VP, Strategic Payments

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🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $250k - $300k / year

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👔 Vice President

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Sky Betting & Gaming

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1001 - 5000 employees

🎲 Gambling

🎮 Gaming

👥 B2C

Gambling • Gaming • B2C

Sky Betting & Gaming is a UK-based consumer-facing betting and online gaming operator. Now part of Flutter UK & Ireland and the wider Flutter Entertainment group, the brand is presented alongside Betfair, Paddy Power, PokerStars and tombola as a market-leading provider of trusted entertainment to millions of customers. The company emphasizes responsible play, customer experience and uses digital platforms (web and apps) to deliver betting and gaming services, with operational presence in Leeds and registration under Flutter Entertainment plc.

📋 Description

• Define and execute the long-term payments strategy for Fanatics Betting & Gaming • Improve customer deposit and withdrawal experiences, payment acceptance, speed, reliability, and payment-method availability • Develop the payments ecosystem roadmap and evaluate emerging payment methods, technologies, and industry trends • Establish success metrics and evaluate payment performance • Improve payment authorization and deposit success rates • Evaluate payment costs and optimize payment unit economics • Partner with Finance, Product, Engineering, Risk, Fraud, and other teams to solve payment-performance issues • Analyze payment flows to identify friction, operational challenges, and conversion and retention opportunities • Lead payment strategy and go-to-market planning for new jurisdictions, including state-by-state regulatory, KYC/AML, and responsible gaming requirements • Manage relationships with payment providers, processors, financial institutions, and other ecosystem partners • Lead commercial negotiations and vendor-performance discussions • Understand banking and merchant infrastructure, including MIDs, acquiring relationships, processing models, and fund flows • Ensure payment capabilities are ready for new-market launches and identify launch dependencies and risks • Translate payment and business challenges into requirements and priorities for Product and Engineering • Build business cases for investment and prioritization • Partner with Payments Engineering and Product Management on solutions • Align Business Development, Finance, Operations, Risk, Fraud, Compliance, Legal, Product, and Engineering teams • Influence across teams and drive initiatives through completion

🎯 Requirements

• Experience launching payment capabilities or supporting payment go-to-market strategies in new markets or jurisdictions • Demonstrated ability to manage and negotiate strategic relationships with major payment vendors and financial partners • Significant experience in payments strategy, payment partnerships, fintech, banking, payment processing, acquiring, or a related field • Demonstrated experience developing and implementing a payments strategy at scale • Deep understanding of payment processors, digital wallets, acquiring banks, merchant relationships, payment rails, merchant IDs (MIDs), authorization flows, deposits, withdrawals, and payment economics • Strong payments industry knowledge and established relationships across the payment ecosystem • Strong commercial and analytical mindset, including evaluating payment costs, vendor economics, acceptance rates, customer conversion, and payment performance • Proven ability to work with Product and Engineering organizations and translate business problems into actionable requirements • Ability to communicate complex payment concepts to technical and non-technical audiences • Strong executive presence and ability to influence senior leaders, external partners, and cross-functional stakeholders • Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, changing environment • Experience in sports betting, gaming, fintech, marketplaces, e-commerce, or another high-volume digital payments environment is preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Bonus compensation • Full-time employment benefits • In-person onboarding/cultural immersion may include Launching into Better: LIVE in New York City • Benefits information provided at https://benefitsatfanatics.com/