Technical Sales Consultant

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions, enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed in the right ways, all more confidently and more often—that’s what we call the courage to thrive. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential.

A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.

As a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Bank, Elavon is committed to building the platforms and ecosystems that help over 1.5 million customers around the world to achieve their financial goals—no matter what they need. From transaction processing to customer service, to driving innovation and launching new products, we’re building a range of tailored payment solutions powered by the latest technology.

As part of our team, you can explore what motivates and energizes your career goals: partnering with our customers, our communities, and each other.

We actively uphold transparent and fair hiring practices that support individual opportunity, inclusive culture, and career mobility across all levels of our organisation.

We offer meaningful opportunities for growth, a culture of inclusion, and a strong commitment to transparency and integrity in everything we do.

Technical Sales Consultant

The Technical Sales Consultant engages prospective clients throughout the sales lifecycle providing consultative solution expertise to determine optimum alignment and earn their business. As an individual contributor in a customer facing role, we are looking for a pioneering, meticulous subject matter expert who can pair business acumen with solution mastery to drive measurable results in a fast-paced, demanding environment. The ideal candidate brings a blend of demonstrable, hands‑on proficiency across the payments industry and solutions balanced with tenacious customer advocacy, all of which will be required to meet the expectations of a high‑profile team.

• Gather solution requirements during the sales engagement facilitating mutual agreement and alignment
• Create and deliver technical sales presentations both onsite at new and prospective partner locations as well remotely.
• Stay abreast of internal product solution roadmaps in order to communicate future vision to new and prospective partners.
• Maintain competitive technical and business market knowledge

Significant knowledge of the card acceptance industry and the broader payment ecosystem, including but not limited to:

• roles and responsibilities of acquirers, issuers, payment schemes, processors, vendors, and gateways,
• card‑present and card‑not‑present transaction flows,
• authorization and settlement models, transaction lifecycle,
• industry‑specific use cases (attended/unattended, e‑commerce, retail, hospitality, AFD, EVC, transit, CIT/MIT, etc.),
• familiarity with payment methods, digital wallets, APM/LPM,
• working knowledge of EMV and contactless technologies,
• familiarity with card scheme specific regulations and requirements,
• familiarity with PCI DSS requirements and payment security principles,
• practical knowledge of cryptography as applied in payment systems,
• understanding of networking fundamentals and communication protocols, including TCP/IP, DNS, routing, NAT, VLANs, firewalls, VPNs, IPSec, TLS.

• ability to advise customers on selecting appropriate payment solutions aligned with their business models and technical environments,
• presales support,…