Column

Location: Remote, USA Workplace: Remote ABOUT COLUMN For companies building financial technology and transforming the financial services space, the biggest bottleneck to their growth and innovation is often the underlying banks and infrastructure stack they rely on. We have spent our careers founding and scaling companies like Plaid, Square, Meta, Blend, and Affirm, and have seen this problem firsthand — builders and developers needing to partner with traditional banks, and creating API and abstraction layers over the patchwork that is the bank, its core, and many other vendors. All of this results in a complex (and often expensive) banking supply chain involving a user, fintech, BaaS middleware provider, bank, core and the Federal Reserve. At Column, we set out to simplify and fix this. We are a bank and a software company built from the ground up, offering builders and developers technology-forward banking solutions that cut out the hundreds of vendors, middleware providers, and abstraction layers. This means a safer, more transparent, and less costly banking supply chain. Come build with us! THE OPPORTUNITY: Column's Compliance team plays a critical role in ensuring the Bank grows safely. As a Compliance Analyst, you will be responsible for supporting the Compliance Testing function, leveraging regulatory compliance expertise to ensure our fintech partners’ programs are compliant and sustainable and meet the Bank’s expectations. This is a cross-functional role, working with both first- and second-line colleagues and interfacing directly with our fintech partners. This means exposure to a range of products, business models, and regulatory questions you won’t find at a traditional bank. This role is a great opportunity for someone who is passionate about regulatory compliance and wants hands-on experience testing a wide variety of fintech products, partners, and business models to accelerate their compliance career. This role is a fixed-term contract, remote position with an initial contract duration of six months and the potential to extend based on performance. WHAT YOU'LL DO: - Conduct compliance testing, both across Column’s products and services and at the Bank’s partners, as a contributor to Column’s Compliance Testing & Monitoring Program - Clearly document assessment findings, and own the drafting and reporting of results derived from the Compliance Testing Program - Identify potential areas of weakness (inadequate/ineffective controls, areas of non-compliance, etc.) within the Bank, and work with partners to strengthen the associated control environment - Monitor, interpret, and assess potential regulatory changes that may impact the Bank. Work with business, risk, and legal partners to ensure new regulatory requirements are clearly understood and processes are in place before their effective dates WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL: - Bachelor’s degree and/or equivalent experience - 3+ years in compliance or audit; experience at a regulated financial institution is a plus - Detail-oriented with excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills - Experience navigating banking regulations and applying rules to the Bank’s products - Demonstrated project management skills and the ability to juggle execution across multiple stakeholders - Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager (CRCM), Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), or equivalent certification a plus - Curiosity, eagerness to learn, and excitement about regulatory compliance and partner banking WHAT YOU'LL GET FROM US: - 🏥 Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans, including options that are 100% covered by Column for you - 💳 FSA and HSA account options to enable use of pre-tax money for medical and dependent care expenses - 🌴 Paid PTO, including 15 days of vacation and 10 days of sick leave each year - 📈 Eligibility to participate in Column’s 401k plan, including self-directed brokerage options PAY TRANSPARENCY: The US hourly rate range for this role is $35.00-$40.00. This position is non-exempt, meaning individuals in this role will be eligible for overtime pay in accordance with California labor law. A candidate’s position within this pay range will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors including, but not limited to, the candidate’s skill sets, experience, licensure and certifications, location, and other business and organizational needs. WE LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING FROM YOU Column is committed to working with the best and brightest people from the broadest talent pool possible. We value bringing together a team with different perspectives, educational backgrounds, and life experiences, and believe a diversity of ideas is what allows us to develop the best solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation during the application and recruiting process, please reach out to accommodations@column.com. We participate in the E-Verify program in certain locations as required by law. Learn more about the E-Verify program here https://e-verify.gov.

Location: San Francisco, CA ABOUT COLUMN For companies building financial technology and transforming the financial services space, the biggest bottleneck to their growth and innovation is often the underlying banks and infrastructure stack they rely on. We have spent our careers founding and scaling companies like Plaid, Square, Meta, Blend, and Affirm, and have seen this problem firsthand — builders and developers needing to partner with traditional banks, and creating API and abstraction layers over the patchwork that is the bank, its core, and many other vendors. All of this results in a complex (and often expensive) banking supply chain involving a user, fintech, BaaS middleware provider, bank, core and the Federal Reserve. At Column, we set out to simplify and fix this. We are a bank and a software company built from the ground up, offering builders and developers technology-forward banking solutions that cut out the hundreds of vendors, middleware providers, and abstraction layers. This means a safer, more transparent, and less costly banking supply chain. Come build with us! THE OPPORTUNITY Column's Growth team is focused on managing our highly strategic customer relationships. As a member of the Growth team, you’ll be responsible for building and overseeing all aspects of our customer management while acting as a trusted partner, advisor and advocate for a wide variety of customers. You will also be in charge of designing and implementing the strategy, processes, and content needed to help us scale this key function. This role has a unique international focus, helping build one of Column's most strategic expansion initiatives from the ground up. At least have of your work will be dedicated to building and managing partnerships with banks across Africa. The rest of your time will go to working with Column's core fintech partners. Column's Growth team is not your typical Customer Success or Account Management team in that Column is a critical, often existential, partner for our customers, our customer relationships are deeply collaborative and complex, and each customer contributes meaningfully to our revenue. We're therefore looking for team members who are analytical, demonstrate great critical thinking, and have experience managing very strategic relationships. This role is highly cross-functional and collaborative, partnering closely with Column’s Executive, Solutions Engineering, Sales, Compliance, and Correspondent Banking teams to ensure customers are onboarded smoothly, that we can anticipate and address both issues and opportunities for growth, and that these relationships are healthy and mutually beneficial. You’ll also represent the voice of the customer to help inform Column's strategy, including the product roadmap, go-to-market motions and more. Success in this role also means having a desire to become an expert on the Financial Technology space and on how companies partner with Column (our customers include many key industry players such as Brex and Carta). This role reports to the Head of Growth and is an in-person role based out of Dubai, UAE. We will help secure any required visas. WHAT YOU’LL DO - Help establish our customer-facing strategy, processes, playbooks, systems and best practices. Identify patterns and build repeatability at every step - Manage all aspects of a customer’s relationship with Column, from onboarding and implementation to ongoing management and expansion of the account - Onboard and manage our emerging markets bank partners: Serve as the day-to-day lead for banks across Africa. Guide them through onboarding and own the ongoing relationship once they’re live. - Build and nurture relationships across various functions within a customer's organization, identifying and creating advocates wherever you go, and helping find new use cases for partnering with Column - Proactively identify challenges and opportunities for growth, and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to find solutions in order to move the relationship forward - Share key findings and recommendations on market feedback and trends to inform Column’s growth strategy and product roadmap - Perform day-to-day activities consistent with safe and sound business practices and regulatory requirements - This role includes periodic travel to Africa to meet with our bank partners in person. WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL - 5+ years of relevant work experience -- strong preference