Senior Project Manager - Payments

About this role

# Description

Summary:

The Senior Project Manager - Payments will have deep domain expertise in payments to join our growing Payments team. In this role, you will own the end-to-end delivery of complex, cross-functional payments initiatives. You will serve as the connective tissue between product, technology, operations, risk, legal, and external partners, ensuring programs are delivered on time, within scope, and with measurable business impact.

The ideal candidate brings a rare combination of rigorous project management methodology and hands-on payments knowledge — someone who can speak fluently about Payment networks in the same conversation as they manage a critical path schedule or escalate a risk to leadership.

Key Responsibilities:

Program & Project Delivery

• Lead end-to-end delivery of strategic payments programs, including product launches, platform migrations, FinTech integrations, and regulatory compliance initiatives.

• Develop and maintain comprehensive project plans, RAID logs (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies), and status dashboards for executive and working-group audiences.

• Drive project execution through structured agile/hybrid delivery frameworks, adapting methodology to fit the complexity and compliance requirements of payments projects.

• Manage project budgets, resource planning, and vendor contracts in collaboration with Finance and Procurement.

• Proactively identify schedule risks and develop mitigation strategies; escalate blockers with clear recommended paths to resolution.

Payments Domain Leadership

• Apply deep knowledge of the payments ecosystem to shape project scope, anticipate integration challenges, and guide technical teams through payments-specific complexity.

• Serve as the internal subject matter authority on payment rails and schemes including Visa, Mastercard, American Express, NACHA/ACH, RTP, FedNow, SWIFT, and emerging real-time networks.

• Partner with Product and Technology to de...