About Payoneer

Founded in 2005, Payoneer is the global financial platform that removes friction from doing business across borders, with a mission to connect the world’s underserved businesses to a rising global economy. We’re a community with over 2,500 colleagues all over the world, working to serve customers, and partners in over 190 countries and territories.

By taking the complexity out of the financial workflows–including everything from global payments and compliance to multi-currency and workforce management, to providing working capital and business intelligence–we give businesses the tools they need to work efficiently worldwide and grow with confidence.

Principal Excellence Operations & Strategic Planning

IsraelHybridFull-time

As a Principal in Payoneer’s Platform Excellence & Innovation team, you will be the bridge between vision and execution, shaping how we plan, operate, and deliver Product & Tech Excellence. This is a high-impact, high-visibility role, partnering with senior leaders to drive operational excellence, strengthen cross-functional collaboration, and ensure our strategic goals translate into measurable results.You’ll combine strategic foresight with hands-on execution: designing frameworks, solving operational bottlenecks, and ensuring our teams in Product, Engineering, Data and more are set up to deliver at their best.

What you'll do:

• Lead strategic planning of the Platform Excellence team: creating plans, defining priorities, OKRs and KPIs. 
• Design, document and embed operational excellence practices - from workflows and rituals to performance measurement systems that will allow us to do excellence and innovation at scale. 
• Spot and solve inefficiencies, leading cross-functional initiatives that accelerate execution and maximize impact.
• Partner with senior stakeholders (Directors and VPs) to scope initiatives, secure resources, and ensure delivery against strategic goals.
• Develop tools and dashboards that improve visibility, track progress, and inform better decision-making.
• Own key operating rhythms such as initiative tracking, cross-Platform semi-annual/annual rituals etc.  

Who you are:

• You excel at turning complexity into clarity and action.
• 7+ years in strategic operations, business planning, program management, or organizational development - preferably in tech, product, or platform organizations.
• Proven success leading cross-functional, senior-level initiatives in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong analytical skills with experience creating and tracking KPI frameworks.
• Excellent communicator and facilitator - able to drive alignment across diverse teams and viewpoints.
• A strategic thinker with a hands-on, execution-driven mindset—you set the vision and make it happen.
• Experience in a global, matrixed organization is a plus.

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The Payoneer Ways of Working 

Act as our customer’s partner on the inside Learning what they need and creating what will help them go further. 

Continuously improve Always striving for a higher standard than our last. 

Do it. Own it. Being fearlessly accountable in everything we do. 

Build each other up Helping each other grow, as professionals and people. 

If this sounds like a business, a community, and a mission you want to be part of, apply today.

We are committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workplace. Payoneer is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment no matter your race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you require reasonable accommodation at any stage of the hiring process, please speak to the recruiter managing the role for any adjustments. Decisions about requests for reasonable accommodation are made on a case-by-case basis.