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Leads enterprise risk management transformation, including methodology, governance, reporting, metrics, process improvement, validation analysis, regulatory readiness, and technology enablement. Develops executive reporting, identifies and remediates risks, collaborates across functions, supports audits, and advises stakeholders. Manages risk professionals, sets direction, leads cross-functional initiatives, and strengthens the organization’s overall risk management framework.

Provides strategic legal counsel to Network Marketing, Brand, and Communications teams; manages legal reviews, improves review processes, partners cross-functionally, and oversees outside counsel on complex matters. Requires a Juris Doctor, active state bar membership, and at least six years of attorney experience. The role is hybrid and focuses on payments, marketing, brand, and communications legal matters.

Manage senior relationships with acquiring, merchant, and payment enablement partners across Latin America and the Caribbean. Drive regional business development, territory planning, merchant acceptance growth, contract negotiations, partner onboarding, portfolio performance, compliance, market intelligence, and product rollouts. Represent Discover at industry events, source new partnerships, and expand network coverage across merchant verticals and CP, CNP, and ATM channels. Travel up to 50% across the region.

Build and operate highly available, scalable payment systems using distributed microservices and full-stack technologies. Lead technology projects and developers, define service boundaries and integration patterns, establish engineering standards, mentor engineers, improve system performance, reduce technical debt, and influence technology strategy. The role involves cloud-based solutions, APIs, databases, container orchestration, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and modern AI development tools.

Executes risk-based compliance reviews to independently validate business adherence to laws, regulations, and control frameworks. Tests business processes, data, automation, and regulatory controls; analyzes data; documents results; manages review schedules; supports audits and examinations; and partners with Compliance Advisors and business teams to improve testing approaches. The role requires strong judgment, skepticism, communication, and the ability to explain technical findings to nontechnical stakeholders.

Manage acquiring, payment enablement, and merchant partners across the Caribbean and Central America. Responsibilities include partner support, contract administration, pipeline execution, prospecting, acceptance monitoring, transaction reporting, onboarding, compliance coordination, performance tracking, market research, and event representation. The role supports Discover Network expansion, resolves operational issues, coordinates launches, and travels 30–40% across the region.

Manage risk initiatives for Capital One’s Global Payment Network, focusing on modernizing prohibited activity monitoring, improving detection, reducing false positives, establishing success metrics, overseeing pilots, and creating scalable program frameworks. The role partners with business lines, presents updates to executives, supports audits, and identifies optimization and automation opportunities.

Leads enterprise-wide omnichannel personalization strategy across websites, push notifications, and SMS. Owns the roadmap for AI/ML-driven personalization models, partners with data science and ML engineering teams, drives experimentation platforms, and delivers personalized customer experiences and measurable business outcomes. Provides transformational product leadership while balancing customer needs, business value, technology, risk, and cross-functional alignment.

Leads product management for consumer digital experiences, translating customer needs and business strategy into innovative, technology-driven products. Drives cross-functional alignment, solves complex product problems, manages product risks, and delivers scalable experiences through data, AI, and front-end engineering. Requires a quantitative, business, or marketing degree, or a bachelor’s degree with four years of product management experience.

Leads onsite participant audits and business reviews, including planning, scope alignment, fieldwork oversight, risk identification, reporting, management ratification, work-paper completion, remediation tracking, governance, and continuous improvement. Partners with business leaders and executives to assess contractual, regulatory, and operational compliance and strengthen internal controls.