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Lightspark is creating the Money Grid, modern, open financial infrastructure that makes payments accessible, affordable, and instant for businesses and users worldwide. We're challenging the status quo, updating the current system, and empowering our partners to build better solutions. Together, we're building the most advanced financial infrastructure, open, instant, and global, inspiring a future where anyone, anywhere can access the full potential of digital money.

Lightspark is seeking an experienced Chief Compliance Officer to build and lead our compliance function as we scale a global, multi-asset payments business spanning fiat, stablecoins, and Bitcoin. This is a rare opportunity to design a compliance program from first principles, setting global licensing strategy, expanding our financial crimes program, and building the policies, controls, and team needed to support Lightspark's growth across a complex and fast-moving regulatory landscape. You will own our compliance posture across our global footprint, spanning AML, sanctions, and consumer protection to licensing and banking partner relationships. You will set the strategic direction for the function while staying hands-on in the early stages, and you will be central to how Lightspark builds a compliance program that scales with the business through sharp judgment, smart process design, and a genuinely tech- and AI-forward approach.

This position reports to Lightspark's Vice President of Legal & Compliance. All members of the compliance team will report to you.

Ideally, we are looking for someone who would be based in LA or willing to relocate. However, if this is not possible, then we will require regular travel to Los Angeles to collaborate with your team and cross-functional stakeholders.

What you will be doing

As the Staff Product Manager for Payments Orchestration & Intelligence, you will be the architect of Lightspark’s core transaction engine. You will own the strategy for our AI Routing and Grid Switch, determining how money is routed across disparate global financial networks and domestic real-time rails (RTP) to maximize success and minimize cost. This is a unique, matrixed role: you will drive the horizontal platform layer that scales our infrastructure while simultaneously leading vertical, end-to-end customer engagements that bring new payment capabilities to market. We are looking for a high-leverage builder who thrives in a fast-paced \"0 to 1\" environment and is eager to define the future of agentic commerce.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

Lead Payment Orchestration: Define the roadmap for our AI Router and Grid Switch, building the intelligent pathfinding logic that optimizes for transaction success rates (TSR), latency, and cost.
Scale Global Connectivity: Drive the expansion into domestic payment rails (e.g., SPEI, UPI, SEPA) and manage the technical and regulatory complexities of global interoperability.
Own the \"Closed Loop\": Design the strategy for internal and customer-facing observability dashboards and automated reconciliation workflows to","datePosted":"2026-04-06","employmentType":"FULL_TIME","hiringOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Lightspark","sameAs":"https://lightspark.com"},"url":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/lightspark/800e2fcc-4f86-4068-aaa2-2990fea561d8","jobLocation":{"@type":"Place","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"Los Angeles HQ"}}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Finance Manager, Payments","description":"
Lightspark is creating the Money Grid, modern, open financial infrastructure that makes payments accessible, affordable, and instant for businesses and users worldwide. We're challenging the status quo, updating the current system, and empowering our partners to build better solutions. Together, we're building the most advanced financial infrastructure, open, instant, and global, inspiring a future where anyone, anywhere can access the full potential of digital money.
Lightspark is seeking a Finance Manager to spearhead the build out and operation of some of Lightspark’s key finance workstreams. The Finance Manager will. Your work will directly impact our operational resilience, customer trust, and ability to scale. You will also drive critical internal and external financial system integrations, including identifying the requirements and driving efficiencies for our bitcoin and fiat operations. Your ability to intricately connect finance requirements to our product solutions will be integral to our success.
This role is custom-made for someone with boundless optimism for the future and an insatiable appetite for learning. We value adaptability, and you will have a “can-do” attitude,and have a strong sense of ownership. You will need to be self-sufficient to deliver results.
What you'll be doing:
- Own a range of crypto-asset and fiat finance, treasury, and accounting priorities including calculating and tracking various revenue models, wallet structures, and liquidity management.
- Collaborate with Product and Engineering to align financial and treasury infrastructure with payments and settlement flows.
- Partner with business,","datePosted":"2026-01-29","employmentType":"FULL_TIME","hiringOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Lightspark","sameAs":"https://lightspark.com"},"url":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/lightspark/71eaae17-5123-496a-8177-9f475bf8b0df","jobLocation":{"@type":"Place","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"Los Angeles HQ"}}}]

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