AffiniPay is looking to ensure the integration, scalability & configurability of their payments platform across product lines, including existing products and future products that are 0-1 or acquired via M&A. The goal is to identify opportunities for the platform team to build scalable and extensible systems that can meet the evolving needs of AffiniPay applications, product teams, and customers.
Requirements
- A deep understanding of payment platform architecture.
- Product experience in the payments and fintech industry.
- Demonstrated experience leveraging AI tools and technologies to improve workflows, enhance decision-making, or drive innovation.
- 7-10 years of taking technical products to market, with experience setting strategy, launching and scaling payments platforms that prioritize security, usability, and service/feature adoption.
- Strong technical background with the ability to understand and discuss architectural concepts, tradeoffs, and new opportunities.
- Experience in launching shared services/solutions in existing products.
Responsibilities
- Leverage a strong technical aptitude and deep domain knowledge of the payments industry to collaborate with engineering teams to build a shared vision & roadmap for our payments platform, considering business goals, technical challenges, customer problems, user impact, implementation cost, and security/compliance.
- Uncover, prioritize, implement, and optimize services, tools & infrastructure in the payments platform to deliver exceptional value to our applications & customers and ensure ease of integration, scalability, and customization across all of our software solutions.
- Work closely with security and compliance teams to ensure all solutions meet regulatory and industry standards.
- Conduct discovery efforts, and analyze qualitative and quantitative data to inform decision-making and iterate on solutions, driving measurable improvements in performance, efficiency of development, cross-sell, account security, and user experience.
- Work closely with cross-functional stakeholders such as product marketing and finance to establish pricing and GTM strategy for new payments functionality
- Roll up your sleeves and dig into the technical details while obsessing over a simple, intuitive customer experience.
Other
- Ability to partner across technical and non-technical teams and simplify complex technical concepts for diverse audiences.
- Ability to set and articulate a clear vision and strategy for platform and identity initiatives.
- You are extremely comfortable prioritizing customer needs in the context of business objectives
- Strong analytical skills and a data-driven approach to solving complex problems.
- Deep empathy for users and commitment to enhancing their journey and experience.