for a mix of Consulting, Private Equity, Investment Banking, VC or an equivalent role plus operating experience in an early stage company and/or selling a new line of business - Professional fluency in French and English required - A desire to become very knowledgeable on the financial technology and payments space. Prior experience in financial services can be helpful but certainly not required - A growth and critical thinking mindset: You’re comfortable navigating ambiguous environments and are energized by the prospect of helping build processes with little guidance - Excellent project management: You’re organized, can manage all aspects of partnering with customers, and effectively work with other internal teams - Ability to turn naysayers into champions: You’re a persuasive communicator and understand the importance of being helpful, responsive, and solutions-oriented - Curiosity: You know what questions to ask to uncover and understand customer needs and proactively learn more about the industry, competitive landscape, and product offerings to better support your customers - Insatiable hunger for improvement: you’re a naturally curious person, enjoy digging into the data, and regularly solicit feedback   WHAT YOU’LL GET FROM US - 🏥 Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans, including options that are 100% covered by Column for you and 100% covered for your dependents! - 🌴 Competitive time-off policy - take the time off that you want and need to relax and recharge - 🧳 Sabbatical Program - Reach your 5-year anniversary to take up to 8 weeks of fully paid leave to rest, recharge, and pursue personal interest - with full salary and benefits - 👶 100% paid parental leave, including 16 weeks for birth mothers, 12 weeks for primary caregivers, and 8 weeks for secondary caregivers - 🎉 Regular team building events, including annual offsite WE LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING FROM YOU Column is committed to working with the best and brightest people from the broadest talent pool possible. We value bringing together a team with different perspectives, educational backgrounds, and life experiences, and believe a diversity of ideas is what allows us to develop the best solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation during the application and recruiting process, please reach out to accommodations@column.com. We participate in the E-Verify program in certain locations as required by law. Learn more about the E-Verify program here https://e-verify.gov.

Location: San Francisco, CA ABOUT COLUMN For companies building financial technology and transforming the financial services space, the biggest bottleneck to their growth and innovation is often the underlying banks and infrastructure stack they rely on. We have spent our careers founding and scaling companies like Plaid, Square, Meta, Blend, and Affirm, and have seen this problem firsthand — builders and developers needing to partner with traditional banks, and creating API and abstraction layers over the patchwork that is the bank, its core, and many other vendors. All of this results in a complex (and often expensive) banking supply chain involving a user, fintech, BaaS middleware provider, bank, core and the Federal Reserve. At Column, we set out to simplify and fix this. We are a bank and a software company built from the ground up, offering builders and developers technology-forward banking solutions that cut out the hundreds of vendors, middleware providers, and abstraction layers. This means a safer, more transparent, and less costly banking supply chain. Come build with us! THE OPPORTUNITY Column's Growth team is focused on managing our highly strategic customer relationships. As a member of the Growth team, you’ll be responsible for building and overseeing all aspects of our customer management while acting as a trusted partner, advisor and advocate for a wide variety of customers. You will also be in charge of designing and implementing the strategy, processes, and content needed to help us scale this key function. This role has a unique international focus, helping build one of Column's most strategic expansion initiatives from the ground up. At least have of your work will be dedicated to building and managing partnerships with banks across the CIS and Eastern Europe. The rest of your time will go to working with Column's core fintech partners. Column's Growth team is not your typical Customer Success or Account Management team in that Column is a critical, often existential, partner for our customers, our customer relationships are deeply collaborative and complex, and each customer contributes meaningfully to our revenue. We're therefore looking for team members who are analytical, demonstrate great critical thinking, and have experience managing very strategic relationships. This role is highly cross-functional and collaborative, partnering closely with Column’s Executive, Solutions Engineering, Sales, Compliance, and Correspondent Banking teams to ensure customers are onboarded smoothly, that we can anticipate and address both issues and opportunities for growth, and that these relationships are healthy and mutually beneficial. You’ll also represent the voice of the customer to help inform Column's strategy, including the product roadmap, go-to-market motions and more. Success in this role also means having a desire to become an expert on the Financial Technology space and on how companies partner with Column (our customers include many key industry players such as Brex and Carta). This role reports to the Head of Growth and is an in-person role based out of Dubai, UAE. We will help secure any required visas. WHAT YOU’LL DO - Help establish our customer-facing strategy, processes, playbooks, systems and best practices. Identify patterns and build repeatability at every step - Manage all aspects of a customer’s relationship with Column, from onboarding and implementation to ongoing management and expansion of the account - Onboard and manage our emerging markets bank partners: Serve as the day-to-day lead for banks across the CIS and Eastern Europe. Guide them through onboarding and own the ongoing relationship once they’re live. - Build and nurture relationships across various functions within a customer's organization, identifying and creating advocates wherever you go, and helping find new use cases for partnering with Column - Proactively identify challenges and opportunities for growth, and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to find solutions in order to move the relationship forward - Share key findings and recommendations on market feedback and trends to inform Column’s growth strategy and product roadmap - Perform day-to-day activities consistent with safe and sound business practices and regulatory requirements - This role includes periodic travel to the CIS region and Eastern Europe to meet with our bank partners in person. WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL - 5+ years of relevant work experience -- strong preference for a mix of Consulting, Private Equity, Investment Banking, VC or an equivalent role plus operating experience in an early stage company and/or selling a new line of business - Professional fluency in Russian and English required - A desire to become very knowledgeable on the financial technology and payments space. Prior experience in financial services can be helpful but certainly not required - A growth and critical thinking mindset: You’re comfortable navigating ambiguous environments and are energized by the prospect of helping build processes with little guidance - Excellent project management: You’re organized, can manage all aspects of partnering with customers, and effectively work with other internal teams - Ability to turn naysayers into champions: You’re a persuasive communicator and understand the importance of being helpful, responsive, and solutions-oriented - Curiosity: You know what questions to ask to uncover and understand customer needs and proactively learn more about the industry, competitive landscape, and product offerings to better support your customers - Insatiable hunger for improvement: you’re a naturally curious person, enjoy digging into the data, and regularly solicit feedback WHAT YOU’LL GET FROM US - 🏥 Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans, including options that are 100% covered by Column for you and 100% covered for your dependents! - 🌴 Competitive time-off policy - take the time off that you want and need to relax and recharge - 🧳 Sabbatical Program - Reach your 5-year anniversary to take up to 8 weeks of fully paid leave to rest, recharge, and pursue personal interest - with full salary and benefits - 👶 100% paid parental leave, including 16 weeks for birth mothers, 12 weeks for primary caregivers, and 8 weeks for secondary caregivers - 🎉 Regular team building events, including annual offsite WE LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING FROM YOU Column is committed to working with the best and brightest people from the broadest talent pool possible. We value bringing together a team with different perspectives, educational backgrounds, and life experiences, and believe a diversity of ideas is what allows us to develop the best solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation during the application and recruiting process, please reach out to accommodations@column.com. We participate in the E-Verify program in certain locations as required by law. Learn more about the E-Verify program here https://e-verify.gov.

