Head of Payments Marketing Transformation & Operations - Managing Director

New York, USA (On-site)

$300K/yr – $500K/yrSenior Level12+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive the Payments Marketing transformation, aligning marketing with sales and delivering end-to-end initiatives across governance and measurement.

  • Must-have: 12+ years in strategy or transformation leadership with measurable results.
  • Standout: Governance forums, executive reporting, and multi-region coordination.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Define, maintain, and deliver the Payments Marketing transformation roadmap, including value cases, milestones, and adoption metrics.
  • Lead planning, forecasting, and performance management routines that connect marketing investment and activity to business outcomes.
  • Partner with Sales leadership to strengthen marketing-to-sales alignment, operating rhythms, pipeline support, and conversion effectiveness.
  • Own and deliver multiple high-impact transformation initiatives end-to-end, including requirements gathering, process mapping, impact analysis, and implementation planning.
  • Establish and run governance forums, ensuring clear decisions, accountability, risk management, and executive-ready reporting.
  • Design and implement operating model improvements across intake, prioritization, resourcing, and execution.
  • Drive process modernization across campaign and journey delivery to improve speed, quality, and reusability.
  • Collaborate with Finance, Analytics, and Technology partners to improve measurement standards, reporting, and tool adoption.
  • Lead change management for new ways of working, including communications, enablement, and sustained adoption plans.
  • Influence and coordinate across regions and functions to enable consistent execution while supporting local needs.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of experience in strategy, business transformation, marketing operations, management consulting, or commercial operations roles.
  • Demonstrated experience leading enterprise-scale transformation initiatives from strategy through implementation with measurable results.
  • Proven ability to build, manage, and communicate complex forecasts, operating plans, and executive performance reporting.
  • Experience leading cross-functional programs across Sales, Product, Finance, Data/Analytics, Technology, and Controls in a matrixed organization.
  • Strong capability in translating ambiguous problems into structured plans, workstreams, and measurable outcomes.
  • Demonstrated strength in requirements gathering, process mapping, and impact analysis to drive operational improvements.
  • Excellent executive communication skills, including concise narrative development and senior stakeholder influence.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including KPI design and decision support.
  • Demonstrated people leadership experience, including coaching, talent development, and performance management.
  • Experience working in a regulated environment with an understanding of marketing governance, approvals, and privacy considerations.

Preferred

  • Experience in payments, merchant services, transaction banking, cards, or adjacent financial services businesses.
  • Experience establishing or leading a transformation office, strategy function, or chief-of-staff capability within a marketing organization.
  • Experience improving marketing-to-sales operating models, including lead management, field enablement, and pipeline routines.
  • Familiarity with marketing measurement approaches (funnel metrics, attribution, experimentation) and executive business reviews.
  • Experience modernizing operating models and shared services across large, multi-team marketing organizations.
  • Experience leading multi-region programs with strong change adoption and stakeholder alignment.
  • Experience partnering on marketing technology enablement from an operating model and adoption perspective.

Benefits

  • We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location.
  • Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions.
  • We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility.
  • These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more.

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