Column
Finance / FinServ
RiskOperations
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“Risk Operations at Column. Skills: Operational excellence, Process optimization, Cross-functional collaboration, Technical fluency, Written communication. Plug into Risk programs needing support (third-party risk management, information security, model risk, privacy, financial, operational). Identify and address broken, slow, or missing processes within Risk programs”
What You'll Achieve.
Transforming tasks that took days to minutes; Gaining a deep understanding of strategically important functions; Ensuring processes are faster and more consistent; Assessing and remediating vendor/supplier risk; Testing response to critical incidents through BC/DR exercises
Industry & Context.
Making sense of complex systems; Improving systems; Identifying and fixing inefficiencies; Reasoning about systems
In-person presence in San Francisco office 3-4 days a week
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
2+ years of doing something hard (consulting, technical operations, software engineering, or any role where you had to make sense of a complex system, improve it, and get others to adopt the change), Ability to get up to speed fast on unfamiliar problems, Optimization instinct and ability to automate manual processes, Technical fluency (comfortable in the terminal, writing or modifying Python, Go, Apps Script code, querying databases with SQL, working with APIs, reasoning about systems), Strong written communication skills, Hyper-organized project management skills
What You'll Do.
Plug into Risk programs needing support (third-party risk management
Identify and address broken
or missing processes within Risk programs
Learn Risk programs from the ground up and re-design them for speed and consistency
Build tooling (scripts
AI-assisted review workflows
system integrations) to enable process improvements
Support third-party diligence and monitoring
assessing vendor/supplier risk and developing remediation steps
Design and support business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) exercises
Enhance the privacy program and integrate privacy considerations into customer diligence
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work closely with teams across Column (Engineering, People, Compliance, Legal, etc.); Collaborate with stakeholders with varying priorities; Communicate technical concepts to engineering teams; Work with partners on BC/DR exercises
Communication Scope
Written communication (memos, policy updates, control narratives); Articulating responses to vague alerts, messy reviews, or unclear findings; Speaking the same language as the engineering team
Process & Methodology
Managing multiple concurrent workstreams, Managing stakeholders with varying priorities, Surfacing tradeoffs early, Securing commitment to shared goals, Escalation management
Full Job Description
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 Many banks treat Risk as a cost center - Column treats it as a competitive advantage. Our ability to take on new customers, expand into new product areas, and successfully operate under regulatory scrutiny depends entirely on the quality of our Risk programs. As we grow, the volume and complexity of that work will outpace what the team can absorb - that’s where this role comes in. This is a strategic operations role that lives inside our Risk function. It’s less about being a Risk expert and more about being an exceptional operator who is energized by learning new domains quickly, spotting inefficiencies, and building the tools to fix them. You’ll work closely with a variety of teams across Column (e.g., Engineering, People, Compliance, Legal, etc.) to figure out which processes and programs are slowing us down. By the time you’re done with a project, tasks that took days should take minutes, and yo
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