Remote Card Issuing Implementation Lead

Lever, Inc.; Turkey; Remote; TRY 300,000 - 540,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote working

Job summary

Lever, Inc. on behalf of a partner company is seeking a Client Implementation Manager (Card Issuing) to lead end-to-end card issuing implementations from planning through launch and closure.

You will coordinate across engineering, product, compliance, risk, and support to ensure timely delivery. The role requires solid project management, strong knowledge of card issuing, API integration, and regulatory awareness, with excellent English and the ability to guide clients in a remote, international

Qualifications

• 3+ years in implementation, project management, or client delivery within fintech, banking, payments, or a related environment.
• Practical knowledge of card issuing, including card programs, BIN structures, card lifecycle events, authorization flows, and issuer processing concepts.
• Understanding of card issuing platform configuration, technical integration, and the dependencies involved in launching card programs.
• Working knowledge of REST APIs and technical client onboarding processes.
• Strong organizational and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple implementations simultaneously while maintaining attention to detail.
• Excellent written and spoken English, with the ability to communicate effectively with technical teams, clients, and senior stakeholders.
• Confidence leading client-facing meetings, managing expectations, and communicating project risks and dependencies.
• Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills, including the ability to investigate issues through to root cause.
• High standards for documentation, record-keeping, compliance, and operational accuracy.
• Collaborative approach and comfort working across engineering, product, compliance, risk, support, and external partners.
• Curiosity about technology, financial services platforms, integrations, and digital products.
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability, with a commitment to taking projects from concept through successful delivery.
• Comfortable working in a remote, distributed environment across multiple time zones.
• Preferred experience includes implementing card issuing or issuer-processing platforms, working for an issuer, BIN sponsor, processor, program manager, or card-focused fintech.
• Additional valuable experience includes debit, credit, prepaid, commercial, or virtual card products; scheme certification and BIN registration; digital wallets and network tokenization; settlement, reconciliation, disputes, and chargebacks.
• Familiarity with project and collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, Asana, or Smartsheet is beneficial.
• Consultancy or professional-services experience managing multiple clients is a plus.
• Project management certification such as CSM, PRINCE2 Foundation, CAPM, or equivalent is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end card issuing implementations from planning through launch and closure.
• Build and maintain project plans, milestones, timelines, risk registers, and issue trackers.
• Serve as primary client contact, providing clear progress updates and managing expectations across stakeholders.
• Lead kickoff meetings, progress reviews, post-launch discussions, and other implementation touchpoints.
• Coordinate delivery across engineering, product, compliance, risk, support, and external partners to maintain momentum.
• Guide clients through card program configuration, including BIN ranges, product codes, and card profiles.
• Support technical onboarding covering issuing APIs, environments, credentials, and webhooks.
• Coordinate dependencies with BIN sponsors, card schemes, processors, and vendors, including certification and production.
• Lead user acceptance testing with test plans, defect tracking, and result validation.
• Coordinate go-live activities with readiness checks and go/no-go criteria.
• Ensure implementations address PCI DSS, SCA/PSD2, and Visa/Mastercard rules; maintain audit-ready docs.

Skills

Project management

Card issuing

API integration

Regulatory compliance

Client coordination

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Asana

Smartsheet

Job description

Lever, Inc. on behalf of a partner company is seeking a Client Implementation Manager (Card Issuing) to lead end-to-end card issuing implementations from planning through launch and closure.

You will coordinate across engineering, product, compliance, risk, and support to ensure timely delivery. The role requires solid project management, strong knowledge of card issuing, API integration, and regulatory awareness, with excellent English and the ability to guide clients in a remote, international