Location: San Francisco, CA ABOUT COLUMN For companies building financial technology and transforming the financial services space, the biggest bottleneck to their growth and innovation is often the underlying banks and infrastructure stack they rely on. We have spent our careers founding and scaling companies like Plaid, Square, Meta, Blend, and Affirm, and have seen this problem firsthand — builders and developers needing to partner with traditional banks, and creating API and abstraction layers over the patchwork that is the bank, its core, and many other vendors. All of this results in a complex (and often expensive) banking supply chain involving a user, fintech, BaaS middleware provider, bank, core and the Federal Reserve. At Column, we set out to simplify and fix this. We are a bank and a software company built from the ground up, offering builders and developers technology-forward banking solutions that cut out the hundreds of vendors, middleware providers, and abstraction layers. This means a safer, more transparent, and less costly banking supply chain. Come build with us! THE OPPORTUNITY As Column's first Deployment Strategist, you’ll lead end-to-end deployments of Column’s technology and operating model into the businesses we partner with and build alongside. You’ll act as the “GM” of each deployment, sitting at the intersection of product, operations and strategy. You’ll take a business’s hardest operational problems and turn them into systems, tools and processes that measurably improve how it runs, while working alongside senior leadership at Column to take our business to the next level. This position will be based in our San Francisco office in the Presidio, with regular travel throughout the United Sates. You can expect to be on the road 50%+ of the time, often embedded on-site for 2–4 weeks at a time. WHAT YOU’LL DO - Own end-to-end deployments of Column’s technology and operating model, from initial assessment through rollout and continuous improvement - Find the biggest bottlenecks to scale, then design and ship the products and workflows that remove them - Drive decisions around “build vs. buy” strategies for new tooling and systems we need to drive automation and scale - Embed on-site with operators to understand workflows firsthand and turn what you learn into product and operational decisions - Own execution end to end, driving timelines, alignment and accountability on execution across the team WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL - 7+ years of experience in product, business operations, or a forward-deployed or solutions role at a high-growth technology company - You know what great software and great user experiences look like. - A track record of owning complex, high-stakes deployments or programs end to end - Executive presence, and the ability to align stakeholders with different priorities around a shared goal - A hyper-organized approach to execution. You’re comfortable running several workstreams across teams at once. - Excitement about spending ~50% of your time on the road, embedded with the teams and operations you’re deploying into - A scrappy, roll-up-your-sleeves attitude. We thrive because we work harder, are more creative, and have zero ego when it comes to getting our hands dirty to build a business. - Familiarity with banking or fintech is preferred but not required. An interest in becoming an expert in this space is a must. WHAT YOU'LL GET FROM US - 🏥 Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans, including options that are 100% covered by Column for you and 100% covered for your dependents! - 🐣 Comprehensive family planning and fertility benefits via partnership with Carrot, including reimbursement of up to $20,000 in qualified expenses - 🏡 Up to $2,000 (post-tax) monthly rent subsidy for employees living within 2 miles of Column’s office - 💳 FSA and HSA account options to enable use of pre-tax money for medical and dependent care expenses - 📈 401k plan, including self-directed brokerage options - 🌴 Flexible time-off policy - take the time off that you want and need to relax and recharge - 🧳 Sabbatical Program - Reach your 5-year anniversary to take up to 8 weeks of fully paid leave to rest, recharge, and pursue personal interest - with full salary and benefits - 👶 100% paid parental leave, including 16 weeks for birth mothers, 12 weeks for primary caregivers, and 8 weeks for secondary caregivers - 😇 Up to $4,500 in annual reimbursements for backup childcare - 🍽️ Catered lunches and dinners for SF employees - 🚆 Commuter benefits, including paid transportation to-and-from the office - 🎉 Regular team building events, including annual offsite   PAY TRANSPARENCY: Compensation packages at Column include base salary, equity, and benefits. New hire offers are made based on a candidate's experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers. The annual US base salary range for this role is $150,000 - $275,000 + equity. WE LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING FROM YOU Column is committed to working with the best and brightest people from the broadest talent pool possible. We value bringing together a team with different perspectives, educational backgrounds, and life experiences, and believe a diversity of ideas is what allows us to develop the best solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation during the application and recruiting process, please reach out to accommodations@column.com. We participate in the E-Verify program in certain locations as required by law. Learn more about the E-Verify program here https://e-verify.gov.

