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
Software Engineer
Software Engineer
You’ll be responsible for building and maintaining the systems that power everything at Column - from our payments stack to developer tools to core platform services. This role is perfect for someone who thrives at the intersection of infrastructure, software, and financial systems. Expect to own core parts of our infrastructure and shape the technical foundation of a company moving billions of dollars per day.
Emerging Markets Lead
Emerging Markets Lead
As Column’s Emerging Markets Lead, you will serve as the leader for 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 on the African continent, with the potential to expand into Asian, and European markets as well. 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 has the flexibility to be based in Dubai or a key international financial hub (location flexible based on candidate and market priorities), with regular travel throughout the region and quarterly travel to Column’s headquarters in San Francisco.
Events Lead
Events Lead
In Column's Events role, your mandate is to architect and execute our most important brand moments end-to-end: strategy, creative direction, and flawless execution. You’ll partner directly with our CEO, Go-to-Market team, and Workplace Experience team to ensure every experience Column produces feels intentional, considered, and a direct expression of who we are as a company. This is a hands-on, high-ownership role that requires equal parts vision and operational precision. You’ll thrive here if you love rolling up your sleeves, sweat every detail, and know that how something is experienced often matters as much as what is said.
This role is based in our San Francisco HQ and is expected to be in-person 4 days/week. Regular travel to conferences and events (domestic and international) should be expected.
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.
Risk Operations
Risk Operations
Many banks treat Risk as a cost center - Column treats it as a competitive advantage. Our ability to take on new customers, expand into new product areas, and successfully operate under regulatory scrutiny depends entirely on the quality of our Risk programs. As we grow, the volume and complexity of that work will outpace what the team can absorb - that’s where this role comes in.
This is a strategic operations role that lives inside our Risk function. It’s less about being a Risk expert and more about being an exceptional operator who is energized by learning new domains quickly, spotting inefficiencies, and building the tools to fix them. You’ll work closely with a variety of teams across Column (e.g., Engineering, People, Compliance, Legal, etc.) to figure out which processes and programs are slowing us down. By the time you’re done with a project, tasks that took days should take minutes, and you’ll have a deep understanding of what it takes to operate one of the most strategically important functions to our business.
This role reports to the Head of Technology Risk and is in-person based out of our San Francisco Presidio office 3-4 days a week.
Commercial Counsel
Commercial Counsel
Column is building out its commercial legal team! As Commercial Counsel, you'll go well beyond contract review: you're designing the frameworks that let modern fintech products actually get built, navigating regulatory complexity, and working shoulder-to-shoulder with Sales, Risk, and Compliance to architect our partnerships agreements.
The work is novel, and most of what you'll encounter doesn't have a playbook. If you're the kind of lawyer who gets energized by working in grey areas, who wants to be a strategic partner rather than a downstream reviewer, and who cares about how financial services actually get delivered at scale, this is your role.
This role can be either in-person (hybrid - 3+ days per week in our Presidio-based San Francisco office) or remote.
Senior Counsel, Commercial/Partnerships
Senior Counsel, Commercial/Partnerships
Column is growing its in-house commercial legal team to own the legal infrastructure behind our most important commercial and strategic relationships. 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. If you're interested in combining legal acumen with a builder's mindset - and want your work to have a direct impact on how financial services are delivered at scale - this is a great role for you.
This role can be either in-person (hybrid - 3+ days per week in our Presidio-based San Francisco office) or remote.
Senior Product Counsel, Lending
Senior Product Counsel, Lending
As a Senior Product Counsel supporting Column’s Lending business, you will be responsible for providing strategic counsel for Column’s credit partnerships — including consumer and commercial loan origination, lines of credit, loan participations, and other bank-fintech lending partnerships. This isn’t a role where you’ll be toiling in obscurity – you’ll be a key strategic partner working directly with Go-to-Market, Engineering, Compliance, Risk, and Finance teams to drive product development and expansion. Your unique perspective, drawn from past experience launching lending products, will be invaluable as we navigate complex regulatory environments while maintaining our competitive edge.
Unlike typical in-house counsel positions, this role offers true ownership. You’ll be the key decision-maker on product legal strategy, with direct access to leadership and the ability to shape Column’s approach to regulatory compliance and product development. Each fintech partnership is an opportunity to design new banking products, and you’ll not only have a seat at the table, you’ll be responsible for driving strategy and execution from start to finish.
