Sr. Merchant Marketing Manager (Payments)

Location: New York City; hybrid work model. Positions in Scottsdale, San Francisco, Chicago, or New York follow a hybrid model. Candidates must independently possess eligibility to work in the United States for any employer. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Salary: $154,000–$193,000 USD per year for positions in New York, NY and San Francisco, CA, plus discretionary incentive plan and benefits.

Company

hirify.global provides payment and fraud-prevention solutions, including Zelle and Paze, for financial institutions, consumers, and small businesses in the United States.

What you will do

• Set the vision and lead strategy, development, and execution for scalable co-branded Paze marketing campaigns.
• Drive Paze adoption and transaction growth through performance marketing and measurable partnership programs.
• Develop and optimize creative, offers, audience segmentation, and channel strategy using test-and-learn methods.
• Lead merchant onboarding and integrated marketing plans across PR, social, owned, and paid channels.
• Manage external agencies, marketing toolkits, campaign assets, timelines, deliverables, and success metrics.
• Collaborate with merchants, bank partners, sales, legal, product, and other cross-functional stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, business, or a related field.
• Typically 12+ years of marketing experience, including brand and integrated marketing.
• Proven experience developing and executing co-branded or partnership marketing campaigns.
• Expertise in performance marketing, including testing and optimizing creative, offers, audiences, and channels.
• Experience managing external agencies, large-scale cross-functional projects, and client-facing partner relationships.
• Must be eligible to work in the United States for any employer; visa sponsorship is unavailable.

Nice to have

• Experience working in a startup or high-growth environment.
• Three to five years of experience creating and scaling marketing programs.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work environment supporting collaboration.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage with HSA and FSA options.
• 401(k) plan with a 100% company safe-harbor match on the first 6% deferral.
• Flexible time off for exempt employees, paid company holidays, and a paid volunteer day.
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave and family-planning support.