Full-Time

Founding Account Executive

Glide

Glide

11-50 employees

Embedded fintech platform for credit unions

Compensation Overview

$100k - $150k/yr

+ Equity

New York, NY, USA

Hybrid

Category
Sales & Account Management (1)
Required Skills
Sales
Requirements
  • 2+ years of quota-driven sales experience selling to enterprises
  • 2+ years of hands-on experience with modern sourcing, prospecting, and outreach tools
  • Strong product intuition and proven track record of understanding complex, technical products
  • Strong understanding of Enterprise SaaS business models
  • Excellent communication, collaboration, and negotiation skills
Responsibilities
  • Build relationships with banking executives across country, while building awareness of Glide’s brand.
  • Source new opportunities through a combination in-person and virtual strategies, being the first point of contact for all new leads
  • Drive the sales process through lead identification, outreach, qualification, and nurturing
  • Help Glide become an established brand by attending conferences, hosting events, visiting prospects, and pitching at competitions
  • Build and refine the sales processes from the ground up, including vetting and implementing sales tools
  • Negotiate and close large, strategic accounts alongside the founders
Desired Qualifications
  • Previous experience selling a fintech or financial services product
  • Previously built sales processes from the ground up at an early-stage startup
  • An entrepreneurial, self-starter spirit

Glide provides an embedded fintech platform that helps community banks and credit unions modernize their digital services. It offers a unified, AI-powered digital experience layer on top of existing core systems, enabling seamless member onboarding and omni-channel interactions across online, branch, and in-person channels. The platform differentiates itself by consolidating 30+ legacy tools into a single intelligent layer, improving security with fraud detection and KYC tools, and speeding up account opening to boost deposits and lending. Glide’s goal is to reduce operational overhead for financial institutions while helping them compete in a digital-first market, supported by multi-year contracts and a $15 million Series A funding round in 2025 to expand its product roadmap and AI capabilities.

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

Series A

Total Funding

$15M

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

2021

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • $15M Series A in May 2025 funds AI expansion for origination and automation.
  • Signed 15 credit unions in first year via founder-led sales.
  • Strong team with Stripe, Google alumni drives fintech-grade banking infrastructure.

What critics are saying

  • Glide Apps brand confusion erodes SEO and customer acquisition now.
  • Q2 2025 funding winter burns cash through 2026 without bridge.
  • NCUA end-2026 AI mandates expose non-compliant black-box models, halting deployments.

What makes Glide unique

  • Glide reduces account opening from 20 minutes to under three, tripling conversion rates.
  • Platform integrates with Truv, KnotAPI, Middesk, Finix for all account types.
  • Self-configurable omni-channel experience unifies over 30 fragmented tech solutions.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Wellness Program

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Hybrid Work Options

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

↓ -17%

1 year growth

↓ -17%

2 year growth

↓ -17%
IT Juzi
May 9th, 2025
With Glide Secures $15M Series A Funding

With Glide, an embedded fintech platform provider, has secured $15 million in Series A funding. The investment round was led by Acrew Capital, with participation from Pear Ventures, NOMO Ventures, 186 Ventures, and Pathlight Ventures.

FinSMEs
May 8th, 2025
Glide Raises $15M in Series A Funding

Glide, a NYC-based provider of an embedded fintech platform, raised $15M in Series A funding

The Charlotte Observer
May 8th, 2025
Glide Raises $15M Series A to Power the Digital Transformation of Traditional Financial Institutions

Glide raises $15M Series A to power the digital transformation of traditional financial institutions.