Head of Card Issuing & Global Payments — Strategy Lead

Preacta Recruitment; Sydney; On-site; AUD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Preacta Recruitment presents an exceptional opportunity to join a growing Australian fintech as Head of Product for Card Issuing & Global Payment. You will own the product strategy, roadmap and prioritisation, driving a rapid scale across schemes, partners and markets.

You'll partner closely with Engineering, Legal, Risk and the executive team, shape go-to-market plans, and expand the product beyond Australia, delivering measurable growth and market impact.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with card schemes and payments, issuing preferred.
• Data-driven prioritisation, roadmap and strategy ownership.
• Experience taking a product to market across more than one region.
• Executional mindset with ability to push forward and challenge thinking.
• Commercial acumen and confidence presenting business cases to senior leaders.
• Resilience in a fast-moving environment with shifting priorities.
• Practical approach to AI to work smarter while keeping own thinking.

Responsibilities

• Own strategy, roadmap and prioritisation for the payments and issuing product.
• Build business cases backed by data, customer insight and commercial modelling.
• Navigate scheme, regulatory and compliance trade-offs to make smart calls.
• Lead go-to-market planning for new schemes, partners and markets.
• Work closely with Engineering, Delivery, Legal, Risk and the exec team.
• Shape how the product expands beyond Australia.

Skills

Card payments

Data-driven prioritisation

Roadmap ownership

Strategy leadership

Multi-region launch

Executive collaboration

Job description

Preacta Recruitment presents an exceptional opportunity to join a growing Australian fintech as Head of Product for Card Issuing & Global Payment. You will own the product strategy, roadmap and prioritisation, driving a rapid scale across schemes, partners and markets.

You'll partner closely with Engineering, Legal, Risk and the executive team, shape go-to-market plans, and expand the product beyond Australia, delivering measurable growth and market impact.