Payments Strategy Manager

Summary

Join Wealthsimple, Canada's largest fintech company, as a Manager, Payments Strategy! This role requires a strong software development background and strategic mindset to lead payment strategy. You will bridge the gap between technical teams and product vision, ensuring innovative and efficient payment solutions. Responsibilities include leading cross-functional initiatives, collaborating with various teams, analyzing and optimizing payment processes, evaluating new technologies, acting as a technical expert, and contributing to strategic discussions. The ideal candidate possesses extensive payment systems and financial technology expertise, regulatory knowledge, strategic thinking, project management skills, and excellent communication abilities. Wealthsimple offers competitive benefits, including top-tier health benefits, retirement savings matching, generous vacation time, wellness and professional development budgets, an international work program, and various employee resource groups.

Requirements

• Payment Systems & Financial Technology Expertise: Strong technical understanding of payment infrastructure, transaction processing, and financial technology systems. Experience evaluating, optimizing, and implementing payment solutions, working closely with engineering teams to enhance system capabilities
• Payments Expertise & Regulatory Knowledge: Strong understanding of payment regulations, compliance requirements, and industry trends in the fintech sector
• Strategic Thinking & Innovation: Ability to develop long-term payment strategies, supported by data analysis and financial modeling. Strong analytical skills to identify emerging trends and foster a culture of continuous improvement
• Project Management & Leadership: Proven track record of managing complex, cross-functional projects and leading diverse teams. Capacity to build strategic partnerships within the payments ecosystem
• Communication & Collaboration: Excellent verbal and written communication abilities to articulate complex payment concepts clearly to various audiences, including technical teams and executives. Effective collaboration with diverse stakeholders
• Problem-Solving: Ability to navigate challenges in the payments landscape and translate strategies into business value

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional initiatives to enhance payment capabilities, leveraging technical expertise to assess and implement payment technologies that drive efficiency and innovation
• Collaborate closely with product, engineering, and finance teams to evaluate and implement payment solutions for payment products and features, ensuring alignment with company goals, scalability, and regulatory requirements while facilitating clear communication between stakeholders
• Analyze and optimize payment processes and workflows, focusing on technical efficiency, scalability, and user experience
• Evaluate and integrate new payment technologies and third-party solutions, utilizing your understanding of software architecture and staying abreast of emerging industry trends
• Act as a technical subject matter expert on payment systems, providing guidance to other teams and translating complex concepts for non-technical stakeholders
• Contribute to strategic discussions and business cases for new payment products or features, bringing a unique technical perspective while ensuring compliance with relevant regulations and standards

Preferred Qualifications

Familiarity with ISO20022, ISO8583, MT/MX, and other financial processing standards

Benefits

• Competitive salary with top-tier health benefits and life insurance
• Retirement savings matching plan using Wealthsimple Work
• 20 vacation days per year and unlimited sick and mental health days
• Up to $1,500 per year towards wellness and professional development budgets respectively
• 90 days away program: Employees can work internationally in eligible countries for up to 90 days per calendar year
• A wide variety of peer and company-led Employee Resource Groups (ie. Rainbow, Women of Wealthsimple, Black @ WS)
• Company-wide wellness days off scheduled throughout the year