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Director, Global Payments Strategy
Expedia
Bellevue, WA, United States
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Expedia
The Director, Global Payments Strategy will take on a leadership role in defining evolution of Expedia’s payment platform, both from a consumer and B2B perspective, to build sustainable competitive advantage in the travel marketplace.
This includes strategy development, roadmap planning and governance of delivery processes across multiple payment functions – technology, product, business intelligence, partnerships and operations.
As a member of Expedia' Group's Payment Leadership team, visibility and impact of this role will be very high.
Core Responsibilities
Platform Strategy:
• Collaborate closely with business stakeholders and peer teams to help define a payments platform strategy that
◦ meets our customers' (internal and external) current and long term needs
◦ satisfies scalability, reliability, performance, and costs characteristics
◦ empowers Expedia to grow the marketplace with new travelers and supply partners
• Ensures alignment of Payments Platform Strategy with brands, supply organization and the eCommerce Platform Strategy
• Drives incubation of new revenue models to build competitive advantage in the marketplace
• Act as a liaison and evangelist for Expedia's payment platform service offerings to internal stakeholders and external partners
• Supports the development of our Annual Technology and Business Plans aligned to strategic goals
• Drives communication of platform strategy across Expedia, Inc.
• Oversees the execution of the Annual Plan through the initiation of Platform Initiatives
• Reports on progress against our Strategic Goals to senior level leadership, for example though Monthly & Quarterly Reviews
• Provide strategic and technical analyses in support of top priority initiatives
• Stays abreast of industry & payments technology developments and best practices
Leadership:
• Leads task forces and ad-hoc teams across all seniority levels of the organization
• Provides guidance to Project-/Program Managers who lead the execution of select platform initiatives
• Manages a small team of strategy managers
Experience/Education requirements:
• Bachelors’ degree in business, engineering or equivalent with a technology focus
• Masters’ in business administration, engineering or equivalent desired
• 5 years of work experience
• Management consulting experience in a Tier 1 firm (McKinsey/BCG/Bain) as an engagement manager/project leader/case team leader
Preferred functional experience:
• 2+ years in eCommerce payments including large-scale transactional/payment services or eCommerce technology and/or product management
• 2+ years of strategic planning or business development experience
Analytical skills:
• Proven experience to structure and analyze ambiguous and complex technology and business problems
• Strong quantitative and qualitative analysis skills
• Strong spreadsheet (e.g. Excel) and data management skills with prior experience in financial/business modeling
• Strong executive presentation development and delivery capabilities
Interpersonal/ Communication / Leadership skills:
• Prior experience managing teams of 2+ mid-career level managers
• Strong program management with ability to deliver results through complex cross-functional, cross-geography teams
• Excellent communication, influencing and relationship building skills with technology and operations teams as well as senior management
Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.