Growth, Credit & Lending Partnerships

About Column

Column is a bank and software company built from the ground up, offering technology-forward banking solutions that cut out the hundreds of vendors, middleware providers, and abstraction layers. This simplifies and fixes the complex and often expensive banking supply chain.

Opportunity

The Growth team at Column manages highly strategic customer relationships. As a member of this team, you'll build and oversee all aspects of customer management, act as a trusted partner, advisor, and advocate for various customers, and design/implement strategies, processes, and content to scale this key function.

Responsibilities

• Own and manage relationships with Column's customers from onboarding through ongoing growth and expansion, primarily focusing on customers' credit and lending products.
• Apply your credit and capital markets fluency to understand customer risk profiles, reserve requirements, underwriting considerations, and lending product structures.
• Partner closely with Column's Risk, Compliance, and Solutions Engineering teams to help customers navigate regulatory and technical complexities of building lending products on Column's infrastructure.
• Build playbooks, processes, and best practices for how Column's Growth team supports credit and lending customers.
• Represent the voice of the customer internally to inform Column's product roadmap for credit and lending infrastructure.
• Perform day-to-day activities consistent with safe and sound banking practices and regulatory requirements.

Requirements

• 2-4+ years of experience in a credit, capital markets, or lending-adjacent role, examples include leveraged finance, FIG investment banking, direct lending or private credit investing, structured finance, or capital markets work at a fintech lender.
• Deep knowledge in how credit and lending products work, understanding things like reserve requirements, underwriting, return rates, and capital structures, and excitement to apply that knowledge in a customer-facing context.
• A growth and critical thinking mindset: comfortable navigating ambiguous environments and energized by building processes with little guidance.
• Excellent project management skills: organized, able to manage all aspects of partnering with customers, and effective in working with other internal teams.
• Ability to turn naysayers into champions: persuasive communicator, helpful, responsive, and solutions-oriented.
• Curiosity: knows what questions to ask to uncover and understand customer needs and proactively learns more about the industry, competitive landscape, and product offerings to better support customers.
• Insatiable hunger for improvement: naturally curious, enjoys digging into data, and regularly solicits feedback.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans, including options that are 100% covered by Column for you and 100% covered for your dependents!
• Comprehensive family planning and fertility benefits via partnership with Carrot, including reimbursement of up to $20,000 in qualified expenses.
• Up to $2,000 (post-tax) monthly rent subsidy for employees living within 2 miles of Column’s office.
• Payment card benefits, including FSA and HSA account options to enable use of pre-tax money for medical and dependent care expenses.
• 401k plan, including self-directed brokerage options.
• Tax-free vacation days.
• Regular team building events, including annual offsite.

Pay

The annual base salary range for this position is $140,000 - $250,000 + equity. We look forward to hearing from you. Column is committed to working with the best and brightest people from the broadest talent pool possible. We value bringing together a team with different perspectives, educational backgrounds, and life experiences, and believe a diversity of ideas is what allows us to develop the best solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation during the application and recruiting process, please reach out to accommodations@column.com. We participate in the E-Verify program in certain locations as required by law. Learn more about the E-Verify program here.