Location: San Francisco, CA ABOUT COLUMN For companies building financial technology and transforming the financial services space, the biggest bottleneck to their growth and innovation is often the underlying banks and infrastructure stack they rely on. We have spent our careers founding and scaling companies like Plaid, Square, Meta, Blend, and Affirm, and have seen this problem firsthand — builders and developers needing to partner with traditional banks, and creating API and abstraction layers over the patchwork that is the bank, its core, and many other vendors. All of this results in a complex (and often expensive) banking supply chain involving a user, fintech, BaaS middleware provider, bank, core and the Federal Reserve. At Column, we set out to simplify and fix this. We are a bank and a software company built from the ground up, offering builders and developers technology-forward banking solutions that cut out the hundreds of vendors, middleware providers, and abstraction layers. This means a safer, more transparent, and less costly banking supply chain. Come build with us! THE OPPORTUNITY As a Product Lead at Column, you’ll help lay the foundation for the company’s next decade of growth. There's no existing roadmap to inherit, no legacy backlog, no "how we've always done it." You’ll own some of Column’s most important products and initiatives, with a heavy focus on designing the systems and tools that directly shape our ability to scale. You’ll act as the “GM” of your product area, owning everything from product strategy and requirements to internal platform development, while working alongside senior leadership at Column to take our business to the next level. This position will be based in our San Francisco office in the Presidio, with regular travel throughout the United Sates. You can expect to be on the road 50%+ of the time, often embedded on-site for 2–4 weeks at a time.   WHAT YOU’LL DO - Own the product strategy, roadmap and outcomes for key products - Find the biggest bottlenecks to scale, then design and ship the products and workflows that remove them - Drive decisions around “build vs. buy” strategies for new tooling and systems we need to drive automation and scale - Spend time on-site with operators to understand workflows firsthand and turn what you learn into product decisions - Own execution end to end, driving timelines, alignment and accountability on execution across the team WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL - 7+ years of experience, including experience in product management at a high-growth technology company - An understanding of what great software and exceptional user experiences look like - A track record of shipping products that solved real operational or customer problems - A business owner’s mindset. You’re as comfortable with pricing, margins, and P&L tradeoffs as you are with specs and roadmaps - The ability to influence and align stakeholders with different priorities around a shared goal. - A hyper-organized approach to execution. You’re comfortable running several workstreams across teams at once. - Excitement about spending ~50% of your time on the road, embedded with the people and operations your products serve. - A scrappy, roll-up-your-sleeves attitude. We thrive because we work harder, are more creative, and have zero ego when it comes to getting our hands dirty to build a business. - Familiarity with banking or fintech is preferred but not required. An interest in becoming an expert in this space is a must.   WHAT YOU'LL GET FROM US - 🏥 Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans, including options that are 100% covered by Column for you and 100% covered for your dependents! - 🐣 Comprehensive family planning and fertility benefits via partnership with Carrot, including reimbursement of up to $20,000 in qualified expenses - 🏡 Up to $2,000 (post-tax) monthly rent subsidy for employees living within 2 miles of Column’s office - 💳 FSA and HSA account options to enable use of pre-tax money for medical and dependent care expenses - 📈 401k plan, including self-directed brokerage options - 🌴 Flexible time-off policy - take the time off that you want and need to relax and recharge - 🧳 Sabbatical Program - Reach your 5-year anniversary to take up to 8 weeks of fully paid leave to rest, recharge, and pursue personal interest - with full salary and benefits - 👶 100% paid parental leave, including 16 weeks for birth mothers, 12 weeks for primary caregivers, and 8 weeks for secondary caregivers - 😇 Up to $4,500 in annual reimbursements for backup childcare - 🍽️ Catered lunches and dinners for SF employees - 🚆 Commuter benefits, including paid transportation to-and-from the office - 🎉 Regular team building events, including annual offsite   PAY TRANSPARENCY: Compensation packages at Column include base salary, equity, and benefits. New hire offers are made based on a candidate's experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers. The annual US base salary range for this role is $150,000 - $275,000 + equity. WE LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING FROM YOU Column is committed to working with the best and brightest people from the broadest talent pool possible. We value bringing together a team with different perspectives, educational backgrounds, and life experiences, and believe a diversity of ideas is what allows us to develop the best solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation during the application and recruiting process, please reach out to accommodations@column.com. We participate in the E-Verify program in certain locations as required by law. Learn more about the E-Verify program here https://e-verify.gov.

Location: San Francisco, CA ABOUT COLUMN For companies building financial technology and transforming the financial services space, the biggest bottleneck to their growth and innovation is often the underlying banks and infrastructure stack they rely on. We have spent our careers founding and scaling companies like Plaid, Square, Meta, Blend, and Affirm, and have seen this problem firsthand — builders and developers needing to partner with traditional banks, and creating API and abstraction layers over the patchwork that is the bank, its core, and many other vendors. All of this results in a complex (and often expensive) banking supply chain involving a user, fintech, BaaS middleware provider, bank, core and the Federal Reserve. At Column, we set out to simplify and fix this. We are a bank and a software company built from the ground up, offering builders and developers technology-forward banking solutions that cut out the hundreds of vendors, middleware providers, and abstraction layers. This means a safer, more transparent, and less costly banking supply chain. Come build with us! THE OPPORTUNITY As a member of Column’s Business Operations team, you will be responsible for helping lay the foundation for the company’s next decade of growth. This team will own Column’s most important strategic and operational initiatives, with a heavy focus on designing new operating systems that will directly impact our ability to scale. Individuals in this role will serve as the “GM” of a particular product or project, diving deep into a wide range of challenges, while working alongside senior leadership at Column to take our business to the next level. This position will be based in our San Francisco office in the Presidio, with regular travel throughout the United Sates. You can expect to be on the road 50%+ of the time, often embedded on-site for 2–4 weeks at a time. WHAT YOU’LL DO - Own the strategy and operations for our most critical scaling initiatives - Find the biggest bottlenecks to scale, then design and ship the products and workflows that remove them - Drive decisions around “build vs. buy” strategies for new tooling and systems we need to drive automation and scale - Spend time on-site with operators to understand workflows firsthand and turn what you learn into product and operational decisions - Own execution end to end, driving timelines, alignment, and accountability on execution across the team WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL - 7+ years of experience in strategy and business operations in a high-growth environment; prior experience at a top-tier management consulting firm strongly preferred - Ability to jump into new situations and quickly solve problems, with an eye toward architecting solutions that will scale - Experience influencing and managing multiple stakeholders with varying priorities, and getting them to commit to executing against a shared goal - Hyper-organized approach to project management, including coordinating efforts across multiple teams; comfort juggling multiple projects and priorities is critical - Scrappy, roll-up-your-sleeves attitude - we thrive because we work harder, are more creative, and have zero ego when it comes to getting our hands dirty to build a business - Familiarity with the banking and fintech industries is preferred, but not required - an interest in becoming an expert in this space, however, is a must WHAT YOU'LL GET FROM US - 🏥 Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans, including options that are 100% covered by Column for you and 100% covered for your dependents! - 🐣 Comprehensive family planning and fertility benefits via partnership with Carrot, including reimbursement of up to $20,000 in qualified expenses - 🏡 Up to $2,000 (post-tax) monthly rent subsidy for employees living within 2 miles of Column’s office - 💳 FSA and HSA account options to enable use of pre-tax money for medical and dependent care expenses - 📈 401k plan, including self-directed brokerage options - 🌴 Flexible time-off policy - take the time off that you want and need to relax and recharge - 🧳 Sabbatical Program - Reach your 5-year anniversary to take up to 8 weeks of fully paid leave to rest, recharge, and pursue personal interest - with full salary and benefits - 👶 100% paid parental leave, including 16 weeks for birth mothers, 12 weeks for primary caregivers, and 8 weeks for secondary caregivers - 😇 Up to $4,500 in annual reimbursements for backup childcare - 🍽️ Catered lunches and dinners for SF employees - 🚆 Commuter benefits, including paid transportation to-and-from the office - 🎉 Regular team building events, including annual offsite PAY TRANSPARENCY: Compensation packages at Column include base salary, equity, and benefits. New hire offers are made based on a candidate's experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers. The annual US base salary range for this role is $150,000 - $300,000 + equity. WE LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING FROM YOU Column is committed to working with the best and brightest people from the broadest talent pool possible. We value bringing together a team with different perspectives, educational backgrounds, and life experiences, and believe a diversity of ideas is what allows us to develop the best solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation during the application and recruiting process, please reach out to accommodations@column.com. We participate in the E-Verify program in certain locations as required by law. Learn more about the E-Verify program here https://e-verify.gov.

