General Manager of Payments

VenturEd Solutions; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

VenturEd Solutions seeks a General Manager of Payments to lead the transformation of payment strategies as a central business pillar. This role requires deep experience in payments and SaaS, focusing on revenue growth, user experience enhancement, and strategic alignment of payment offerings within the educational software landscape. The successful candidate will work closely with cross-functional teams to implement cohesive solutions across acquired products and will have a significant impact on customer satisfaction and operational performance.

Benefits

Flexible Planned Paid Time Off

Purpose-Driven Culture

Work-Life Balance

Company Paid Parental Leave

Remote Flexibility

Qualifications

• 8+ years in payments, fintech, or SaaS.
• At least 3 years in GM or senior leadership role with P&L ownership.
• Deep understanding of payment systems.

Responsibilities

• Own and scale the payments business with accountability for P&L.
• Define a unified payments roadmap with product teams.
• Lead cross-functional execution of payment strategies.

Skills

Leadership

Payments Strategy

Financial Modeling

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Data-Driven Decision-Making

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business or related field

MBA preferred

Job description

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About VenturEd

VenturEd is building the future of digital infrastructure for education by connecting schools, families, and administrators through intelligent software. Our expanding portfolio—including Ravenna, TADS, and CampusPay—supports a decentralized, acquisition-driven ecosystem that spans the entire student lifecycle. As we work to unify payments across this platform, we’re looking for a seasoned payments leader to accelerate revenue, improve user experience, and drive cross-product adoption of embedded financial services.

The Role

The General Manager of Payments at VenturEd will play a pivotal role in transforming payments from a supporting function into a central pillar of our business strategy. This role is instrumental in orchestrating the evolution of our payment offerings to lead in education payments, deliver world-class customer experiences, and accelerate recurring revenue growth across our platform.

We’re looking for a proven, results-oriented leader with deep experience in SaaS and embedded payments, ideally within vertical software or edtech. The ideal candidate understands both the revenue potential and operational complexity of payments in fragmented environments—and thrives on solving both. You’ll own the P&L for payments, drive cross-functional execution, and lead the charge to activate, standardize, and scale embedded payments across multiple acquired product lines and customer segments.

This role is not about maintaining the status quo—it’s about unlocking the next stage of growth by delivering better payment workflows, unifying vendors, and solving meaningful problems for our schools and families.

Key Responsibilities:

Payments Strategy & Execution

• Own and scale the payments business with full accountability for the payments P&L, including revenue growth, gross margin, customer satisfaction, activation, and retention.
• Define and execute a unified payments roadmap with the product team across multiple acquired and independently operating products.
• Centralize and standardize payment workflows, vendor relationships, onboarding, reconciliation, and reporting.
• Lead the evolution from decentralized implementations to a cohesive platform-wide solution.
• Identify and implement strategies to increase payments activation, volume, and monetization.
• Partner with sales, enablement, and customer success teams to position payments as a strategic value driver.
• Develop pricing strategies, feature packaging, and educational programs to grow net yield and adoption.
• Deliver financial models, forecasts, and reporting in partnership with finance and executive stakeholders.

Cross-functional Leadership

• Serve as the central orchestrator across product, engineering, operations, finance, legal, and GTM teams.
• Collaborate with product leaders to prioritize development and ensure seamless experiences.
• Define and track KPIs across performance, satisfaction, and efficiency.
• Foster alignment around payments as a core product and monetization lever.
• Directly manage the Director of Payment Operations to align daily execution with strategy.
• Oversee payment vendors across Ravenna, TADS, CampusPay, and additional platforms.
• Lead vendor selection and consolidation across current and future products in an effort to enhance performance and reduce costs.
• Develop onboarding and offboarding playbooks that minimize disruption.

Qualifications:

Required:

• 8+ years in payments, fintech, or SaaS, with at least 3 years in a GM or senior leadership role with P&L ownership.
• Proven success in selling or operationalizing payments in vertical software or edtech.
• Deep understanding of card-present, card-not-present, and ACH processing, reconciliation, fraud, and compliance.
• Experience leading in complex, decentralized environments with fragmented systems.
• Strong leadership and cross-functional influence.
• Comfort with financial modeling and data-driven decision-making.

Preferred:

• Experience managing functional or operations teams.
• Familiarity with education sector workflows (tuition, enrollment, financial aid).
• Background in vertical SaaS (e.g., franchise, healthcare, field services).
• Experience with Stripe, Worldpay, Adyen, Global, NMI.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, or a related field; MBA preferred.

This is a remote role with up to 15% travel expected for team off-sites, school conferences, and vendor visits. Regular collaboration across U.S. time zones will be required via video conference.

Why work here?

Good People, Doing Good Things: Employees at VenturEd Solutions are techies and volunteers who strive to make the Company a great place to work. We dream big and are motivated to help our customers use the technology we create to improve the world around us.

• Flexible Planned Paid Time Off
• Purpose-Driven Culture
• Work-Life Balance
• Passionate About Community Involvement
• Company Paid Parental Leave
• Company Paid Short Term Disability
• Remote Flexibility

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Executive

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Strategy/Planning, Management, and Business Development

• Industries

  Software Development and Education

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