-functional organization responsible for payment rails, payout orchestration, regulatory compliance, risk mitigation, and customer experience.
Drive the adoption of AI-powered payment solutions and automation to reduce costs, enhance decision-making, and improve customer outcomes.
Upwork Inc. connects businesses with global, AI-enabled talent across every contingent work type including freelance, fractional, and payrolled. They have facilitated more than $30 billion in total transactions and services as it fulfills its purpose to create opportunity in every era of work.
Own and articulate a clear product vision and strategy for payments.
Lead payments products through the full product development lifecycle.
Serve as the subject-matter expert for payments.
Versapay turns accounts receivable (AR) into a competitive advantage by removing friction and unlocking working capital. With over 10,000 customers and 5M+ companies transacting on the platform, Versapay processes over 110M transactions and $257B annually.
Own end-to-end product requirements for payment features.
Perform detailed money movement analysis across all payment modalities.
Serve as the product organization’s closest partner to the engineering team.
Payabli is a next-generation Payments Infrastructure and Monetization Platform purpose-built for vertical software companies. They enable platforms to seamlessly embed, monetize, and operationalize payments—making payments a core part of their platform and business model.
Work with digital distribution partners, developing and executing strategies and project plans to maximize growth and revenue.
Present and close new programs to senior/C-level executives and work cross-functionally to launch them.
Develop and refine sales strategies plus lead cross-functional teams to execute sales strategies.
Blackhawk Network (BHN) provides a single global platform, helping businesses with branded payment solutions to grow revenue, increase loyalty, motivate teams, disburse funds, and engage consumers. BHN's network spans the globe with more than 400,000 consumer touchpoints.
Manage the payment operations team and oversee projects.
Handle critical payment escalations and ensure timely resolution.
Collaborate with Payment Service Providers for seamless customer service.
WeTravel builds tools that empower entrepreneurs to launch and grow their own travel businesses. Their platform simplifies trip proposals, payment processing, and customer management, enabling organizers to focus on creating amazing experiences; they are a category leader powering over a million travelers' adventures.
Lead the Payment Solutions technical team in designing and implementing scalable payment solutions.
Oversee current payment technology stack and drive optimization of existing solutions.
Spearhead the evaluation and implementation of a second payment solution to handle non-claims based payment types.
Aledade empowers independent primary care. Founded in 2014, they've become the largest network of independent primary care in the country helping practices, health centers and clinics deliver better care to their patients and thrive in value-based care.
Drive measurable client outcomes and accountability for ROI across your portfolio.
Deliver consistent revenue growth by managing net revenue retention and expansion.
Provide expert fraud and compliance advisory, speaking the language of ACH fraud and transaction monitoring.
Sardine is a leader in fraud prevention and AML compliance, using device intelligence, behavior biometrics, machine learning, and AI to stop fraud. With hubs in the Bay Area, NYC, Austin, Toronto, and São Paulo, they have a remote-first work culture and value performance over hours worked.
Develop, grow, and execute against a pipeline of new opportunities.
Drive new client acquisitions and client growth through selling Pismo solutions.
Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries. At Visa, they are dedicated to uplifting everyone, and offer opportunities to create impact at scale, grow skills and see contributions impact lives around the world.
Define payments strategy and build the 2026–2027 payments roadmap aligned with the company’s expansion plans.
Design and manage a portfolio approach, including market prioritization and local acquiring expansion in priority growth markets.
Own commercials end-to-end: pricing negotiation across processing, FX, disputes/refunds, settlement currencies, and SLAs.
Vio is a travel tech platform that helps millions of users make smarter travel decisions by comparing stays across booking sites. They operate in 100+ markets and are growing fast, aiming to reshape how people discover and book accommodation through technology.
Drive impactful sales strategies for cross-border payment solutions.
Engage with high-profile clients, including Fortune 500 companies and global banks.
Shape partnerships that foster growth and innovation in financial services.
Jobgether is a company that helps candidates get hired through AI-powered matching. They connect job seekers with companies and aim to streamline the hiring process, ensuring applications are reviewed fairly and efficiently.
End to end ownership of all processes and functions related to running Remote’s UK payments entities.
Represent Remote externally with regulators, government officials and industry bodies.
