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
8
Founder53
C-Suite329
VP26
Sr Director50
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 466)
| Title & Company | Location |
|---|---|
| Director of Sales - BNPL Nelo Lead sales efforts for BNPL checkout at Nelo, focusing on key merchants and enterprise contracts. VP | CDMX Onsite |
| Director of Business Development Caliza Financial Technologies The role involves maintaining and developing customer relationships, refining the sales process, and collaborating with various teams. It requires experience in sales and business development in the fintech or crypto space. Director | Remote Remote |
| Global Head of Financial Crimes Lightspark The role involves designing and building the Financial Crimes function, developing investigations programs, ensuring regulatory excellence, and building a high-performing team. It requires extensive experience in AML compliance and fraud risk, particularly in crypto-related financial crimes. VP | Remote Remote |
| General Manager (Deutschland) Fresha The General Manager will lead and expand Fresha's offerings in Germany and the DACH region, reporting to the General Manager France. Responsibilities include team building, performance management, and strategic planning. VP | Berlin, Germany Onsite |
| Product & Growth Lead (Customer Facing) Salient The role involves inventing new AI product capabilities and scaling enterprise growth, working at the intersection of AI innovation and enterprise go-to-market. VP | San Francisco, CA Onsite |
| Head of Communications Taxbit Taxbit is seeking a Head of Communications to build and lead a global communications strategy, focusing on crypto, fintech, and compliance verticals. VP | San Francisco, California Hybrid |
| Director of Product Marketing Jump Lead product marketing strategies, sales enablement, and team building for a B2B SaaS company. Director | Remote Remote |
| Head of Fraud Cleo Lead Cleo's fraud strategy across the business, focusing on the US, and manage fraud-related operations and compliance. VP | United Kingdom Hybrid |
| Strategic Finance Director Capchase The role involves strategic financial planning, shaping company strategy, driving data-driven decision-making, and collaborating across departments. It requires 4-6+ years of experience in strategic finance or similar roles. VP | New York City Hybrid |
| Director of Engineering Nitra Lead and scale Nitra's engineering organization, set technical direction, and work closely with product and design teams. Requires 8+ years of software engineering experience and fluency in Mandarin. Director | New York, New York, USA 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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