Cardless
Chief of Staff, Office of the President
San Francisco · Exec · Full-time
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Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
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the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
$26,758 more — $176,758 — moves this role to Level III and 3 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $176,758 would place this position at wage Level III. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "General and Operations Managers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · General and Operations Managers (11-1021) · San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- You will work extremely closely with, and act as a force multiplier to the founder and president: taking on our hardest, most complex, most interdisciplinary problems… to make sure the company runs well and wins!!
- Shadowing: Shadow the founder to understand how the company works, and rapidly accumulate context on our business.
- If you're looking to become a very effective problem solver, and learn founder leadership skills, this could be the right place!
Responsibilities
- Cardless is building the infrastructure for the world's best companies to design, build, and launch financial products.
- Companies like Coinbase and Bilt use Cardless to create credit cards that feel entirely their own.
- Our APIs and components shape the journey from the first application to every purchase, reward, and moment of support that follows, while we handle lending, compliance, and operations behind the scenes.
- ✈️ Team building events & happy hours
- We're in the office at least three days a week, and most of us are there more than that, because we do our best thinking and building together in person.
Requirements
- 5+ years experience doing hard things: this could be through any of a wide range of experiences: consulting, banking, engineering, product, operating, founding a company, taking over a family business, etc…
Compensation
- This role has an annual starting salary range of $150,000 - $235,000 + equity + benefits (see below).
- Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skills, experience, and specific work location.
Benefits
- We're proud to offer our team excellent benefits:
- 💸 Meaningful Start-up equity
- 🏥 100% health, vision & dental primary coverage
- ➕ 75% health, vision & dental dependent coverage
- 🚎 $250/month Commuter benefit
- 👶 Parental leave
- 🌴 Flexible PTO with a minimum of 15 days off per year
- We see what could be improved, make it so, and leave every product, system, and team better than we found it.
Company info
- We work very hard - long hours, often on weekends (often on Sundays but never on Saturdays). We understand that winning takes a level of intensity and dedication that others are simply unwilling to.
- Wherever you are weak, this role will push you to grow. You will face unfamiliar problems that demand you learn quickly and improve continuously. Learning and growing is kind of painful, and this role expects you to lean into that discomfort, over and over again.
- You'll join exec team meetings, external pitches, interviews, product workshops - travel to visit partners and customers, and go very very deep on the most important problems.
- We plan to hire multiple CoS'in the company. If it's important to you to be the only person in this role at the company, this role is not for you.
- Over time, you may fall in love with a specific part of the company and move into it full-time, or help us launch a new business line, or even (if /when the time is right) leave to start a company!
- We plan to hire multiple CoS'in the company.
- If it's important to you to be the only person in this role at the company, this role is not for you.
- We're looking for kind, humble people with high standards and low egos.
- We're looking for someone who's genuinely excited to be there alongside the team.
This listing is sourced directly from Cardless's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.