Director - Solution Engineering
Zeta · East Coast
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Director role combining product ownership and solutions engineering for a defined portfolio of Zeta solutions spanning cards, loans, and deposits. The role sets strategy, designs programs for named banks and fintechs, runs discovery, proofs, and demos, and defends architecture in security and procurement reviews. Stack is cloud-native and fully API-enabled, covering processing, issuing, lending, core banking, fraud, loyalty, digital banking, and agentic AI.
About Zeta:
Zeta is a globally recognized next-gen banking technology company. Our modern platforms enable financial institutions and fintechs to launch extensible and compliant banking asset and liability products spanning cards, loans, and deposits. Our cloud-native and fully API-enabled stack supports processing, issuing, lending, core banking, fraud, loyalty, digital banking, and agentic AI solutions amongst many other capabilities.
Zeta has 1700+ employees with over 70% in technology roles across locations in the US, Middle East, and Asia - representing one of the largest and most capable teams ever assembled in banking tech. Globally, customers have issued 30M+ cards on Zeta's platform expected to grow to 60M+ in the coming years. Most recently valued at $2B, Zeta counts Softbank, Mastercard, and Optum amongst its investors.
About the Role
Zeta solves hard problems for financial institutions. We assemble solutions from our processing, issuing, payments, lending, core, and digital banking platforms to answer a problem an institution could not solve with what it already owns.
Every processor now says modern, API-first, and cloud-native, so the words no longer separate vendors. Buyers compare proof, and each alternative asks them to accept a compromise: a provider too old to move fast, one too new to trust with credit, or a program that is never really theirs.
This role joins two jobs that are usually split. The first is product: deciding which solutions go to banks, sponsor banks, and fintechs, how they are packaged and priced, and what gets built next. The second is solutions engineering: discovery, target architecture, proofs, and defending the design through architecture, security, and procurement review.
You hold both jobs with equal weight: product owner for a defined portfolio of solutions, and the person who proves them in the room. You own the strategy for your solutions and the case for what the platform builds next, and you keep every deal from becoming a custom build. This is a hands-on, 0 to 1 role with no team at the start but requires mentoring and working teams of engineers and product managers.
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