Payments Performance Lead — Authorization & Growth

CLEAR; New York (NY); On-site; USD 234,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

CLEAR is building the secure identity platform of the future. The Director, Payments Performance will own how money moves at CLEAR, driving authorization, renewal recovery, fraud and disputes in a high-volume, subscription-based business.

Reporting to the SVP of Product, you’ll bring deep payments expertise to turn issuer, network, processor, and Member insights into product strategy, experiments, and measurable business outcomes.

Qualifications

• Extensive payments experience in high-volume, subscription businesses.
• Experience with authorization, renewal recovery, and chargebacks.
• Strong analytical skills with data and SQL.

Responsibilities

• Own payment performance end to end including authorization, renewal recovery, fraud and chargebacks.
• Analyze performance across issuers, networks, wallets, and Member cohorts.
• Define and drive authorization and recovery roadmap with Product, Eng, Analytics.
• Manage relationships with processors, card networks, and issuers.
• Partner with Product, Finance, Analytics, Eng, and Member Support for experiments.

Skills

Payments leadership

Subscriptions/recurring billing

Card payment economics

Data analytics

Cross-functional partnering

Product & Engineering collaboration

Job description

CLEAR is building the secure identity platform of the future. The Director, Payments Performance will own how money moves at CLEAR, driving authorization, renewal recovery, fraud and disputes in a high-volume, subscription-based business.

Reporting to the SVP of Product, you’ll bring deep payments expertise to turn issuer, network, processor, and Member insights into product strategy, experiments, and measurable business outcomes.