Head of Payment Operations

<div><h3>About RemotePass</h3><p>RemotePass is a global fintech and workforce management platform that helps companies hire, manage, and pay distributed teams in compliance with local regulations across multiple countries. We work with fast-growing startups and scaleups, partnering closely with founders, executives, and investors to support international growth.</p><h3>About the Role</h3><p>We’re looking for an entrepreneurial and execution-driven Head of Payment Operations to lead all aspects of Remotepass’s fintech stack; including payments, cards, and future financial products. You’ll define and implement our fintech roadmap, drive product innovation, manage strategic partnerships, and ensure world‑class reliability and compliance.</p><p>You’ll collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, and Compliance to deliver scalable and efficient financial systems that support thousands of global users and empower our next phase of growth.</p><h3>Key Responsibilities</h3><ul><li>Define and execute the overall fintech strategy, roadmap, and operating model.</li><li>Lead fintech product development across payments (pay‑ins/pay‑outs), cards, and future products.</li><li>Build and manage strategic partnerships with banks, PSPs, and fintech infrastructure providers.</li><li>Negotiate commercial terms and identify opportunities for innovation and cost optimization.</li><li>Develop scalable operations for payment execution, reconciliation, vendor management and risk management.</li><li>Partner with Compliance and Legal to ensure adherence to AML, licensing, and regulatory frameworks.</li><li>Oversee analytics and P&L across all fintech products; use data to drive performance improvements.</li><li>Partner with Product and Engineering to automate processes, launch new fintech capabilities, and improve user experience.</li><li>Ensure reliability, resilience, and operational integrity of all payment systems and infrastructure (business continuity, disaster recovery, SLA monitoring).</li><li>Build, lead and mentor the fintech/payments team, set objectives, monitor performance, cultivate a culture of operational excellence, innovation and accountability.<br/></li></ul><h3>Qualifications</h3><ul><li>8+ years of experience in payments/fintech operations and product, including global pay‑ins/pay‑outs, wallets, cross‑border flows.</li><li>Demonstrable track record of building and scaling fintech or payments programs (including vendor partnerships, cost optimisation, metrics that improved performance).</li><li>Deep understanding of payments ecosystem (PSPs, acquirers, issuing processors, payout networks, FX, settlement), regulatory/licensing frameworks (AML, KYC, payments licence regimes).</li><li>Experience negotiating and managing relationships with financial institutions.</li><li>Excellent analytical, commercial, and strategic thinking skills.</li><li>Deep familiarity with compliance, risk, and licensing in fintech.</li><li>Track record of building and leading high‑performing teams.</li></ul><h3>Benefits</h3><ul><li>Fully remote, work from anywhere</li><li>Competitive compensation and performance‑based bonus</li><li>Stock options and premium health insurance</li><li>Opportunity to shape the fintech backbone of a fast‑growing global company</li></ul></div>#J-18808-Ljbffr