What are the responsibilities and job description for the Payment Solutions Strategy Director position at GoodLeap?
About GoodLeap:
GoodLeap is a technology company delivering best-in-class financing and software products for sustainable solutions, from solar panels and batteries to energy-efficient HVAC, heat pumps, roofing, windows, and more. Over 1 million homeowners have benefited from our simple, fast, and frictionless technology that makes the adoption of these products more affordable, accessible, and easier to understand. Thousands of professionals deploying home efficiency and solar solutions rely on GoodLeap’s proprietary, AI-powered applications and developer tools to drive more transparent customer communication, deeper business intelligence, and streamlined payment and operations. Our platform has led to more than $27 billion in financing for sustainable solutions since 2018.
GoodLeap is also proud to support our award-winning nonprofit, GivePower, which is building and deploying life-saving water and clean electricity systems, changing the lives of more than 1.6 million people across Africa, Asia, and South America.
The Payment Solutions Strategy Director is the second‐in‐command to the Head of Payments Solutions, responsible for driving execution, identifying risks and opportunities, and ensuring strategic priorities are met. This role acts as a force multiplier, optimizing operations, improving cross‐functional coordination, and taking initiative to solve challenges before they arise. The Strategy Director plays a key role in shaping the future of the payments business, ensuring scalable growth, operational excellence, and a competitive market position.
Essential Job Duties & Responsibilities:
- Ensure that every project/program you manage has SMART objectives/KPIs in place and delivers to them. Every project delivers on its business objectives on-time, and on-budget.
- Follow effective and efficient mechanisms, ceremonies, and tools for project planning, stakeholder analysis & communication plans, issue/ risk management, and change management.
- Foresee dependencies, risks, and issues – building an understanding with program team of the differences and can demonstrate the effective management of them.
- Exercise clear, direct, and tactful communication to ensure projects reach the appropriate teams, leaders, and audience, to eliminate the risk of surprise in the status of projects.
- Build and maintain trust with the project team.
- Lead by example in time management, efficiency, follow-through, and execution.
- Learn from project retrospectives are analyzed and actioned to improve the current processes.
- Suggest new or better ways to do things, advocate for, and add to the PMO repository.
- Challenge, seek understanding if something does not make sense to ensure continuous improvement and innovation.
Required Skills, Knowledge & Abilities:
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in business, Finance, or a related field.
- 7 years of experience in payments, fintech, financial services, or a strategic operations role.
- Deep understanding of payments infrastructure, merchant acquiring, and regulatory requirements.
- Strong ability to anticipate challenges, identify solutions, and implement change.
- Exceptional problem‐solving, execution, and leadership skills with a bias for action.
- Outstanding communication and relationship‐building abilities across internal teams and external partners.
- Ability to thrive in a fast‐paced, high‐growth environment with agility and resilience.
In addition to the above salary, this role may be eligible for a bonus and equity.
Additional Information Regarding Job Duties and Job Descriptions:
Job duties include additional responsibilities as assigned by one's supervisor or other managers related to the position/department. This job description is meant to describe the general nature and level of work being performed; it is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and other skills required for the position. The Company reserves the right at any time with or without notice to alter or change job responsibilities, reassign or transfer job position or assign additional job responsibilities, subject to applicable law. The Company shall provide reasonable accommodations of known disabilities to enable a qualified applicant or employee to apply for employment, perform the essential functions of the job, or enjoy the benefits and privileges of employment as required by the law.
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