Location: San Francisco, CA ABOUT COLUMN For companies building financial technology and transforming the financial services space, the biggest bottleneck to their growth and innovation is often the underlying banks and infrastructure stack they rely on. We have spent our careers founding and scaling companies like Plaid, Square, Meta, Blend, and Affirm, and have seen this problem firsthand — builders and developers needing to partner with traditional banks, and creating API and abstraction layers over the patchwork that is the bank, its core, and many other vendors. All of this results in a complex (and often expensive) banking supply chain involving a user, fintech, BaaS middleware provider, bank, core and the Federal Reserve. At Column, we set out to simplify and fix this. We are a bank and a software company built from the ground up, offering builders and developers technology-forward banking solutions that cut out the hundreds of vendors, middleware providers, and abstraction layers. This means a safer, more transparent, and less costly banking supply chain. Come build with us! THE OPPORTUNITY: We’re a lean and experienced team. We like our current team size of 11 engineers but are open to adding 1-2 more strong engineers to the team this year. You'll work across the stack, from customer-facing applications and developer experiences to the APIs and systems that power them. You'll partner closely with customers to understand their needs, move quickly from idea to implementation, and build solutions that make complex financial infrastructure feel simple. This role is perfect for an engineer who enjoys owning problems end to end — talking to customers, shaping product decisions, and building polished, reliable software that solves real-world problems. You'll have the opportunity to influence what we build, how customers interact with Column, and the technical direction of a platform processing billions of dollars per day. This position will be based in our San Francisco office in the Presidio, with regular travel throughout the United Sates. You can expect to be on the road 50%+ of the time, often embedded on-site for 2–4 weeks at a time. Read more about Life @ Column and our hiring process here https://www.notion.so/Hiring-at-Column-b8d9b2628317491989d4713091b6bb68?pvs=21. 🚀 WHAT YOU’LL GET FROM US: - 🏥 Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans, including options that are 100% covered by Column for you and 100% covered for your dependents! - 🐣 Comprehensive family planning and fertility benefits via partnership with Carrot, including reimbursement of up to $20,000 in qualified expenses - 🏡 Up to $2,000 (post-tax) monthly rent subsidy for employees living within 2 miles of Column’s office - 💳 FSA and HSA account options to enable use of pre-tax money for medical and dependent care expenses - 📈 401k plan, including self-directed brokerage options - 🌴 Flexible time-off policy - take the time off that you want and need to relax and recharge - 🧳 Sabbatical Program - Reach your 5-year anniversary to take up to 8 weeks of fully paid leave to rest, recharge, and pursue personal interest - with full salary and benefits - 👶 100% paid parental leave, including 16 weeks for birth mothers, 12 weeks for primary caregivers, and 8 weeks for secondary caregivers - 😇 Up to $4,500 in annual reimbursements for backup childcare - 🍽️ Catered lunches and dinners for SF employees - 🚆 Commuter benefits, including paid transportation to-and-from the office - 🎉 Regular team building events, including annual offsite PAY TRANSPARENCY: Compensation packages at Column include base salary, equity, and benefits. New hire offers are made based on a candidate's experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers. The annual US base salary range for this role is $130,000-$250,000 + equity. WE LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING FROM YOU Column is committed to working with the best and brightest people from the broadest talent pool possible. We value bringing together a team with different perspectives, educational backgrounds, and life experiences, and believe a diversity of ideas is what allows us to develop the best solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation during the application and recruiting process, please reach out to accommodations@column.com. We participate in the E-Verify program in certain locations as required by law. Learn more about the E-Verify program here https://e-verify.gov.

Location: San Francisco, CA ABOUT COLUMN For companies building financial technology and transforming the financial services space, the biggest bottleneck to their growth and innovation is often the underlying banks and infrastructure stack they rely on. We have spent our careers founding and scaling companies like Plaid, Square, Meta, Blend, and Affirm, and have seen this problem firsthand — builders and developers needing to partner with traditional banks, and creating API and abstraction layers over the patchwork that is the bank, its core, and many other vendors. All of this results in a complex (and often expensive) banking supply chain involving a user, fintech, BaaS middleware provider, bank, core and the Federal Reserve. At Column, we set out to simplify and fix this. We are a bank and a software company built from the ground up, offering builders and developers technology-forward banking solutions that cut out the hundreds of vendors, middleware providers, and abstraction layers. This means a safer, more transparent, and less costly banking supply chain. Come build with us! The opportunity: We're a lean, experienced engineering team, and we're hiring our first Forward Deployed Engineer. You'll define what this role looks like at Column. As an FDE, you'll work with customers to understand their problems in depth and help them build new products on Column's APIs. What you learn in the field will feed directly into how our engineering team improves the platform. This is a hands-on engineering role. You'll write code, debug payment flows and design integrations, and you'll spend a lot of time on-site with customers. You'll get deep exposure to the full banking stack, from our APIs down to the Federal Reserve. This role is based in our Presidio office in San Francisco, with frequent travel to customer sites in the US and abroad. You will report directly to William, the CEO. Read more about Life @ Column and our hiring process here https://www.notion.so/Hiring-at-Column-b8d9b2628317491989d4713091b6bb68?pvs=21. 