Director of Payments – Automattic

Director of Payments
(Work Remotely from anywhere in the World)

Automattic

Job Description:

Automattic, the company behind WooCommerce, WordPress.com, and Jetpack, is looking for an extraordinary candidate to lead our work in payments and financial services. In this role, you will have the opportunity to dramatically expand on Automattic’s work in payments, and build new financial products to help our merchants grow their businesses.

Job Responsibilities:

• Driving and executing the product roadmap for payments and financial services.
• Leading product development, strategy, go to market, and daily operations for Automattic’s payments products and partner integrations, with a focus on revenue growth.
• Coordinating and managing product development and management process under tight timelines and across various teams within and outside of the organization.
• Overseeing risk management and compliance functions to ensure minimal losses.
• Identifying providers and partners, negotiating terms, executing deals, and working with the team to integrate them and oversee their long-term success.
• Conducting market research to identify, assess, and prioritize new business opportunities.

Job Requirements:

• Has 7+ years of experience with a strong foundation in product development, product management, and online payments (at online payment companies, card networks, banks, etc., or a similar environment).
• Has a proven record in developing complex long-term product roadmaps, and executing them across various divisions within an organization.
• Is deeply familiar with the economics of online payments and what drives profits and losses—and can speak in specifics to underwriting/risk management techniques, optimizing interchange fees, and compliance.
• Has a consistent record of negotiating and implementing complex deals with large organizations.
• Has strong analytical skills and the ability to model business opportunities and assess trade-offs.
• Has experience doing market and competitive research, and working cross-functionally with legal, engineering, marketing, and finance teams.
• Is highly self-­motivated, able to work with significant autonomy.

About Automattic

We are the people behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Jetpack, Simplenote, Longreads, VaultPress, Akismet, Gravatar, Crowdsignal, Cloudup, and more. We believe in making the web a better place.

We’re a distributed company with more than 877 Automatticians in 68 countries speaking  84 different languages. Our common goal is to democratize publishing so that anyone with a story can tell it, regardless of income, gender, politics, language, or where they live in the world.

We believe in Open Source and the vast majority of our work is available under the GPL.

We’re serious about growing diversity in the tech industry. We want to build Automattic as an environment where people love their work and show respect and empathy to those with whom we interact. Diversity typically includes, but is not limited to, differences in race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, political and religious affiliation, socioeconomic background, cultural background, geographic location, disabilities and abilities, relationship status, veteran status, and age. To work on diversity means that we welcome these differences, and strive to increase the visibility of traditionally underrepresented groups. Read more about our dedication to diversity and inclusion.

How To Apply:

Does this sound interesting? If yes, please send a short email to jobs@thisdomain telling us about yourself and attach a résumé as a PDF. Let us know what you can contribute to the team. Include the title of the position you’re applying for and your name in the subject.

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