Full-Time

Stakeholder Engagement Director

Public Affairs

Posted on 9/16/2025

Early Warning

Early Warning

1,001-5,000 employees

Payments network and risk management solutions

Compensation Overview

$151k - $226k/yr

+ Discretionary Incentive Plan

No H1B Sponsorship

Washington, DC, USA

In Person

This position is on-site and requires regular presence in our Washington D.C. office.

Category
Consulting (1)
Requirements
  • Education and/or experience typically obtained through completion of a bachelor's degree.
  • Minimum of 10years of professional experience in stakeholder engagementor a related field.
  • Background in the payments or financial industry with a solid understanding of relevant trends, challenges, and stakeholder dynamics.
  • Experience creating and launching public affairs campaigns that include third-party engagement.
  • Media and issues management experience.
  • Deep understanding of advocacy strategy development, including ways to leverage conferences,existing or emerging thought leadership platforms, and relationships to influence outcomes.
  • Experience in managing people, agencies, and cross-functional teams, projects and programs.
  • Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously under deadline pressure.
  • Demonstrated ability to build and maintain strong relationships, both inside and outside the organization.
  • Exceptional business judgment, strategic thinking skills, and attention to detail.
  • Background and drug screen.
  • Physical Requirements: Working conditions consist of a normal office environment. Work is primarily sedentary and requires extensive use of a computer and involves sitting for periods of approximately four hours.
  • Physical Requirements: Work may require occasional standing, walking, kneeling and reaching.
  • Physical Requirements: Must be able to lift 10 pounds occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently.
  • Physical Requirements: Requires visual acuity and dexterity to view, prepare, and manipulate documents and office equipment including personal computers.
  • Physical Requirements: Requires the ability to communicate with internal and/or external customers.
  • Physical Requirements: Employee must be able to perform essential functions and physical requirements of position with or without reasonable accommodation.
Responsibilities
  • Develops and implements engagement strategies to strengthen relationships with key external stakeholders, including industry trade associations.
  • Partners with government relations on key legislative developments.
  • Leads the engagement with consultants on a daily basis to ensure that objectives are being met and activities are adjusted based on dynamic landscape.
  • Provides feedback to consultants on key performance metrics based on reports and activity.
  • Organizes meetings, briefings, and events with key stakeholders to enhance rapport with key organizations.
  • Identifies new stakeholders, activities, and outcomes based on the goals of the office.
  • Monitors stakeholder engagement records and identifies opportunities for improvement.
  • Works closely with internal teams to ensure cohesive messaging, positioning, and strategic alignment across all engagements.
Desired Qualifications
  • Bachelor’s degree in communications or public policy.
  • Experience and comfort engaging with government officials or public sector stakeholders is a plus.

Early Warning Services, LLC builds and operates risk, fraud and payment technologies that protect financial transactions and expand access to financial services. It leverages network intelligence and collaborations with more than 2,500 banks and credit unions to secure payments for consumers and small businesses, and to enable convenient payment options. Its well-known products include Zelle®, a person-to-person electronic payments network, and Paze℠, an online checkout solution, integrated within a broad financial ecosystem. The company differentiates itself through its extensive partner network, decades of experience, and a dedicated focus on risk, fraud prevention and payments infrastructure. Its goal is to empower and protect the U.S. financial services ecosystem by making financial services more accessible while keeping transactions safe.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

$22.9M

Headquarters

Scottsdale, Arizona

Founded

1990

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Partners with over 2,500 banks and credit unions for vast network access.
  • Leverages big data analytics from thousands of institutions for ACH fraud prevention.
  • Submitted five-point fraud plan to OCC, Fed, FDIC RFI on September 19, 2025.

What critics are saying

  • CFPB sued Early Warning and banks on December 20, 2024, for Zelle fraud violations.
  • Bank ownership by BofA, JPMorgan, Wells Fargo invites DOJ antitrust scrutiny.
  • Paze faces displacement by Apple Pay, Google Pay in saturated e-commerce market.

What makes Early Warning unique

  • Early Warning screened $10.8 trillion in payments in 2024, stopping $3 billion fraud.
  • Predict New Account Risk delivers predictive intelligence beyond binary risk decisions.
  • Operates Zelle and Paze, expanding from fraud detection to e-commerce payments.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan

401(k) Company Match

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Paid Vacation

Paid Parental Leave

Family Planning Benefits

Flexible Work Hours

Company News

PR Newswire
Mar 17th, 2026
Citi adds Paze digital wallet for millions of US credit cardmembers

Early Warning Services has expanded its Paze online checkout solution to Citi, giving millions of credit cardmembers access to the bank-offered digital wallet. Eligible Citi cardmembers can activate Paze through Citi.com, the Citi Mobile App, or mywallet.paze.com. Paze allows customers to check out online without manually entering card details, using tokenisation for added security. The service is available at leading online merchants across apparel, electronics, jewellery, food, entertainment and beauty sectors. According to a survey, 72% of US consumers value digital wallet efficiency for online transactions, whilst 82% trust their banks' security more than third-party payment options. More than 165 million credit and debit cards have been added to the Paze platform, which is operated by Early Warning Services.

Cision
Sep 4th, 2025
Extending the Reach of Zelle(R): Alacriti and Early Warning Join Forces

Alacriti partners with Early Warning Services to embed Zelle(R) into its Orbipay Payments Hub

NYC Politics
Aug 14th, 2025
NY Attorney General Letitia James Targets Zelle's Parent Company Over Massive Fraud Losses

While EWS promoted Zelle as safe and reliable, the complaint contends the company failed to deliver on those promises.

Early Warning Services, LLC
Jul 9th, 2025
Payfinia brings Paze digital wallet to community financial institutions

PORTLAND, Ore., July 9 - Payfinia, an independent payment services firm providing an open payments framework, announced today its partnership with Early Warning Services to offer Paze[SM], an online checkout solution developed by Early Warning Services and offered by participating banks and credit unions.

Boland Hill Media, LLC
Dec 20th, 2024
The CFPB Sues Early Warning, BofA, Chase, And Wells Over Zelle Fraud

Zelle, which Early Warning launched in 2017 to compete with services such as PayPal Holdings Inc. and its Venmo network, has been the subject of controversy for several years over scams in which users allege they were gulled into transferring funds to fraudsters.

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