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
14
Founder52
C-Suite372
VP37
Sr Director63
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 538)
| Title & Company | Location |
|---|---|
| Senior Director, Software Engineering GoodLeap Lead the Funding & Payments engineering team at GoodLeap, focusing on architecture, delivery, and operational health of financial systems. Requires 10+ years of engineering experience, including 5+ years in technical leadership roles. Sr Director | San Francisco, CA / Roseville, CA - HQ / Irvine, CA / Austin, TX / Plano, TX / West Palm Beach, FL / Lehi, UT Hybrid |
| VP of Product Nitra The VP of Product will own the product vision and roadmap, lead a team of product managers, and work closely with engineering and design teams. The role requires experience in scaling a product from scratch at a VC-backed health tech company. VP | Los Angeles, California Hybrid |
| Head of Security Engineering ... FinTech company Lead Security Engineering across product, cloud infrastructure, and internal systems. Experience with AI security is a plus. VP | San Francisco Hybrid |
| Country Manager, Poland Bybit Responsible for driving business growth, overseeing local operations, and strengthening Bybit's presence in the Polish cryptocurrency market. VP | Poland Remote |
| Senior Executive Officer (ADGM) Bybit The Senior Executive Officer (SEO) is responsible for leadership, management, and performance of the ADGM regulated entity, focusing on strategy, governance, compliance, risk management, and operational effectiveness. C-Suite | Abu Dhabi, UAE Onsite |
| Head of Trading Risk Bybit Lead the Trading Risk team, manage risk operations across multiple product lines, and collaborate with various teams. Requires 8+ years in risk management and leadership experience. VP | Remote Remote |
| Head of HR Bybit Lead the global HR function at Bybit, partnering with the Founder to drive organizational strategy and support global expansion. VP | Abu Dhabi, UAE; Hong Kong SAR; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Onsite |
| Head of Legal, EU Bybit Lead Bybit EU's legal operations, oversee compliance programs, serve as a strategic advisor, and guide regulatory compliance. VP | Vienna, Austria Onsite |
| Sales Director, Payments Fireblocks Drive growth for Fireblocks within the blockchain payments sector across the Middle East. Target PSP, Cross-Border, Remittances, and other payment providers. Collaborate with sales teams and product team. VP | Unknown Unknown |
| Head of Direct Marketing & CRM Lendable Lead the direct mail and CRM strategy, scale the channel, and build response models at Lendable. VP | London 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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