This is a hands-on and customer-facing role where you will work closely with fintech partners. You’ll collaborate with our partners to navigate the consumer protection frameworks that define bank-fintech lending relationships, ensuring that each program is built on a defensible legal and regulatory foundation while providing flexibility for modern product offerings. When our fintech partners approach us with rapid-fire ideas for new features, delivery channels, product structures, and UX changes, you will be the one to collaboratively chart a path to launch. You will move fast, with bank-grade rigor and fintech-level speed.
This role reports directly to the Bank’s General Counsel.
Senior Product Counsel, Payments
Senior Product Counsel, Payments
As a Senior Product Counsel supporting Column’s Payments business, you will be responsible for providing strategic counsel for Column’s payments partnerships, working with our fintech partners to launch bank accounts, wallets, card programs, real-time payments, remittance programs, global money movement products, enhanced deposit insurance, sweep products, and payment processing capabilities. This isn’t a role where you’ll be toiling in obscurity – you’ll be a key strategic partner working directly with Go-to-Market, Engineering, Compliance, Risk, and Finance teams to drive product development and expansion. Your unique perspective, drawn from past experience launching products, will be invaluable as we navigate complex global regulatory environments while maintaining our competitive edge.
Unlike many in-house counsel positions, this role offers true ownership. You’ll be the key decision-maker on product legal strategy, with direct access to leadership and the ability to shape Column’s approach to regulatory compliance and product development. Each fintech partnership is an opportunity to design new banking products, and you’ll not only have a seat at the table, you’ll be responsible for driving strategy and execution from start to finish.
In connection with these launches, you will work closely with fintech partners, making this a hands-on and customer-facing role. You’ll collaborate with our partners to navigate card network rules, NACHA guidelines, global licensing regimes, and funds-flow requirements to build compliant, scalable payment solutions on Column’s platform. When our fintech partners approach us with rapid-fire ideas for new features, delivery channels, product structures, and UX changes, you will be the one to work closely with them to chart a path to launch. You will move fast, with bank-grade rigor and fintech-level speed.
This role reports directly to the Bank’s General Counsel.
Customer Risk Strategy
Customer Risk Strategy
We’re looking for an exceptional all-around business athlete to join our Customer Risk Strategy team! You don’t need to be an expert in banking or risk on day one - we are seeking a self-motivated candidate who is excited about disrupting financial services and willing to utilize their highly strategic, operational, and product-oriented mindset to help drive continuous improvements across our existing operations. Your work will help Column deepen its relationships with its Fintech Partners by effectively managing our forward-thinking, strategic, and highly efficient risk programs (a critical differentiator for Column!) to ensure we scale safely. This is a unique entry point into the world of risk at a high-growth fintech company, where you’ll gain skills and experience that few others can offer.
This role will report directly to our Head of Regulatory Affairs and will partner closely with leaders across engineering, business, legal, compliance, operations, and go-to-market teams. This role is based in-person at our Presidio office in San Francisco (3-4 days/week).
Partner Diligence
Partner Diligence
The Partner Diligence team leverages deep regulatory compliance expertise to manage the diligence, risk assessment, control review, approval, and onboarding of Column’s FinTech partners. The regulatory landscape for fintech-banking partnerships is evolving daily, and Column is committed to exceeding regulatory expectations when it comes to partner onboarding. As such, we’re looking for someone who not only has a deep command of federal and state financial regulations, but also understands how to identify, assess, and mitigate the compliance risks posed by both consumer and commercial partnerships. Implementation of a best-in-class Third-Party Risk Management program is critical to the success of Column’s business model and growth of its partnership business, and the individual in this Partner Diligence role will have an opportunity to meaningfully influence the Bank’s strategic direction, growth, safety & soundness, and success.
This position will report to the Bank’s General Counsel, our Chief Risk Officer. There is a strong preference for this role to be in-person in our Presidio-based office in San Francisco, however we may consider remote candidates with frequent travel to San Francisco.
AML Analyst
AML Analyst
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 AML Analyst role performs L1 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. This role is a great opportunity for someone who is passionate about the world of financial crimes, and who is interested in gaining experience across a wide variety of fintech customer types, use cases, and flow of funds to accelerate their AML 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.
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 :)
