
51 - 200 employees
Founded 1928
🏦 Banking
💳 Fintech
🤝 B2B
💰 $70M Series B - Lead on 2025-09
Banking • Fintech • B2B
Lead is a fintech-focused bank that provides Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) and a partner platform to help fintech founders and businesses embed banking capabilities. The company offers FDIC-insured accounts, lending, transfers, and card products, and emphasizes technology-driven, founder-friendly solutions and APIs to enable partners to scale. Headquartered in Kansas City with multiple U. S. offices, Lead positions itself as a bank that moves at the speed of fintech and partners closely with fintech companies and startups.
🕒 September 21
🏄 California, Kansas, +2 more states – Remote
💵 $102.6k - $166k / year
⏰ Full Time
🟡 Mid-level
🟠 Senior
🎲 Risk
🦅 H1B Visa Sponsor
👻 Ghost score 5%
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51 - 200 employees
Founded 1928
🏦 Banking
💳 Fintech
🤝 B2B
💰 $70M Series B - Lead on 2025-09
Banking • Fintech • B2B
Lead is a fintech-focused bank that provides Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) and a partner platform to help fintech founders and businesses embed banking capabilities. The company offers FDIC-insured accounts, lending, transfers, and card products, and emphasizes technology-driven, founder-friendly solutions and APIs to enable partners to scale. Headquartered in Kansas City with multiple U. S. offices, Lead positions itself as a bank that moves at the speed of fintech and partners closely with fintech companies and startups.
• Own and continuously refine the AI-adoption strategy within Risk • Partner with risk program leaders and cross-functional stakeholders to drive adoption of dashboards, agents, and tools • Support warehousing of key enterprise data, ensuring data is accessed, sanitized, and maintained using industry best practices and automation • Develop, maintain, and execute capacity planning across Enterprise Risk teams • Provide regular capacity updates to Senior Management and oversight committees • Own centralized and cross-functional OKR tracking and progress reporting • Manage change-management requirements through impact analysis and stakeholder coordination • Develop program-level KPI reporting, including monthly operational overviews for execution-based risk programs • Sequence and prioritize risk program initiatives based on dependencies, resourcing, regulatory priority, and capacity • Build risk dashboards for the Bank’s fintech partnerships using automation and AI-native capabilities • Benchmark industry trends, peer practices, and emerging regulatory guidance • Translate findings into a prioritized roadmap for program improvement and cross-functional collaboration • Prepare and deliver governance materials for risk committees • Enhance the format and content of committee information with cross-functional stakeholders • Connect Risk, Compliance, and senior leadership by surfacing issues and aligning priorities • Coordinate data acquisition and analysis for bank examinations, audits, and risk and compliance projects • Perform other duties as assigned
• 5+ years of experience in risk management, compliance, or a related governance/reporting function • Experience ideally within banking, fintech, or Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) • Proficiency using generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude or Glean • Track record of building or owning centralized reporting frameworks, KRIs/KPIs, or executive dashboards consolidating data from multiple stakeholders • Proficiency in SQL and relational databases • Experience with BI/visualization tools such as Power BI, Tableau or Looker • Experience developing or contributing to strategic roadmaps and translating high-level priorities into structured, trackable plans • Working understanding of banking regulations and supervisory guidance relevant to enterprise risk governance, including OCC, Fed, and FDIC guidance • Ability to manage multiple concurrent deliverables and deadlines with minimal supervision • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; comfort preparing and presenting materials directly to senior leadership and committees • Proven ability to bring structure and clarity to ambiguous or evolving governance and reporting needs
• Competitive compensation, based on experience, geographic location, and role • Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, 401k Matching • Wellness benefits, including FSA, HSA and HRA • Paid parental leave • Flexible vacation policy, including PTO and paid holidays • A fun and challenging team environment in a dynamic industry • Ample opportunities for career growth • Occasional travel to Kansas City or other key Lead locations as needed
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