Payments Performance Strategist, Card Authorization

Stripe

WHO WE ARE ABOUT STRIPE Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career. ABOUT THE TEAM The Global Payments Performance Team identifies payment optimization opportunities for Stripe’s merchants. We serve a critical role both in demonstrating thought leadership on challenging payment topics, and also partnering with our high-potential merchants to set them up for long term success. We want a partnership with Stripe to be a competitive advantage for our customers, large and small, by providing them with best-in-class technology in concert with insightful and specific advice on how to harness this technology to achieve their business goals. WHAT YOU’LL DO The Global Payments Performance team will be responsible for leading data-driven discussions with existing and prospective merchants on optimization strategies across a variety of areas including, card network costs, acceptance, fraud, and cross-border flows to start. You will be instrumental in building our optimisation narratives/tools and delivering on our merchant engagement model. You will also collaborate with Sales, deploying your knowledge to differentiate Stripe to win deals, and partner with our Customer Success organization to ensure that merchants are successful working with Stripe. RESPONSIBILITIES * Lead discussions with existing and prospective merchants, and provide the Sales team with tools and training to lead discussions with merchants and prospects. * Serve as both an internal and merchant-facing expert on payment optimisation strategies. * Gather and build on Stripe’s wide-ranging payments expertise to create optimisation narratives/tools supported by rigorous analysis. * Use existing tools to deploy sophisticated optimization playbooks and analyses across Stripe’s customer portfolio. * Synthesise and relay customer feedback and our findings to inform Stripe’s product roadmap. * Provide feedback on our tools and playbooks to help continuously improve our self serve offerings WHO YOU ARE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS * 10+ years of experience in payments or operations at a leading technology company, or consultancy in the payments industry.  * Deep expertise in card network costs is required at the acquirer level * Deep expertise in interchange and scheme fees at the merchant level  * Understanding of e-commerce payments, cards based payments processing and optimization strategies * Understanding of card network rules and regulations, local payment methods, and the regulatory environment (PSD2/PSD3) * A proven ability to build collaborative working relationships with cross-functional teams. * The ability to deal effectively with ambiguity and thrive in an unstructured, fast-moving environment. * A proven ability to be a self-starter capable of driving business results without significant supervision. * Experience presenting directly to merchants * Serve as a subject matter expert providing both internal and customer-facing advisory in the payments domain. * Develop optimization playbooks and stay updated on industry best practices and Stripe innovations * Excellent verbal and written communication skills. * Strong data processing, organizational and analytical skills. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS * Experience with SQL, dashboard building, modeling, or reporting * Experience presenting to senior business leaders

Roblox

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators.  At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there.  A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. Roblox is currently at a critical inflection point in its financial evolution. We recently achieved a significant payout milestone to our Creator community in 2025. To successfully build upon this momentum year over year while controlling our costs, a world-class payments and wallets ecosystem is essential to ensure frictionless transactions across the platform for our Users and Creators. This role offers the rare opportunity to lead a 0-to-1 buildout of a new payments division. If successful, you will transition Roblox from standard payment processing to a strategic orchestration model, utilizing AI-driven approach to optimize significant transaction cost.  Beyond cost savings, you will spearhead the transformation of our creator payouts, building a product designed to empower the livelihood of millions of developers through instant, transparent, and global financial access. YOU WILL * Own Global Partnership Negotiation & Account Management: Lead RFPs and high-stakes contractual negotiations with major global payment processors (e.g., Stripe, PayPal, etc) and financial institutions. * Establish formal business relationships where none currently exist, securing advantageous commercial terms that are accretive to Roblox’s bottom line. * Build Payment Orchestration Strategy & Development: Lead the transition from current legacy systems to a multi-partner orchestration system. * Achieve optimal routing based on cost and conversion, potentially saving hundreds of millions of dollars in transaction fees in year one. * Transform Creator Payout : Drive the business strategy and partnerships required to modernize our existing infrastructure into a proprietary, end-to-end financial platform for creators to run their businesses on Roblox * Dramatically improve creator retention and satisfaction by reducing payout latency and fees, directly impacting "Time-on-Platform" and developer ecosystem growth. * Lead Cross-Functional Enterprise Deal Execution: Lead cross-functional deal teams comprising Legal, Finance, Privacy, and Engineering stakeholders. * Execute complex contracts that satisfy global regulatory compliance (KYB/KYC/AML) while ensuring speed-to-market for new financial features. * Expand into Emerging Markets: Develop a strategy for handling international currency exchange volatility and local payment methods in high-growth regions. * Unlock revenue in emerging markets by mitigating FX risk and reducing the barrier to entry for new developers. * Bridge Business & Engineering: Translate commercial opportunities into "second-level" technical requirements, such as ledger design and API integration standards. * Ensure the engineering roadmap is aligned with commercial viability, preventing technical debt and ensuring the infrastructure supports real-time global payments. * Optimize Performance : Implement a rigorous "Payment Excellence" framework to monitor authorization rates and fraud thresholds. * Deliver incremental revenue gains where even a 0.01% improvement in authorization rates translates to millions in retained bookings. * Future-Proofing for Agentic Commerce: Evaluate and integrate emerging technologies, including AI agents and blockchain rails, into the payments strategy. * Secure Roblox’s position as a leader in the future "agentic economy," where automated systems may negotiate and execute transactions on behalf of users. YOU HAVE * 10+ years of Business Development experience specifically within the Consumer Financial Services, Digital Payments, Fintech, or Digital Wallet sectors * Proven track record of a 0-to-1 buildout of a payments division or financial product line, demonstrating the ability to operate without established playbooks   * Bilingual Fluency (Tech/Business): Ability to articulate complex technical concepts (API orchestration, tokenization, ledger systems) to engineers while simultaneously modeling multi-year economic impacts for C-suite executives. * Global Regulatory Acumen: Deep understanding of the global regulatory landscape, including PSD2, KYC/AML compliance, and card network rules, to navigate international expansion risks effectively. * Complex Negotiation Skills: Demonstrated success in negotiating and signing deals with payment networks, acquirers, and banks, effectively balancing unit economics with legal and privacy constraints. * Strategic Ecosystem Architecture: Ability to view payments not as a utility but as a strategic asset class, capable of designing partnerships that drive long-term ecosystem value rather than just transactional volume. * Analytical Rigor: Strong data processing and analytical skills to model ROI, forecasting, and "payment excellence" metrics (e.g., authorization rates, FX margins). * Leadership in Ambiguity: Experience thriving in unstructured, fast-moving environments where you must influence executive decision-making and manage multiple high-priority workstreams independently.   For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits as described on this page. Annual Salary Range $276,310—$310,810 USD Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted). Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process. For US based roles only, please note the Company may not be able to employ candidates for this role who have United States work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.

