Head of Data Strategy & Access at Method, connecting financial accounts to services. Drive critical data access negotiations with financial institutions while innovating the user experience.
Responsibilities
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.
Manage various Method internal and external resources supporting our data access efforts.
Build internal visibility and alignment on the data access agenda across Product, Legal, and Engineering.
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.
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