This is a high-ownership role on a small team, where your decisions directly shape the reliability of products processing hundreds of millions of transactions.

Key responsibilities include:

• Collaborating on our technical vision to build and scale internal infrastructure that engineers and customers love
• Developing and maintaining low-latency, massively-scalable infrastructure for data ingestion, reporting, and developer-facing APIs
• Continuously improving our engineering best practices by designing and implementing systems that allow us to expand our platform while maintaining high quality and solid observability
• Debugging production issues across all levels of the stack
• Bringing a strong collaborative approach to deliver value to customers and internal stakeholders at Spade

Must-haves include:

• 5+ years of experience building and scaling AWS Cloud Infrastructure (ECS/Fargate, RDS Aurora Serverless, Terraform/CDK etc)
• Experience with highly scalable networked APIs, Postgres, data pipelines, and async processing
• Experience and opinions with implementing effective observability instrumentation and ensuring alerts are timely and actionable
• Experience building tools and systems that empower internal developers to deliver business value rapidly
• Experience building systems from scratch, making trade-offs, and executing autonomously in early-stage environments
• A product mindset and strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and focus on delivering customer value, for internal developers and the customers they build for
• A collaborative mindset, fostering a culture of mentorship, shared success, and continuous improvement

Nice-to-haves include:

• Experience with building and supporting infrastructure in multiple AWS regions
• Experience with Python and Django
• Experience with Open Telemetry
• Experience with Pganalyze
• Experience with transaction, merchant, and/or location data
• Experience and/or interest in fintech and/or data products
• Experience with agentic development infrastructure and workflows
• Familiarity with data science and analytics tools such as Pyspark, Databricks, and Delta Lake, and Hex

Why join Spade?

• Be a cultural founder. As an early employee, you’ll play a meaningful role in defining and building our culture.
• Get in on the ground floor. We’re a small but well-funded team – joining now comes with limited risk and unlimited upside.
• Build the next generation of financial infrastructure. Our products will power the next wave of innovation in fintech, helping our customers deliver better, more transparent products and services to the consumer.

Benefits include:

• Competitive compensation and equity package
• Full medical, dental, and vision benefits for US-based employees
• Life & short-term disability insurance
• Unlimited PTO
• Early exercise program
• Extended post-termination exercise period
• 401K for retirement planning
• Hybrid team, with pet-friendly headquarters in NYC
• Paid parental leave
• Work from home stipend

Diversity & Inclusion at Spade:

Spade is an equal opportunity employer, committed to building a culture that is diverse, equitable, and inclusive. We believe that having people with different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives not only helps us build the best products for our customers, but also helps us be the best version of ourselves.

Salary Range:

At Spade, we view total compensation as consisting of salary + equity + benefits. We recruit motivated and high-performing talent, and work to compensate people in line with the value they bring to our team.

We aim to pay fairly and competitively, and consider a number of factors in developing compensation offers. These factors include years and breadth of experience, interview performance, market dynamics, and internal equity.

The anticipated base salary range for this role is between $200,000 and $220,000, and an equity grant.

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You'll partner closely with founders and leadership to hire across technical (engineering, data science, product) and G&A (commercial, support, operations, finance) roles. You will:

• Own recruiting end-to-end, from role intake and sourcing strategy through offer close and onboarding , driving hiring for both technical and non-technical roles, flexing as business priorities evolve
• Partner closely with founders and hiring managers to define hiring plans, headcount priorities, and timelines
• Drive initiatives that improve Spade’s recruiting processes, tooling, and best practices
• Develop scalable sourcing strategies to attract top-tier talent in a competitive market
• Ensure a high-quality, inclusive, and thoughtful candidate experience that reflects Spade’s values
• Manage ATS (currently Greenhouse), including job setup, workflows, interview plans, reporting, and candidate experience
• Track and report on hiring metrics, funnel health, and hiring velocity to inform decision-making
• Lay the foundation for a future recruiting team, with the opportunity to hire and manage recruiters as the company grows

Experience, skills, and qualifications necessary:

• 6+ years of recruiting experience, including time in-house at a high-growth startup
• Experience building or significantly evolving a recruiting function (processes, tools, playbooks)
• Proven ability to recruit across both technical (engineering, data, product) and business (commercial, G&A) roles
• Comfort with and excitement about owning full-cycle recruiting independently, from sourcing to closing candidates
• Experience partnering directly with founders and senior leadership, acting as a thought partner and expert in shaping and running recruiting processes
• Hands-on experience with modern recruiting tools, including AI tools and ATS software (we use Greenhouse and Juicebox)

Why join Spade?

• Be a cultural founder. As an early employee, you’ll play a meaningful role in defining and building our culture.
• Get in on the ground floor. We’re a small but well-funded team – joining now comes with limited risk and unlimited upside.
• Build the next generation of financial infrastructure. Our products will power the next wave of innovation in fintech, helping our customers deliver better, more transparent products and services to the consumer.

