Deployment Strategist (Travel Heavy)

FDE Times; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health, dental, and eye

Fertility benefits via Carrot

Rent subsidy for SF employees

401k plan

Generous parental leave

Job summary

Column is seeking a Deployment Strategist to lead end-to-end deployments of the company’s technology and operating model into partner businesses. You’ll act as the “GM” of each deployment, interfacing with product, operations, and strategy while driving scalable, repeatable processes.

This role is based in San Francisco with regular travel across the United States, often onsite for extended periods. Expect to drive build vs.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in product, ops, or forward-deployed/solutions at a high-growth tech company.
• Understand what great software and user experiences look like.
• Proven track record owning complex deployments end-to-end.
• Executive presence and ability to align stakeholders.
• Hyper-organized with ability to run several workstreams across teams.
• Willing to spend ~50% of time traveling for deployments.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end deployments from assessment through rollout and improvement.
• Identify bottlenecks to scale and design workflows that remove them.
• Drive build-vs-buy decisions for new tooling and systems.
• Embed on-site with operators to learn workflows and inform product/ops decisions.
• Own execution timelines and cross-team alignment.

Skills

Deployment experience

Product management

Executive presence

Cross-functional leadership

Organizational discipline

Travel readiness

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

• 7+ 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.

What you'll get from us

• 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
• 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
• Flexible time-off policy - take the time off that you want and need to relax and recharge
• Sabbatical Program - Reach your 5-year anniversary to take up to 8 weeks of fully paid leave to rest, recharge, and pursue personal interest - with full salary and benefits
• 100% paid parental leave, including 16 weeks for birth mothers, 12 weeks for primary caregivers, and 8 weeks for secondary caregivers
• Up to $4,500 in annual reimbursements for backup childcare
• Catered lunches and dinners for SF employees
• Commuter benefits, including paid transportation to-and-from the office
• Regular team building events, including annual offsite

Pay transparency

Compensation packages at Column include base salary, equity, and benefits. New hire offers are made based on a candidate's experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers.

The annual US base salary range for this role is $150,000 - $275,000 + 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.

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