[Hiring] VP, Strategic Payments @Fanatics Betting & Gaming

Role Description

Fanatics Betting & Gaming is seeking a VP, Strategic Payments to define and lead the payments strategy across our growing sports betting and gaming business. Payments are a critical part of the customer experience and our ability to efficiently scale the business, and this leader will be responsible for ensuring our payments ecosystem delivers a seamless experience for customers while supporting our growth, economics, and expansion into new markets.

This role will own the strategic and commercial side of payments, including relationships with payment providers, banks, processors, and other key partners. You will develop and execute a comprehensive payments strategy focused on:

• Improving deposit and withdrawal experiences
• Increasing payment success and reliability
• Optimizing costs
• Strengthening vendor performance
• Enabling launches in new markets

The ideal candidate brings deep payments industry expertise, strong relationships across the payments ecosystem, and experience taking payment capabilities to market.

Qualifications

• Experience launching payment capabilities or supporting payment go-to-market strategies in new markets or jurisdictions
• Demonstrated ability to manage and negotiate strategic relationships with major payment vendors and financial partners
• Significant experience in payments strategy, payment partnerships, fintech, banking, payment processing, acquiring, or a related field, ideally within a complex consumer-facing digital business
• Demonstrated experience developing and implementing a payments strategy at scale
• Deep understanding of the payments ecosystem, including payment processors, digital wallets, acquiring banks, merchant relationships, payment rails, merchant IDs (MIDs), authorization flows, deposits, withdrawals, and payment economics
• Strong payments industry knowledge and established relationships across payment
• Strong commercial and analytical mindset with experience evaluating payment costs, vendor economics, acceptance rates, customer conversion, and overall payment performance
• Proven ability to work effectively with Product and Engineering organizations and translate business problems into clear, actionable requirements
• Ability to communicate complex payment concepts in a simple and compelling way to technical and non-technical audiences
• Strong executive presence with the ability to influence senior leaders, external partners, and cross-functional stakeholders
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment where priorities evolve quickly and teams are expected to move from strategy to execution
• Experience in sports betting, gaming, fintech, marketplaces, e-commerce, or another high-volume digital payments environment is preferred

Requirements

• Develop & Own the Payments Strategy
• Optimize Payment Performance & Economics
• Lead Payment Vendor & Banking Relationships
• Enable New Market Launches
• Partner Across Product, Engineering & the Business

Benefits

• Salary Range: $250,000 — $300,000 USD
• For information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/