DEUNA

Engineering Manager

• Lead the AI/ML engineering team building payment-routing optimization, authorization-rate improvement, and AI-powered digital workforce systems
• Manage approximately 7–8 ML, backend, and platform engineers
• Guide architecture decisions and unblock the team while remaining technically engaged
• Own team delivery, including scoping, costing, and sequencing initiatives
• Hire, develop, and retain engineers; manage performance and career growth
• Coach engineers through technical designs, code reviews, architecture reviews, and trade-offs
• Set standards for code quality, testing, and CI/CD
• Guide ML model lifecycle architecture, including training, evaluation, monitoring, and retraining
• Guide LLM workflows, agent orchestration, RAG pipelines, and vector database integrations
• Oversee inference services for live payment routing and ensure latency and reliability
• Ensure AWS infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, dashboards, tracing, and on-call runbooks meet high standards
• Apply PCI-DSS and data-handling judgment to payment-data systems
• Translate product vision into a technical roadmap
• Collaborate with product, operations, and modeling leadership
• Report team progress and blockers to leadership

Engineering Manager – AI

Artificial Intelligence

• Define and lead the multi-year product vision for the payments ecosystem
• Identify major new product opportunities in the payments landscape
• Drive strategic direction across multiple product pillars and initiatives
• Align product strategy with company growth, revenue objectives, and market expansion
• Lead and develop a team of Product Managers
• Define team structure, hiring plans, and career development for product leaders
• Establish product management standards and operating processes
• Foster ownership, accountability, and innovation
• Drive the evolution of the payments orchestration platform and capabilities layer
• Ensure support for payment connectivity, orchestration, reconciliation, financial operations, subscriptions, recurring payments, disputes, and chargebacks
• Ensure architecture supports enterprise-scale merchants and high transaction volumes
• Partner with Engineering leadership on scalable technical architecture
• Work with Sales, Customer Success, and Partnerships to translate market needs into product strategy
• Remove organizational blockers and drive cross-team alignment
• Lead initiatives spanning multiple product areas
• Own business performance of the payments product area
• Define success metrics and product KPIs tied to growth, merchant adoption, and platform performance
• Balance customer value, scalability, and business outcomes in product decisions
• Evaluate emerging payments trends
• Identify opportunities in orchestration, approval optimization, financial automation, and AI-driven payment intelligence
• Position the platform as a leader in enterprise payments infrastructure

Product Head, AI

Product Manager

• Define and lead the multi-year product vision for the payments ecosystem
• Identify major new product opportunities within the evolving payments landscape
• Drive strategic direction across multiple product pillars and initiatives
• Align product strategy with company growth, revenue objectives, and market expansion
• Lead and develop a team of Product Managers
• Define team structure, hiring plans, and career development for product leaders
• Establish product management standards and operating processes
• Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and innovation
• Drive the evolution of the payments orchestration platform and capabilities layer
• Ensure support for payment connectivity, payment orchestration, reconciliation and financial operations, subscriptions and recurring payments, and disputes and chargeback management
• Ensure product architecture supports enterprise-scale merchants and high transaction volumes
• Partner with Engineering leadership to define scalable technical architecture
• Work with Sales, Customer Success, and Partnerships to translate market needs into product strategy
• Remove organizational blockers and drive alignment across teams
• Lead cross-team initiatives spanning multiple product areas
• Own business performance of the payments product area
• Define success metrics and product KPIs tied to growth, merchant adoption, and platform performance
• Balance customer value, scalability, and business outcomes in product decisions
• Evaluate emerging payments ecosystem trends
• Identify opportunities in orchestration, approval optimization, financial automation, and AI-driven payment intelligence
• Position the platform as a leader in enterprise payments infrastructure

Product Head

• Drive payment solutions as DEUNA grows across new and existing markets
• Support execution of product strategy aligned with business goals
• Build and maintain the product roadmap
• Contribute to feature prioritization based on business impact and technical feasibility
• Collaborate with Engineering, Commercial, Product Marketing, and Implementation Management
• Support product development and launches
• Define and track key product metrics
• Use data to inform decisions and identify opportunities to improve payment solutions
• Communicate product value and capabilities to diverse stakeholders

Project Manager

• Lead and coordinate strategic, cross-functional projects for DEUNA’s key enterprise accounts in the US
• Own project plans, milestones, timelines, dependencies, risks, and governance
• Coordinate across Customer Success, Sales, Product, Operations, Finance, Legal, Risk, and Technology teams
• Establish project governance, communication cadences, ownership, and escalation paths
• Identify and manage risks, blockers, and cross-functional dependencies
• Drive decision-making and resolve critical issues
• Provide structured project updates to senior leadership and stakeholders
• Coordinate business-critical customer milestones and internal organizational readiness
• Maintain project health, progress, risks, and decisions through reporting and dashboards
• Facilitate retrospectives and improve DEUNA’s operating model and project execution
• Ensure alignment with customer objectives and DEUNA’s business priorities
• Influence teams and drive accountability without direct reporting authority
• Focus on project orchestration, stakeholder alignment, governance, risk management, and executive visibility rather than technical implementation or day-to-day customer implementation

Chief of Staff

• Serve as a strategic partner to the CEO and co-founder, supporting high-impact company initiatives
• Support business strategy, investor relations, and executive operations as DEUNA scales its payment orchestration platform and AI solutions with ATHIA
• Build and maintain relationships with current and prospective investors
• Develop investor materials, including board decks, performance updates, and strategic presentations
• Create and manage dashboards tracking company performance, KPIs, and key business metrics
• Translate data and business performance into narratives for executive and investor audiences
• Partner with the CEO, co-founder, and C-level team on strategy, planning cycles, and key initiatives
• Define and track strategic priorities across leadership
• Conduct market research, competitive analysis, and business deep-dives
• Provide structured problem-solving and strategic recommendations
• Manage and optimize the CEO’s agenda
• Prepare briefing materials, agendas, and follow-ups for executive and investor meetings
• Track action items and key decisions across leadership meetings
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Finance, and Operations leaders
• Identify organizational gaps, risks, and opportunities and propose solutions
• Drive cross-functional projects with high visibility and business impact

Account Manager

• Identify, recruit, and onboard strategic payment and technology partners, including PSPs, acquirers, gateways, APMs, fraud/risk providers, ISVs, agencies, and SIs.
• Own partner relationships end to end, from outreach and deal structuring to signed agreements and ongoing account management.
• Build joint go-to-market and co-selling motions, and drive partner-sourced and partner-influenced pipeline.
• Negotiate commercial terms, including referral, reseller, and revenue-share agreements.
• Work closely with Sales, Product, and Engineering to prioritize and launch integrations that create merchant value.
• Run partner QBRs, enablement, and co-marketing initiatives; serve as the US point of contact for the ecosystem.
• Define and track partnership KPIs, including pipeline, revenue, activation, and integration milestones, and report on impact.
• Represent DEUNA at industry events and across the US payments community.