About the role
Are you ready to trade your job for a journey? Become a FlyMate! Passion, excitement & global collaboration are all core to what it means to be a FlyMate. At Flywire, we’re on a mission to deliver the world’s most important and complex payments. We use our Flywire Advantage - the combination of our next-gen payments platform, proprietary payment network and vertical specific software, to help our clients get paid, and help their customers pay with ease - no matter where they are in the world. What more do we need to truly be unstoppable? Perhaps, that is you!
Who we are: Flywire is a global payments enablement and software company, founded more than a decade ago to solve high-stakes, high-value payments in higher education. We’ve since scaled into new regions and industry verticals and expanded our product offerings to deliver meaningful value to our clients around the world. Today we support more than 4,800 clients across the global education, healthcare, travel & B2B industries, with diverse payment methods across 240 countries & territories and more than 140 currencies. With over 1,200 global FlyMates, representing more than 40 nationalities, and in 12 offices world-wide, we’re looking for FlyMates to join the next stage of our journey as we continue to grow. The Opportunity: We, at Flywire, are seeking a Payment Experience Team Lead in the Americas. Payment Experience roles at Flywire are not your typical ‘support’ roles. As the first point of contact at Flywire, you will be equipped with broad knowledge of Flywire's core business capabilities, which alongside your positive attitude and the support of our amazing global team, allows you to troubleshoot any aspect of our payer’s problems. As part of this role, you will liaise closely with Client & Payment Experience Managers, other regional team leads, Central Service team and all departments in a fast-paced environment where growth and change are the norm. Resilience, curiosity, cultural awareness, and empathy are key traits, as your day-to-day will be filled with communicating internationally. Strong written and verbal communication skills are also required. You will be primarily responsible for supporting payer enquiries, serving as a content expert for Flywire payment offerings and products. In addition to this, you will also drive forward the regional Payment Experience Team and be both the key escalation point for Payment Experience Associates & Specialists and the key voice for payment experience. A Payment Experience Team Lead should support the Client & Payment Experience Managers in leading the regional Payment Experience Team, providing feedback on team training needs, regional teammates development plans, payer experience improvements plus anything else that would ultimately help our payers through a ‘frictionless’ experience. You will also support the regional & global Client & Payment Experience function through project work as necessary. You will Provide solutions to complex issues for payers by phone, chat, and email with speed, professionalism and empathy Be the escalation point for teammates, serving as a content expert for Flywire payment offerings and products Be the voice of payers within Flywire escalating insight within the Client & Payment Experience (CPE) Team and beyond, using data and context to highlight areas for optimisation Work with the CPE Managers to design the regional Payment Experience team directions following the Global CPE direction and the company direction, proactively make plan to optimise our process, drive efficiency and scaling of manual work using data analysis Drive forward the regional Payment Experience Team, manage
