Head of FinTech Partnerships - Fort Lee, NJ, United States - Cross River

Description

Cross River is a highly profitable, fast-growing financial technology company powering the future of financial services.

Our comprehensive suite of innovative and scalable embedded payments, cards, and lending products deliver financial services for millions of businesses and consumers around the globe.

Cross River is backed by leading investors and serves the world's most essential fintech and technology companies. Together with its partners, Cross River is reshaping global finance and financial inclusion.

We are on a mission to build the infrastructure that propels access, inclusion, and the democratization of financial services.

The Head of Strategic Partnerships and Solutions position resides within the Fintech Banking team and reports to the VP Head of Cards and BaaS.

This role covers Fintech Banking's credit card product family. The position is the liaison between the LOB and product, operations, risk and compliance, legal, finance and IT.

It is responsible for developing and executing a product plan with business requirements including identifying and partnering with appropriate vendors to enhance and support our product offerings.

Specifically, the role is responsible for delivering and executing a product plan for each product launch or initiative by driving strong collaboration with the product management team and stakeholders in Operations, Sales, Finance, Accounting and Marketing.

The position is the subject matter expert for the product that defines the business requirements and then partners with product commercialization and the sales engineers to provide a consultative service and hands-on support to bring new capabilities to market.

This role serves as an internal consultant to all stakeholder groups as well as monitoring product KPIs following implementation.
Collaborate across all departments, conducting an impact assessment and identifying stakeholders are ready for planned implementation dates
Partner with operations, accounting, data science, legal, compliance and finance to ensure internal readiness and support
Partner with business development to ensure a thoughtful plan on sales readiness
Partner with finance and business development to develop competitive pricing structure
Project manage planning process to ensure all readiness activities are included and tracked in the project delivery schedule
Develop and maintain business requirements
Become the subject matter expert to support business process questions, sales presentation and messaging deliverables, and training content planning and delivery
Deliver and/or coordinate and facilitate product training and knowledge transfer sessions to impacted audiences as requested
Provide credit card SME support on sales call to help win deals
Bachelor's degree required, Masters/MBA preferred with background in communications, marketing, sales, consulting and/or operations
~ 7+ years of relevant work experience including combination of product management and/or payments industry experience
~ Pays great attention to detail and conducts follow up needed on many moving parts within project plans

#Cross River does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

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