Adyen

This is Adyen Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition.  For our teams, we create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster. Senior Product Manager, Global Acquiring Adyen's Global Acquiring team powers the core card payment infrastructure behind billions of transactions worldwide. Through our direct connections with Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover, Diners Club, JCB, and China UnionPay, we enable merchants to accept payments globally with industry-leading reliability, performance, and innovation. As a Senior Product Manager, you will own the strategy and roadmap for critical parts of our global acquiring platform. You'll build the products that improve authorization rates, maximize merchant conversion, strengthen platform reliability, and enable Adyen to launch new payment capabilities and expand into new markets. You'll work at the intersection of engineering, payment networks, partnerships, commercial teams, compliance, and operations to transform the complex payments industry into scalable innovative platform capabilities that benefit every Adyen merchant. Your work will shape how millions of payments are processed every day while ensuring our platform remains the most reliable and innovative acquiring solution in the industry. What you'll do: * Define and own the product strategy and roadmap for a critical area of Adyen's Global Acquiring. * Build scalable acquiring capabilities that improve payment performance, increase authorization rates, and maximize merchant conversion. * Partner directly with Visa, Mastercard, American Express and other global payment networks to influence roadmaps, implement new capabilities, and ensure ongoing compliance. * Drive complex cross-functional initiatives across Engineering, Partnerships, Commercial, Compliance, Operations and Product teams. * Translate changing scheme requirements into scalable platform capabilities rather than one-off merchant solutions. * Use data to identify opportunities that improve merchant performance, operational efficiency, and platform scalability. * Lead difficult product decisions through influence, aligning stakeholders across multiple organizations without direct authority. * Mentor other product managers and contribute to raising the overall quality of product management within the organization. Who you are: * You have 8+ years of Product Management experience building complex software products at scale. * You have domain knowledge in Payments or Fintech; preferably with knowledge of card acquiring. * You have successfully led highly cross-functional initiatives involving engineering, commercial teams, partnerships, and external partners. * You can simplify highly technical payment infrastructure into clear product strategies and business outcomes. * You are highly analytical and use data to drive prioritization and measure impact. * You are comfortable navigating ambiguity and consistently turn complex problems into scalable product solutions. * You are an excellent communicator who can influence senior stakeholders both internally and externally. * You care deeply about building products that create measurable value for merchants while strengthening Adyen's platform. Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion commitments  Our unique approach is a product of our diverse perspectives. This diversity of backgrounds and cultures is essential in helping us maintain our momentum. Our business and technical challenges are unique, and we need as many different voices as possible to join us in solving them - voices like yours. No matter who you are or where you’re from, we welcome you to be your true self at Adyen.  Studies show that women and members of underrepresented communities apply for jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Does this sound like you? If so, Adyen encourages you to reconsider and apply. We look forward to your application! What’s next? Ensuring a smooth and enjoyable candidate experience is critical for us. We aim to get back to you regarding your application within 5 business days. Our interview process tends to take about 4 weeks to complete, but may fluctuate depending on the role. Learn more about our hiring process here. Don’t be afraid to let us know if you need more flexibility. This role is based out of our Amsterdam office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles.