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Few people get to build a bank from scratch. Even fewer get to build one at a moment when banking itself is being reinvented. The dollar is the best product in the history of the world, with practically infinite global demand, but distribution is broken. Global clearing runs on legacy banks that are closed 115 days a year, built for humans and take two days to settle. Augustus is the update to the internet era. We received conditional approval from the OCC to charter America’s first stablecoin-native clearing bank that is always open, made for machines, at the speed of compute. We are a group of operators, unicorn early employees, ex-founders and people who walked away from degrees because they believe this is an industry and career defining opportunity. We're backed with $40M from Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures, Creandum and founders of Ramp, Deel and Circle. We are regulated in Europe and live with Euro and Stablecoin clearing today. Now, we are building the US team from the ground up, while continuing to grow rapidly in Europe. THE ROLE You own Banking Experience: the accounts at the centre of every customer's relationship with the bank, and the quality of the interfaces through which they interact with them - the API and the dashboard. Accounts (DDAs, FBOs, virtual accounts) are the product; the API and dashboard are how customers experience it. Your domain runs across accounts, API, dashboard, IAM, and the end-to-end customer experience. The end state: an enterprise customer sets up an Augustus account and is moving money the same day - accounts that are effortless to create, an API that's a joy to integrate, and a dashboard with the speed and precision of the best modern software, not what anyone expects from a bank. Your job is to challenge the status quo - to take everything customers hate about bank interfaces and account setup, and build the version they've never been able to get from a bank before. You'll get deep into the use cases our customers are building: how a stablecoin operator structures virtual accounts, how a fintech's engineers experience our API on day one, how an operator lives in our dashboard every day. That understanding lets you work with design and engineering to develop our platform to uniquely solve for our customers' needs. You report to Will, Head of Product, and work closely with Simon, our CTO. You're expected to operate with full autonomy on your team's roadmap. YOUR FIRST 6 MONTHS - Months 1-2: You take over day-to-day ownership of the Banking Experience team - the roadmap, the ways of working, the hard decisions. You establish yourself with customers, getting deep on how they set up and use accounts and where we're falling short. You define and ship your first project. - Months 3-4: Full execution mode. You're unblocking engineering daily, making hard prioritisation calls, and keeping the roadmap moving. You're raising the bar across accounts, API, and dashboard, and feeding what you learn from customers straight back into the product. - Months 5-6: You're working with live customers on the products you've built, and deposits and account holders are scaling. You've moved from execution to platform mode - evolving the roadmap based on what your first customers are actually building on top of Augustus, and pushing the account and dashboard experience further than any of them expected a bank could go. WHO WILL THRIVE AT AUGUSTUS We believe throwing smart people with high agency at big problems produces the best outcomes. The people who succeed here share the following traits: - Relentless: You can't leave something broken. You don't stop because it got hard or because no one is watching. - Set the bar: You're harder on yourself than anyone else would be. You don't need external accountability to care about quality. - Shape the Game: You don't wait for a playbook and you don't need one. You walk into genuinely new territory and figure it out. You move befo