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Program Launch Manager

Cardless· Operations
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San Francisco$145k - $180kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Cardless is seeking a Program Launch Manager to lead end-to-end launches for new brand programs, coordinating cross-functional teams, vendors, and partners to bring cards into wallets and scale with the company’s roadmap toward profitability.

Responsibilities

  • Run launches end to end
  • Own the launch plan for new brand programs from signed deals to cards in wallets - the timeline, the dependencies, the DRIs, and the single source of truth everyone works from.
  • Manage and execute the launch process and associated trackers on a daily basis: daily standups, partner syncs, and executive updates. Everyone should always know what's on track, what's at risk, and what you need from them.
  • Find blockers early and clear them yourself where you can - and when you do need to escalate, come with a proposed answer.
  • Go deep on every workflow
  • Learn (and track) how each function does its part of a launch: credit policy and underwriting setup, program configuration, rewards design, funding and settlement, compliance and bank approvals, fraud controls, servicing readiness, and card fulfillment.
  • Get into the details other people skip - the disclosure that hasn't been reviewed, the test case nobody ran, the vendor deliverable with no owner. Launches fail on small details, and it's your job to catch them.
  • Coordinate partners and vendors
  • Act as the launch-facing point of contact for the brand partner's team, and manage the shared plan across both companies.
  • Coordinate deliverables across the issuing bank, card networks, processors, and vendors - each with their own timelines, requirements, and quirks.
  • Keep external parties honest on dates the same way you do internal teams.

Qualifications

  • 2–6 years in roles where you shipped complex cross-functional work: launch or program management, operations, consulting, banking, or early-stage startup operating roles.
  • You have run at least one project where five or more parties had to deliver on the same date, and you were the person accountable for the whole thing.
  • Enough fintech, payments, or financial services exposure to know the terminology and what's what. You don't need to be an expert in underwriting or compliance or card fulfillment on day one - but you do need the curiosity to become one.
  • Detail oriented to an extreme: You read everything, and you notice when something doesn't add up - a date that quietly moved, a number that doesn't match the tracker, a requirement nobody actually closed out.
  • Comfortable across functions: You can follow an engineering conversation about an integration cutover and a compliance conversation about disclosures, and explain each side to the other. You won't be the expert in most of these rooms, but you can never be lost in them.
  • Calm when things break: Something always breaks close to launch. You re-plan, tell everyone what changed, and keep the room steady.

Skills

Required:Launch managementCross-functional coordinationProject planning and trackingStakeholder management
Nice to have:Fintech/payments knowledge

Benefits

  • Meaningful Start-up equity
  • 100% health, vision & dental primary coverage
  • 75% health, vision & dental dependent coverage
  • Catered lunches
  • $250/month Commuter benefit
  • Parental leave
  • Team building events & happy hours
  • Flexible PTO with a minimum of 15 days off per year
  • Apple equipment
  • 401k plan
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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