Product Manager, Platform Tools

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 moves over $4 trillion a year for some of the most sophisticated fintechs and financial institutions in the world. In this role, you’ll be the person who makes sure that volume stays safe — and you'll be the first Product Manager Column has ever hired to do it. There's no existing roadmap to inherit, no legacy backlog, no "how we've always done it." You’ll be defining what product management looks like at Column, starting with one of the most consequential challenges the company is facing: turning risk from a manual, tribal-knowledge function into a real internal product — the infrastructure that lets Column say yes to more volume, more partners, and more markets without opening the door to fraudsters, criminal networks, or state adversaries. What you build will have a direct impact on Column’s growth trajectory and how fast we can move as a business. This role will live within our Product & Engineering org and is based in-person at our Presidio office in San Francisco (3-4 days a week).   WHAT YOU’LL DO - Own the roadmap for a brand-new Risk platform at Column, turning a vision into a shipped product. Right now, "how do we know something's wrong" mostly lives in spreadsheets and in people's heads — you design what the productized version of that looks like, and build it. - Figure out the best way to weave AI into the platform. Some of the most sensitive, risk-related judgment calls at Column (e.g., is this transaction fine, or the first sign of something bigger?) are made by hand today. You decide which of those calls a machine should make, and which should always stay human. - Work directly with our Founder/CEO, General Counsel, and Chief Compliance Officer to understand user needs and define product requirements, while pulling in direct feedback from cross-functional stakeholders across Column. - Write the specs and PRDs that you and Column’s Engineering team will use to bring the product to life - jump in yourself to push PRs and features where you can. - Define the metrics that prove the platform is working, and use them to inform what gets built next. - Grow this from an internal platform into an external product that our customers can plug into to level up their own risk operations, turning something that protects Column today into something that protects every business built on top of it.   WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL - 4+ years in a high agency, fast moving role. Examples could be product management or an adjacent role at a high-growth startup or tech company, top-tier management consulting firm, or investment firm. - A track record of taking a messy, undefined problem and turning it into something that actually shipped — not just a plan for it - Ability to get technical very quickly. While we don’t expect you to be a CS major, you should feel comfortable in the terminal, using Claude code or similar tool