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Job Description

As the world works and lives faster, Worldpay is leading the way. Our fintech solutions touch nearly every market, company, and person on the planet. Our teams are inclusive and diverse. Our colleagues work together and celebrate together. If you want to advance the world of fintech, we would like to ask you: Are you Worldpay?

About the team

At Worldpay for Platforms we are a global team of passionate Payments, Financial Services and software experts who provide vertical software companies with an all-in-one platform and a white-glove approach to capitalize on the opportunities for growth, innovation, and transformation within embedded payments.

What you will be doing

We are looking for an experienced product leader to fill our Director of Product role and lead the next-generation platform (Payrix) with which developers can easily integrate, adapt, configure, and extend to their software user's evolving needs. The ideal candidate is a visionary product leader that has a proven track record of executing ideas to drive strong business outcomes for their customers and stakeholders alike. It's a tremendous opportunity to meet the embedded payments and finance market opportunity with the power of one of the largest global FinTech's behind it.

As the Director of Product, your contributions will accelerate growth, spread our vision, and standardize our solutions across the industry. At Worldpay for Platforms we want to be a software first payments business serving other software companies. We are well funded, resourced, and backed by Worldpay to be the disruptor in the embedded payments space. We operate nimbly and need an experienced product leader to lead us into our next chapter to create our position in the global embedded finance space.

The Director of Product will report directly to the VP of Product and manage a team of Product Leaders and individual contributors.

• Attract, develop, and retain a high-performing, inclusive workforce. Cultivate talent through development planning, coaching, employee retention, and recruiting new talent when necessary. Nurture leadership among team leaders and build succession. Provide direct, candid, and regular feedback to individuals promoting strong performance and proactively managing weak performance out of the organization.
• Be accountable for product roadmaps, resource allocation, and release cadence within your group.
• Lead the building of technical API first products through collaboration across engineering, operations, marketing, and other key stakeholders.
• Lead the direction and product decisions for our platform, in partnership with engineering and cross-functional teams.
• Collaborate with teams to ensure solutions meet the needs of the customer base.
• Define the framework and metrics to measure the impact of the team's offerings.
• Execute and provide continuous improvement against best-in-class product management practices.
• Be accountable for product roadmaps, resource allocation, and release cadence.
• Maintain a healthy balance between delivering the next innovative product and running/scaling the existing platform.
• Have regular dialogue and interactions with our Software partners to get VOC to ensure our product designs and outputs meet their needs and are thinking about future needs.
• Understand client behaviors, client segmentation, and competitive positioning to structure product value propositions for market success while inspiring cross-functional teams to deliver.
• Continuous industry monitoring to maintain and enhance subject matter expertise, identify trends and changes in client and competitor behaviors and keep abreast of changing market trends and regulatory requirements.
• Demonstrate thought leadership and establish/enhance the segments market positioning through articles, white papers, marketing communications, speaking engagements, etc.
  

What you bring:

• 7+ years of experience in a product role and more than 5+ years of experience in people management.
• Extensive experience building, developing, and scaling technical product organizations.
• Leadership of an entire cross-functional organization from product vision through product development, delivery, and commercialization.
• Proven strategic mindset with tangible experience in leading an organization focused on building of technical API first products consumed by software companies.
• Highly analytical with a strong understanding of ROI and how to prioritize initiatives based on data-driven insights that support courses of action.
• Takes a customer first approach to driving the Product lifecycle.
• Drive product design and prioritization decisions across directly managed teams and work closely with teams across FIS's product portfolio.
• Highly articulate and able to work effectively in a matrixed organization where required.
• Ability to listen and build authentic connections with customers and teammates.
• Passion for working in and managing a fast-paced and collaborative environment.
• Experience in a Product Leadership role within the embedded finance/payments space
• B2B SaaS experience at a similar Stage (Series B to E/IPO) - growth stage
• "Been there, done that" mentality - top-tier leader with a methodology/framework for how to scale and develop processes for an organization during a strategic transition.

What we offer you

• A multifaceted job with a high degree of responsibility and a broad spectrum of opportunities
• A competitive salary and benefits
• The chance to work on some of the most challenging, relevant issues in financial services & technology.
• Time to support charities and give back in your community.

Press:

• FIS Acquisition of Payrix Expands Its E-Commerce, Embedded Payments and Finance Experiences for SMB Merchants via Platforms
• Payrix Advances Global Strategy with Local Presence and Solutions in Australia
• Payrix Awarded Recognition By The Financial Technology Report

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EEOC Statement

FIS is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetic information, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is available here supplement document available here

For positions located in the US, the following conditions apply. If you are made a conditional offer of employment, you will be required to undergo a drug test. ADA Disclaimer: In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies needed to successfully perform in this position. However, for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) purposes, the essential functions of the job may or may not have been described for purposes of ADA reasonable accommodation. All reasonable accommodation requests will be reviewed and evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

Sourcing Model

Recruitment at FIS works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies. FIS does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company.

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