Partner Compliance

For companies building financial technology and transforming the financial services space, the biggest bottleneck to their growth and innovation is often the underlying banks and infrastructure stack they rely on. We have spent our careers founding and scaling companies like Plaid, Square, SoFi, Blend, and Affirm, and have seen this problem firsthand — builders and developers needing to partner with traditional banks, and creating API and abstraction layers over the patchwork that is the bank, its core, and many other vendors. All of this results in a complex (and often expensive) banking supply chain involving a user, fintech, BaaS middleware provider, bank, core and the Federal Reserve.

At Column, we set out to simplify and fix this. We are a bank and a software company built from the ground up, offering builders and developers technology-forward banking solutions that cut out the hundreds of vendors, middleware providers, and abstraction layers. This means a safer, more transparent, and less costly banking supply chain. Come build with us!

As part of Column’s Compliance team, your mandate is to drive the execution of the Bank’s Partner oversight and monitoring program. The regulatory landscape for fintech-banking partnerships is evolving daily, and there is no one-size-fits-all roadmap for partner oversight. Column is committed to executing a best-in-class program - as a result, this role requires a deep understanding of regulatory expectations, and a unique ability to manage risk while executing a methodical and scalable approach to partner oversight.  Implementing a rigorous Partner Compliance program is critical to the success of Column’s business model, and this team is responsible for strong ongoing management of the Bank’s partnership business.

This position will report to the Bank’s Head of Regulatory Affairs. Preference for this role to be based in-person in our Presidio-based office in San Francisco 3-4 days per week; will also consider remote with frequent travel.

• Execute the Bank’s Partner Compliance monitoring program to provide effective ongoing oversight of a portfolio of Column’s fintech partners. This includes establishing risk and compliance requirements, conducting testing, engaging regularly with partner stakeholders, monitoring new product development and strategic growth, and developing a deep understanding of the risks inherent in each partnership to ensure your partner-specific oversight plan effectively manages those risks.

• Create effective and efficient methods for the execution of ongoing monitoring activities. This includes the identification of streamlined ways to receive timely reporting, metrics, and required deliverables from each partner.

• Identify trends, outliers, and/or key risk indicators as part of monitoring activities.

• Manage risk and compliance components of marketing reviews, product reviews, use case expansion for existing partners.

• Stay closely engaged with industry and regulators relative to partner risk best practices and key areas of risk and regulatory focus

• Provide periodic reporting on key risk indicators and risk appetite metrics to Management

• Partner closely with the business, finance, other risk leads, legal, compliance, and regulatory affairs to drive execution of the Bank’s overarching Partner Risk Management Framework

• 5+ years of experience in dedicated risk management roles, with a specific focus on operational risk, regulatory compliance, and/or partner risk management

• Familiarity with the fintech-banking partnership model, and key risks and risk mitigation strategies relevant to the partnership model

• Demonstrated project management skills and the ability to juggle execution across multiple partners/stakeholders

• Meaningful experience with/exposure to enterprise risk management programs and additional risk stripes, including BSA/AML, information security, financial and capital risk, and/or operational risk

• Familiarity with commercial banking products, relevant compliance requirements, and product-specific risks (e.g., lending, deposits, cross-border payments, etc.)

• Fluency with key regulations, including those addressing Fair Lending, Privacy, Funds Availability, Truth in Lending, Electronic Funds Transfers, NACHA, E-Sign, UDAAP, and Prepaid Access, among others

• Ability to clearly articulate and communicate requirements, expectations, observations, and identified risks with stakeholders

• Excitement about working in a fast-paced, deeply cross-functional space

• 🏥 Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans, including options that are 100% covered by Column for you and 100% covered for your dependents!

• 👶 Comprehensive family planning and fertility benefits via partnership with Carrot, including reimbursement of up to $20,000 in qualified expenses

• 💳 FSA and HSA account options to enable use of pre-tax money for medical and dependent care expenses

• 📈 401k plan, including self-directed brokerage options

• 🌴 Flexible time-off policy - take the time off that you want and need to relax and recharge

• 👶 100% paid parental leave, including 16 weeks for birth mothers, 12 weeks for primary caregivers, and 8 weeks for secondary caregivers

• 🍽️ Catered lunches and dinners for SF employees

• 🚆 Commuter benefits

• 🎉 Regular team building events, including annual offsite

Compensation packages at Column include base salary, equity, and benefits. New hire offers are made based on a candidate's experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers.

The annual US base salary range for this role is $175,000 - $250,000 + equity.

Column is committed to working with the best and brightest people from the broadest talent pool possible. We value bringing together a team with different perspectives, educational backgrounds, and life experiences, and believe a diversity of ideas is what allows us to develop the best solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.

If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation during the application and recruiting process, please reach out to [email protected].

We participate in the E-Verify program in certain locations as required by law. Learn more about the E-Verify program here.