Head of SaaS, Financial Infrastructure

Technical Skills:

• Applied extensive knowledge of current and emerging trends in fintech, banking-as-a-service, brokerage, and/or payments to provide strategic direction, guidance, and leadership within the Financial Infrastructure business.
• Working knowledge of the risk, compliance, legal, and regulatory considerations related to providing regulated financial infrastructure services.
• Demonstrates and promotes discipline against strategic objectives while serving as a strategic leader internally and externally.
• Very strong writing, presentation, and public communication skills.

Complexity and impact of work:

• Architect and launch a new, high-impact business unit within Anchorage, integrating Financial Infrastructure and Product Engineering teams to deliver scalable infrastructure-as-a-service.
• Direct the end-to-end life-cycle of the product roadmap, ensuring that technical execution aligns with the broader business strategy.
• Serve as the path owner for strategy execution, determining the methods and procedures necessary to move the business forward against internal deadlines.
• Collaborate across internal stakeholders, including Sales, Legal, Risk, and Compliance, to define strategy, prioritization, and resolve roadblocks to ensure the infrastructure-as-a-service model is both robust and compliant.
• Independently document, execute, and report on strategic proposals, determining methods and procedures along the way to drive business forward.
• Cultivate deep organizational knowledge and leverage senior-level, client-facing influence to ensure that infrastructure reconfiguration align with both internal capabilities and the strategic needs of our institutional clients.
• Operate in a high-ambiguity and fast-moving environment who can rapidly translate strategy into technical execution and operational results.

Organizational Knowledge:

• Deep knowledge of Anchorage’s core business operations, including operations, customer experience, legal, and compliance to ensure new infrastructure services are seamlessly integrated.
• Play an active role to promote, support, and grow the newly built business unit within the broader strategic priorities and product engineering goals of Anchorage.
• Direct the prioritization and development of key product features and automation from a strategy and business perspective.
• Ensures knowledge sharing across the FinFra team.

Communication and influence:

• Documents strategic proposals, business plans, and execution roadmaps to define the trajectory of the new Infrastructure business.
• Independently leads client-facing discussions and oversees business line deals, leveraging influence to establish feedback loops on services and products.
• Participates in speaking engagements and events to represent Anchorage as an SME in banking-as-a-service and software-as-a-service models.
• Crosses direct team and function boundaries to gain consensus, identify and solution issues, and present to senior stakeholders across Anchorage.
• Mentors and guides colleagues and team members on internal best practices, team strategies, and to promote discipline and understanding against the strategic goals of Anchorage and the Financial Infrastructure team.
• Serves as critical path owner and gatekeeper for strategy execution.

You may be a fit for this role if you have:

• Applied knowledge of trends in fintech, banking-as-a-service, brokerage, and/or payments to provide strategic direction, guidance, and leadership within the Financial Infrastructure business.