Careers
Come help build the backbone of modern financial services.
But be ready for it to be a bit weird...
All Column employees subject to duplication. Join at your own risk.
If you've made it here you probably want to know what we're hiring for and if you should apply. You've made it to the right place. However, a couple things to note. First, we're not your normal tech company and we're definitely not your normal bank. You should read through this site in detail before you apply (especially the company page) and about our funding and our hiring philosophy.
In short, we're a pretty small team and we plan on staying that way. We are hiring a few people so we're excited to talk but it may be a different process than you're used to. We heavily emphasize employee experience, and a big part of that means not burdening them with constant interviews. So part of our process is async (things like a take-home) and that can sometimes result in a less than ideal candidate experience. That's a tradeoff we're willing to make, and means once you work here there is more deep work time and fewer distractions. If this sounds like something you'd be into — let's go do this thing!
Open roles
Business Operations
Business Operations
As a founding 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 across product strategy, pricing optimization, compliance operations, and internal tool/platform development. You will have the opportunity to experience having P&L ownership of a particular product, while working alongside senior leadership at Column to take our business to the next level.
This position will report to our Head of Business Operations, and will be in-person in our Presidio-based office in San Francisco (3-4 days/week) - we will support relocation for the right candidate.
Growth
Growth
As one of the first members 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. 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. This role is highly cross-functional and collaborative, partnering closely with Column’s Executive, Solutions Engineering, Sales, Compliance, and Product teams to ensure a top-notch customer experience. 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 becoming 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 Go-To-Market and is an in-person role, where you’ll be expected to work out of our San Francisco Presidio-based office 3+ days a week.
New Business
New Business
We’re hiring for a founding member of Column’s sales team. In this role, you’ll develop new strategies to attract, engage, and qualify prospects. You’ll be the face of Column in the broader fintech community and play a key part in driving the success of our business. This role will require the ability to think on your feet, speak confidently about Column’s products and differentiation to prospects, and understand an API-first product in a complex industry.
This role reports directly to our Head of Go-To-Market and will be expected to work alongside our team in our San Francisco Presidio-based office 3+ days a week.
Credit Partnerships & Lending
Credit Partnerships & Lending
We’re hiring an experienced credit professional to join our next major area of investment. In this role you will build a high-quality credit portfolio, and have a large scope that spans investments, partner programs, and loan acquisitions. We’re looking for someone who’s motivated to improve our processes, impact our lending strategy, and make critical business-moving decisions.
This role will work alongside our high-caliber team, that have already achieved success in the world’s largest banks and fintechs, in our beautiful Presidio-based San Francisco office.
Finance Operations
Finance Operations
We’re hiring an experienced finance professional to support and operationalize our financial processes across accounting, finance, treasury, and credit operations for our bank. You’ll need a strong foundation in accounting, and be motivated to scale our business and financial operations.
This role will work alongside our financial leaders in our Presidio-based office in San Francisco to build a top-tier financial function.
BSA/AML Investigator
BSA/AML Investigator
Column's Financial Crimes team is responsible for protecting the Bank and its customers from money laundering, fraud, economic sanction evaluations, foreign corruption, and terrorist financing violations. Our program is designed to ensure the Bank, U. S. financial system, and our country are protected from illicit actors who exploit banking services with nefarious and criminal intent.
The BSA/AML Investigator performs triage investigations of transaction monitoring system generated alerts and referrals, including identifying root causes of the alert, sources and uses of funds, and potentially suspicious activity. The BSA/AML Investigator is responsible for conducting investigations to identify potentially suspicious financial and/or fraudulent activity, to include money laundering, terrorist financing, fraud and/or any other financial risks or crimes. The BSA/AML Investigator may also contribute to customer due diligence reviews and enhanced due diligence. Finally, the Investigator may support OFAC screening reviews and the triage of potential sanctions hits.
This role reports directly to the Bank's BSA/AML Officer, and can be a remote position with occasional travel to the Bank's office in San Francisco.
AML Quality Assurance
AML Quality Assurance
We’re hiring an experienced Quality Assurance Specialist to play a critical role in our anti-money laundering (AML) and BSA compliance efforts for our Bank. We take regulatory compliance very seriously here and view our tech-forward approach and commitment to exceeding regulatory expectations as one of the most important competitive advantages we have as a business. You’ll lean on your expertise in BSA regulations, AML laws, and KYC/CDD requirements to help us build, maintain, and improve a best-in-class BSA program.
This position will report to the Bank’s Head of Quality Assurance. This role can be in-person in our Presidio-based San Francisco office, or remote with frequent travel.
