<h3 class="ql-align-center">Swan: an ambitious team, an industry-changing product ☀️</h3>Swan, a European fintech company, is the easiest way to embed banking features into your product. This can be called “Banking-as-a-Service” or “Embedded banking”. We built Swan so that anyone can start embedding banking features within just minutes of visiting our website. Swan is truly fast and easy to use. Swan already has 100+ customers across 10+ European countries, large enterprises and startups alike. They include Carrefour, Factorial, Alma, Pennylane, and Agicap. We’re on track to take things much, much further by expanding into Europe — localizing our product and internationalizing our team and partner portfolio. Swan has received 58M€ funding from VCs like Lakestar, Accel, and Creandum. We’re a Mastercard principal member and a licensed financial institution, passported across Europe. We have a hybrid remote-work policy, with 170+ Swanees across offices in Paris, Bordeaux, Berlin, Barcelona, and Amsterdam! Wherever you’re coming from, come as you are! We’re open to all kinds of people from all walks of life. If you’re excited about joining a European fintech adventure, Swan is the way!

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<h3>About</h3>Swan is Europe’s embedded banking specialist. We empower software companies to embed banking features like accounts, cards, and payments directly into their products, under their own brand.Swan processes over €1.5 billion in monthly transactions for more than 150 companies—like Pennylane, Indy, Agicap, Libeo, and Lucca. Founded in 2019, the company has received growth capital from leading investors such as Lakestar, Accel, Creandum, Bpifrance and Eight Roads. Swan is a principal member of Mastercard and a licensed financial institution, regulated by the French banking authority (ACPR).Our missionBanking belongs in business softwareMany software companies already serve small businesses incredibly well: helping them send invoices, run payroll, manage inventory, and more. They’re on a mission to become the central hub for managing every aspect of business life.But when it comes to financial workflows, there’s still a gap. Too many critical tasks like managing cash flow, tracking payments, or reconciling accounts happen outside the software, across spreadsheets, email threads, banking portals.It’s a missed opportunity. Business software shouldn’t just record financial activity — it should run it. To learn more about us: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.swan.io/about#about">About Swan</a> ; <a target="_blank" href="https://www.swan.io/about#our-story">Our story</a>.&nbsp;<h3>Job description </h3>✨ Your team The Payment Group at Swan leverages industry knowledge, payments expertise, and general insight to build and operate the banking products and the platform that power cash collection, cash storage, and money movements for all Swan financial products. Ultimately, the group is working toward a future in which all the complexities of handling money are hidden from Swan's partners and end-users—whether that's adopting new payment methods, reconciling various entries (technical, accounting, and cash), integrating with banks and financial partners globally, or addressing regulatory obligations.Within this Group, the Payment Operations team oversees our daily payment operations and ensures compliance with all major regulatory obligations as a financial institution around three core pillars: Operational excellence—Because we handle money and perform sensitive operations, we must deliver the highest quality service to both internal and external stakeholders Operational risk management—While we cannot eliminate all operational risks, we must identify and mitigate them to protect both Swan and our endcustomers' assets ROI-driven actions and priorities—We must use our resources efficiently and focus our energy on what matters most: automation, cost efficiency, revenue opportunities, and risk mitigation✨ Your missionAs we scale, we are looking for a leader with a process-oriented and automation mindset to manage the team, increase our efficiency, direct our efforts where they'll have the greatest company impact, and elevate the quality of everything we do. As the Payment Operations Lead, you'll report directly to Swan's VP Product &amp; Operations - Payment and manage two key functions:<ul><li>Payment Operations Run Management—led by Payment Operations Supervisors (2 people) who oversee squads of Payment Operations Analysts (5 people). The supervisors act as controllers and empower their squads to ensure high quality outputs and efficiency. The analysts handle daily payment operations (payment flows reconciliation, client safeguarding controls, other level 1 controls), provide Level 2 internal support, manage financial provider relationships, verify billing, and manage payment incidents until resolution</li></ul><ul></ul><ul><li>Payment Operations Project Management—led by Payment Operations Project Managers (2 people) who enhance the Run Management team's efficiency through KPI development, process improvement, and implementation of automation and AI solutions</li></ul>✨ Main tasksAs a manager-coach, you will support the team in achieving ambitious goals while providing subject matter expertise and mentorship. Your responsibilities will be:<ul><li>Lead our Payment Operations team, taking full responsibility for team performance, engagement, and development</li><li>Implement and monitor Key Performance Indicators and lead data-driven analysis to continuously measure and improve team performance</li><li>Champion automation and AI to streamline operations and decouple team size from increasing volumes</li><li>Optimize operational profitability by ensuring team performance aligns with budgeted volumes, costs, and control requirements</li><li>Provide technical payment expertise in the development of new products, projects and services</li><li>Establish and maintain strategic relationships with key financial providers </li><li>Create and maintain an internal leadership network while nurturing relationships with key stakeholders to enhance your team's collective performance</li><li>Foster a culture of continuous improvement and consistently raise the quality bar</li><li>Oversee human resource responsibilities, including hiring, coaching/mentoring, and supporting team members' career development through structured discussions</li><li>Lead initiatives that foster an inclusive and positive team environment</li></ul><ul></ul> <h3>Preferred experience</h3>✨ You’re a great match if:<ul><li>7+ years of experience in startups, consulting, operations, logistics, or other relevant fields</li><li>Master or Bachelor's degree in a relevant field</li><li>Direct experience leading high-performing operational teams</li><li>Process-oriented and automation/AI mindset, ability to translate data findings into operations strategy</li><li>Ability to tackle complex challenges using logic, data analysis, and critical thinking to identify root causes, while developing effective solutions and mitigation measures</li><li>Strong analytical and decision-making abilities with excellent judgement</li><li>Full proficiency in English and French</li><li>A good understanding of the Payments ecosystem is a strong plus</li><li>Experience with SQL is a plus, or comfortable learning and using new software tools </li></ul><ul><li>Our ideal teammate: Empathetic. Skilled. Frank. We love to challenge each other, and we leave our egos at the door.</li></ul>It’s okay if you don’t tick all the boxes — don’t let imposter syndrome prevent you from applying! 🙌&nbsp; Swan is committed to providing a caring work environment for all employees, regardless of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion, or belief.When it comes to recruitment, we’re interested in your work experience, skills, and overall personality. Because diversity makes the workplace stronger and is necessary for Swan’s success, we are intensifying efforts to incorporate concrete actions to help us improve in this area.<h3> </h3><h3>About Swan</h3>✨ Perks of being a Swanee:<ul><li>&nbsp;Meal Vouchers: We provide a Swile card to cover your meals on work days.&nbsp;</li><li>Holidays : 25 days + RTT 🏝️</li><li>Transport:&nbsp;Monthly mobility package for employees. In accordance with the company agreement for sustainable mobilities, you can now use your mobility package to pay for alternative commuting modes. 🚇</li><li>Health insurance (mutuelle): <a href="https://alan.com/">Alan</a>. This is Swan's health and welfare insurance. 🚑</li><li>Sports: Thanks to our partnership with <a href="https://classpass.fr/">Classpass</a> and <a href="https://gymlib.com/fr">Gymlib</a>, you can enjoy advantageous discounts on subscriptions. They offer a wide range of sports activities as well as wellness activities. The offers are valid in several European cities, as well as online. 🏋</li><li>Hybrid remote policy: We offer the possibility of working from home for 2 days per week. 🏡</li><li>Offsite: Once a year we gather to reconnect, deep-dive into big topics, and relax. 🤝</li><li>This isn’t a perk, it should be the rule, but diversity and inclusion are important at Swan. We’re working hard to get better every day.</li></ul><ul></ul>✨ Our values:Swan’s core values guide our actions daily. Individually, they may seem obvious, but together, they form a unique culture. Simplicity: Leonardo Da Vinci said: “simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” If something's convoluted or confusing, we work extra hard to break it down. - Making complex things simple is what we do.Long Term: We always play the long game, whether it's to support our partners in their growth journey, or make tangible commitments to climate action.Excellence: We are a team of experts who consistently go all out to create pixel-perfect banking services and exceed our partners' expectations— whatever it takes.Be Human:&nbsp;We believe in the power of kindness and the importance of acting with integrity. But embracing our humanity extends beyond interpersonal interactions, it means caring about greater issues that affect our planet. You can find out more about our <a href="https://www.welcometothejungle.com/en/companies/swan/culture-1">culture</a>.&nbsp;<h3>Recruitment process&nbsp;</h3><ul><li>30-minute interview with our Talent Acquisition Manager to get to know you, understand your career expectations and answer your questions</li><li>45-minute hiring manager interview with our VP Product &amp; Operations - Payment, Julien</li><li>Take-home project/business case</li><li>30-minute presentation of the business case to the VP Product &amp; Operations - Payment and the Chief Product Officer, followed by a 30-minute interview with the Chief Product Officer</li><li>HR Interview to test managerial skills</li></ul>

