Director, Data Products & Licensing

Paysafe; Jacksonville (FL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Paysafe seeks a strategic Director of Data Products & Data Licensing to lead monetization of proprietary data assets, build licensing partnerships, and drive cross-functional growth across Product Management, Legal, and Compliance. The role requires strong data fluency, executive communication, and market-facing product leadership.

The ideal candidate will define data product strategy, oversee monetization initiatives, and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver market-ready data solutions

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent required.
• 10+ years of experience in Product Management, Data Products, Analytics, Data Licensing, or related fields.
• 3+ years of leadership experience managing strategic product initiatives and cross-functional teams.
• Experience building or commercializing data products, analytics solutions, APIs, benchmarking services, or data licensing programs.
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience within payments, fintech, financial services, gaming, digital commerce, or data-intensive industries preferred.
• Familiarity with data governance, privacy regulations, and risk considerations related to data monetization.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the strategy and roadmap for data products, data services, and data licensing initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to monetize proprietary data assets through insights, benchmarking, APIs, analytics products, and strategic licensing agreements.
• Develop business cases, TAM analysis, pricing strategies, and commercialization plans for new data-driven offerings.
• Lead the lifecycle of data products from ideation through launch, scaling, and optimization.
• Partner with executive leadership to align data product strategy with broader company growth objectives.
• Structure and support strategic data licensing partnerships, including value-based and revenue-sharing commercial models.
• Define scalable operating models for external data distribution, governance, entitlement management, and commercial reporting.
• Conduct market analysis to identify emerging trends in data monetization, analytics, AI, benchmarking, and industry intelligence solutions.
• Engage directly with customers, partners, and internal stakeholders to validate opportunities and shape product direction.
• Translate complex data capabilities into customer-facing value propositions and market-ready solutions.
• Ensure all data products and licensing activities align with applicable privacy, compliance, safeguarding, and regulatory requirements.
• Partner with Legal, Compliance, and Risk teams to establish governance frameworks for data usage, commercialization, and distribution.
• Support privacy impact assessments, contractual reviews, and data entitlement controls.

Skills

Executive communication

Cross-functional leadership

Data fluency

Strategic thinking

Go-to-market strategy

Stakeholder management

Payments/fintech domain knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

APIs

Analytics platforms

Job description

Paysafe seeks a strategic Director of Data Products & Data Licensing to lead monetization of proprietary data assets, build licensing partnerships, and drive cross-functional growth across Product Management, Legal, and Compliance. The role requires strong data fluency, executive communication, and market-facing product leadership.

The ideal candidate will define data product strategy, oversee monetization initiatives, and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver market-ready data solutions