Tremendous is the global platform built for businesses to send payouts—gift cards and money—to anyone, anywhere, instantly. We're trusted by 20,000+ organizations, from startups to giants like Atlassian, MIT, and United Way, to reach millions of recipients worldwide.

We're profitable and growing without outside investors. We're fully remote, with a high-documentation, low-meeting culture that leaves more time for the work that matters—and for your life outside it. Our employee NPS sits in the high 80s.

We move billions of dollars through our systems. That makes security existential, and it's why we're making our first dedicated security hire.

About the role

You'll be our first Head of Security. There's already a real foundation here—bug bounty, pen tests, automated code and configuration scanning on the production and code side, phishing simulations on the people side. You’ll add to it across access and identity, SecOps and monitoring, incident response, vendor security, employee security practices, and policy. You'll own the whole posture.

This is a player-coach role. Early on, you'll do the scoping and the hands-on work yourself; this is not a role where you direct from above. As the work demands it, we're fully prepared to build a team here—and we're looking to you to define what that team should be and when.

You'll report to the VP of Engineering, Tremendous' most senior technical leader. We've deliberately placed security with Engineering so you're set up to drive real implementation fast—embedded with the people whose work you're securing, not siloed in a compliance function. As the security function matures, we'll revisit this.

What you'll do

Own Tremendous' security posture end-to-end, partnering with our engineering team on production infrastructure and code security.
Assess where we have gaps, prioritize them, and tackle our highest-leverage gaps first. We’ll have opinions, but you own the prioritization and implementation.
Treat incident response as core, not afterthought. We may not be able to prevent a breach, but your job is making sure it's small, contained, and that we know exactly what to do.
Drive security as a cultural shift across the company—introducing controls incrementally, working with teams rather than over them. "Yes, and," not "no."
Lead our AI-security posture. We invest heavily in AI tooling; your job is to manage that risk and enable it, not to ban it.
Define when and how to staff up the security function, and hire your own team.

What you'll bring

Real, hands-on security experience at a company that scaled—ideally as an early security hire who grew with the business through high growth.
Deep experience in at least one core security domain—product/production security, security operations, or access/identity and policy—with enough range to reason across the others. You defined the security posture, not just executed someone else’s playbook.
An engineer's mindset. You reach for code to solve problems and can read our codebase and understand our infrastructure (Ruby on Rails; TypeScript + React; PostgreSQL; Google Cloud). You won't write much day-to-day, but you're not lost in the code.
Judgment over checklists. You can explain the actual risk of a given decision, hold a firm line where it matters, and give ground where "best practice" doesn't apply to us or real business need pulls the other way. You can hold your own in a debate about whether to open up broad data access for AI tooling.
Bedside manner. You drive hard change by bringing the team around to your point of view, rather than just telling them no. Engineers and the rest of the company want to work with you.
Experience building or co-building a small security team is a plus.
Fintech, payments, or regulated-industry experience is a plus.

What's cool about the role

You define the function. First security leader, with the budget for the required tools and team.
A real mandate. The push for this hire comes straight from the founders.
We invest in your tools. Everyone has a $5k/month budget for AI tools. Use it.
Competitive pay and equity. Base salary $250,000–$330,000, plus meaningful equity.
Fully remote. Work from anywhere in the Americas.
Great culture. Read more about how we work in our public handbook.

About the company

Tremendous provides a B2B platform for sending payouts and rewards globally. It offers a catalog of over 2,000 reward options, including gift cards and digital payments, which allow recipients to choose rewards that are valuable to them. Clients manage distributions via bulk uploads or individual transactions, and Tremendous handles end-to-end delivery, with instant fulfillment and easy redemption. The platform integrates with more than 5,000 tools, enabling seamless incorporation into existing systems. Unlike many competitors, Tremendous has grown profitability without venture capital and began as a Y Combinator-backed startup, highlighting a history of sustainable growth. Its goal is to help organizations run efficient, scalable incentive programs and payout workflows worldwide by providing flexible rewards and reliable delivery.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

Early VC

Total Funding

$630K

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

2010

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What believers are saying

Tremendous named a G2 2026 Best Software Product in February 2026.
Its blog says $2B+ funds delivered and $1B+ payouts sent.
New 2026 reports on state preferences and GPT cashback expand top-of-funnel reach.

What critics are saying

Giftogram edges Tremendous on support and admin scores in G2 comparisons.
Awardco, Guusto, and Tango crowd rewards budgets with larger review volumes.
Compliance and fraud screening burden grows as payouts scale across 200 countries.

What makes Tremendous unique

VC-free and profitable, with founders and employees owning Tremendous in 2026.
Global payouts span 200-plus countries with one integration and 1,000 redemption choices.
Tremendous analyzes millions of redemptions, turning payout data into product credibility.