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This team is part of the Go-To-Market department. 

These folks keep the gears running behind the company so that Swan can continue to grow and scale. They are responsible for building momentum around our team, our product, and embedded banking in general! They wrap Swan up and deliver it in style.

Swan is lucky to be a major player in the new age of banking, revolutionizing technology even in non-bank-related spaces! With that in mind, we’re interested in driving growth to achieve large-scale impact.

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We depend on our compliance department to handle all the tricky things like fraud, risk, Internal control, etc.

These folks keep our banking features safe and secure, and always have to think about the best way to combine multiple areas: business, legal, regulatory, customer support, and more.

Swan is both a technology company and a financial services company, and our Compliance team makes these pieces fit together

Compliance & Legal

The Engineering team is by far the largest at Swan.

This team includes Software developers, who build payments and end-customer applications, as well as Infrastructure, DevOps, and Security. Clear communication is a priority in this team, so we make a point to find teammates who can express themselves clearly.

It’s important you’re rigorous, too, because when you’re building banking infrastructure you can’t afford to “almost” achieve things.

But you’ll never be alone in that task. Co-building is at the heart of the way we work, and we've got plenty of automated checks in place to help you along!

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The G&A department includes the Finance, People, and Data teams.

Our corporate folks keep the gears running behind the company so that Swan can continue to grow and scale. They are responsible for building momentum around our team, our product, and embedded banking in general! They wrap Swan up and deliver it in style.

Swan is lucky to be a major player in the new age of banking, revolutionizing technology even in non-bank-related spaces! With that in mind, we’re interested in driving growth to achieve large-scale impact.

Operations are a key pillar to Swan’s success. Their mission is to provide a flawless end-end customer experience.

This team includes our Technical account managers, end-user support, as well as our payments teams. These folks are all about customer obsession and making sure Swan offers the smoothest, most elegant BaaS experience out there!

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From ideation, through development, to launch, this team exists to build up an exceptional product! It is collaborative and cross-functional; for example, the Product and Tam teams often work together.

The product team is involved from the moment someone has the idea for a new feature, up until it goes live. The team builds up a description of what needs to be done, and co-creates functionalities with the tech team, who then implement those functionalities and deploy them into production.

This team includes managers, designers, QA, UI design, and banking experts.

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