Act as the Entity head of the UK entity, being the primary DRI for ensuring the entity meets its growth goals while meeting all regulatory expectations.
Remote helps modern organizations navigate global employment compliantly and with ease. They enable businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams with a future-focused work culture and asynchronous work environment.
Own day-to-day payment operations, including transaction monitoring, reconciliation, settlements, refunds, disputes, and exceptions.
Oversee monitoring of incoming and outgoing transactions to identify errors, anomalies, and potential risk.
Partner with Product, Engineering, Risk and Fraud, Finance, and Customer Support to improve accuracy, speed, and customer outcomes.
Checkbook is a FinTech company building modern payment infrastructure for businesses. We help clients send and receive payments (including check-based payments) through a single platform - designed to be reliable, transparent, and operationally sound as volume grows.
Offer payment processing solutions to local businesses.
Educate business owners on saving money and streamlining transactions.
Close deals and earn activation bonuses and monthly commissions.
Xplor provides cloud-based technology solutions for small and medium-sized businesses to manage and grow their business. They have operations in North America, Australasia, Asia, Europe, and the UK; serving over 106,000 customers.
Develop, manage, and execute the overall business strategy.
Inform and oversee the product roadmap.
Enable cross-function coordination to launch, operate, and grow this service.
Anchorage Digital is building the world’s most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto. The company, founded in 2017, has over 600 employees and is funded by leading institutions including Andreessen Horowitz, GIC, Goldman Sachs, KKR, and Visa, with its Series D valuation over $3 billion.
Own tem’s global payments strategy end-to-end: define how customers pay, get paid, and experience value across markets.
Deliver payment systems that scale internationally across currencies, regulations, and partners; make deliberate trade-offs between speed, cost, reliability, and risk.
Solve complex fintech problems in the open: payment flow resilience, retries, partial failures, chargebacks, disputes, reconciliation, and operational edge cases.
Tem is rebuilding the energy transaction, making it transparent and fair. Tem has built the first AI native transaction infrastructure to reinvent how electricity is bought, sold and priced, and it closed a $75 million Series B after extraordinary growth, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners.
Build and nurture strategic partnerships with Financial Services marketers across North America.
Develop long-term consultative relationships with Financial Services clients to ensure revenue retention and identify opportunities for upsells.
Be a trusted advisor and expert to clients, providing expertise on trends, challenges, and opportunities within the Financial Services landscape.
Experian is a global data and technology company, powering opportunities for people and businesses around the world. As a FTSE 100 Index company listed on the London Stock Exchange (EXPN), they have a team of 22,500 people across 32 countries, focusing on people agenda like DEI, work/life balance, and rewarding.
Own and drive net revenue retention, proactively identifying churn risk and leading corrective action across the client portfolio.
Define the long-term vision for the paid media department and translate it into quarterly priorities, KPIs, and execution plans.
Build, coach, and lead a team of senior paid media professionals, creating clear career paths, accountability frameworks, and performance standards.
Jobgether is a company that uses an AI-powered matching process to ensure applications are reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. They identify the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company.
Work directly with merchants and PSP partners to guide them through the full integration lifecycle.
Act as the primary liaison between merchants, product managers, and engineering teams to ensure smooth communication and efficient problem solving.
Analyze merchant feedback, performance data, and market trends to identify opportunities to improve Binance payment products and integration tools.
Binance is a leading global blockchain ecosystem behind the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume and registered users. They are trusted by 300+ million people in 100+ countries and leverage the power of digital assets and blockchain.
Own payments performance across cards and alternative payment methods
Diagnose decline drivers, issuer behavior, and regional performance patterns
Deliver optimisation initiatives across authentication, routing, retries, and recovery
Fanvue is a fast-growing creator monetisation platform that uses AI to help creators connect, engage, and earn from their audiences. Following their recent Series A, they have surpassed $100M+ in annual recurring revenue, with triple-digit year-on-year growth.
Champion innovative strategies to drive client engagement and revenue growth.
Ensure alignment of client objectives with robust multi-channel marketing efforts.
Harness the power of data-driven insights to make strategic decisions.
They are currently looking for a Director, Paid Social. The role champions innovative strategies to drive client engagement and revenue growth through effective social media campaigns.