Head of Acquiring- Strategy, Partnerships, and Operations
4 weeks ago
Company Description
It all started with an idea at Block in 2013. Initially built to take the pain out of peer-to-peer payments, Cash App has gone from a simple product with a single purpose to a dynamic ecosystem, developing unique financial products, including Afterpay/Clearpay, to provide a better way to send, spend, invest, borrow and save to our 47 million monthly active customers. We want to redefine the world's relationship with money to make it more relatable, instantly available, and universally accessible.
Today, Cash App has thousands of employees working globally across office and remote locations, with a culture geared toward innovation, collaboration and impact. We've been a distributed team since day one, and many of our roles can be done remotely from the countries where Cash App operates. No matter the location, we tailor our experience to ensure our employees are creative, productive, and happy.
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Job Description
The Cash App Financial Operations Team is responsible for building and managing scalable access to the financial services ecosystem for a fast growing mobile payment app with multiple external and internal partners. Reporting to the Financial Operations Lead, the Head of Acquiring is responsible for establishing and maintaining all customer money flows with ecosystem partners including networks, banks and service providers.
By building and managing a high quality team, you will ensure our ecosystem of money movement is robust and optimized for cost and performance, including relevant payment cost and health metrics. In cooperation with internal stakeholders, you will ensure cash-in/cash-out is compliant with the financial ecosystem but also supports the needs of customer-facing product and operational teams. Externally, in cooperation with the Payment Partnerships team, you will manage the relationship and operation of all enabling service providers, cultivating executive relationships and trust in Cash App.
You Will:
Lead our acquiring function including:
- Ensuring a highly available payments service, ensuring established redundancy
- Establishing and executing a multi-year strategy for cash-in/ cash-out, including networks, service providers, platform and internal needs
- Operating a best-in-class cost and performance-driven payment function in cooperation with internal stakeholders
- Attract and lead a high performing team, establishing the operating model, goals, and KPIs
- Partner with cross functional stakeholders (including product, legal, finance, and engineering) to define and maintain existing capabilities and execute new initiatives
- Manage a team of Program Managers and Operations and Compliance professionals
Qualifications
You have:
- 15+ years of payments experience in a fast moving technology or financial services company
- 5+ years leadership experience including building out and cultivating high performing teams in a scale environment
- Deep understanding of the payment industry, including displayed experience in commercial and operational roles related to cards
- Experience leading teams which use quantitative data to develop and evolve operational processes, medium term initiatives and long-term strategy
- Strong relationship building skills with executives and technical teams & the ability to develop consensus and drive stakeholders to a decision
- Strong ability to build & leverage cross functional relationships internally and externally
- Extensive experience with commercial contracts and negotiations
Qualifications
You have:
- 15+ years of payments experience in a fast moving technology or financial services company
- 5+ years leadership experience including building out and cultivating high performing teams in a scale environment
- Deep understanding of the payment industry, including displayed experience in commercial and operational roles related to cards
- Experience leading teams which use quantitative data to develop and evolve operational processes, medium term initiatives and long-term strategy
- Strong relationship building skills with executives and technical teams & the ability to develop consensus and drive stakeholders to a decision
- Strong ability to build & leverage cross functional relationships internally and externally
- Extensive experience with commercial contracts and negotiations
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