Senior Director, Compliance - Emerging Payment Products

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Job Title

Senior Director, Compliance - Emerging Payment Products

About your role:

As Senior Director, Compliance - Emerging Payment Products, you will serve as a strategic compliance partner to product, business, legal, risk, operations, and client-facing teams to support the compliant delivery of emerging payment solutions. You will guide regulatory strategy for embedded finance, digital assets, cross-border payments, and complex funds flow models while helping teams identify risk, strengthen controls, and enable responsible growth across new products and partnerships.

What you'll do:

• Develop and maintain compliance frameworks for digital assets, stablecoins, tokenized deposits, virtual asset activity, digital wallets, blockchain-enabled financial services, and crypto-related typologies.
• Provide compliance coverage for emerging markets, cross-border payment solutions, marketplace payments, embedded finance, banking-as-a-service, real-time payments, account-to-account payments, prepaid access, and alternative payment methods.
• Maintain working knowledge of virtual asset regulatory expectations, cryptocurrency typologies, blockchain analytics, digital identity, Travel Rule considerations, and evolving financial crimes risks associated with digital financial services.
• Partner with Product, Legal, Technology, Operations, Risk, and business teams to evaluate new products, emerging market opportunities, and strategic partnerships through a regulator-defensible compliance lens.
• Lead review of compliance requirements applicable to partner, marketplace, seller, merchant, platform, and payment processor flows, including onboarding, monitoring, sanctions screening, fraud, and financial crimes controls.
• Responsibilities listed are not intended to be all-inclusive and may be modified as necessary.

Experience you'll need to have:

• 6+ years of experience in payments compliance, financial crimes compliance, regulatory compliance, legal advisory, or related functions within financial services.
• Experience supporting embedded finance, marketplaces, cross-border payments, digital assets, stablecoin activities, or similarly high risk and emerging financial service offerings.
• Experience interpreting and applying regulations related to AML, BSA, sanctions, payments, and funds movement in product, business, or client-facing environments.
• Experience leading regulatory strategy, compliance assessments, or governance activities for new products, partnerships, or complex payment models.
• Experience conducting compliance risk assessments, establishing control environments, and developing monitoring and testing activities for emerging products and business lines.
• Bachelor's degree or higher in Business, Finance, Law, Risk Management or related field or equivalent combination of education, related experience and/or military experience.

Experience that would be great to have:

• Juris Doctor or master's degree in Law, Business Administration, Finance or related field or equivalent combination of education, related experience and/or military experience.
• Experience with stablecoin and digital asset regulatory frameworks.
• Experience in high-growth or emerging financial services verticals.
• Experience supporting complex client onboarding, deal structuring, and due diligence activities.

How you'll work:

• This role is on-site Monday through Friday. Fiserv considers in-person collaboration to be an essential part of this role as in-person office experiences help you with your overall onboarding experience and leads to stronger productivity.
• This role requires use of a computer and audio equipment.

Sponsorship:

• You must currently possess valid and unrestricted U.S. work authorization to be considered for this role. Individuals with temporary visas including, but not limited to, F-1 (OPT, CPT, STEM), H-1B, H-2, or TN, or any candidate requiring sponsorship, now or in the future, will not be considered for this role.

Benefits at Fiserv:

• Fuel Your Life program to support your physical, financial, social, and emotional well-being.
• Paid holidays and generous time away policies.
• No-cost mental health support through Employee Assistance Programs.
• Living Proof program to recognize your peers’ extra effort with points redeemable for rewards.
• Eight Employee Resource Groups to foster a collaborative culture and expand your network.
• Unparalleled professional growth with training, development, and internal mobility opportunities.
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance options available from day one.
• Retirement planning including 401k match and discounted shares with the Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Tuition assistance and reimbursement program.
• Paid parental and military leave.

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Salary Range

$150,000.00 - $240,000.00

These pay ranges apply to employees in New Jersey and New York. Pay ranges for employees in other states may differ.

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For incentive eligible associates, the successful candidate is eligible for an annual incentive opportunity which may be delivered as a mix of cash bonus and equity awards in the Company’s sole discretion.

Thank you for considering employment with Fiserv.  Please:

• Apply using your legal name
• Complete the step-by-step profile and attach your resume (either is acceptable, both are preferable).

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Fiserv is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other category protected by law. 

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