Build credit into your product experience. Run it end to end with modular APIs, pre-built components, analytics, and full-service infrastructure. Backed by Pear VC.
About the role
You will work extremely closely with, and act as a force multiplier to the founder and president: taking on our hardest, most complex, most interdisciplinary problems… to make sure the company runs well and wins!! Shadowing: Shadow the founder to understand how the company works, and rapidly accumulate context on our business. You’ll join exec team meetings, external pitches, interviews, product workshops – travel to visit partners and customers, and go very very deep on the most important problems. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Intellectual vitality, you are endlessly curious about how to build a great business, and more broadly, how the worlds of finance and technology work
- Extremely driven – motivated to build an amazing company and an incredible career, because you love seeing what you’re capable of
- 5+ years experience doing hard things: this could be through any of a wide range of experiences: consulting, banking, engineering, product, operating, founding a company, taking over a family business, etc…
- Analytical and not afraid of data, but also able to think intuitively
- You use writing as a tool to think precisely and clarify messy problems
- Technical. It’s a way of thinking, not a store of knowledge (especially these days)
More about this role
Cardless is building the infrastructure for the world's best companies to design, build, and launch financial products of their own. Companies like Coinbase and Bilt use Cardless to create credit cards that feel entirely their own. In an industry where branded financial products usually mean shared logos and shared control, Cardless is built to disappear. Our APIs and components shape the journey from the first application to every purchase, reward, and moment of support that follows, while we handle lending, compliance, and operations behind the scenes.
In September 2025, we raised a $60 million Series C led by Spark Capital, bringing our total funding to $170 million. The team is over 70 people and scaling toward profitability by year-end 2026.
We're looking for kind, humble people with high standards and low egos. We take the work seriously without taking ourselves too seriously. We see what could be improved, make it so, and leave every product, system, and team better than we found it.
You will work extremely closely with, and act as a force multiplier to the founder and president: taking on our hardest, most complex, most interdisciplinary problems… to make sure the company...
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