About the Role
This role acts as a force multiplier to the CEO, tackling complex, interdisciplinary problems to ensure the company's success. It offers a unique opportunity to learn CEO leadership skills and become an effective problem solver.
Responsibilities
- Shadow the CEO to understand business operations and accumulate context.
- Participate in executive team meetings, external pitches, interviews, and product workshops.
- Travel to visit partners and customers.
- Solve complex business problems, which may include rebuilding processes, designing features, or launching new business lines.
- Take ownership of problems and drive them to completion.
- Continuously learn and grow by tackling unfamiliar challenges.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in demanding roles (e.g., consulting, banking, engineering, product, operating, founding a company).
- Analytical and comfortable with data, with strong intuitive thinking skills.
- Proficient in using writing as a tool for precise thinking and problem clarification.
- Possesses a technical mindset.
- Demonstrates a bias for action, ownership, and a drive to fix inefficiencies.
- Exhibits humility.
Skills
- Intellectual vitality and curiosity.
- Extreme drive and motivation.
- Analytical thinking.
- Intuitive thinking.
- Precise writing.
- Technical mindset.
- Problem-solving.
- Ownership.
- Adaptability.
- Continuous learning.
Location
- San Francisco, CA
Work Type
- Onsite
Experience Level
- 5+ years
Salary/Compensations
- $150,000–$235,000
Benefits
- Meaningful start-up equity
- 100% health, vision & dental primary coverage
- 75% health, vision & dental dependent coverage
- Catered lunches
- $250/month commuter benefit
- Parental leave
- Team building events & happy hours
- Flexible PTO with a minimum of 15 days off per year
- Apple equipment
- 401k plan
About the Company
- Cardless is building products that enable leading brands to offer credit in new ways.
- The team is collaborative, fast-moving, and values craftsmanship, curiosity, and impact.
