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
15
Founder25
C-Suite356
VP52
Sr Director114
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 562)
| Title & Company | Location |
|---|---|
| Vice President, Strategic Partnerships Upgrade The role involves leading strategic partnerships to expand Upgrade's personal lending business through enterprise partnerships. Responsibilities include developing partnerships, negotiating agreements, and managing onboarding processes. VP | Remote Remote |
| Head of Sales Cledara Lead a sales team at Cledara, focusing on optimizing pipeline conversion and building a scalable revenue machine. The role involves sales coaching, operations, and strategy development. VP | London, England, United Kingdom Hybrid |
| Senior Director, Global Implementation Services Prove Lead a global organization of Implementation Specialists, Integration Engineers, Project Managers, and Customer Enablement teams to optimize the journey from contract signature to production go-live. Sr Director | Remote Remote |
| Head of Data Science, Compliance Products Socure Lead data science efforts for compliance products, including KYC, AML, and risk modeling. Requires significant experience in data science, machine learning, and compliance-related fields. VP | San Francisco, Miami, New York, Seattle Hybrid |
| President, Bitstamp Europe Robinhood The President, Bitstamp Europe will serve as the general manager and senior-most leader of Bitstamp Europe S.A., with full P&L accountability for Robinhood’s European crypto business. The role involves regulatory representation, strategic partnership management, and leading the Luxembourg-based team. C-Suite | Luxembourg, Luxembourg Onsite |
| Vice President, Brand Acquisition Biz2Credit Inc. Lead brand strategy and accelerate customer acquisition through integrated brand and media channels at Biz2Credit. VP | Unknown Unknown |
| Chief of Staff Middesk The Chief of Staff will work directly with the CEO to advance the company’s priorities, strengthen operations, and focus on high-impact decisions. The role involves strategic initiatives, cross-functional collaboration, and supporting the CEO. C-Suite | New York Hybrid |
| Assistant General Counsel Atomic Vest The Assistant General Counsel will join Atomic's legal team, providing legal analysis on fintech issues, negotiating contracts, managing disputes, and offering legal advice. The role involves building depth in the legal department and handling various legal responsibilities. VP | United States Remote |
| Vice President, Digital Product Management Rocket Lead digital product management to build a comprehensive homeownership platform, connecting Rocket's services. Involves strategic development, team leadership, and collaboration. VP | Detroit, MI, Dallas, TX, Seattle, WA Unknown |
| Employee Experience Director Bybit The Employee Experience Director will design and manage the employee experience at Bybit, including engagement, internal events, communications, and workplace operations. Director | Remote Remote |
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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