Director, Strategic Project Management (Payments)

Location: Shanghai, China; based in hirify.global's Shanghai office with business travel as needed

Company

hirify.global is a global payments technology company facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories.

What you will do

• Manage projects and workstreams within hirify.global's China Market Entry agenda, covering scope, milestones, schedules, actions, and delivery dates.
• Coordinate payment product, engineering, architecture, integration, infrastructure, cybersecurity, operations, control functions, vendors, and external processing partners.
• Support requirements clarification, solution planning, systems integration, testing, certification, deployment, cutover, launch readiness, stabilization, and transition to operations.
• Track deliverables, risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, and overdue actions; escalate blocked items and matters requiring management attention.
• Coordinate regulatory, legal, compliance, cybersecurity, data, operational-risk, audit, business-continuity, and disaster-recovery inputs.
• Prepare project plans, status reports, decision logs, risk and issue logs, meeting materials, and concise management updates.

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in technology project management, application delivery, systems integration, or engineering within the payments industry, including cross-functional technology-project coordination.
• Experience working with domestic bank-card clearing institutions in China on technical implementation and operational processes for domestic card-processing services, including integration, testing, certification, operational responsibilities, regulatory readiness, and launch.
• Practical experience managing project plans, schedules, milestones, risks, issues, dependencies, actions, status reporting, and core project documentation.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, information systems, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Working knowledge of project-management methods and tools; ability to organize work, follow up on commitments, maintain accurate documentation, and manage multiple priorities in a matrixed environment.
• Ability to understand payment-processing business and technical requirements, challenge assumptions, identify integration dependencies, and translate requirements into project activities, owners, and target dates.
• Experience coordinating internal stakeholders, vendors, or business partners.
• Strong understanding of payment message flows and interfaces, including ISO 8583 and ISO 20022, message specifications, field and data-element mappings, transaction states, response codes, and integration-test scenarios.
• Deep knowledge of bank-card processing across authorization, clearing, settlement, reconciliation, exception handling, and dispute-related processing, including issuer, acquirer, merchant, processor, and network interactions.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills in English and the ability to communicate with stakeholders at different levels.

Nice to have

• Strong practical experience in card payments, digital payments, payment processing, or payment-platform delivery within a bank, payment network, processor, acquirer, issuer, wallet provider, or financial-technology company.
• Deep understanding of wallet processing, including wallet-account and credential lifecycle, card provisioning, tokenization, transaction routing, authorization, funding, settlement, reconciliation, and exception handling.
• Experience integrating with payment networks, banks, processors, wallet platforms, merchants, or other external payment-technology partners.
• Understanding of payment-platform non-functional requirements, including availability, performance, scalability, resiliency, security, and data protection.
• Professional proficiency in English and Mandarin Chinese.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time position based in the Shanghai office.
• Business travel is required based on business needs.
• Collaborative project environment with internal and external stakeholders.