Director, Strategic Execution (Corporate Strategy)

Early Warning® • New York, NY

4d • $186,000 - $232,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

At Early Warning, we’ve powered and protected the U.S. financial system for over thirty years with cutting-edge solutions like Zelle®, Paze℠, and so much more. As a trusted name in payments, we partner with thousands of institutions to increase access to financial services and protect transactions for hundreds of millions of consumers and small businesses. Positions located in Scottsdale, San Francisco, Chicago, or New York follow a hybrid work model to allow for a more collaborative working environment. Candidates responding to this posting must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States, for any employer, at the date of hire. This position is ineligible for employment Visa sponsorship. The Director, Strategic Execution serves as a strategic orchestrator ensuring the seamless translation of corporate strategy into operational reality. Reporting to the Head of Corporate Strategy, this individual will help manage rhythms of the business in close partnership with the CEO’s Chief of Staff and the Chief Strategy and Operations Officer. This individual will help manage the delivery, development, and governance agendas that keep Early Warning’s executive committee team aligned and moving toward our multi-year strategic ambition. Our delivery agenda is our in-year execution priorities, our development agenda is our multi-year strategic plays, and our governance agenda is our stakeholder management across a complex ecosystem of our Owner Banks and regulators. As a force multiplier within the Strategy organization, you will help orchestrate high-visibility executive forums, in partnership with Strategy, Transformation, and Enterprise Change to drive cross-functional change. We see this role as approximately 80% operational execution and 20% strategy and design, requiring an exceptionally adept rising leader who can influence through credibility, structured thinking, and has a strong bias for action. Successful candidates will be able to operate with an agile, team-first mindset — comfortably shifting across priorities and topics.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from a top accredited college or university with demonstrated high academic achievement
• Typically 12 or more years of experience.
• 7–10 years of experience in business operations, strategy, or chief of staff-like roles
• Strategy and or management consulting experience at a well-known top firm (e.g., MBB or big 4) with a strong focus on problem solving, execution excellence, and project management
• Strong executive presence and communication skills with a proven ability to influence senior leaders through data and structured logic
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to interact effectively with all levels of personnel
• Ability to work at both the macro and micro levels with high attention to detail
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft’s productivity suite (e.g., Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Power BI, etc.) with advanced mastery of building build high-polish executive decks and complex trackers from scratch
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple high-stakes priorities in a fast-paced, often ambiguous environment.
• Demonstrated experience driving outcomes in a matrixed environment through influence (no direct authority)
• Background and or strong understanding of financial services and payments
• Successful completion of background and drug screening

Nice To Haves

• Experience in Financial Services, Fintech, or high-growth SaaS environments
• MBA or advanced degree
• Experience building operational "rhythms" or PMOs from the ground up

Responsibilities

• Enterprise Operating Cadence & Executive Forums: Help manage and largely own end-to-end orchestration of key executive and transformation business rhythms, including but not limited to: (a) Executive Committee meetings, (b) Functional Executives Forum, (c) Operators Meeting, (d) Catalyst Transformation Forums, and (e) Strategy & Operations Forum; core workload will include helping drive agenda development, pre-read production, attendance readiness, and post-meeting follow-through to ensure decision quality and accountability.
• Decision & Action Throughput: Institutionalize a closed-loop operating mechanism across executive forums by maintaining a decision log, enterprise action register, owners/dates, and escalation paths; drive timely closure of actions through structured follow-ups, transparency, and escalation to the appropriate executives if commitments slip.
• Enterprise Scorecard and Performance Visibility: Build and continuously improve an executive-ready enterprise performance scorecard (KPIs + qualitative narrative) by partnering within Corporate Strategy and functional leaders and business system owners; refine metric owners and operating definitions, ensure consistency, and produce a monthly enterprise KPI pack and operating memo that highlights trends, variances, risks, and decisions required.
• Strategy Execution & Cross-Functional Alignment: Translate FY26 strategic goals into an executable operating plan: track progress, surface cross-functional dependencies, identify blockers early, and drive resolution across functions (e.g., Marketing, Legal, Sales/Partnerships, People, Finance, etc.) through structured working sessions and executive-level readouts.
• Facilitation, Executive Communications, and Operating Model Improvement: Facilitate high-stakes executive discussions (or prepare meeting chairs), ensuring clarity on the “ask,” options, tradeoffs, and decision points; produce high-polish executive communications (pre-reads, decision memos, quarterly retrospectives) and recommend enhancements to operating cadence, governance, and tooling that improve execution excellence over time.
• Confidentiality & Risk Management: Handle sensitive corporate information, strategy discussions, and executive decisions with discretion; ensure appropriate controls around distribution of pre-reads, decision documentation, and restricted information.

Benefits

• Healthcare Coverage – Competitive medical (PPO/HDHP), dental, and vision plans as well as company contributions to your Health Savings Account (HSA) or pre-tax savings through flexible spending accounts (FSA) for commuting, health & dependent care expenses.
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Featuring a 100% Company Safe Harbor Match on your first 6% deferral immediately upon eligibility.
• Paid Time Off – Flexible Time Off for Exempt (salaried) employees, as well as generous PTO for Non-Exempt (hourly) employees, plus 11 paid company holidays and a paid volunteer day.
• 12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave
• Maven Family Planning – provides support through your Parenting journey including egg freezing, fertility, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, postpartum, early pediatrics, and returning to work.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees