Head of Payments
Administration
United States
Payra is hiring a Head of Payments to run Payra Payments: growing it through ISOs and payment technology partners and managing the rails underneath it.
Payra, Inc. is an ERP-native accounts receivable and payment automation platform. We plug directly into the ERPs and accounting systems these companies already run, including NetSuite, Acumatica, Sage Intacct, Vista, Spectrum, Epicor Prophet 21, Dynamics BC, and QuickBooks Online/Desktop.
The roleThis job is two things: bring payment partners for reselling into the company, and manage our payment operations. You recruit, close, and grow the partners who bring us merchant volume, and you own the processor and sponsor bank relationships our platform runs on.
You report to the CEO and work closely with Sales, Partnerships, Underwriting, Finance. This is a builder role. You will set the playbook and hire the team as volume grows.
What you'll ownISOs and payment partners
- Build Payra's ISO and payment partner channel: target list, outreach, terms, onboarding, and ramp
- Design residual and buy rate structures that grow the channel without eroding margin
- Own ISO and payment partner relationships after signing, including performance reviews and expansion
- Join Sales on larger deals as the payments expert, pricing, surcharging, and ACH for CFOs and controllers
Manage our payment rails
- Own and optimize our payments pricing strategy across card and ACH
- Manage processor and sponsor bank relationships, including pricing, volume commitments, audits, and renegotiations
- Evaluate new processors and sponsor banks as volume and product needs grow
- Report on volume, effective rate, and margin by segment and by channel
- 7+ years in payments at an ISO, payfac, processor, or fintech with embedded payments
- A track record of recruiting, signing, and growing payment partners
- Working knowledge of how a payment program runs: sponsor banks, processors, payfac and TPS models, card brand and Nacha rules
- Experience negotiating pricing and commitments with processors or banks
- Commercial and numerate: you build the pricing and margin math yourself
- An existing network of ISOs, payment partners, fintech's or processor contacts
- A builder mindset. You have set up a channel or program, not just inherited one
- Experience running a payment program, payfac or ISO day to day
- Background in B2B payments is nice to have
- Experience with platform or marketplace payment models
- Experience with ACH risk, returns, and card networks
- Exposure to multi-processor routing or orchestration
This role can be remote or in person. Payra is headquartered in Nashville.