Spade
Financial institutions process billions of transactions every day across cards, ACH, wires, and third party aggregators. But most of that data is difficult to use. Descriptions are inconsistent, merchant names don’t match, and categories vary by payment type.
Spade’s API takes these raw, messy transactions, and in <50 ms, returns clean, structured records linked to verified businesses in our proprietary database. Building on that foundation, our agent layer leverages this enriched data to automate insights and decision-making. Customers including Stripe, FIS, Bilt, Corpay, and Mercury use Spade to authorize more transactions, personalize experiences, power rewards programs, and more. We lead the market in merchant coverage, speed of enrichment, and data accuracy, enriching hundreds of billions of dollars in transaction volume every month.
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What is Spade?
Financial institutions process billions of transactions every day across cards, ACH, wires, and third party aggregators. But most of that data is difficult to use. Descriptions are inconsistent, merchant names don’t match, and categories vary by payment type.
Spade is a data and AI platform that turns messy transaction strings into structured, verified records — and gives teams the tools to act on it across authorization, attribution, analytics, and AI initiatives. Spade leads the market in terms of merchant coverage, matching accuracy, geolocation data, and speed of transaction enrichment. Customers such as, FIS, Bilt, Mercury, Stripe, alongside many other leaders in fintech and financial services, trust Spade's data to enable personalized rewards programs, accurate applied spending rules, precise analytics requests, and innovative AI-powered features.
Spade is a fast growing, Series B company backed by industry experts and top tier investors (including Oak HC/FT, a16z, Flourish Ventures, Y-Combinator, and Gradient Ventures). We’re a lean and execution-oriented hybrid team, passionate about building exceptional products for our growing customer base. We care deeply about diversity of background, experience, and opinion. We value empathy, curiosity, and passion, and strive to create an environment where individuals have autonomy and the ability to take ownership over their work.
What will you be doing?
At Spade, hiring is a core strategic function as we scale the team and product. This is a hands-on, high-impact role where you'll own recruiting end-to-end and build the foundation for our talent function as we scale our team from 20 to 40+ in 2026.
You’ll partner closely with founders and leadership to hire across technical (engineering, data science, product) and G&A (commercial, support, operations, finance) roles. You will:
- Own recruiting end-to-end, from role intake and sourcing strategy through offer close and onboarding — driving hiring for both technical and non-technical roles, flexing as business priorities evolve
- Partner closely with founders and hiring managers to define hiring plans, headcount priorities, and timelines
- Drive initiatives that improve Spade’s recruiting processes, tooling, and best practices
- Develop scalable sourcing strategies to attract top-tier talent in a competitive market
- Ensure a high-quality, inclusive, and thoughtful candidate experience that reflects Spade’s values
- Manage ATS (currently Greenhouse), including job setup, workflows, interview plans, reporting, and candidate experience
- Track and report on hiring metrics, funnel health, and hiring velocity to inform decision-making
- Lay the foundation for a future recruiting team, with the opportunity to hire and manage recruiters as the company grows
What experience, skills, and qualifications are necessary?
- Must have:
- NYC based
- 6+ years of recruiting experience, including time in-house at a high-growth startup
- Experience building or significantly evolving a recruiting function (processes, tools, playbooks)
- Proven ability to recruit across both technical (engineering, data, product) and business (commercial, G&A) roles
- Comfort with and excitement about owning full-cycle recruiting independently, from sourcing to closing candidates
- Experience partnering directly with founders and senior leadership, acting as a thought partner and expert in shaping and running recruiting processes
- Hands on experience with modern recruiting tools, including AI tools and ATS software (we use Greenhouse and Juicebox)
- Nice to have:
- Experience as an early or founding talent hire at a startup
- Background hiring in fintech, data, or infrastructure companies
- Experience scaling teams rapidly (e.g., doubling headcount within a year)
- Prior experience hiring and managing recruiting teams
- Familiarity with employer branding and early-stage talent marketing
Why join Spade?
- Be a cultural founder. As an early employee, you’ll play a meaningful role in defining and building our culture.
- Get in on the ground floor. We’re a small but well-funded team – joining now comes with limited risk and unlimited upside.
- Build the next generation of financial infrastructure. Our products will power the next wave of innovation in fintech, helping our customers deliver better, more transparent products and services to the consumer.
Benefits include:
- Competitive compensation package
- Full medical, dental, and vision benefits for US-based employees
- 401K for retirement planning
- Hybrid team, with pet-friendly headquarters in NYC
- $750 work-from-home setup stipend and $125 monthly lunch stipend
Diversity & Inclusion at Spade:
Spade is an equal opportunity employer, committed to building a culture that is diverse, equitable, and inclusive. We believe that having people with different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives not only helps us build the best products for our customers, but also helps us be the best version of ourselves.