🚀 What you'll do: - Work directly with our partner’s engineering teams to design, build and launch products with Column's state-of-the-art banking stack - Act as the technical owner for strategic customers from onboarding to launch, unblocking them on architecture, ledgering, reconciliation and edge cases in money movement - Write production-quality code, that speeds up integrations and grows into reusable product - Turn patterns from the field into product and platform improvements, working closely with engineering to shape our APIs, docs and developer experience - Advise customers on how to build safe, compliant and resilient financial products in a regulated environment - Represent Column in conversations with customer executives and engineering leaders, and build trusted, long-term relationships What we're looking for: - Strong engineering fundamentals, ideally with experience in backend systems, APIs or infrastructure - Product thinking: you look past the immediate ask to the underlying problem and the best solution, for the customer and for Column - Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. You can explain complex systems clearly to an engineer or an executive - Executive presence and the confidence to lead high-stakes customer conversations - Strong project management skills. You can run several customer engagements at once and keep each one moving - A self-starter mindset. You're comfortable with ambiguity and with building process where none exists yet - Experience with payments, banking or financial infrastructure is a plus - Ideally fluent in either Spanish, French or Russian. WHAT YOU’LL GET FROM US: - 🏥 Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans, including options that are 100% covered by Column for you and 100% covered for your dependents! - 🐣 Comprehensive family planning and fertility benefits via partnership with Carrot, including reimbursement of up to $20,000 in qualified expenses - 🏡 Up to $2,000 (post-tax) monthly rent subsidy for employees living within 2 miles of Column’s office - 💳 FSA and HSA account options to enable use of pre-tax money for medical and dependent care expenses - 📈 401k plan, including self-directed brokerage options - 🌴 Flexible time-off policy - take the time off that you want and need to relax and recharge - 🧳 Sabbatical Program - Reach your 5-year anniversary to take up to 8 weeks of fully paid leave to rest, recharge, and pursue personal interest - with full salary and benefits - 👶 100% paid parental leave, including 16 weeks for birth mothers, 12 weeks for primary caregivers, and 8 weeks for secondary caregivers - 😇 Up to $4,500 in annual reimbursements for backup childcare - 🍽️ Catered lunches and dinners for SF employees - 🚆 Commuter benefits, including paid transportation to-and-from the office - 🎉 Regular team building events, including annual offsite PAY TRANSPARENCY: Compensation packages at Column include base salary, equity, and benefits. New hire offers are made based on a candidate's experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers. The annual US base salary range for this role is $130,000-$250,000 + equity. WE LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING FROM YOU Column is committed to working with the best and brightest people from the broadest talent pool possible. We value bringing together a team with different perspectives, educational backgrounds, and life experiences, and believe a diversity of ideas is what allows us to develop the best solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation during the application and recruiting process, please reach out to accommodations@column.com. We participate in the E-Verify program in certain locations as required by law. Learn more about the E-Verify program here https://e-verify.gov.

Location: Dubai, UAE Workplace: Remote ABOUT COLUMN For companies building financial technology and transforming the financial services space, the biggest bottleneck to their growth and innovation is often the underlying banks and infrastructure stack they rely on. We have spent our careers founding and scaling companies like Plaid, Square, Meta, Blend, and Affirm, and have seen this problem firsthand — builders and developers needing to partner with traditional banks, and creating API and abstraction layers over the patchwork that is the bank, its core, and many other vendors. All of this results in a complex (and often expensive) banking supply chain involving a user, fintech, BaaS middleware provider, bank, core and the Federal Reserve. At Column, we set out to simplify and fix this. We are a bank and a software company built from the ground up, offering builders and developers technology-forward banking solutions that cut out the hundreds of vendors, middleware providers, and abstraction layers. This means a safer, more transparent, and less costly banking supply chain. Come build with us! THE OPPORTUNITY As Column’s Emerging Markets Lead, you will spearhead one of our most strategic international expansion initiatives. In this role, you will be responsible for driving 0-to-1 growth for a new banking product, with a particular focus on building and nurturing relationships with prospective partners and customers in select markets, with a specific focus on markets within MENA. This role combines global expansion strategy, business development with hands-on relationship management, requiring a general business athlete who thrives on networking and executing complex partnerships. This is a unique opportunity to be on the founding team for a new business line, with significant autonomy and direct impact on Column’s global expansion strategy. This position will be based in Dubai with regular travel throughout the region and occasional travel to Column’s headquarters in San Francisco.   WHAT YOU’LL DO - Lead regional market development: Own the end-to-end process of identifying, evaluating, and executing on high-value partnerships with banks across a number of international markets. - Build and maintain key relationships: Serve as the primary relationship owner for prospective and existing customers, conducting regular in-person meetings, attending local industry events, and managing ongoing partnership development. - Own partnership execution: Lead complex deal processes from initial outreach through contract signature, working collaboratively with Column’s Legal, Compliance, and Product teams. - Develop market intelligence: Gather and synthesize insights on local market conditions, regulatory developments, competitive landscape, and customer needs to inform Column’s regional strategy. - Market expertise and network: Become an expert on the correspondent banking space in our key emerging markets and build an extensive network within their banking and fintech ecosystems. - Drive operational excellence: Build scalable processes for onboarding, relationship management, and ongoing support that can be replicated as we expand.   WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL - 6+ years of experience in partnerships, business development, growth, operations or strategy in a high-caliber environment - 4+ years of business experience specifically in MENA - Native fluency in Arabic and experience managing business relationships with Arabic-speaking clients and stakeholders - Track record of successfully managing complex partnerships and high-value deals with executive stakeholders - Natural networker who thrives on building trust and long-term relationships with senior executives, market experts and decision-makers - Strong strategic thinking - ability to assess market opportunities, evaluate potential partners, and provide strategic recommendations to senior leadership - Hyper-organized approach to project management, including coordinating efforts across multiple teams; comfort juggling multiple projects and priorities is critical - Scrappy, roll-up-your-sleeves attitude - we thrive because we work harder, are more creative, and have zero ego when it comes to getting our hands dirty to build a business WE LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING FROM YOU Column is committed to working with the best and brightest people from the broadest talent pool possible. We value bringing together a team with different perspectives, educational backgrounds, and life experiences, and believe a diversity of ideas is what allows us to develop the best solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation during the application and recruiting process, please reach out to accommodations@column.com. We participate in the E-Verify program in certain locations as required by law. Learn more about the E-Verify program here https://e-verify.gov.

