Senior Director, Commercial Strategy and Operations, Office of the President

About Pagaya

Shape the Future of Finance

Pagaya is building a leading artificial intelligence network to help our partners grow their businesses and better serve their customers.

Pagaya is a global technology company making life-changing financial products and services available to more people nationwide, as it reshapes the financial services ecosystem. By using machine learning, a vast data network and a sophisticated AI-driven approach, Pagaya provides comprehensive consumer credit and residential real estate solutions for its partners, their customers, and investors. Its proprietary API and capital solutions integrate into its network of partners to deliver seamless user experiences and greater access to the mainstream economy. Pagaya has offices in New York and Tel Aviv. For more information, visit pagaya.com.

Let's create better outcomes together!

About the Role

We are seeking a highly strategic and financially rigorous Senior Director to serve as a trusted execution partner to the COO & Co-Founder/President in our Office of the President. This individual will operate as a strategic catalyst for the executive office, advancing key enterprise initiatives, funding strategies, and commercial execution across the business.

The role is ideal for a professional who combines top-tier strategic problem-solving with deep roots in capital markets and corporate finance. The successful candidate will bring experience supporting senior executives within banking, payments, or fintech, with a proven ability to navigate funding execution, capital allocation, and high-growth commercial environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Finance & Executive Partnership: Serve as a financial and operational advisor to the President, translating executive priorities into actionable operating plans, accurate financial forecasts, and measurable commercial outcomes.

• Capital Markets & Funding Strategy: Partner with leadership to drive the "funding" side of the business, supporting debt and equity financing, capital allocation strategies, and relationship management with investors and lenders.

• Commercial Execution: Build rigorous frameworks and mechanisms to improve forecasting accuracy, capital efficiency, and operating discipline across revenue-generating functions.

• Cross-Functional Alignment: Partner closely with Sales, Product, Finance, Risk, and Strategy teams to advance critical initiatives, evaluate funding scenarios, and optimize liquidity strategies.

• Operational Optimization: Monitor key financial and business metrics, identify operational gaps, and build scalable reporting systems to support business growth and increasing financial complexity.

Qualifications & Attributes

• Experience: 10+ years across capital markets, investment banking, FP&A, or strategic finance.

• Sector Expertise: Prior experience in consumer banking, payments, fintech, lending, financial infrastructure, or integrated B2B solutions.

• Technical Acumen: Deep expertise in financial modeling, enterprise budgeting, variance analysis, and evaluating complex capital markets transactions.

• Executive Presence: Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, with the demonstrated ability to support and influence C-suite leaders, boards, and external financial partners.

• Execution Focus: High degree of ownership and accountability, paired with the ability to synthesize complex financial data into clear, actionable business recommendations in a fast-paced environment.

Location & Working Model

• This role is based in New York City.
• Candidates must be comfortable working in-office 4–5 days per week.

The pay ranges for New York-based hires are commensurate with candidate experience.

Pay ranges for candidates working in locations other than New York may differ based on the cost of labor in that location.

Compensation Range for New York Based Hires

$225,000—$275,000 USD

Our Team

Pagaya was founded in 2016 by seasoned research, finance, and technology entrepreneurs with our head quarters located in NYC and Tel Aviv.

We move fast and smart, identifying new opportunities and building end-to-end solutions from AI models and unique data sources. Every Pagaya team member is solving new and exciting challenges every day in a culture based on partnership, collaboration, and community.

Join a team of builders who are working every day to enable better outcomes for our partners and their customers.

Our Values

• Continuously Learn - We challenge ourselves for the sake of getting better as individuals, as teams, and as an organization to deliver for our partners.
• Debate and Commit - We respectfully and openly debate to strengthen our ideas and build shared conviction - once we decide, we go all in, together.
• Dream Big and Act - We boldly tackle complex problems, pressure-test solutions in real-time, and adapt with speed and energy.
• Advance Inclusion - We create a world where everyone can win, designing systems that better represent people and generate sustainable value for our employees, partners and investors.
• Be Accountable Together - We proudly own our actions and our results, taking initiative to ensure our work gets over the finish line as a team.

More than just a job

We believe health, happiness, and productivity go hand-in-hand. That's why we're continually looking to enhance the ways we support you with benefits programs and perks that allow every Pagayan to do the best work of their life.