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
18
Founder54
C-Suite539
VP49
Sr Director91
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 751)
| Title & Company | Location |
|---|---|
| Head of Business Operations Taptap Send The role involves building and scaling operations for a new business product line at Taptap Send, a fintech company focused on cross-border payments for emerging markets. VP | London Onsite |
| Head of Fintech Partnerships Félix The role involves architecting and managing financial infrastructure partnerships, focusing on fintech and Web3 technologies, and leading a team to support Félix's financial services for Latinos in the US. VP | New York • San Francisco Hybrid |
| Engineering Director Clara Lead and scale engineering teams, develop technical strategies, and leverage AI in a fintech environment. Director | Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil Hybrid |
| Head of Corporate Sales, Singapore Corpay Lead the commercial growth and development of Corpay's Singapore business, develop and execute sales strategies, and build a high-performing sales team. VP | Singapore Onsite |
| Lead Counsel, Payments & Regulatory (APAC) Rippling Lead legal and regulatory support for Rippling’s payments and financial-services products across APAC, focusing on Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore. VP | Sydney, Australia Hybrid |
| Head of Recruiting Novo Lead recruiting efforts across North America for various departments at Novo, utilizing AI-based recruiting tools. VP | New York, NY Hybrid |
| Staff Full Stack Engineer, Technical Chief of Staff Capital One Leads technical alignment for Capital One Shopping, maintaining an organization-wide view of engineering work, coordinating enterprise dependencies, securing platform and governance support, and representing architecture to security, risk, compliance, and infrastructure partners. VP | Remote Remote |
| Chief of Staff Redfin Chief of Staff to the CEO driving company-wide transformation, AI adoption, cross-functional growth initiatives, operating cadence, executive decision support, organizational design, and change management. C-Suite | Seattle, WA, USA Onsite |
| Scale Partner Marketing Lead Stripe Lead the Global Scale Partner Marketing strategy and team at Stripe, responsible for developing and executing partner marketing strategies globally. VP | Remote Hybrid |
| Vice President of Product Management, In Store Experience Adyen Lead the in-person payments strategy, leveraging hardware, software, and data-driven insights. Manage a team of product managers and collaborate with cross-functional teams. VP | Amsterdam, Netherlands Onsite |
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.
Remote mix