Location: San Francisco, CA ABOUT COLUMN For companies building financial technology and transforming the financial services space, the biggest bottleneck to their growth and innovation is often the underlying banks and infrastructure stack they rely on. We have spent our careers founding and scaling companies like Plaid, Square, Meta, Blend, and Affirm, and have seen this problem firsthand — builders and developers needing to partner with traditional banks, and creating API and abstraction layers over the patchwork that is the bank, its core, and many other vendors. All of this results in a complex (and often expensive) banking supply chain involving a user, fintech, BaaS middleware provider, bank, core and the Federal Reserve. At Column, we set out to simplify and fix this. We are a bank and a software company built from the ground up, offering builders and developers technology-forward banking solutions that cut out the hundreds of vendors, middleware providers, and abstraction layers. This means a safer, more transparent, and less costly banking supply chain. Come build with us! THE OPPORTUNITY: As a Solutions Engineer at Column, you'll partner with tech-forward companies to build financial products and solutions using Column's APIs. This is a highly cross-functional role: you'll work closely with engineering, business, operations, legal, and compliance teams to support customer implementations and expand customer activity on Column—directly contributing to the growth of our business. This role is more technically demanding than the average Solutions Engineering position. You'll need to develop a deep understanding of our platform and APIs to serve as a trusted technical partner to customers. Beyond customer implementation, you'll gather and synthesize customer feedback, identify product gaps, and help shape new product requirements, working directly with our engineering team to drive product development. You'll also be responsible for building internal tools and automation to improve our team's operational efficiency. You will have significant opportunities to expand your scope and take on additional responsibility as you grow. This role is based in our Presidio office in San Francisco and follows a four-day, in-person schedule. You will report to Column's Head of Solution Engineering. WHAT YOU'LL DO: - Support the technical relationship with our customers across pre-sales, implementation, onboarding, and support. - Assist with the implementation and delivery of strategic cross-functional projects with guidance from senior team members. - Leverage AI to build internal tooling and processes to address operational bottlenecks - Collect and organize product feedback, help identify gaps, and support the writing of product requirement documents. - Learn to manage roadmap expectations with our engineering team and customers. - Perform day-to-day activities consistent with safe and sound business practices and regulatory requirements. - Help identify, assess, and manage risk by adhering to policies and procedures established by the Bank, and report issues to management. WHAT YOU'LL GET FROM US: - 🏥 Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans, including options that are 100% covered by Column for you and 100% covered for your dependents! - 🐣 Comprehensive family planning and fertility benefits via partnership with Carrot, including reimbursement of up to $20,000 in qualified expenses - 🏡 Up to $2,000 (post-tax) monthly rent subsidy for employees living within 2 miles of Column’s office - 💳 FSA and HSA account options to enable use of pre-tax money for medical and dependent care expenses - 📈 401k plan, including self-directed brokerage options - 🌴 Flexible time-off policy - take the time off that you want and need to relax and recharge - 🧳 Sabbatical Program - Reach your 5-year anniversary to take up to 8 weeks of fully paid leave to rest, recharge, and pursue personal interest - with full salary and benefits - 👶 100% paid parental leave, including 16 weeks for birth mothers, 12 weeks for primary caregivers, and 8 weeks for secondary caregivers - 😇 Up to $4,500 in annual reimbursements for backup childcare - 🍽️ Catered lunches and dinners for SF employees - 🚆 Commuter benefits, including paid transportation to-and-from the office - 🎉 Regular team building events, including annual offsite PAY TRANSPARENCY: Compensation packages at Column include base salary, equity, and benefits. New hire offers are made based on a candidate's experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers. The annual US base salary range for this role is $145,000-$200,000 + equity. WE LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING FROM YOU Column is committed to working with the best and brightest people from the broadest talent pool possible. We value bringing together a team with different perspectives, educational backgrounds, and life experiences, and believe a diversity of ideas is what allows us to develop the best solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation during the application and recruiting process, please reach out to accommodations@column.com. We participate in the E-Verify program in certain locations as required by law. Learn more about the E-Verify program here https://e-verify.gov.

Location: San Francisco, CA ABOUT COLUMN For companies building financial technology and transforming the financial services space, the biggest bottleneck to their growth and innovation is often the underlying banks and infrastructure stack they rely on. We have spent our careers founding and scaling companies like Plaid, Square, Meta, Blend, and Affirm, and have seen this problem firsthand — builders and developers needing to partner with traditional banks, and creating API and abstraction layers over the patchwork that is the bank, its core, and many other vendors. All of this results in a complex (and often expensive) banking supply chain involving a user, fintech, BaaS middleware provider, bank, core and the Federal Reserve. At Column, we set out to simplify and fix this. We are a bank and a software company built from the ground up, offering builders and developers technology-forward banking solutions that cut out the hundreds of vendors, middleware providers, and abstraction layers. This means a safer, more transparent, and less costly banking supply chain. Come build with us! THE OPPORTUNITY: Column runs on infrastructure we built ourselves, with no legacy banking core underneath it — which means when something needs auditing, there's no vendor to point to and no black box to wave at examiners. We're looking for a high-agency audit professional to own that problem, with a focus on Information Technology and Security alongside core banking, BSA/AML, and fintech-specific risk. You'll run the full audit lifecycle — risk assessment, planning, fieldwork, reporting, follow-up — working directly with Information Security, Engineering, Payments, BSA/AML, Compliance, Lending, Growth, and TPRM. This isn't a background function checking boxes after the fact: you'll be embedded with these teams as they build, and what you find will shape how Column governs itself while scaling a nationally chartered bank. This role is based in our Presidio office in San Francisco and follows a 3-4-day/week, in-person schedule. You will report to Column's Head of Internal Audit.   WHAT YOU'LL DO: - Design, lead, and execute end-to-end audits — scoping, fieldwork, reporting, issue follow-up — across core banking, technology, compliance, fintech partnerships, lending, payments, cards, and API infrastructure. Report findings straight to senior leadership. - Own a risk-based audit plan built for what Column actually is: a software company running a regulated bank. Evolve it as we grow. - Partner directly with Engineering and Information Security to audit SDLC, data protection, IAM, cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, AWS, and how AI is used in our development process. - Audit third-party risk management and fintech partner oversight against regulatory expectations. - Use data analytics and AI to surface emerging risks, automate testing, and make audit faster and more efficient. - Evaluate risk and control effectiveness across IT/IS, BSA/AML, sanctions, fair lending, consumer protection, privacy, and ALM/interest rate risk — grounded in NIST and regulatory expectations from the OCC, FRB, and FDIC. - Manage third-party audit staff to keep delivery sharp and on time. - Partner with the Head of Internal Audit level up the function itself: Audit Committee materials, QA, risk assessment, metrics.   WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL: - 5-10 years of audit, risk, or compliance experience in banking, fintech, consulting, or technology - Real technology audit depth — IT risk, cybersecurity, modern software development, including how AI is changing the dev process - Hands-on audit ability in a cloud-native environment: AWS IAM, CI/CD, infrastructure as code (Terraform), secrets management - Comfortable pulling and interpreting data straight from CloudTrail, Datadog, and Okta — via API or query, not just a dashboard - Working knowledge of BSA/AML, sanctions (KYC, CDD, SAR, OFAC), and core banking regulation (OCC, FRB) - You build trust fast — with engineers, senior leadership, and regulators - CISA, CISSP, CIA, CISM, or CRISC certifications a plus   WHAT YOU'LL GET FROM US: - 🏥 Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans, including options that are 100% covered by Column for you and 100% covered for your dependents! - 🐣 Comprehensive family planning and fertility benefits via partnership with Carrot, including reimbursement of up to $20,000 in qualified expenses - 🏡 Up to $2,000 (post-tax) monthly rent subsidy for employees living within 2 miles of Column’s office - 💳 FSA and HSA account options to enable use of pre-tax money for medical and dependent care expenses - 📈 401k plan, including self-directed brokerage options - 🌴 Flexible time-off policy - take the time off that you want and need to relax and recharge - 👶 100% paid parental leave, including 16 weeks for birth mothers, 12 weeks for primary caregivers, and 8 weeks for secondary caregivers - 😇 Up to $4,500 in annual reimbursements for backup childcare - 🍽️ Catered lunches and dinners for SF employees - 🚆 Commuter benefits, including paid transportation to-and-from the office - 🎉 Regular team building events, including annual offsite   PAY TRANSPARENCY: Compensation packages at Column include base salary, equity, and benefits. New hire offers are made based on a candidate's experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers. The annual US base salary range for this role is $150,000 - $200,000 + equity. WE LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING FROM YOU Column is committed to working with the best and brightest people from the broadest talent pool possible. We value bringing together a team with different perspectives, educational backgrounds, and life experiences, and believe a diversity of ideas is what allows us to develop the best solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation during the application and recruiting process, please reach out to accommodations@column.com. We participate in the E-Verify program in certain locations as required by law. Learn more about the E-Verify program here https://e-verify.gov.