Salary Range:
- As an employee, you will receive:
- Full W-2 employment status with Spade
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401k plan participation
- Access to all standard employee equipment and systems
- Eligible for equity grants, parental leave, and unlimited PTO.
- We aim to pay fairly and competitively, and consider a number of factors in developing compensation offers. These factors include years and breadth of experience, interview performance, market dynamics, and internal equity.
- The anticipated cash salary range for this role is $170,000-$195,000 annually.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Spade
What is Spade?
Financial institutions process billions of transactions every day across cards, ACH, wires, and third party aggregators. But most of that data is difficult to use. Descriptions are inconsistent, merchant names don’t match, and categories vary by payment type.
Spade is a data and AI platform that turns messy transaction strings into structured, verified records — and gives teams the tools to act on it across authorization, attribution, analytics, and AI initiatives. Spade leads the market in terms of merchant coverage, matching accuracy, geolocation data, and speed of transaction enrichment. Customers such as, FIS, Bilt, Mercury, Stripe, alongside many other leaders in fintech and financial services, trust Spade's data to enable personalized rewards programs, accurate applied spending rules, precise analytics requests, and innovative AI-powered features.
Spade is a fast growing, Series B company backed by industry experts and top tier investors (including Oak HC/FT, a16z, Flourish Ventures, Y-Combinator, and Gradient Ventures). We’re a lean and execution-oriented hybrid team, passionate about building exceptional products for our growing customer base. We care deeply about diversity of background, experience, and opinion. We value empathy, curiosity, and passion, and strive to create an environment where individuals have autonomy and the ability to take ownership over their work.
What will you be doing?
As Spade’s first finance hire, you will build the financial foundation for our next stage of growth. You’ll take ownership of our financial strategy, planning, and operations—from monthly close and cash management, to FP&A and strategic finance. You’ll collaborate closely with the COO, CEO, and CRO, acting as a true thought partner to shape strategy, support key decisions with robust analysis, and drive business growth.
- Strategic Partnership: Partner closely with the leadership team on financial strategy and scenario planning. Leverage data and insights to inform major business decisions (pricing, hiring, market expansion), challenge assumptions, and accelerate business growth.
- Financial Planning & Analysis: Develop budgets and forecasts, monitor budget vs. actuals, and build dashboards for key metrics (e.g. revenue growth, burn rate, GTM metrics, unit economics, usage-based revenue drivers etc.).
- Investor & Board Reporting: Prepare monthly/quarterly financial reports and forecasts for our board and investors. Support future fundraising by owning data room prep, due diligence requests, etc.
- Cash Management & Capital Strategy: Track cash runway and working capital. Advise leadership on capital strategy, fundraising timing, and optimal deployment of the capital we've raised. Build and maintain cash flow models that inform strategic decisions.
- Operational Build-out: Implement and own finance tools/software as needed (e.g. QuickBooks, expense management, financial modeling in Google Sheets). Establish internal controls and financial policies to enable scalable growth.
- Accounting & Bookkeeping: Own the monthly close process, managing our accountants to ensure our financial records are accurate and GAAP-compliant, and manage invoices, payables, and receivables.
What experience, skills, and qualifications are necessary?
- 7+ years of experience in a finance role
- 3+ years of experience in-house at a high growth B2B fintech startup and deep understanding of key SaaS/usage based business metrics
- Experience supporting a fundraising process — data room prep, investor diligence, financial narrative
- Familiarity with usage-based or consumption pricing models and their implications for revenue recognition and forecasting
- Generalist finance skillset (foundational accounting and bookkeeping knowledge, strong FP&A skills, advanced financial modeling skills)
- Strategic business mindset and understanding of key business drivers
- Comfort with ambiguity
- Ability to challenge and influence business outcomes
- Ownership mindset and bias towards action
- Strong preference for candidates with a background in investment banking, private equity, or management consulting
- NYC required
Why join Spade?
- Be a cultural founder. As an early employee, you’ll play a meaningful role in defining and building our culture.
- Get in on the ground floor. We’re a small but well-funded team – joining now comes with limited risk and unlimited upside.
- Build the next generation of financial infrastructure. Our products will power the next wave of innovation in fintech, helping our customers deliver better, more transparent products and services to the consumer.
Benefits include:
- Competitive compensation and equity package
- Full medical, dental, and vision benefits for US-based employees
- Life & short-term disability insurance
- Unlimited PTO
- Early exercise program
- Extended post-termination exercise period
- 401K for retirement planning
- Hybrid team, with pet-friendly headquarters in NYC
- Paid parental leave
- Work from home stipend
Diversity & Inclusion at Spade:
Spade is an equal opportunity employer, committed to building a culture that is diverse, equitable, and inclusive. We believe that having people with different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives not only helps us build the best products for our customers, but also helps us be the best version of ourselves.
