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Leads Mission Lane’s M&A and partnership strategy, exit readiness, IPO preparation, strategic positioning, and executive and Board communications. Advises the credit card business, directs external advisors, executes transactions from diligence through negotiation, and coordinates cross-functional readiness efforts. The role may also assume leadership of new products, business lines, or acquisitions. Candidates need extensive strategy, investment banking, financial markets, credit, lending, or private equity experience, plus the ability to deliver results through influence in ambiguous, matrixed environments.

Own full-cycle recruiting across technical and non-technical teams, managing approximately 6–10 requisitions. Responsibilities include proactive sourcing, hiring-plan development, interview calibration, hiring-manager coaching, offer negotiation, and maintaining candidate data across recruiting platforms. The role provides market insights and recruits for functions including credit, data science, analytics, product, platform management, and corporate teams.

Lead Mission Lane's AI operations strategy end-to-end: identify high-impact AI use cases for contact center operations, build business cases, evaluate vendors, sequence and drive cross-functional execution, establish governance, and measure outcomes in cost, quality, and customer experience.

Build and maintain advanced financial models and tools to evaluate funding alternatives, structure debt and equity strategies, and support capital raise activities. Partner with Credit, Data, and FP&A teams, generate investor materials, present to investors and senior management, and leverage large datasets and AI to drive reporting, analytics, and execution across the capital stack.

Lead strategy and creative direction for paid digital and social acquisition across platforms (TikTok, Meta, Snapchat, YouTube, CTV). Build and run always-on testing programs, manage digital creative spend and agencies, and partner with content, product, analytics, and compliance to optimize paid-to-owned conversion paths and improve prospect acquisition volume and quality.

Own and optimize real-time authorization and transaction systems (TSYS TS2, Visa), monitor and tune auth rules, partner with Fraud, Product, and Engineering, build testing and monitoring infrastructure (Snowflake, SQL), manage token/virtual card lifecycle, and support TS2 core backup and vendor interactions.

Provide legal support for Finance and Capital Markets, lead ABS, debt and M&A transactions, draft and negotiate financing and vendor agreements, support IPO/SEC reporting readiness, manage outside counsel, monitor legal/market developments, and assist with corporate governance and board/committee materials.

Own daily cash management and liquidity operations: monitor cash positions, execute wires/ACH, maintain cash flow forecasts, perform bank reconciliations, support AP/AR and cross-functional reporting, assist with controls/audit and compliance, and deliver ad hoc treasury analysis to support the Senior Treasury Manager.

Lead fraud analytics for application fraud detection: identify emerging patterns, design and test real-time defenses, balance risk and customer experience, build dashboards and metrics, and collaborate with Operations, Product, Data Science, and Engineering to reduce fraud losses and improve cardholder experience.