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Benefits

Remote work
Apple equipment
Unlimited vacation
Learning budget
Parental leave
Health, dental, & vision

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Oct 19th, 2026

flowres.io launches participant recruitment, making it a genuinely end-to-end online qualitative research platform.

flowres.io launches participant recruitment, making it a genuinely end-to-end online qualitative research platform. New recruitment and incentive capabilities connect participant sourcing, fieldwork, analysis and reporting, expand flowres.io to UX/UI, product and R&D research Its vision is to give researchers a single platform that supports the complete research journey, from finding the right participants to communicating insights that shape better decisions" - Jiten Madia, Founder & CEO NYC, NY, UNITED STATES, October 19, 2026 / EINPresswire.com / - Online qualitative research rarely happens in one place. Participants are recruited through one vendor, Incentives managed separately, Fieldwork happens on another platform, Conversations are analysed somewhere else, and insights are eventually turned into presentations in yet another application. Each of these handoffs introduces coordination, duplicated effort and operational overhead. flowres.io is bringing those pieces together, with its launch of participant recruitment and incentivization. This launch completes its online qualitative research workflow; from finding and incentivizing participants to conducting fieldwork, analysing conversations and curating insights, all within one connected workspace. The addition makes flowres.io a genuinely end-to-end online qualitative research platform, connecting the four core stages of the online qual workflow: Recruit & incentivize | Conduct fieldwork | Analyse | Report To enable the new capabilities, flowres.io has partnered with Respondent.io for participant recruitment and Tremendous for incentive fulfilment. Researchers can now access qualified participants, manage incentives and move directly into the rest of their research workflow within flowres.io. From research participant recruitment to insight For many research teams, research participant recruitment is one of the most operationally demanding parts of an online qualitative project. Whether teams need to find research participants, recruit participants for concept testing or manage user research recruitment, sourcing the right people often happens outside the platform where the rest of the research is conducted. With recruitment and incentivization now integrated into flowres.io, researchers can move through a connected workflow, moving from participant sourcing and scheduling into online fieldwork, AI-assisted analysis and reporting; without repeatedly transferring project information among multiple platforms. The new recruitment capability is powered by Respondent.io, while Tremendous powers incentive fulfilment. Together, the partnerships bring recruitment and incentives into the broader research workflow rather than creating additional standalone systems for researchers to manage. "Good qualitative research begins with finding the right participants ," said Jiten Madia, Founder and CEO of flowres.io. "Recruitment can create unnecessary movement between vendors, spreadsheets and research platforms. We wanted to make participant management an organic part of the same connected environment where researchers already conduct fieldwork, analyse evidence and prepare stakeholder reports." Expanding into UX/UI, product and innovation research The launch also marks a significant expansion in flowres.io's addressable audience. While flowres.io has traditionally been positioned to target qualitative research agencies, independent qualitative researchers and in-house consumer insights teams, adding participant recruitment and incentivization make the platform increasingly relevant to UX/UI researchers, product research teams, R&D teams and innovation teams. These teams conduct many of the same forms of qualitative research, including interviews, usability studies, concept testing and customer research; but often manage participants, fieldwork, analysis and reporting through separate systems. For teams looking to recruit participants for user research, recruiting user research participants can be just as operationally demanding as the research itself. The same applies to teams conducting usability studies and user testing recruitment. By connecting recruitment to the rest of the research workflow, flowres.io gives UX/UI, product, R&D and innovation teams an alternative to stitching together multiple specialist tools. "The boundaries between market research, UX research and product research are blurring, and rightfully so," said Madia. "Researchers across these disciplines face similar operational challenges. Our vision is to give them a single platform that supports the complete research journey, from finding the right participants to communicating insights that shape better decisions." What makes flowres.io genuinely end-to-end "End-to-end" has become a common claim in qualitative research technology, but platforms don't always cover all parts of the research journey. Some bring together research setup, fieldwork and analysis; others focus primarily on analysis and synthesis, with recruitment or other stages handled through separate tools. For flowres.io, end-to-end means connecting the core online qual workflow itself: Recruit | Conduct fieldwork | Analyse | Report. With participant recruitment and incentivization now part of the platform, researchers can manage the journey from finding the right participants through to curating and reporting insights within one connected workspace. Researchers can now conduct sessions through familiar video-conferencing platforms including Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet, collaborate with stakeholders through integrated virtual backrooms, analyse qualitative evidence using AI-assisted workflows, create video stories and curate presentations using SlideBuilder, flowres.io's PowerPoint add-in. This connected approach reflects flowres.io's broader product philosophy: technology should reduce operational complexity by fitting around established research workflows rather than requiring researchers to assemble disconnected technology stacks. With recruitment and incentivization now part of the platform, flowres.io enables researchers to genuinely run end-to-end online qualitative projects from one workspace; from participant recruitment and fieldwork through analysis and reporting. The new capabilities are available immediately to organisations across the United States, United Kingdom and Europe. Legal Disclaimer: EIN Presswire provides this news content "as is" without warranty of any kind. World Education News Network do not accept any responsibility or liability for the accuracy, content, images, videos, licenses, completeness, legality, or reliability of the information contained in this article. If you have any complaints or copyright issues related to this article, kindly contact the author above.

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Tremendous, a payouts platform enabling businesses to send money to anyone around the world, named Craig Whitmer as Vice President of Sales. “The Tremendous team built a platform that’s already been adopted by some of the world’s premier institutions — and they did it with a small but mighty team,” Whitmer said. “That’s a testament to the quality of their people and their product. I’m so excited to help Tremendous achieve its next stage of growth.”

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