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About the role
We're hiring a strategic deals person to own high-value relationship development and deal execution across Column's most important partnerships. You'll drive the full commercial cycle — from identifying and qualifying strategic accounts to structuring and closing agreements with companies building financial products on Column's API infrastructure.
What they're looking for
- Proven ability to run structured, autonomous deal cycles from pipeline generation through close
- Demonstrated ability to navigate large, multi-stakeholder organizations: you know how to find the decision maker and move deals forward when the path isn't obvious
- Subject matter credibility in your space — prospects and partners seek out your perspective
- High agency and a builder's orientation: you're comfortable operating without a fully defined playbook and contribute to building one as you go. You take ownership and adapt on the fly
- Competitive, curious, and coachable — you solicit feedback, iterate quickly, and hold yourself to a higher standard than anyone else would
- (nice to have) Direct experience selling into or partnering with financial services companies, familiarity with embedded finance, APIs, or regulated product environments strongly preferred
More about this role
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!
We're hiring a strategic deals person to own high-value relationship development and deal execution across Column's most important...
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