Product Marketing Director - Paze

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$186K/yr – $232K/yrDirector/Executive15+ years expFull time

Posted 4 days ago

Job Summary

Own and drive the product marketing strategy for Paze ecommerce and emerging payment experiences, shaping segmentation, positioning, and go-to-market across partners and customers.

  • Define success metrics and track adoption, activation, and usage.
  • Lead cross-functional collaboration across Product, Marketing, Insights, and Partnerships.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own product marketing strategy for Paze ecommerce and emerging payment experiences, including new use cases, segments, channels, and in-person/NFC-enabled payments.
  • Develop segmentation and identify priority opportunities across consumers, merchants, verticals, financial institutions, and ecosystem partners.
  • Build differentiated positioning, and messaging that clearly articulate the value of Paze to key audiences.
  • Translate customer and market insights into product strategy, partnering with Product to identify unmet needs, evaluate opportunities, and influence roadmap priorities.
  • Lead go-to-market strategy for new capabilities and use cases, including positioning, messaging, launch planning, partner readiness, activation, and optimization.
  • Partner with Insights and Analytics to test value propositions, assess market opportunities, understand customer needs, and measure performance.
  • Create a market-to-product feedback loop, synthesizing customer, partner, competitive, and performance insights into actionable recommendations.
  • Define and track success metrics for product marketing and go-to-market initiatives, including adoption, activation, usage, and other relevant business outcomes.
  • Serve as a central connector across Product, Marketing, Insights, and Partnerships, aligning teams around customer needs, priorities, launches, and success measures.
  • Partner with Legal, Risk, Compliance, and Communications to ensure messaging and product claims are accurate, compliant, and reinforce trust.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
  • Typically, a minimum of 15 years of progressive experience in product marketing, product strategy, go-to-market, growth, or related roles, preferably within payments, fintech, ecommerce, digital commerce, or technology.
  • Demonstrated experience developing segmentation, positioning, value propositions, messaging, and go-to-market strategies.
  • Experience launching new products, capabilities, or use cases and driving adoption and optimization.
  • Strong customer and market orientation, with the ability to turn research, customer feedback, competitive intelligence, and data into strategic recommendations.
  • Proven ability to partner with Product and translate market needs and customer insights into product and roadmap recommendations.
  • Ability to move between strategic thinking and hands-on execution in a fast-moving, evolving environment.
  • Strong cross-functional leadership, influencing, communication, presentation, and storytelling skills.
  • Background and drug screen.

Preferred

  • Experience in payments, digital wallets, ecommerce, checkout, contactless/NFC payments, or digital commerce.
  • Understanding regulatory, risk, privacy, and compliance considerations within payments and financial services.

Benefits

  • Healthcare Coverage – Competitive medical (PPO/HDHP), dental, and vision plans as well as company contributions to your Health Savings Account (HSA) or pre-tax savings through flexible spending accounts (FSA) for commuting, health & dependent care expenses.
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan – Featuring a 100% Company Safe Harbor Match on your first 6% deferral immediately upon eligibility.
  • Paid Time Off – Flexible Time Off for Exempt (salaried) employees, as well as generous PTO for Non-Exempt (hourly) employees, plus 11 paid company holidays and a paid volunteer day.
  • 12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave
  • Maven Family Planning – provides support through your Parenting journey including egg freezing, fertility, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, postpartum, early pediatrics, and returning to work.
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Early Warning Services, LLC, a financial services technology leader, has been empowering and protecting consumers, small businesses, and the U.S. financial services ecosystem with cutting-edge risk, fraud and payment solutions for more than three decades. Through our network intelligence and partnerships with more than 2,500 bank and credit union brands, we increase access to financial services and products, and protect financial transactions. We are the company behind Zelle® and the PazeSM online checkout solution.

Founded in 1990
Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
1.7K employees (96 in marketing)
25% recommend to a friend
14% CEO approval

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Median Career Experience
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60.3%
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Product Marketing Director - Paze

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