About The Company

Founders today are building global companies from day one — but the systems that manage their money were built for a different era. Aspire exists to change that!

We’re building the financial operating system for global founders, bringing banking, software, and automation into a single platform so businesses can move faster across borders and stay focused on building.

Aspire is built by people who think from first principles, care deeply about solving hard problems, and take real ownership of their work. Our team brings global experience from leading fintech and technology companies, and many of us are former founders and operators who understand what it takes to build thoughtfully, make trade-offs, and deliver at scale in a global environment.

Backed by leading global investors including Y Combinator, Peak XV, and Lightspeed, Aspire has been trusted by more than 50,000 startups and growing businesses worldwide to manage their finances since 2018. Together with partners like J.P. Morgan, Visa, and Wise, we’re building for the next generation of global companies.

About The Team

You'll be joining Aspire's Cards team, the group building and scaling the card product that sits at the heart of how our global businessSME customers spend, manage, and control company money.We're a commercially-minded team that sits at the intersection of product, risk, and rest of functional teamsrevenue — owning the cards business end-to-end rather than just a slice of it.

What You'll Own

• The full P&L for the cards business — revenue, margin, and cost — including interchange income, FX margin, and card fees.
• Commercial and pricing strategy, including fee structures and network/issuer economics.
• Growth across card adoption, activation, usage, and cross-sell with other Aspire products.
• The product roadmap's commercial priorities, partnering closely with Product and Engineering.
• Partner relationships and commercial terms with card networks, issuers, and processors.
• Compliance of the program with Risk, Compliance, and Legal — covering fraud, AML, and network/regulatory rules.
• Alignment across Sales, Marketing, Ops, and Finance around shared card business goals.
• Forecasting, budgeting, and performance reporting to leadership.
  
  

Who You Are

• Experience owning full P&L for a cards or payments business, with real accountability for revenue, margin, and cost.
• Strong understanding of card segments, USPs and GTM approaches
• A strong grasp of card economics — interchange, FX margin, network/issuer relationships, and fee structures.
• A track record of negotiating commercial terms with card networks, issuers, or processors.
• Comfort operating across compliance and risk-heavy environments (fraud, AML, regulatory rules) without slowing the business down.
• Strong cross-functional leadership — you can align Sales, Marketing, Ops, Finance, and Product around one set of goals.
• Sharp forecasting and financial reporting skills, with the judgment to translate numbers into decisions for leadership.
• Has a strong grasp of artificial intelligence concepts and the ability to apply AI tools (e.g. Claude, n8n, etc.) and frameworks to solve real-world problems at Aspire.
  
  

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