Go To Market Readiness Lead

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions, enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed in the right ways, all more confidently and more often—that’s what we call the courage to thrive.   We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One. 

As a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Bank, Elavon is committed to building the platforms and ecosystems that help over 1.5 million customers around the world to achieve their financial goals—no matter what they need. From transaction processing to customer service, to driving innovation and launching new products, we’re building a range of tailored payment solutions powered by the latest technology. As part of our team, you can explore what motivates and energizes your career goals: partnering with our customers, our communities, and each other. 

Job Description

The Go to Market (GTM) Readiness Lead plays a critical role in supporting and driving a holistic GTM plan from within the broader Product Organization. Reporting directly to the North America Go to Market Strategy & Execution Lead, this role is focused on maximizing revenue through effective product launches, strategic positioning, and cross‑functional execution.

As a key connector across the organization, the GTM Readiness Lead collaborates closely with teams including ePMO, Sales, Product, Operations, and Product Marketing to ensure readiness from early testing through global commercialization. The ideal candidate is highly self‑sufficient yet skilled at partnering with diverse stakeholders to deliver outcomes.

Responsibilities:

• Building rollout and launch plans

• Enabling the business to bring new or enhanced solutions to market successfully

• Acts as a liaison with a number of cross-functional stakeholders as required.

• The GTM Readiness Lead drives alignment from Tech Ready to General Availability (GA), enabling new revenue streams and accelerating sales growth across the portfolio.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience

• Eight to ten plus years of experience in project management activities

Preferred Skills/Experience

• Considerable knowledge of assigned business line or functional area

• Demonstrated management and leadership skills

• Strong organizational and analytical skills

• Advanced knowledge of project management

• Ability to identify and resolve exceptions and to analyze data

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Merchant payment knowledge is bonus

The GTM team is hiring across three core focus areas, with placement tailored to each individual’s skills, experience, and development goals.

• Enterprise Healthcare product offering: Focusing on payment processing as part of the broader patient experience is key. Our products enable healthcare providers to strengthen data security, streamline revenue cycles and treasury operations and enhance the patient financial experience. A passion for this vertical and payments is not required, but an asset.

• Innovation: Forward-thinking payments products and enhancements to market. Interest in turning bold ideas into real-world impact would be an asset. Improving transaction experience, staying ahead of emerging technologies and helping change how payments are managed will be central to this role.

• ISV (Independent Software Provider) and Embedded Payments product set: Flexible integration options allow partner to benefit from a variety of integration options.  Whether through direct certification, fully-integrated, semi-integrated, hosted, and gateway integration paths – we offer solutions for all merchant needs. A passion for this technical space is an asset but not required.

Location:  

The role offers a hybrid/flexible schedule, which means there's an in-office expectation of 3 or more days per week and the flexibility to work outside of the location for the other days.

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