Payments Industry Advocacy Senior Lead - Executive Director
On-site · New York City, New York, United States
Job Summary
Payments Industry Advocacy Senior Lead at JPMorgan Payments leads global strategy for market infrastructure and payment clearing systems, shaping viewpoints and firmwide growth strategy; collaborates across lines of business to develop unified industry positions, engage policymakers and regulators, and translate regulatory developments into business strategy and product implications. Responsibilities include partnering with internal stakeholders on market infrastructure challenges, aligning advocacy positions with product roadmaps, leading cross-LOB collaboration on emerging regulation (e.g., ISO 20022, real-time payments), engaging with Sales/Product/Banking/Treasury to deliver strategic solutions, serving as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, maintaining regulatory dialogue, ensuring governance compliance, representing the firm in external forums, driving measurable advocacy outcomes, and establishing KPIs to track impact across client segments, product readiness, and partner satisfaction. Required and preferred qualifications emphasize extensive payments policy/operations experience, executive communication, relationship management, risk and governance expertise, and a proven track record of influencing across functions; a management consulting background and networks in industry associations are highly valued.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in the payments industry or across a broad set of related products, with a record of shaping policy, standards, or market adoption
- Demonstrated success advising large, complex financial services organizations on go-to-market trends and operational readiness; ability to design modified strategies using a consultative approach for complex businesses
- Deep understanding of the global regulatory landscape impacting payments, and experience translating regulatory developments into business strategy and product implications
- Proven ability to influence and deliver results in highly matrixed environments; exceptional relationship management skills
- Executive communication and storytelling skills; ability to present to senior internal and external stakeholders
- Strong program leadership: organized, self-directed, and able to prioritize across multiple markets, timelines, and stakeholder groups
- Advanced level knowledge of risk management and controls, regional and local nuances, and governance requirements
- Proven ability to identify opportunities for market growth in line with regulatory requirements
- Demonstrated prior experience influencing across functions and teams while delivering value at scale
- Management consulting background focused on payments policy/operations
- Experience engaging with industry associations, standards bodies, and public consultations; established network across key market infrastructures and policy forums
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