Director of Platform, Kard
$220-245k
Reward infrastructure for card issuers
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Reward infrastructure for card issuers
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$220-245k
21-100 employees
Company mission
To build the future of loyalty with a new reward as-a-service platform.
Role
Who you are
- Strong experience in platform engineering and DevOps practices, with additional expertise in data systems and/or ML operations
- Proven ability to lead and scale teams, including mentoring, hiring, and fostering collaboration
- Proficiency in modern platform tools and practices, including AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD systems, and observability tools like Datadog
- Familiarity with data engineering technologies such as SQL, Python, dbt, Databricks, or equivalent platforms
- Experience in security and compliance audits, and familiarity with trust management platforms such as Vanta
- Experience with cost platforms such as Vantage
- Strategic thinking with the ability to align technical initiatives with business goals and deliver measurable outcomes
- Excellent communication skills for cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management
- Commitment to fostering a supportive, inclusive, and innovative team culture
- Ability to work 8 hours during core U.S. business hours between 7 a.m. to 7 p.m
- Ability to be on camera, distraction-free, and actively participating during meetings
What the job involves
- Play a critical role in shaping the foundation of Kard’s data, DevOps, and security platforms
- As Director, Platform, you will empower the entire business with robust, efficient, and secure systems that support our fast-growing company
- Reporting directly to the VP of Product and Engineering, you will collaborate with talented senior engineers and leaders with experience at startups and companies like AWS, HashiCorp, Reddit, Spotify, Heroku, and more
- Together, you will build and scale Kard’s technical foundation while enabling teams across the company to deliver innovative, scalable solutions
- This is a high-impact role with significant visibility, offering you the opportunity to grow your team, influence technical strategy, and make lasting contributions to Kard’s success
- Lead platform team to enhance developer experience, efficiency, and reliability, while ensuring scalability and security
- Oversee DevSecOps, and FinOps practices and tools, including CI/CD, IaC, and observability, to streamline workflows and align with business goals
- Guide data engineering, analytics engineering, and ML initiatives, operationalizing models for personalization, transaction enrichment, experimentation, and other key use cases
- Champion cross-functional collaboration to ensure platform investments deliver measurable business value, drive automation, and support lean growth strategies
- Establish and promote best practices for security, data privacy, and compliance with SOC2 type 2, PCI, and other standards
- Mentor and manage a growing team of engineers, fostering a culture of inclusion, collaboration, and continuous learning
- Serve as a founding leader in the DevOps guild, collaborating with product engineers and other stakeholders to advance expertise across the entire R&D organization
- Travel to attend annual and semi-annual company meetings, and as needed by your job responsibilities
- Additional duties as assigned
Our take
Credit card rewards often play a vital role in attracting new customers to a particular card over its competitors. But for newer fintech companies, setting up an attractive rewards program can be burdensome, requiring the issuer to negotiate with individual retail partners and manage the complexities of integration case by case.
Kard is a platform that is allowing businesses to create their own loyalty and rewards programs that are tailored to their specific needs and goals. Unlike other rewards platforms, Kard enables issuers to build unique rewards and loyalty experiences, making it easy for new issuers to mix and match from Kards offerings and integrate those rewards into their own interface.
Kard is the first rewards platform that provides services to the entire spectrum of card issuers and due to its innovative approach to the market, it has seen steady growth since its launch in 2020. Alongside its growth, Kard has secured funding from several investment organizations and plans to use the funding to expand its network and product suite, as well as accelerate hiring efforts across all departments to ramp up its offerings.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Feb 2020
$6m
LATE VC
Feb 2019
$5.8m
LATE VC
Total funding: $24.4m
Company benefits
- Open PTO
- Health, Vision, Dental Insurance
- Automatic 401k Contributions
- Personal Development Budget
- Three Team Offsites per Year
- Coworking Space Reimbursment
Company values
- Humility: We’re great at what we do, but there’s always room for improvement.
- Initiative: We're self-starters willing to put in the effort for our customers.
- Openness: We're upfront with and accountable to ourselves and others.
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
Articles
Leadership
Ben Mackinnon
(CEO)Previously worked as an Enterprise Sales Director at WorkMarket and as an Associate Director at Changing Our World.
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