AML Quality Control
AML Quality Control
We’re hiring for a crucial role in our AML/BSA department that will directly impact the growth of Column’s business by ensuring that we meet regulatory requirements in the onboarding of new customers. You’ll have the opportunity to be exposed to a wide variety of global customers. You’ll enjoy this role if you are passionate about triple-checking high-quality work in a fast-paced environment and are excited to grow your career in KYC QC.
While an in-person presence in the Bank’s Presidio-based office is preferred, this role is open to remote applicants with the expectation of periodic travel.
AML Operations
AML Operations
The AML Operations role plays a crucial role in safeguarding Column from financial crimes and ensuring compliance with AML and Sanctions regulations. This position will oversee and manage an AML Operations program and team of investigatory analysts whose primary responsibilities include identifying and reporting on suspicious activity, and ensuring compliance with OFAC and the Patriot Act, among other regulations. Other responsibilities include contributing to BSA/AML & OFAC policy, program, and procedure design and implementation, as well as developing and executing BSA/AML and OFAC training programs, including the development of appropriate role-based BSA/AML and OFAC training and delivery of continuous feedback to the Operations team.
This role reports directly to the Bank’s BSA Officer. While an in-person presence in the Bank’s Presidio-based office is strongly preferred, this role is open to remote applicants with the expectation of periodic travel.
Third-Party Compliance
Third-Party Compliance
We’re hiring for our Third-Party Compliance program, this team is responsible for strong ongoing management of the Bank’s partnership business and plays a critical part in the strategic oversight of our partnership portfolio. Column is committed to executing a best-in-class program – as a result, this role requires creativity, a deep understanding of regulatory expectations, and a unique ability to manage risk. The regulatory landscape for fintech-banking partnerships is evolving daily, and there is no one-size-fits-all roadmap for partner oversight. If you enjoy working in a fast-paced environment and thinking through scalable solutions for partner oversight and risk management, then this role is for you.
This position will report to the Bank’s Head of Regulatory Compliance. Preference for this role to be based in-person in our Presidio-based office in San Francisco 3-4 days per week; will also consider remote with frequent travel.
People Operations
People Operations
As a member of the People Operations team, you will play a critical role in building and supporting Column’s entire People Ops infrastructure. We are looking for an exceptional People Ops generalist who can help drive key programs and initiatives for Column (e.g., performance management, pulse check feedback survey, onboarding program, and ongoing learning and development) while supporting our underlying HR processes to make sure we ‘keep the trains running.’ Our ideal candidate is someone highly motivated and willing to get their hands dirty across many different tasks and projects to create a best-in-class employee experience. This is a great opportunity for an individual who is early-to-mid career in People Ops and is looking to get exposed to what it takes to build and run a People function at a fast-growing startup, or someone who is looking to transition out of consulting and is passionate about getting exposed to the people-side of running a business.
This position will report directly to the Head of People, and the individual in the role must be willing to work in person in our Presidio-based office in San Francisco (3-4 days/week).
Recruiter
Recruiter
As an early member of Column's Recruiting team, you will be responsible for identifying and attracting top-tier talent that is critical to driving the company's growth. In this role, you will be responsible for the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle (from sourcing to closing), with the opportunity to recruit across all of Column's teams (technical and non-technical). Throughout the hiring process, we'll look to you to help craft an excellent candidate experience, while serving as a key thought partner to leadership and internal stakeholders for building exceptional teams at a company that values hiring top talent.
This role reports directly to the Head of People, and is an in-person position where you'll be expected to work out of our Presidio-based office in San Francisco 3+ days a week.
Software Engineer (Infrastructure)
Software Engineer (Infrastructure)
We're a lean and experienced team. We like our current size of six engineers. For an excellent candidate we're open to hiring one or two more. We write mostly Go, but experience there isn't that important....it's a pretty easy language to learn. We generally prefer candidates with at least five years of production coding experience at a high caliber and high velocity team. We'll require a take-home that does take time, so if that's a non-starter for you we're sorry. We find it the best way for you to show your skills, without being overly burdensome on the team!
I don't fit into any of these roles!
I don't fit into any of these roles!
You get Column and you think you can drive value on day one. We'll be honest the bar will be pretty high for us to hire outside of these roles - but surprise us. Give us a compelling narrative and hustle....and we promise we'll read the email!
We're mostly hiring locally in the San Francisco Bay Area, however will be open to remote for exceptional candidates. Sadly we won't have the time to respond to everyone, but we do read every application we get. Please go through the application links, direct emails are strongly discouraged :)