VP, Product Payments Experience & Customer Loyalty

Company Description

Are you ready to trade your job for a journey? Become a FlyMate!

Passion, excitement & global collaboration are all core to what it means to be a FlyMate. At Flywire, we’re on a mission to deliver the world’s most important and complex payments. We use our Flywire Advantage - the combination of our next-gen payments platform, proprietary payment network and vertical specific software, to help our clients get paid, and help their customers pay with ease - no matter where they are in the world.

What more do we need to truly be unstoppable? Perhaps, that is you!

Who we are:

Flywire is a global payments enablement and software company, founded a decade ago to solve high-stakes, high-value payments in education, using modern technology.

Today, we’ve digitized payments for more than 3,300+ global clients across education, healthcare, travel & B2B, covering more than 240 countries and territories and supporting over 140 currencies. And, we’re just getting started!

With over 1000+ global FlyMates, representing more than 40 nationalities, and in 14 offices world-wide, we’re looking for FlyMates to join the next stage of our journey as we continue to grow.

Job Description

The Opportunity

At Flywire, we're seeking a Vice President, Product Payments Experience & Customer Loyalty to define and lead the end-to-end payer experience across our global payments platform.

Reporting directly to the Chief Payments Officer, this executive leader will own every customer-facing payment experience, from checkout through payment confirmation, while building Flywire's long-term payer loyalty strategy. This role is responsible for increasing payment conversion, improving customer satisfaction, reducing friction, and creating experiences that encourage millions of global payers to choose Flywire again and again.

This is an exceptional opportunity for an experienced product executive who combines deep payments expertise with world-class consumer product leadership and has a passion for building elegant, scalable, AI-enabled payment experiences.

What You'll Do
Own the Global Payer Experience

• Define the vision and strategy for every payer-facing payment experience across Flywire.
• Own Hosted Payment Pages, Checkout, payment flows, translations, notifications, email communications, and overall UX.
• Establish global quality standards and ensure consistent experiences across all products and regions.
• Improve payment completion, conversion, and customer satisfaction through continuous optimization.
• Lead localization strategies across highly regulated global markets including India, China, and other complex regions.

Lead Customer Loyalty & Retention

• Build Flywire's first global payer loyalty strategy.
• Increase repeat payment behavior through frictionless returning payer experiences.
• Develop loyalty metrics including repeat usage, retention, re-engagement, and lifetime value.
• Partner with Payments Monetization to balance customer experience with sustainable business outcomes.
• Evaluate innovative loyalty initiatives, referrals, personalized experiences, and value-added payment services.

Drive Product Modernization

• Lead consolidation of fragmented payer experiences into a unified global platform.
• Define long-term experience architecture alongside Platform Engineering.
• Prioritize modernization initiatives that improve scalability, maintainability, and user experience.
• Simplify customer journeys while reducing operational complexity.

Champion the Voice of the Customer

• Serve as Flywire's executive advocate for the payer.
• Translate customer feedback, behavioral insights, and market trends into product investments.
• Partner with Payments Performance & Insights to identify friction and optimization opportunities.
• Influence strategic decisions across Product, Platform Engineering, Network, Operations, and Commercial teams.

Build High-Performing Teams

• Lead and develop a global Product Management organization.
• Foster a culture of experimentation, rapid learning, and data-driven decision making.
• Partner closely with Engineering, Design, Analytics, Payments Network, Operations, and Commercial leaders.
• Drive AI-first product development practices, leveraging AI-assisted product discovery, personalization, and rapid iteration throughout the product lifecycle.
   

Qualifications

Here's What We're Looking For

• 15+ years of Product Management experience with at least 5 years