Program Manager, Bank Partnerships

Cardless is building the infrastructure for the world's best companies to design, build, and launch financial products of their own. Companies like Coinbase and Bilt use Cardless to create credit cards that feel entirely their own. In an industry where branded financial products usually mean shared logos and shared control, Cardless is built to disappear. Our APIs and components shape the journey from the first application to every purchase, reward, and moment of support that follows, while we handle lending, compliance, and operations behind the scenes.

In September 2025, we raised a $60 million Series C led by Spark Capital, bringing our total funding to $170 million. The team is over 70 people and scaling toward profitability by year-end 2026.

We're looking for kind, humble people with high standards and low egos. We take the work seriously without taking ourselves too seriously. We see what could be improved, make it so, and leave every product, system, and team better than we found it.

We're looking for a program manager to own the day-to-day working relationship between Cardless and the banks that issue our cards, and to run new card programs from signed deal to live launch. You will be our bank partners' primary point of contact, the person who knows where every open item stands and keeps each partner informed early. Cardless is a program manager that partners with FDIC- and OCC-regulated issuing banks to design and deliver co-branded credit cards, so the work has to account for obligations across multiple bank partners with different regulators, expectations, and reporting cadences. Understanding that structure, where the bank holds the regulatory obligation and we perform the work, is key to succeeding here.

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  Experience with card issuing, co-branded credit card programs, or working directly with issuing or sponsor banks, from either side of the relationship.

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  Familiarity with the regulatory considerations that shape bank and fintech partnerships: third-party risk management, program governance, and what an examination asks of a service provider.

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  Experience launching a new financial product from contract signing through go-live, or a technical program management background.

• We work in the office 5 days a week in San Francisco (Jackson Square), and that is our strong preference. If you are in the Bay Area and would need a hybrid schedule, or you are based in the Salt Lake City area, apply anyway and tell us in your application; we would rather have the conversation than miss you. If you need a fully remote role, this is not the seat.

• There is no playbook for this role and no daily check-in. If you do your best work with structure handed to you, this is not the seat.

• This is a hands-on build, not a maintenance job. If you are looking for a quiet role with settled processes, this is not the seat.

• This seat writes the document, not the meeting invite about it. If you would rather coordinate the author than be the author, this is not the seat.

You are the person who writes the document, not the person who schedules the meeting about it. You have delivered difficult news to a counterparty early because you understood that late news costs more than early news. You know that a bank partner is a supervised institution with obligations of its own, and you can reason from that to what needs to be escalated and how fast. You are comfortable with a blank page, and you build a mechanism rather than absorbing the work by hand.

• Own the relationship with the banks that issue our cards, as the single voice they hear from first, reporting to our Chief Compliance Officer.

• Run a live program launch as your first assignment, from signed deal to go-live, and build the trackers, reporting rhythm, and governance cadence that the next programs run on.

• Sit at the intersection of Compliance, Legal, Product, Engineering, and Operations, with the bank partners on the other side of the table.

What success looks like at six months. Our bank partners hear about every material development from us first, the launch you inherited has gone live on the timeline you held, the governance cadence runs without our CCO needing to be in every meeting, and the reporting rhythm you built is the one a second and third program run on.