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Stax
201-500 employees
Global management consulting with data-driven insights
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Orlando, FL, USA
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- 3+ years of progressive product management experience, ideally with a focus on payment processing, including building, launching, and scaling platforms while navigating card brand enhancements and compliance mandates.
- Deep technical understanding of payment processing flows (authorization, capture, settlement, reconciliation, fraud prevention, tokenization, recurring payments) and essential experience with card payment methods and PCI DSS compliance.
- Exceptional ability to bridge business and technology, collaborating effectively with engineering, operations, risk, compliance, and legal teams to drive product development and ensure regulatory adherence.
- Strong analytical mindset, leveraging data-driven insights to inform product decisions, identify opportunities, and optimize performance. Experience with user behavior analytics and advanced product analysis tools is essential.
- Superior communication and interpersonal skills, influencing stakeholders at all levels, presenting complex technical and compliance concepts clearly, and driving consensus across cross-functional teams.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Proactive, hands-on problem-solver with a passion for disrupting the payments industry while prioritizing platform stability and compliance.
- Create the plan: Develop and put into action a clear plan for our payment processing tools, integrating company goals with compliance objectives and market needs, including bi-annual card brand enhancements.
- Understand the market: Continuously monitor payment trends, emerging opportunities, and competitive activities to inform product decisions and prioritize features, always considering compliance and regulatory adherence.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with engineering, operations, risk, compliance, and legal teams to define product requirements and prioritize features for a compliant and secure platform.
- Roadmap Ownership & Communication: Manage the development roadmap for payment processing compliance, clearly communicating priorities, timelines, and milestones to stakeholders, especially regarding bi-annual card brand enhancements.
- Compliance & Risk Mitigation: Lead efforts in payment approval and security risk management, spearheading all bi-annual card brand updates to ensure full product compliance with network rules and security standards.
- Performance Tracking & Improvement: Establish and monitor KPIs, focusing on payment acceptance rates and system reliability, to continuously improve payment processing tools.
- Build relationships: Cultivate strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including customers, partners, and key vendors, to gather feedback and align product plans, particularly on compliance and security.
Stax is a global management consulting firm that partners with corporate and private equity clients across many industries to deliver data-driven, actionable insights that help them grow, boost profits, and increase value for better investment decisions. The firm favors a hands-on, practical approach: teams work directly with clients to quickly get to the heart of the issue, develop clear, fact-based recommendations, and leave practical next steps without disrupting day-to-day operations. With a smaller, selective client base and offices in Boston, Chicago, New York, and Colombo, Sri Lanka, Stax offers colleagues opportunities for rapid client exposure and close collaboration with top professionals, enabling personal and professional growth. The goal is to provide differentiated service that clients can rely on to solve critical business issues and to build lasting value for both clients and the firm’s people.
Company Size
201-500
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
Boston, Massachusetts
Founded
1994
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Brad Kuntz's 25+ year EY network accelerates Americas expansion and PE relationship development.
- Grant Thornton's $2.4B revenue base and 70% U.S. PE 300 coverage expands addressable market.
- Integrated accounting-advisory model differentiates Stax in exit planning and value creation services.
What critics are saying
- PE market contraction reduces commercial due diligence demand as dry powder deployment slows.
- Grant Thornton integration drives 20-30% client attrition as PE firms prefer independent boutiques.
- EY-Parthenon poaches Stax talent leveraging Kuntz's network, eroding New York office capabilities.
What makes Stax unique
- Specialized PE consulting with deep sector expertise across software, healthcare, industrials, and business services.
- Data-driven approach leveraging AI and advanced analytics for actionable commercial due diligence insights.
- Grant Thornton integration provides accounting and advisory capabilities unavailable to independent boutique competitors.
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Blue Point Capital Partners has exited Stax through a sale to Grant Thornton Advisors, supported by New Mountain Capital with $55 billion in assets under management. During their partnership since October 2021, Stax tripled its team and achieved 35% annual growth. The firm expanded globally, launched new service lines, and enhanced capabilities. Financial advisors for the transaction were William Blair and Baird, with legal counsel from Jones Day.
Grant Thornton, a top 10 accounting firm, announced on Aug. 19 its acquisition of Stax, a Boston-based strategy consulting firm. Stax specializes in commercial due diligence, value creation, and exit-planning services for private equity organizations. Approximately 300 Stax team members will join Grant Thornton Advisors upon the transaction's expected closure this year, pending standard conditions. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Grant Thornton Advisors LLC (GTA) on Tuesday said it will acquire Boston-based Stax, a strategy consulting firm specialising in commercial due diligence, value creation, and exit-planning services for private equity (PE) firms, as well as their portfolio companies and advisers.
Chicago-based IPA 100 firm Grant Thornton (FY24 net revenue of $2.4 billion) announced it will acquire Boston-based Stax, a leading strategy consulting firm specializing in commercial due diligence, value creation and exit-planning services for private equity (PE) firms, as well as their portfolio companies and advisers.