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Director Sales, Financial Services

Paysafe

Paysafe

Accounting & Finance, Sales & Business Development
Posted on Jan 3, 2025

Paysafe Limited (“Paysafe”) (NYSE: PSFE) (PSFE.WS) is a leading payments platform with an extensive track record of serving merchants and consumers in the global entertainment sectors. Its core purpose is to enable businesses and consumers to connect and transact seamlessly through industry-leading capabilities in payment processing, digital wallet, and online cash solutions. With over 20 years of online payment experience, an annualized transactional volume of $140 billion in 2023, and approximately 3,200 employees located in 12+ countries, Paysafe connects businesses and consumers across 260 payment types in over 40 currencies around the world. Delivered through an integrated platform, Paysafe solutions are geared toward mobile-initiated transactions, real-time analytics and the convergence between brick-and-mortar and online payments. Further information is available at www.paysafe.com.

It starts here. Have a global impact on the world of payments.

Paysafe is currently seeking a Director Sales, Financial Services based in London. This is a people leadership role where you will lead a EU/UK team. We are looking for someone with deep industry connections and experience in the Card Acquiring and Payment industry to build and lead a team of Individual contributor, sales executives in EU/UK.

The focus will be on specific segments – eWallets, Money movement companies, Payfac, Finance companies and other Financial Services organizations.

The solution offering will be Card acquiring, Payfac, Wallets, eCash and other Paysafe solutions.

This position will be focused on new logo sales in primary segments.

What Paysafe stands for:

  • Being open and honest.
  • Keeping focused.
  • Operating with Courage.
  • Pioneering the future.

Our values and culture are driven by Equality, Development, Social Responsibility and Wellbeing. If you want to find out more about life at Paysafe, check out our careers page here.

How we work:

We follow a hybrid working model, spending an average of three days per week at our office location. The office is located in Gresham Street next to St Paul’s cathedral with easy access and transport links via St Paul’s, Bank, Cannon Street, City Thameslink, Liverpool Street, Farringdon, Mansion House.

The impact you will have:

  • Leading, Building the Team, Mentoring and Selling within the payments industry to the C-Suite of Merchant organizations
  • Achieve and exceed annual booking and revenue targets for Individual and Team
  • Ensure all reporting, forecasting, commitments are accurate and regularly updated
  • Alignment with all business processes
  • Working closely with all business units, marketing, product, technology, and operations teams to identify impactful opportunities and drive partnerships to execution
  • Bring relationships in the payments industry that will assist and provide opportunity for revenue generation
  • Travel to key industry events; including both domestic and international travel

What we’re looking for:

  • 8 to 10 years of demonstrated success in business development and sales leadership that resulted in sales and revenue growth year over year
  • Knowledge of Financial services platform providers, Payfacs, system Integrators and their corresponding technical/payment infrastructure
  • High degree of knowledge on card processing, acquiring and online payments technologies
  • Creative problem solver and innovator – to build new business models
  • Able to make thoughtful, actionable recommendations under minimal structure, and quickly build consensus with senior level internally and external stakeholders
  • Collegial, high energy, and persistent personality, with excellent interpersonal and communication skills
  • Poven ability to work/perform in a dynamic, fast-paced environment requesting availability, autonomy and reactivity
  • Impeccable ethics and customer first focus
  • Strong quantitative and qualitative analysis skills
  • Excellent problem-solving skills, organizational skills, and business judgment
  • Motivated, self-starter with the ability to effectively manage multiple deliverables

A snippet of what you’ll get in return:

  • Make your day work for you with our flexible working hours.
  • You decide what your holiday looks like with the option to buy or sell your holiday and carry over up to 5 days into the next year.
  • Enjoy social events on our roof top terrace with views onto St Pauls Cathedral.
  • Our fully equipped facilities include showers, hairdryers and straighteners and fresh towels.
  • Start your day with a free breakfast, fresh fruit and snacks.
  • Take a breather in our dedicated wellbeing room.
  • Spend time with those important to you with our enhanced paid family policies.
  • Test our products Skrill and Neteller. Upon joining we will award you £50 into each wallet.
  • Enjoy our discounts on memberships via vitality including, gyms, leisure centres, yoga/Pilates across the country.
  • Need a new Laptop or TV? We offer support purchasing Apple and LG products via Stormfront technology.
  • Join our six employee-led equality communities and help foster a workplace that celebrates diversity and create opportunities to collaborate and learn.
  • Give back to the community with four paid charity days.
  • Kickstart your weekend early with our summer hours during the months of June, July and August with a 3pm finish every Friday.
  • Let’s not forget, we also offer: Private health insurance (pre-existing conditions are included) & dental insurance, income protection, life assurance and more.

What to expect next:

  1. Phone screen with Talent Acquisition
  2. Video interview with the Hiring Manager.
  3. In-person interview in our London office
  4. Final HR interview with Talent Acquisition

If you’re successful joining the team, you’ll be meeting our CEO in person during our new joiners breakfast in London – a great opportunity to network with your peers.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Paysafe is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and are committed to providing a work environment of mutual respect to everyone without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.