Join our fast-paced, growing company and further your career with Maverick Payments, where you can thrive, your ideas are valued, and your colleagues feel more like family than coworkers!
About Us:
Maverick Payments is a family-owned and privately held full-service payment provider. Located in Calabasas, California, Maverick has created innovative technology designed for sales organizations, such as ISO’s and ISV’s, looking to monetize payments by reselling our white-labeled payments stack. Our payment products include merchant acquiring services, a proprietary gateway, ACH processing, fraud & chargeback tools, analytics, and other value-add services. Maverick’s team includes underwriting, risk management, compliance & legal, technology & product development, on-boarding, customer support, information technology, and more.
About the Position:
Reporting to the SVP, Operations the Project Manager supports and delivers internal initiatives within our payments acquiring operations by executing defined projects, coordinating cross‑functional partners, and ensuring milestones are met on time and within scope. This is an individual contributor role focused on day‑to‑day project execution, coordination, and problem‑solving rather than people management or portfolio oversight. This role partners closely with internal stakeholders across Product, Risk, Compliance, Underwriting, Operations, Legal, and Business Development to ensure projects are delivered efficiently, compliantly, and in alignment with departmental and company objectives.
- Execute assigned projects from intake through completion, managing tasks, timelines, dependencies, and deliverables
- Coordinate closely with internal teams including Product, Engineering, Risk, Compliance, Underwriting, Operations, Legal, and Business Development.
- Serve as the primary project liaison across internal teams to drive alignment and accountability
- Lead initiatives related to:
- Merchant onboarding, activation, and lifecycle workflows
- Acquirer, processor, and sponsor bank requirements
- Risk, fraud, compliance, and monitoring programs
- Internal tooling, platform enhancements, and process improvements
- Develop and maintain project documentation, status updates, and reporting for departmental leadership
- Identify and proactively mitigate risks, particularly those impacting acquiring operations or regulated/high‑risk verticals
- Ensure projects adhere to internal controls as well as card network, acquiring, and regulatory expectations
- Support continuous improvement efforts by refining project management practices and standards within the department
- 3–5 years of project management or operations experience in Fintech, payments, or financial services
- Direct exposure to payments acquiring, merchant processing, or related payment operations
- Working knowledge of the payment lifecycle, including authorization, settlement, chargebacks, and disputes
- Experience using project tracking and collaboration tools (e.g., Jira, Asana, Confluence, Smartsheet, Monday.com)
- Strong organizational and prioritization skills
- Ability to translate operational, technical, or regulatory requirements into actionable project plans.
- Detail‑oriented with the ability to see broader process and business impacts..
- Comfortable operating in a fast‑paced, evolving payments environment.
- High degree of ownership and accountability.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple workstreams with competing priorities.
- Strong written, verbal, and organizational skills.
- Execution‑focused with strong attention to detail.
- Clear communicator able to coordinate across technical and non‑technical teams.
- Comfortable working in structured but evolving environments.
- Solution‑oriented with sound judgment on when to escalate.
- Reliable follow‑through and ownership of assigned work.
- Experience supporting high‑risk merchant portfolios or regulated payment verticals
- Familiarity with underwriting, enhanced due diligence, or chargeback monitoring processes
- Prior collaboration with Risk, Compliance, or Legal on operational initiatives
- Exposure to acquiring banks, processors, gateways, or sponsor bank relationships
- Project management certification (PMP, Agile, Scrum) is a plus, not required
- Competitive Salary, Bonuses and Incentives.
- Comprehensive employer sponsored health, vision, and dental insurance programs.
- Paid time off, Paid Sick and Paid Holidays.
- 401K plan with up to a 4% matching contribution.
- Commitment to Career Development and Advancement.
- Employee Recognition Programs & Company Sponsored Events
- Vibrant Office Culture, Team Building, Birthdays, Work Anniversaries, Snacks, and more!
This position will consider hybrid work schedules for candidates near Greater Houston or Los Angeles areas.
Remote candidates considered in the following states:
AZ, CA (Outside of LA Metro area), CO, FL, GA, ID, IN, KS, KY, MA, MD, ME, MI, NC, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OR, PA TN, TX (Outside Houston Metro), UT, VA, WA.
Skills Required
- 3-5 years of project management or operations experience in Fintech, payments, or financial services
- Direct exposure to payments acquiring, merchant processing, or related payment operations
- Working knowledge of the payment lifecycle, including authorization, settlement, chargebacks, and disputes
- Experience using project tracking and collaboration tools (e.g., Jira, Asana, Confluence, Smartsheet, Monday.com)
- Strong organizational and prioritization skills
- Ability to translate operational, technical, or regulatory requirements into actionable project plans
- Detail-oriented with ability to see broader process and business impacts
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, evolving payments environment
- High degree of ownership and accountability
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple workstreams with competing priorities
- Strong written, verbal, and organizational skills
- Execution-focused with strong attention to detail
- Clear communicator able to coordinate across technical and non-technical teams
- Comfortable working in structured but evolving environments
- Solution-oriented with sound judgment on when to escalate
- Reliable follow-through and ownership of assigned work
- Experience supporting high-risk merchant portfolios or regulated payment verticals
- Familiarity with underwriting, enhanced due diligence, or chargeback monitoring processes
- Prior collaboration with Risk, Compliance, or Legal on operational initiatives
- Exposure to acquiring banks, processors, gateways, or sponsor bank relationships
- Project management certification (PMP, Agile, Scrum)
What We Do
Maverick Payments is a full-service payment processor with innovative technology designed for partners looking to monetize payments by reselling our white-labeled payments stack. Quickly go to market with minimal to no cost or risk - all with building your brand while leveraging our infrastructure. With our merchant acquiring services, proprietary gateway, ACH processing, fraud & chargeback tools, analytics, and other value-add services, we offer a true all-in-one solution geared for sales organizations, such as ISVs, developers, ISOs, and agents looking to generate payments revenue in a scalable method with no investment or risk burden. Our dashboard is an end-to-end system with a complete API, digital onboarding, portfolio management, sub-reseller and user management, support ticketing, and so much more – your turnkey platform to go to market as a payments provider under your brand while utilizing Maverick’s back-end systems. With its headquarters in Los Angeles, Maverick's FSP infrastructure means all operations are handled in-house including underwriting, risk monitoring, compliance, technology development, on-boarding, customer support, and more. This allows for quick resolutions and hands-on support. Maverick is a leader in technology-driven payment processing for merchants of any size in the United States, including card present and card not present. Additionally, Maverick supports a wide range of business types including specialty verticals and emerging markets which typical processors shy away from due to elevated risks; however, these are new industries for our resellers to support and expand into. Our partner-focused approach ensures competitive pricing, transparency, and best-in-class services that build personal and lasting relationships with our partners and merchants. As a family owned and operated company, our nimble approach means our commitment to providing unsurpassed levels of support and building long-term relationships