Benefits include:

• Competitive compensation package
• Full medical, dental, and vision benefits for US-based employees
• 401K for retirement planning
• Hybrid team, with pet-friendly headquarters in NYC
• $750 work-from-home setup stipend and $125 monthly lunch stipend

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In this role, you won't just manage a product, you'll own and shape core features of our platform and partner on our overall product strategy. As our first dedicated product hire, you'll partner closely with the CEO, sales, data science, and engineering to define what we build and why.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Translating vision into a defensible product roadmap by synthesizing customer insights, market signals, and business goals
• Acting as a strategic partner to the CEO and leadership team, shaping market positioning, competitive differentiation, and long-term platform bets
• Partnering with sales and customers to extract signal from wins, losses, and conversations, and turn it into product direction
• Driving alignment across engineering, sales, and leadership on priorities, trade-offs, and sequencing
• Setting design and UX standards as Spade moves from API-only to a full platform
• Establishing success metrics that hold the product accountable to outcomes, not outputs, using research, usage data, and market analysis to inform decisions
• Building the product function at Spade , processes, frameworks, and standards that scale as the team grows

To succeed in this role, you'll need:

• 5-9+ years of product management experience at a high-growth B2B startup
• Based in NYC
• Proven track record of building or launching products end-to-end, from early ideation through delivery and iteration
• Background in fintech or payments , you understand the key players, regulatory landscape, and nuances of building financial products
• Strong technical fluency , you can partner effectively with engineers, understand API-first products, and make informed trade-off decisions
• Exceptional communicator , you can make complex ideas feel simple for both technical and non-technical audiences
• Comfortable being the first and building a playbook
• Interest in leveraging AI to accelerate execution

Nice to have:

• Experience with transaction or payments data
• Familiarity with developer-facing or API-first products
• Prior experience working directly with a founder or CEO on product strategy
• Experience at a Seed – Series C fintech or financial infrastructure company
• Prior experience as the first or only Product hire at a company

Why join Spade?

• Be a cultural founder , As an early employee, you’ll play a meaningful role in defining and building our culture.
• Get in on the ground floor , We’re a small but well-funded team , joining now comes with limited risk and unlimited upside.
• Build the next generation of financial infrastructure , Our products will power the next wave of innovation in fintech, helping our customers deliver better, more transparent products and services to the consumer.

Benefits include:

• Competitive compensation and equity package
• Full medical, dental, and vision benefits for US-based employees
• Life & short-term disability insurance
• Unlimited PTO
• Early exercise program
• Extended post-termination exercise period
• 401K for retirement planning
• Hybrid team, with pet-friendly headquarters in NYC
• Paid parental leave
• Work from home stipend

Diversity & Inclusion at Spade:

Spade is an equal opportunity employer, committed to building a culture that is diverse, equitable, and inclusive. We believe that having people with different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives not only helps us build the best products for our customers, but also helps us be the best version of ourselves.

Salary Range:

At Spade, we view total compensation as consisting of salary + equity + benefits. We recruit motivated and high-performing talent, and work to compensate people in line with the value they bring to our team. We aim to pay fairly and competitively, and consider a number of factors in developing compensation offers. These factors include years and breadth of experience, interview performance, market dynamics, and internal equity. The anticipated base salary range for this role is between $180,000 and $275,000 (depending on level), and an equity grant.

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Your responsibilities will include:

• Building and nurturing relationships with key stakeholders at partner organisations, including C-suite executives and decision makers
• Unlocking new revenue streams through co-marketing initiatives, referral programs, and a consistent flow of high-quality partner-sourced leads
• Partnering closely with Product and Engineering to define clear integration paths and remove friction from technical onboarding
• Tracking partnership performance, reporting on impact, and continuously iterating on strategy
• Building and scaling the partnerships function as the company grows, establishing repeatable processes and playbooks

To succeed in this role, you will need:

• 6+ years of experience in partnerships, business development, or strategic growth roles
• 3+ years of experience in fintech and/or financial services
• A proven track record of closing and scaling revenue-accretive partnerships at a fast-growing tech company
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build rapport and credibility at all levels of an organisation
• A willingness to travel as needed to build and maintain key partner relationships

Nice to have:

• NYC-based
• B2B partnerships experience
• Experience as founding or early partnerships hire
• Experience working cross-functionally with product, engineering, and GTM teams

Joining Spade means being part of a small but well-funded team, with limited risk and unlimited upside. You'll play a meaningful role in defining and building our culture, and have the opportunity to build the next generation of financial infrastructure.

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Financial Planning & Analysis: Develop budgets and forecasts, monitor budget vs. actuals, and build dashboards for key metrics (e.g. revenue growth, burn rate, GTM metrics, etc.).

Accounting & Bookkeeping: Own the monthly close process, ensure our financial records are accurate and GAAP-compliant, and manage invoices, payables, and receivables.

Cash Management: Track cash runway and working capital. Advise leadership on fundraising needs and timing based on cash flow projections.

Strategic Partnership: Work closely with the CEO and COO on financial strategy and scenario planning. Provide analysis to support major decisions (pricing, hiring, market expansion) and challenge assumptions with data.

Operational Build-out: Implement finance tools/software as needed (e.g. QuickBooks, expense management, financial modeling in Google Sheets). Establish internal controls and financial policies to enable scalable growth.

Investor & Board Reporting: Prepare monthly/quarterly financial reports and forecasts for our board and investors. Support future fundraising by owning data room prep, due diligence requests, etc.

We're looking for someone with 5+ years of experience in a finance role, 3+ years of experience in-house at a B2B SaaS startup, and a generalist finance skillset. You should have a strategic business mindset and understanding of key business drivers, comfort with ambiguity, and the ability to challenge and influence business outcomes.

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