Salary Range:
- At Spade, we view total compensation as consisting of salary + equity + benefits. We recruit motivated and high performing talent, and work to compensate people in line with the value they bring to our team.
- We aim to pay fairly and competitively, and consider a number of factors in developing compensation offers. These factors include years and breadth of experience, interview performance, market dynamics, and internal equity.
- The anticipated base salary range for this role is between $200,000 and $250,000, and an equity grant.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Spade
What is Spade?
Financial institutions process billions of transactions every day across cards, ACH, wires, and third party aggregators. But most of that data is difficult to use. Descriptions are inconsistent, merchant names don’t match, and categories vary by payment type.
Spade is a data and AI platform that turns messy transaction strings into structured, verified records — and gives teams the tools to act on it across authorization, attribution, analytics, and AI initiatives. Spade leads the market in terms of merchant coverage, matching accuracy, geolocation data, and speed of transaction enrichment. Customers such as, FIS, Bilt, Mercury, Stripe, alongside many other leaders in fintech and financial services, trust Spade's data to enable personalized rewards programs, accurate applied spending rules, precise analytics requests, and innovative AI-powered features.
Spade is a fast growing, Series B company backed by industry experts and top tier investors (including Oak HC/FT, a16z, Flourish Ventures, Y-Combinator, and Gradient Ventures). We’re a lean and execution-oriented hybrid team, passionate about building exceptional products for our growing customer base. We care deeply about diversity of background, experience, and opinion. We value empathy, curiosity, and passion, and strive to create an environment where individuals have autonomy and the ability to take ownership over their work.
What will you be doing?
Spade is looking for our first product hire to be a driving force behind our mission to make transaction data clean, structured, and actionable for financial institutions. In this role, you won't just manage a product, you'll own and shape core features of our platform and partner on our overall product strategy. As our first dedicated product hire, you'll partner closely with the CEO, sales, data science and engineering to define what we build and why. You will:
- Translate vision into a defensible product roadmap by synthesizing customer insights, market signals, and business goals
- Act as a strategic partner to the CEO and leadership team, shaping market positioning, competitive differentiation, and long-term platform bets
- Partner with sales and customers to extract signal from wins, losses, and conversations, and turn it into product direction
- Drive alignment across engineering, sales, and leadership on priorities, trade-offs, and sequencing
- Set design and UX standards as Spade moves from API-only to a full platform
- Establish success metrics that hold the product accountable to outcomes, not outputs, using research, usage data, and market analysis to inform decisions
- Build the product function at Spade — processes, frameworks, and standards that scale as the team grows
What experience, skills, and qualifications are necessary?
- Must have:
- 5-9+ years of product management experience at a high-growth B2B startup
- Based in NYC
- Proven track record of building or launching products end-to-end, from early ideation through delivery and iteration
- Background in fintech or payments — you understand the key players, regulatory landscape, and nuances of building financial products
- Strong technical fluency — you can partner effectively with engineers, understand API-first products, and make informed trade-off decisions
- Exceptional communicator — you can make complex ideas feel simple for both technical and non-technical audiences
- Comfortable being the first and building a playbook
- Interest in leveraging AI to accelerate execution
- Nice to have:
- Experience with transaction or payments data
- Familiarity with developer-facing or API-first products
- Prior experience working directly with a founder or CEO on product strategy
- Experience at a Seed –Series C fintech or financial infrastructure company
- Prior experience as the first or only Product hire at a company
Why join Spade?
- Be a cultural founder. As an early employee, you’ll play a meaningful role in defining and building our culture.
- Get in on the ground floor. We’re a small but well-funded team – joining now comes with limited risk and unlimited upside.
- Build the next generation of financial infrastructure. Our products will power the next wave of innovation in fintech, helping our customers deliver better, more transparent products and services to the consumer.
Benefits include:
- Competitive compensation and equity package
- Full medical, dental, and vision benefits for US-based employees
- Life & short-term disability insurance
- Unlimited PTO
- Early exercise program
- Extended post-termination exercise period
- 401K for retirement planning
- Hybrid team, with pet-friendly headquarters in NYC
- Paid parental leave
- Work from home stipend
Diversity & Inclusion at Spade:
Spade is an equal opportunity employer, committed to building a culture that is diverse, equitable, and inclusive. We believe that having people with different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives not only helps us build the best products for our customers, but also helps us be the best version of ourselves.
Salary Range:
- At Spade, we view total compensation as consisting of salary + equity + benefits. We recruit motivated and high performing talent, and work to compensate people in line with the value they bring to our team.
- We aim to pay fairly and competitively, and consider a number of factors in developing compensation offers. These factors include years and breadth of experience, interview performance, market dynamics, and internal equity.
- The anticipated base salary range for this role is between $180,000 and $275,000 (depending on level), and an equity grant.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Spade