About Zed
Zed is building the first AI-native, licensed neobank in the Philippines designed to democratize access to premium financial services for young professionals in global markets. The current banking system is broken, often shutting out the world’s youngest and fastest-growing consumer classes—we’re here to fix it.
Our team is uniquely positioned to solve this. We are Stanford engineers and former YC founders who have spent our careers at the intersection of banking and hyper-growth startups like Square, Facebook, and Box. We’ve been here before, having previously built and exited Symple (YC W'17), a fast-growing B2B payments company.
We are backed by world-class investors, including Accel, Valar, Immad Akhund (Mercury), Dalton Caldwell (Y Combinator), and Kunal Shah (Cred).
Why join Zed
- Design has real authority here. You’ll work with a designer-founder, contribute to foundational product decisions, and have a direct line between your judgment and what customers use.
- The design problem is unusually rich. Credit, underwriting, regulation, and AI all introduce complexity. The opportunity is to make that complexity feel clear, fair, and human for customers traditional banks have overlooked.
- You’ll help define a new interaction model for personal finance. Zed’s AI private banker is early enough for you to shape its principles, behaviors, personality, and experience foundations—not simply inherit them.
- We have the infrastructure to build for real. Zed is a BSP-supervised financial institution with a live credit card and real customers, backed by Accel, Valar, and experienced fintech founders and operators. At the same time, much of the product’s future is still unwritten.
- The team is small and the path from idea to production is short. You’ll work closely with founders and engineers, take meaningful ownership, and see the effect of your work directly.
- We’re building for a generation whose ambitions have outgrown the financial products available to them. You’ll have the opportunity to help define the financial relationship for young professionals across Southeast Asia and other emerging markets.
We hire exceptional people from diverse backgrounds because different perspectives build better products.
If you’re excited about this role but don’t check every box, apply anyway. We value potential, ownership, and alignment with our values more than perfect résumés.
Compensation includes salary, equity, and benefits. Final offers are based on role scope, location, and experience.