Location: San Francisco, CA ABOUT COLUMN For companies building financial technology and transforming the financial services space, the biggest bottleneck to their growth and innovation is often the underlying banks and infrastructure stack they rely on. We have spent our careers founding and scaling companies like Plaid, Square, Meta, Blend, and Affirm, and have seen this problem firsthand — builders and developers needing to partner with traditional banks, and creating API and abstraction layers over the patchwork that is the bank, its core, and many other vendors. All of this results in a complex (and often expensive) banking supply chain involving a user, fintech, BaaS middleware provider, bank, core and the Federal Reserve. At Column, we set out to simplify and fix this. We are a bank and a software company built from the ground up, offering builders and developers technology-forward banking solutions that cut out the hundreds of vendors, middleware providers, and abstraction layers. This means a safer, more transparent, and less costly banking supply chain. Come build with us! THE OPPORTUNITY Column is growing its in-house commercial legal team to own the legal infrastructure behind our most important commercial and strategic relationships. This isn't your typical in-house commercial counsel role reviewing SaaS contracts - you'll architect novel partnership structures that enable modern banking experiences, navigating complex regulatory requirements along the way. You'll work closely with Column's Sales & Partnerships, Risk, and Compliance teams to define how we structure our deals, serve our customers, and scale our platform safely. This is a hybrid in-person role based in our Presidio office — one of the most beautiful locations in SF — 3–4+ days per week. We offer up to $2,000/month in post-tax rent subsidy for employees who live within 2 miles of our office and welcome candidates who would relocate. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Own complex agreements end-to-end: Structure, draft, and negotiate complex customer, and vendor, and third-party agreements covering a broad range of banking products and services, including agreements related to payments and money movement service and banking partnerships inclusive of deposit account, card, and lending programs. - Build and manage legal playbooks and templates that scale: Develop and maintain templates and inventories of contracts, terms of services, notices, and disclosures for the Bank’s products, services, and distribution channels that enable speed without sacrificing quality. - Negotiate: Lead negotiations with high-growth fintechs and enterprise customers, balancing commercial priorities with regulatory requirements. - Develop strong cross-functional partnerships: Work closely with the Sales and Business teams to understand the Bank’s goals, strategy, and risk tolerance for each deal in order to develop an efficient and risk-based contracting strategy. - Expand into additional areas of law: As the fourth member of our growing Legal team, you'll support each other with novel research, product and regulatory advice, exam management, subpoena responses, litigation deliverables, and corporate governance materials. - Help us level up how Legal operates: Serve as a thought partner to the business and legal to support Column's ongoing growth through improvements to bank agreements, policies, and legal processes. WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL - 8+ years as a practicing lawyer; priority given to candidates with law firm experience in a technology transactions or fintech practice and/or in-house experience at a fintech or financial institution - Experience driving complex commercial negotiations - Ability to independently draft and negotiate commercial agreements, with a strong understanding of both contract law and commercial transactions - Comfort with project management, deadlines, and juggling execution across multiple initiatives for multiple stakeholders - Nice to haves: - Understanding of traditional commercial banking products and services including ACH and wire transactions, accounts, lending, cards, cash management, sweeps, and check issuance/deposit, among others - Experience in structured finance or with lending products - Understanding of money transmission WHAT YOU'LL GET FROM US - 🏥 Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans, including options that are 100% covered by Column for you and 100% covered for your dependents! - 🐣 Comprehensive family planning and fertility benefits via partnership with Carrot, including reimbursement of up to $20,000 in qualified expenses - 🏡 Up to $2,000 (post-tax) monthly rent subsidy for employees living within 2 miles of Column’s office - 💳 FSA and HSA account options to enable use of pre-tax money for medical and dependent care expenses - 📈 401k plan, including self-directed brokerage options - 🌴 Flexible time-off policy - take the time off that you want and need to relax and recharge - 🧳 Sabbatical Program - reach your 5-year anniversary to take up to 8 weeks of fully paid leave to rest, recharge, and pursue personal interest - with full salary and benefits - 👶 100% paid parental leave, including 16 weeks for birth mothers, 12 weeks for primary caregivers, and 8 weeks for secondary caregivers - 😇 Up to $4,500 in annual reimbursements for backup childcare - 🍽️ Catered lunches and dinners for SF employees - 🚆 Commuter benefits, including paid transportation to-and-from the office - 🎉 Regular team building events, including annual offsite PAY TRANSPARENCY Compensation packages at Column include base salary, equity, and benefits. New hire offers are made based on a candidate's experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers. The annual base salary range for this position is $210,000 - $300,000 + equity. WE LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING FROM YOU Column is committed to working with the best and brightest people from the broadest talent pool possible. We value bringing together a team with different perspectives, educational backgrounds, and life experiences, and believe a diversity of ideas is what allows us to develop the best solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation during the application and recruiting process, please reach out to accommodations@column.com. We participate in the E-Verify program in certain locations as required by law. Learn more about the E-Verify program here https://e-verify.gov.