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  • Founding Growth Marketing Director

    Texas

    unspecified Salary not disclosed

    Founding Growth Marketing Director Texas Job Title: Founding Growth Marketing Director Experience: Proven LeadGen ownership Skills: Outcome Oriented, Proven Results, AI savvy, Scientist mindset Location: Austin, TX Company: Forward About Us: Forward is one of the fastest growing payments and embedded finance companies in North America. Our infrastructure powers leading private equity and venture capital backed software platforms' money movement capabilities. We typically double a partner's revenue in 36 months. Our ICP is a software company with $5m-$100m in software revenue with a sub-optimal existing payments relationship. We've run a playbook 1,500+ times that delivers proven results - shortening sponsor hold times, doubling average revenue per user (ARPU) and simplifying the technical lift. North America (our current operating geography) represents 55,000 software companies, 7,000 sponsors and $7 trillion in payment volume. Forward currently partners with sponsors bringing $145B in investable capital to accelerate the growth of vertical software platforms. Our buyer personas are: Software CEO, Software CRO, Software Payments GM, Private Equity Investor, Private Equity Value Creation team member and Industry Consultants. Forward is a mission driven company that is working to Pay it Forward, in an industry that extracts rents from asymmetric information. Our values (ethos, pathos, logos) are inspired by the ancient Greeks who believed the combination to be the foundation of trust. We built, scaled, and successfully exited multiple software+payments companies for 20+ years, and built Forward to be what we were always looking for in a partner. Job Description: As a founding member of the Forward

  • Incident Management Lead

    Texas

    unspecified Salary not disclosed

    Incident Management Lead Texas About the Role Incidents are inevitable. How fast you detect them, how quickly you act, and whether the organization actually learns from them - that is what separates payments companies that scale from ones that spiral. Forward processes payments for thousands of merchants across dozens of partner platforms. When something breaks - a submission failure blocks merchants mid-onboarding, a processing outage hits a partner's book, a compliance flag freezes accounts at scale - the impact lands on real businesses in real time. The question is not whether incidents will happen. It is whether Forward detects them in minutes or hours, resolves them with coordination or chaos, and fixes the root cause or patches the symptom. The Incident Management Lead owns that answer. This is a modern role for a modern problem. You will build an AI-assisted incident intelligence layer that gives Forward signal before issues become incidents, run coordinated response when they do, and drive the post-incident work that makes the organization genuinely more resilient - not just less embarrassed. You will own the closed loop between reactive resolution and proactive prevention: the governance function that ensures Forward gets faster and smarter after every incident rather than repeating the same failures. This role sits at the intersection of Engineering, GTM, Support, and Operations, and is directly accountable to the CRCO. When things go wrong at Forward, you are the named owner - before, during, and after. Key Responsibilities Build the Detection Layer Design and operate a

  • Senior Partner Sales Consultant

    Texas

    unspecified Salary not disclosed

    Senior Partner Sales Consultant Texas Job Title: Senior Partner Sales Consultant Experience: Proven lead procurement + owning end to end sales Skills: Consultative, Proven Results, Accountable, Driven Location: Austin, TX Company: Forward About Us: Forward is one of the fastest growing payments and embedded finance companies in North America. Our infrastructure powers leading private equity and venture capital backed software platforms' money movement capabilities. We typically double a partner's revenue in 36 months. Our ICP is a software company with $5m-$100m in software revenue with a sub-optimal existing payments relationship. We've run a playbook 1,500+ times that delivers proven results - shortening sponsor hold times, doubling average revenue per user (ARPU) and simplifying the technical lift. North America (our current operating geography) represents 55,000 software companies, 7,000 sponsors and $7 Trillion in payment volume. Forward currently partners with sponsors bringing $145B in investable capital to accelerate the growth of vertical software platforms. Our buyer personas are: Software CEO, Software CRO, Software Payments GM, Private Equity Investor, Private Equity Value Creation team member, Payments companies (that white label our technology) and Industry Consultants. Forward is a mission driven company that is working to Pay it Forward, in an industry that extracts rents from asymmetric information. Our values (ethos, pathos, logos) are inspired by the ancient Greeks who believed the combination to be the foundation of trust. We built, scaled, and successfully exited software+payments companies for 20+ years, and built Forward to be what we were always looking for in a partner.

