Senior Manager, Embedded Payments Product & Program Prioritzation

Elavon, Inc. • Atlanta, GA

7d

About The Position

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions, enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed in the right ways, all more confidently and more often—that’s what we call the courage to thrive. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One. As a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Bank, Elavon is committed to building the platforms and ecosystems that help over 1.5 million customers around the world to achieve their financial goals—no matter what they need. From transaction processing to customer service, to driving innovation and launching new products, we’re building a range of tailored payment solutions powered by the latest technology. As part of our team, you can explore what motivates and energizes your career goals: partnering with our customers, our communities, and each other. Job Description We are seeking to hire a Senior Manager, Embedded Payments Product & Program Prioritization to drive the adoption and success of embedded payments partnerships. Our Embedded Payments Partnership team plays a pivotal role in establishing and deepening strategic relationships with leading technology platforms, ERPs, ISVs and payment providers. By forging these alliances, we advance Elavon's strategy of seamlessly integrating payment acceptance into the wider ecosystem, ensuring we meet the evolving multi-channel needs of our merchants both now and in the future. This is an ideal time to join our dynamic and growing team as we unify our diverse solution offerings under the ‘One Elavon’ vision. Our efforts directly accelerate revenue growth for Elavon and our strategic partners by unlocking new embedded payment opportunities and enabling innovative commerce experiences. A commercial understanding of how integrations with major technology platforms operate to grow value, and a firm technical understanding of payments technologies work across in-store, online and in AI agent initiated payment flows will be necessary. You will work closely with various groups in a cross-collaboration environment to deliver projects that enable embedded payment partnership success.

Requirements

• Master's degree, or equivalent work experience
• 10 or more years of experience in project management activities

Nice To Haves

• Program and Project Management: strong organizational skills enabling the ability to plan, prioritize, and break down complex projects into actionable tasks
• Technical Acumen: Strong familiarity with payment technologies, APIs, and integration processes. Ability to translate technical requirements into actionable go-to-market strategies.
• Use of AI tools: Understand effective ways to saving time on analysis, efficiency in prototype development and demonstrating productivity gains across all areas of the role.
• Relationship Building: Strong interpersonal skills to maintain and grow complex, multi-stakeholder relationships.
• Strategic Insight Development: master storyteller with the ability to translate and deliver complex topics into clear, compelling stories that resonate with target audiences
• Agility & Innovation: Comfortable working in fast-paced, evolving and highly adaptive environments. Highly detail oriented: Consistently ensures accuracy and completeness in all deliverables, maintaining high quality standards
• 8-10 years of experience in program and project management, partnerships in the payments industry.
• Experience with embedded finance or embedded payment solutions.
• Strong critical thinking and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead prioritization of business priorities with product teams, ensuring timely execution.
• Develop and implement embedded finance strategies with US Bank solutions globally
• Collaborate with Partners, Solution Consultants, Sales Leaders and Relationship Managers to determine roadmap blockers, dependencies early on and develop plans to remedy projects that need to be delivered on time.
• Product material assets that track and report program and project performance metrics, presentations on the industry and solutions we offer competitively, strategies we should be evaluating with partnerships, competitive pricing and parity of solution to industry players, and maintaining dashboards and reporting frameworks to monitor progress and effectiveness.
• Produce thought strategies, prototypes and frameworks for new partnerships, continue to develop industry insights, and broader solution needs for embedded payments and finance in coordination with the Global Head of EPP Solution Design & Enablement
• Manage stakeholder relationships across internal teams and external parties to streamline processes, define scalable processes toward expanded revenue growth and partner scale opportunities.

Benefits

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
• Basic term and optional term life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Pregnancy disability and parental leave
• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
• Adoption assistance
• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level