Product Manager, Risk Analytics

About Column

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 Meta 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!

The opportunity

Column processes over $2 trillion in annual transaction volume for some of the most sophisticated tech companies and financial institutions in the world. Keeping that volume safe is one of the most consequential jobs in fintech. Were looking for a high-agency product leader to own our risk analytics platform: the internal infrastructure that lets Column grow without creating openings for fraudsters criminal networks or state adversaries probing the US financial system.

Youll turn a traditionally manual function into a scalable internal product working directly with our senior leaders to shape how Column monitors investigates and governs risk at scale. As we expand into new products and markets this platform is what makes that growth possible. This role is based in-person at our Presidio office in San Francisco (3-4 days/week).

What youll do

• Own the product roadmap for financial crimes monitoring analytics workflow and governance tooling turning a traditionally manual and compliance-heavy function into a scalable internal product

• Productize the transaction monitoring scenario library across products customer types geographies and flow-of-funds models

• Translate emerging risks regulatory guidance internal risk assessments and observed trends into clear monitoring and tooling requirements; design the full process for rule development testing deployment tuning and model management

• Partner with risk teams engineering GTM and business operations to design practical controls before new products or customer activity launch

• Develop dashboards and analytics that help the team understand risk coverage alert quality control performance investigation outcomes and operational bottlenecks

• Lead annual and ongoing risk coverage assessments across customers products geographies and typologies

• Work closely with our CEO CCO and General Counsel to shape adjacent risk workflows and build toward a customer-facing program management solution over time

What youll need to be successful

• 4 years in a high agency fast moving high intellect role. Examples could be product management or adjacent role at a high-growth startup or tech company; top-tier management consulting firm; or investment firm

• Strong product judgment: the ability to turn ambiguous problems into clear requirements and shipped solutions

• Ability to get technical very quickly. While we dont expect you to be a CS major you should feel comfortable in the terminal using Claude code or similar tools and understanding how to architect solutions out yourself.

• Strong analytical instincts comfortable working with data metrics and operational details at a granular level

• Aptitude for building credibility with subject matter experts across engineering risk & compliance and business operations

• Strong written communication and a bias toward documentation; scrappy roll-up-your-sleeves attitude with zero ego when it comes to getting your hands dirty to build a business

• Familiarity with banking and fintech preferred but not required

What youll get from us

• 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 $20000 in qualified expenses

• Up to $2000 (post-tax) monthly rent subsidy for employees living within 2 miles of Columns office

• 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

• Up to $4500 in annual reimbursements for backup childcare

• Catered lunches and dinners for SF employees

• Commuter benefits including paid transportation to-and-from the office

• Regular team building events including annual offsite

Pay transparency

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

The annual base salary range for this position is $140000 - $220000 equity.

We look forward to hearing from you

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.

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Required Experience:

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