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title: 'Deployment Strategist (Travel Heavy) at Column'
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# Deployment Strategist (Travel Heavy) at Column

- **Company:** Column
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-10-14
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-18
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/column/ebcd423f-c1ed-4036-b380-888b71f78169

## Job description

## About Column

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!

The opportunity As Column's first Deployment Strategist, you’ll lead end-to-end deployments of Column’s technology and operating model into the businesses we partner with and build alongside. You’ll act as the “GM” of each deployment, sitting at the intersection of product, operations and strategy. You’ll take a business’s hardest operational problems and turn them into systems, tools and processes that measurably improve how it runs, while working alongside senior leadership at Column to take our business to the next level. This position will be based in our San Francisco office in the Presidio, with regular travel throughout the United Sates. You can expect to be on the road 50%+ of the time, often embedded on-site for 2–4 weeks at a time.

## What you’ll do

- Own end-to-end deployments of Column’s technology and operating model, from initial assessment through rollout and continuous improvement
- Find the biggest bottlenecks to scale, then design and ship the products and workflows that remove them
- Drive decisions around “build vs. buy” strategies for new tooling and systems we need to drive automation and scale
- Embed on-site with operators to understand workflows firsthand and turn what you learn into product and operational decisions
- Own execution end to end, driving timelines, alignment and accountability on execution across the team

## What you’ll need to be successful

- 5+ years of experience in product, business operations, or a forward-deployed or solutions role at a high-growth technology company
- You know what great software and great user experiences look like.
- A track record of owning complex, high-stakes deployments or programs end to end
- Executive presence, and the ability to align stakeholders with different priorities around a shared goal
- A hyper-organized approach to execution. You’re comfortable running several workstreams across teams at once.
- Excitement about spending ~50% of your time on the road, embedded with the teams and operations you’re deploying into
- A scrappy, roll-up-your-sleeves attitude. We thrive because we work harder, are more creative, and have zero ego when it comes to getting our hands dirty to build a business.
- Familiarity with banking or fintech is preferred but not required. An interest in becoming an expert in this space is a must.

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](https://e-verify.gov).

## About Column

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Column is a nationally chartered bank built from the ground up to provide API-first banking infrastructure for developers and financial institutions, enabling them to build, move, and lend money at scale.
- **Entity Type**: Private (founder-owned, profitable, bootstrapped)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2021 (launched in 2022)
- **Founders**: William Hockey (CEO, co-founder of Plaid)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) / Financial infrastructure
- Target customers: Technology companies, US banks, international banks, real estate firms – primarily B2B and developer-facing
- Mission statement: To be the new backbone of financial services – a bank that is also a software company, purpose-built to power financial products for the next hundred years.

## Products & Services
- **Bank Accounts**: Programmable checking, savings, trust, subledger, clearing, and sweep accounts. Supports one or millions of account numbers per account, disposable accounts, all FDIC-insured.
- **Payments**: Direct connections to the Federal Reserve, The Clearing House (RTP), Swift, and card networks. Supports ACH, wire, real-time payments, book transfers, and checks.
- **Card Programs**: Full-stack card issuing (debit, credit, unsecured, charge, secured). Customers can bring their own balance sheet or use Column’s.
- **Lending**: Credit origination, warehouse lines, forward flow facilities, and loan purchase programs – all API-accessible.
- **Debt Financing**: Infrastructure to fund new financial products at scale.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed (100% founder and employee owned, profitable)
- **Key Metric**: Processes over **$4.5 trillion** in annual transaction volume (source: column.com)
- **Key Metric**: 136 employees as of mid-2025, with **+35.9% year-over-year headcount growth** (linkedin.com)
- **Notable Customers/Partners**: Mercury uses Column; direct connections to Federal Reserve, The Clearing House, Swift; No. 1 issuer of real-time payments in the US.
- **Growth Signals**: Profitable from early stage; global expansion into MENA region (hiring Emerging Markets Lead in Dubai); launching new banking products; strong uptime (99.999%).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Built from scratch**: No middleware or legacy software – Column built its own core, ledger, and data model.
- **Direct infrastructure**: Owns dedicated hardware connecting to Federal Reserve, TCH, and Swift, giving customers granular control and eliminating vendor bloat.
- **API-first design**: Every banking product (accounts, payments, cards, lending) is programmable via APIs.
- **Scale and reliability**: 99.999% uptime (highest of any bank), handles hundreds of billions monthly.
- **Founder-led and independent**: Profitable, employee-owned, and not beholden to external investors – allows long-term product focus.

## Strategic Focus
- **Global expansion**: Entering new geographic markets (MENA, Europe) with dedicated leads and local partnerships.
- **Product depth**: Scaling lending, card programs, and real-time payments; building risk analytics infrastructure to support growth safely.
- **Developer experience**: Continuing to invest in API tooling, documentation, and developer relations to attract more fintech and enterprise builders.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as "a bit weird" – not a standard tech or finance company. Emphasis on deep work, async interviews, minimal meetings, and high autonomy.
- **Team size**: Small and intentional (136 people, plans to stay lean). High impact per person – employees own core systems from day one.
- **Work model**: Mostly local in San Francisco Bay Area; open to remote for exceptional candidates. Some roles require travel (e.g., Strategic Partnerships).
- **Perks**: Employee-owned and profitable; focus on employee experience (fewer distractions, more building time); "We have fun" (column.com/company).
- **Hiring process**: Includes async take-home assessments to respect candidate time; emphasizes speed and expertise over lengthy interviews.

## Sources
1. [column.com](https://column.com/)
2. [column.com/company](https://column.com/company)
3. [column.com/careers](https://column.com/careers/)
4. [linkedin.com/company/column-bank](https://www.linkedin.com/company/column-bank)
5. [cbinsights.com/company/column](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/column)

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