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Founding Account Executive - Travel & Hospitality

Cardless · Remote US · Remote

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About Cardless

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

Airlines, hotel groups, cruise lines, casino operators, and vacation ownership companies run some of the world's largest loyalty programs, and the co-brand card behind them is often one of their most profitable assets. Most of those programs sit inside long, inflexible bank agreements. Cardless offers a better path and already powers cards for Qatar Airways, LATAM Airlines, Avianca, TAP, and Avelo. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • 10+ years of quota-carrying enterprise sales or business development, including large, multi-year financial services agreements
  • Experience selling to, or working within, airlines or hospitality companies, with relationships among their loyalty, partnerships, and finance leaders
  • A consistent record of meeting or exceeding quota and of building pipeline in a new market
  • Comfort with program economics and executive conversations
  • Payments, co-brand, or loyalty experience is a strong plus
  • Willingness to travel at least 50% of the time regularly to meet partners and attend industry events
More about this role

Cardless is building the infrastructure for the world's best companies to design, build, and launch financial products. 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.

Airlines, hotel groups, cruise lines, casino operators, and vacation ownership companies run some of the world's largest loyalty programs, and the co-brand card behind them is often one of their most...

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