Director, Production Operations (Payments)

Location: New York City, United States

Salary: $161,050–$273,790 per year

Company

hirify.global is building Project Keystone, a bank-governed network for digital money based on regulated commercial-bank deposits and supported by participating financial institutions.

What you will do

• Build and execute the network operations and settlement strategy, operating model, governance, staffing, coverage, escalation paths, and service standards.
• Own Netting Sessions and Fiat Settlement Periods, including cutoffs, payment calculations, participant notifications, pay-in confirmations, pay-out authorization, token close processing, and cycle closure.
• Lead intraday liquidity and capacity management across payment activity, participant positions, prefunding, collateral, exposure limits, settlement obligations, and funding shortfalls.
• Establish controlled procedures for funding, settlement-file release, maker-checker approvals, manual adjustments, emergency actions, reconciliations, and audit evidence.
• Direct investigations and incident response for failed, delayed, disputed, or incorrectly valued payments, outages, connectivity failures, data issues, and other settlement events.
• Recruit, develop, and lead an operations team while partnering with participant banks, product and technology teams, risk, finance, compliance, legal, custodians, settlement banks, auditors, and regulators.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, accounting, business, engineering, information systems, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in payment operations, clearing and settlement, treasury operations, liquidity management, securities or market infrastructure operations, or another time-critical financial operations environment.
• 5+ years leading operational teams or multidisciplinary functions with accountability for high-value financial activity, settlement deadlines, financial exposure, or service continuity.
• Experience with daily net settlement, intraday liquidity, treasury funding, high-value or real-time payments, clearinghouse operations, collateral or margin operations, or digital-asset settlement.
• Strong knowledge of settlement accounts, payment messages, prefunding, liquidity controls, exposure limits, reconciliation, exception management, settlement finality, and operational cutoffs.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, highly regulated environment with coverage aligned to funding deadlines, settlement windows, production incidents, and selected weekends or holidays.

Nice to have

• Experience building a new network operations, treasury operations, clearing, or settlement function.
• Experience with Fedwire, RTP, FedNow, ISO 20022, settlement-bank or custodian operating models, and participant funding processes.
• Experience with tokenized deposits, regulated stablecoins, blockchain transaction monitoring, qualified custodians, wallet operations, or on-chain and traditional-record reconciliation.
• Familiarity with operational resilience, business continuity, financial-market infrastructure controls, SOC or regulatory reviews, and incident command.
• Professional certification in treasury, payments, risk, project management, or a related field.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on leadership role with broad ownership of a new bank-governed payment network.
• Work with participating financial institutions and cross-functional financial infrastructure teams.
• Focus on operational precision, ownership, responsiveness, disciplined escalation, and continuous improvement.
• Support for audits, control testing, business continuity exercises, and executive reporting.
• Full-time employment with competitive compensation.