Role in brief
BloomFi is seeking a Chief Executive Officer to lead a remote financial platform that integrates traditional finance with digital assets. This role involves defining strategic direction, driving commercial growth, and overseeing operations. The ideal candidate has senior leadership experience in fintech, neo-banking, or digital assets, with a proven track record in scaling financial technology businesses and managing cross-functional teams.
About the role
This CEO role at BloomFi involves setting the strategic direction for a financial platform that bridges traditional finance and digital assets. You will work closely with the Chairman and CTO to translate the company's vision into clear objectives and ensure effective execution across all functions. The position requires making informed decisions in a dynamic market, identifying growth opportunities, and fostering a culture of accountability and innovation.
A key part of this role is driving BloomFi's commercial strategy and sustainable growth. This includes developing relationships with strategic partners, financial institutions, and technology providers, as well as supporting fundraising efforts. You will need to understand the competitive landscape across fintech, neo-banking, and digital assets to identify expansion opportunities for the platform and its customer base.
The CEO will also oversee daily operations, ensuring coordination across teams and establishing processes for scaling the business. This includes working with compliance, legal, and finance to ensure effective and responsible operations. Success in this role means maintaining a strong customer-centric approach to product development, focusing resources on high-value initiatives, and recruiting talent as the organization grows.
The compensation for this role is between $150,000 and $190,000 annually, with potential for performance-based incentives and equity participation.
Skills that matter here
- fintech: This role requires senior-level experience within fintech, neo-banking, or modern financial services to lead the company's strategic direction.
- neo-banking: Experience in neo-banking is essential for guiding the development of BloomFi's next-generation financial platform.
- digital assets: A background in crypto or digital assets is important for bridging traditional finance with the digital asset economy.
- strategic acumen: The CEO must possess strong strategic acumen to define the company's direction and identify growth opportunities.
- managing cross-functional teams: Experience managing cross-functional teams is necessary to oversee day-to-day operations and ensure effective coordination.
- fundraising: The role involves supporting fundraising and investor relations alongside the Chairman and founders.
Who this role suits
- A leader with a background in digital or challenger banking, fintech platforms, payments, or embedded finance.
- Someone with a proven history of building, scaling, or leading a financial technology business or product.
- An individual who thrives in a remote, autonomous environment and can shape strategy from an early stage.
- A professional with excellent communication skills who can act as the public face of a growing company.
From the employer
Key Responsibilities
Leadership & Strategy
- Work closely with the Chairman and CTO to define and execute the company’s strategic direction.
- Translate the company’s vision into clear objectives, priorities and measurable outcomes.
- Lead the day-to-day management of the business and ensure effective execution across all functions.
- Build a high-performance culture based on accountability, innovation and collaboration.
- Make informed, commercially sound decisions in a rapidly changing market.
- Identify new opportunities for growth, partnerships and expansion.
- Ensure the company remains focused on its core objectives while adapting quickly to market developments.
Commercial & Growth
- Drive the company’s commercial strategy and sustainable growth.
- Develop relationships with strategic partners, financial institutions, technology providers and other key stakeholders.
- Support fundraising and investor relations alongside the Chairman and founders.
- Develop and maintain a strong understanding of the competitive landscape across fintech, neo-banking and digital assets.
- Identify opportunities to expand the platform, customer base and geographic footprint.
- Ensure commercial objectives are aligned with product development and customer needs.
Product & Technology
- Work closely with the CTO to ensure technology development supports the company’s commercial and strategic objectives.
- Work closely with the Product function to ensure the roadmap reflects market opportunity and customer requirements.
- Challenge assumptions, prioritise effectively and ensure resources are focused on the highest-value initiatives.
- Ensure the business maintains a strong customer-centric approach to product development.
Operations
- Oversee the company’s day-to-day operations and ensure effective coordination across teams.
- Establish appropriate processes, reporting structures and performance metrics as the business scales.
- Work closely with compliance, legal, finance and operational teams to ensure the business operates effectively and responsibly.
- Identify operational risks and implement appropriate solutions.
- Recruit, develop and retain exceptional talent as the organisation grows.
Brand & External Representation
- Act as the public face and senior ambassador of the company.
- Represent the business at industry events, conferences, media engagements and partner meetings.
- Communicate the company’s vision with confidence and credibility.
- Develop relationships with senior executives, investors, regulators, partners and industry leaders.
- Help establish the company as a credible and influential player within fintech, neo-banking and digital finance.
Essential Experience
- Previous senior-level experience within fintech, neo-banking, digital banking or modern financial services is essential.
- We are particularly interested in candidates who have experience within:
- Digital or challenger banking
- Fintech platforms
- Payments
- Banking-as-a-Service
- Embedded finance
- Crypto / digital assets
- Financial technology infrastructure
- Modern financial platforms
The successful candidate will ideally have:
- Significant senior leadership experience within fintech or financial services.
- A proven track record of building, scaling or leading a financial technology business or product.
- Strong commercial and strategic acumen.
- Experience working closely with technology and product teams.
- Experience managing cross-functional teams.
- Experience developing strategic partnerships.
- Experience with fundraising, investors and/or institutional stakeholders.
- A strong understanding of the regulatory and competitive environment surrounding modern financial services.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
What We Offer
- Senior leadership position within an ambitious fintech venture.
- Fully remote working.
- High degree of autonomy and influence.
- Direct access to the Chairman, founders and leadership team.
- Opportunity to shape the company’s strategy and culture from an early stage.
- Significant influence over the development and growth of the business.
- Competitive consulting remuneration.
- Potential performance-based incentives.
- Potential equity participation for the right candidate.
Questions about this role
What is the remote work policy for this role?
This is a fully remote position, offering a high degree of autonomy and influence.
What is the seniority level of this position?
This is a c-level leadership position, specifically Chief Executive Officer.
What kind of experience is required for this role?
Candidates need senior-level experience in fintech, neo-banking, digital banking, or modern financial services, with a proven track record of scaling a financial technology business.