About the role
Sporty Group is looking for a Senior Manager – Payments (transitioning to a Director level position) to join our Business Development team to drive performance, reliability, and cost efficiency across our global payments stack. This role sits at the intersection of Partnerships, Product, Operations, and Analytics, owning business relationships, performance, success rates, uptime, and onboarding across existing and emerging markets.
What you’ll be doing
- Establish and curate relationships with new and existing Payment Partners across multiple Geos for Sporty Group
- Drive onboarding and Negotiations of new payment partners (Including, but not limited to Banks, PSPs, Telcos, Aggregators etc) and channels in Africa & LATAM
- Work closely with Product, Risk, Operations and Platform teams for Launch readiness and Payment channel Go-live
- Work Closely with Product on Optimizing payment flows, failover management, identifying gaps and driving growth and performance across pay-ins and payouts
- Establish monthly competitor benchmarking (pricing, new Payment trends, success rates, settlement) with Product and Operation
- Track and oversee Payment Partner KPIs Improvements: success rates, latency, downtime, and cost per transaction
- Support Operations Leadership for downtime tracking, RCA, and business continuity planning from a Partnership Management standpoint
- Work closely with PSPs, telcos, banks, and internal ops teams to improve performance
- Collaborate with Product, Ops, Risk, and Tech teams on flow and reliability improvements
What you’ll bring
- 10+ years in payments, fintech, e-com or transaction-heavy platforms
- Strong understanding of Payment landscape and experience across African and LATAM Markets
- Strong understanding of PSPs, mobile money, cards, and local payment rails
- A Self Starter, comfortable operating in low-structure, high-velocity environments typical of emerging markets
- Data-driven mindset with strong communications and negotiation skills
- Strong stakeholder management skills across product, operations, tech, and external partners
- A builder mindset who thrives in greenfield and scale-up environments
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple work streams in parallel without loss of execution quality
- Strong structuring skills, able to turn ambiguity into clear plans, frameworks, and outcomes
- High autonomy with the confidence to own decisions and execution end-to-end
- Fluency in both written and spoken English is essential
What’s in it for you
- Sporty is a remote first company in pursuit of sustainability
- A competitive salary + individual performance based bonuses every quarter
- 28 days paid annual leave
- Referral bonuses & flash bonuses
- Top of the line equipment
- Annual company retreats to provide great internal networking opportunities
If you’re interested, we encourage you to apply! Every application is reviewed by a member of our team (AI is not used in our recruitment process), and we aim to respond within 48 hours.
