FinTech Executive Roles — payments, lending, wealth, and embedded finance
More than 5,000 executive sources scanned daily — every senior role at FinTech companies surfaced from CXO down to Director, across payments, lending, wealth platforms, and B2B fintech.
Tier breakdown
9
Founder58
C-Suite350
VP27
Sr Director64
DirectorWhat this category covers
The FinTech industry covers the full financial-technology market: payments rails and processors, consumer and SMB lending platforms, wealth and brokerage tech, neobanks and challenger banks, embedded finance APIs, B2B fintech infrastructure, and crypto/blockchain financial primitives.
FinTech sits at the intersection of Banking and Technology, but the executive-search dynamics are distinct enough to warrant a dedicated industry classification. Compensation curves, exec-team composition (heavy CTO and CRO/Risk seats), and growth-stage distribution all skew differently than at a money-center bank or a pure SaaS company.
Functions over-represented in FinTech: CTO & Engineering Leadership (regulated tech build, ledger systems, real-time risk), CRO & Risk (regulatory and credit risk), and CFO & Finance (capital markets at lending fintechs, complex revenue recognition at platforms). The classifier cross-tags FinTech companies with Banking when relevant.
Sample Jobs (10 of 508)
| Title & Company | Location |
|---|---|
| Head of Brand and Performance Marketing, EquityZen - Executive Director Morgan Stanley Lead the development of brand strategy and execute marketing programs aimed at customer acquisition and engagement across the Morgan Stanley ecosystem. VP | New York, New York, United States of America Unknown |
| VP of Engineering Casap Casap is seeking a VP-level operator to own the full engineering function, introduce process and rigor, and scale to 40-50+ engineers over 18 months. The role involves owning all engineering decisions, balancing startup-speed execution with process, and scaling the team while maintaining culture and velocity. VP | San Francisco, CA Hybrid |
| Product Lead Luminary Lead a multidisciplinary team to create industry-leading products for wealth management at Luminary. VP | New York, NY Hybrid |
| Sales Engineering Lead Numeric Lead the Sales Engineering team, develop enablement programs, and use AI to improve workflows at Numeric. VP | San Francisco; New York Onsite |
| General Manager Imprint The General Manager will oversee a co-brand credit card program, focusing on strategic partnership management, program growth, marketing, compliance, and cross-functional collaboration. VP | San Francisco, CA Onsite |
| Alliances Director, LATAM Payoneer As a Partnerships Director – LATAM, you will architect, build, and scale Payoneer’s regional partner ecosystem with a strong emphasis on aggressive partner acquisition and measurable customer generation through partners. VP | Buenos Aires, São Paulo Unknown |
| Chief Financial Officer Scratch Financial The CFO will manage complex lending facilities, build relationships with debt capital providers, and guide the company through significant exits. Responsibilities include capital strategy, debt facility management, exit readiness, strategic finance, FP&A, financial reporting, compliance, investor relations, and team leadership. C-Suite | Remote Remote |
| Head of AML Qonto Lead Qonto’s AML Operations across 8 markets, ensuring high-performing, scalable operations while maintaining quality, efficiency, and customer experience. VP | Paris Hybrid |
| Director, GRC & Privacy Security Polymarket The role involves building and leading the governance, risk, and compliance function within the security organization at Polymarket. Director | New York Hybrid |
| Head of Data Tomo Lead the data function at Tomo, a digital mortgage company, build a team, and partner with various departments. Requires AI fluency, strong data science foundation, and proficiency in SQL. VP | New York City, NY Hybrid |
How classification gets to this category
FinTech industry classification follows the same multi-stage pipeline as every other industry, with FinTech-specific signals at the company-tagging stage:
- Company industry tagging. The company is identified as FinTech via product-category signals (payments rails, lending primitives, wealth platforms, brokerage tech), regulated-entity status (money transmitter licenses, broker-dealer registration), and a curated allowlist of FinTech firms maintained editorially.
- Cross-tagging with Banking. A neobank or BaaS provider is tagged FinTech AND Banking — meaning it surfaces in both filter sets. A pure payments processor without banking-as-a-service is tagged FinTech only. The cross-tag rules are documented in the company-classification module.
- JD signals for boundary cases. GPT reads the job description for fintech-specific signals (regulatory framework references, financial-primitive language, capital-markets exposure for lending companies) when the company allowlist is ambiguous. Editorial review catches cases where a "tech-enabled financial services" company should be Banking, not FinTech. See the AI Classification page for the full signal hierarchy.
The classifier explicitly excludes from FinTech: pure traditional banks (these are Banking), insurance companies (Insurance), accounting and tax-prep companies, and personal-finance media properties.
How matching works for your search
Matching on FinTech is conjunctive. Every dimension you add narrows the result set rather than expanding it.
Example: select FinTech + CFO/Finance and your inbox shows Finance executive roles at FinTech companies only — not every FinTech role regardless of function, and not every CFO role across the platform. You get the intersection.
Tier filtering works on top. If you want only VP-tier and above FinTech roles — filtering out Director-tier for now — the seniority-tier setting does that cleanly. Or restrict to CXO-tier only to see pure C-suite FinTech seats and no VP/Director posts. Each filter layer multiplies precision without requiring you to manually scan for noise.
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