Head of Data Strategy & Access

📋 Description

• Own and execute Method's data access strategy with financial institutions.
• Build and manage a pipeline of target data provider relationships across technical and business stakeholders; drive outbound, conference-based networking, and warm introductions.
• Co-design and negotiate bank authentication and user experience specifications as part of data integration agreements.
• Participate in and represent Method within industry consortia working groups; develop and advance proposals for technical standards and authentication protocols.
• Own the commercial negotiation on direct access agreements including build cost contributions, data licensing terms, and implementation timelines.
• Evaluate and pursue financial institutions and digitally native lenders integrations to move manual repayment flows to digital alternatives.

🎯 Requirements

• You've done this job, or something very close to it, at a financial data aggregator (Plaid, MX, Yodlee, Intuit IDX) or from within a financial institution's digital partnerships or open banking team.
• You're fluent in open banking and financial data standards, FDX, FAPI, OpenID Connect; you've sat in the rooms where these decisions get made.
• You have an MBA or equivalent business background and have closed or contributed to commercial agreements with large financial institutions.
• You know how banks move, who the real stakeholders are, and how to build momentum when every counterparty has competing priorities and limited urgency.
• You have a bias toward ownership; this role requires sustained effort against institutional inertia with limited short-term feedback loops.
• You're technically fluent enough to engage with bank engineering and product teams without an interpreter.

🎁 Benefits

• Existing network within FDX, Open ID Connect, or banking standards bodies.
• Experience working alongside or within a government affairs or regulatory strategy function.
• Prior startup experience or demonstrated comfort operating at a company where the process is yours to build.
• You've built teams and/or new functions in a fast-paced, startup environment where priorities can shift, growth is exponential, and autonomy is critical.
• Relationships at top-10 US financial institutions.