  • Risk Intelligence Lead

    Texas

    unspecified Salary not disclosed

    Risk Intelligence Lead Texas About the Role Forward's Risk and Compliance Operations is scaling to support 45x merchant volume without 45x headcount. The only way that works is if the function gets smarter faster than it grows. That is what this role exists to build. The Risk Intelligence Lead owns the analytical core of RCO. You will build the intelligence layer that powers decision-making across the function: dashboards that surface trends, patterns, and anomalies before they become incidents; AI-assisted workflows that compress review time and reduce manual effort; SQL infrastructure that turns raw operational data into forward-looking signals; and the automation that systematically eliminates the manual work that does not need to be manual. What makes this role distinct is where the intelligence comes from. You do not study the operation from a distance - you sit in it. Reviewing alerts and cases, working through merchant applications, understanding the day-to-day rhythm of the work is what gives you the pattern recognition to build systems that actually work. The best analytical infrastructure is built by someone who has lived the friction, not just modeled it. This is a build role at a company scaling fast. The person who does this well will shape what the RCO function looks like at 10x, 20x, 50x - and will grow directly with it. Key Responsibilities Own the Day-to-Day Merchant Lifecycle Manage the merchant application review queue: evaluate onboarding submissions for accuracy, completeness, and risk indicators - including multi-layered KYB verification (legal structure, beneficial ownership,

  • Sr Software Engineer

    Texas

    unspecified Salary not disclosed

    Sr Software Engineer Texas About the Role Forward is scaling fast, and we need senior engineers who can grow with the platform - not just build features, but harden, secure, and extend the system. This role is a core contributor on our engineering team. You'll ship full-stack product work, build agentic AI systems that automate complex workflows, and own meaningful parts of the platform as we scale it from where it is today to where it needs to be. You will work cross-functionally with product, design, and engineering leadership to translate ambiguous business problems into well-scoped technical solutions. We need someone who sees the gaps, fills them, and doesn't wait to be asked. Key Responsibilities Full-Stack Product Engineering Architect, build, and maintain full-stack applications using TypeScript, Next.js, React, and Node.js across our product surface area. Own end-to-end feature delivery from database schema and API design through frontend UI/UX, including observability, testing, and deployment. Drive architectural decisions across the stack, balancing speed with long-term durability. Agentic AI & LLM Integration Design and implement agentic AI systems - autonomous agents that plan multi-step workflows, use tools, call APIs, and make decisions with minimal human oversight. Lead the integration of LLM-powered capabilities into production systems - prompt engineering, tool-use frameworks, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and multi-agent orchestration. Stand up and evolve AI platform infrastructure as the roadmap matures - model serving, orchestration, and evaluation pipelines. Streaming & Real-Time Data Build and operate real-time streaming data pipelines using Kafka (or Kafka-compatible platforms like WarpStream), stream

  • Director of Engineering

    Texas

    unspecified Salary not disclosed

    Director of Engineering Texas About The Role As Director of Engineering, you own the technical direction, delivery, and culture of the engineering organization. You'll partner closely with the founders on company strategy, with product on what we build, and with customers on what we ship. Your job is to scale the team, sharpen execution, and ensure we continue to ship quickly without compromising on the things that matter (especially when money is involved). This is a hands-on leadership role. You'll be in architecture discussions, involved in critical code reviews, and present for the hardest technical and product decisions. We are not looking for a pure people manager who has stepped away from the work. What You'll Do Lead the organization Build, manage, and develop a high-performing team of senior engineers and engineering managers. Set a high bar for hiring, performance, and engineering quality. Own delivery Establish the systems, rituals, and accountability needed to ship predictably and at high quality. Set technical direction Partner with founders and senior engineers on architecture, platform investments, and key build vs. buy decisions. Drive our agentic AI strategy Identify where AI agents meaningfully improve our product and operations-and turn those ideas into production systems. Build and scale a high-talent team Own talent density. Attract, close, and retain exceptional engineers, and ensure every hire raises the bar. Be directly involved in senior hiring and act as a final decision-maker when needed. Design the org, leveling, and onboarding systems that let us scale quickly without compromising quality-and

  • Risk Data Scientist

    Texas

    unspecified Salary not disclosed

    Risk Data Scientist Texas About the Role Forward processes payments for thousands of merchants across dozens of partner platforms. The Risk Data Scientist's job is to build the model-driven intelligence layer that replaces static rules with adaptive, evidence-based decisioning across three risk domains: merchant underwriting and approval optimization, real-time transaction fraud and anomaly detection, and AML/transaction monitoring and SAR prioritization. You will own the full modeling lifecycle - from problem framing and feature engineering to training, validation, deployment, monitoring, and regulatory governance. This is applied ML in a high-stakes, regulated financial context. Models you build will directly determine approval rates, fraud loss rates, chargeback exposure, and SAR filing quality. They will be scrutinized by bank sponsors, card networks, and regulators. The work demands both technical rigor and regulatory fluency: someone who understands why a gradient boosting ensemble outperforms logistic regression on imbalanced fraud data AND why SHAP explainability is a compliance requirement under ECOA adverse action rules. Forward is early in this journey. The person who takes this role will define the ML architecture, build the model governance framework, and set the standard for how Forward uses machine learning in regulated financial services. Key Responsibilities Merchant Risk: Underwriting and Approval Rate Optimization Build and own the merchant risk scoring model - the centerpiece of Forward's move from static rules to model-based decisioning. This model drives tier assignment (auto-approve, conditional approve, RFI, decline) for every merchant application, replacing hand-coded thresholds with evidence-based probability scores. Design vertical-specific scoring variants for contractor/home services,