About the job

🚀 Product Director – Data Platform, Business Intelligence & Risk Analytics (Payments)

🌎 Sunnyvale, SF (4 days)

⚡$220-250k Base Range + Equity

Company: Storm2’s client is building the next generation of global payments infrastructure.

For 70+ years, Visa and Mastercard have dominated with a closed, private network. Today, this client is rewriting the rules, using blockchain to create a compliant, fraud-free, and fully interoperable cross-border network.

They’ve already processed tens of millions of transactions with zero fraud, and are backed by some of the best-known VC firms.

Why this role & Why Now

• Scale: 1.5B+ in network reach, 100M+ merchants, and 70M+ users via PayPay Japan.
• Zero Fraud Advantage: Legacy credit cards run ~1.5% fraud rates, costing merchants 2–3% per transaction. This network has eliminated fraud entirely, opening the door for near-zero fee payments.
• Stablecoin Innovation: Unlike Circle, they’re multi-currency stablecoin.
• Geopolitical Edge: Blockchain removes reliance on single corporations or governments, ensuring payment continuity even in high-risk international scenarios.

✅ Responsibilities:

• Define and own the global data & analytics product strategy and roadmap
• Lead scalable data modeling, ETL, and big data infrastructure design
• Build platforms supporting real-time transaction processing, fraud detection, and risk analytics
• Establish product, growth, and risk KPIs, dashboards, and executive reporting
• Partner with Data Science to productize: Fraud prevention, Consumer & merchant behavior analytics, Segmentation & targeting, Cross-border optimization & FX insights
• Translate business needs into clear product requirements and backlog
• Ensure data governance, quality, security, and compliance standards
• Serve as Product Owner across engineering squads and cross-functional teams

✅ Qualifications:

• 5–8+ years Product Management experience (payments/fintech/data platforms)
• Strong background in payments infrastructure, transaction processing, or networks
• Experience building data/BI platforms, analytics products, or ML-enabled systems
• Familiarity with fraud, risk, compliance, and real-time decisioning systems
• Proven success leading products from strategy → build → launch → scale
• Comfortable operating cross-functionally with Engineering, Data Science, Risk, and Compliance

✅Why apply:

• Equity at a scaling company 💸
• High ownership & visibility across core network systems 📈
• Work on global, cross-border payments and real-time intelligence 🌍
• Build foundational data products powering the entire platform🚀