Bastion’s $275K remote VP Finance outearns its engineers

The Remote VP Finance Seat

Bastion is hiring a remote VP of Finance at $200,000–$275,000 per year, according to Zero G Talent’s board data, as enterprise demand for regulated stablecoin rails surges. The board data shows a US-remote role added in the past 7 days, one of two new listings.

The hire lands inside a stack that issues stablecoins, runs custodial wallets, and converts assets across borders — the same moment Circle, Paxos, BNY, and Fireblocks are expanding regulated custody and charter plays. A hands-on finance leader now owns Bastion’s numbers end to end, from month-end close to regulatory filings to the models that price products.

The hire sits inside that stack, not beside it. The listing demands a builder of scalable finance systems and processes, not an overseer. The VP closes the books each month, submits regulatory filings, and models how to allocate capital and price products. Bastion wants someone who has lived in accounting details, then zoomed out to drive strategic planning and FP&A.

Candidates need controller or senior accounting roots plus strategic finance exposure. The posting seeks a person equally comfortable reviewing journal entries and presenting to the board — a finance operator who can defend numbers to regulators and enterprises, not a pure strategist.

Bastion prefers a NYC candidate but opens the role to any U.S. worker. The VP reports straight to the COO. Zero G Talent’s board counts seven Bastion roles now. The VP pay leads that group, matching senior technical staff and beating marketing leads.

The salary bands show the parity:

Median across these seven roles is $260,000. A remote VP at the top out-earns the median infrastructure engineer.

The first 90 days read like a control audit. In week one, the new hire reviews every active regulatory reporting duty: which form, which regulator, which team member files it now. They meet Legal, Compliance, and Risk to map the rule environment. They walk with teams to spot where accounting and treasury handoffs fracture.

Then execution starts. The VP runs the month-end close, slashes cycle time, kills manual workarounds, and sets a calendar the team hits monthly. They take all regulatory reporting in-house so filings land accurate, complete, on time, no longer riding on one person’s memory. They build an FP&A rhythm — budget versus actual, cost allocation, variance analysis — and own annual planning that links revenue, headcount, burn, and runway.

Bastion holds its own licenses and also serves as provider under clients’ licenses. That dual duty forces the VP to file both Bastion’s reports and those tied to customer charters. The role must scale controls ahead of new rules, not scramble after.

Over 12–18 months, the hire develops the team, spots gaps, and recommends recruits. By month three, they speak to financial position, close process, and regulatory duties with full confidence. The close runs on a documented calendar; filings carry an audit trail from source to submission. That is the mandate: a remote finance chief who makes regulated rails countable.

Why Stablecoin Startups Now Hire Finance First

Bastion’s newest VP posting sits atop a hiring wave that already pulled in finance and compliance leaders in September 2025. The company built on crypto plumbing is stacking those operators ahead of engineers.

Enterprise demand for compliant stablecoin rails drives the shift. CEO Nassim Eddequiouaq said Bastion meets “significant demand for regulated stablecoin infrastructure from some of the world’s largest enterprises.” Bastion builds white-label systems that let a corporation issue digital dollars without writing code or filing its own license. Fortune described the pitch: rather than hire lawyers for licenses and developers for code, companies hire Bastion to spin up branded stablecoins. When a customer refuses to become a regulated entity, reserve management, liquidity, and filings fall on the infrastructure provider.

That burden is financial, not algorithmic. Blockhead reported in September 2025 that Bastion’s platform handles the full stablecoin lifecycle — issuance, reserve management, liquidity, compliance. The VP owns the numbers end to end. A senior engineer builds the rails; a finance operator feeds the regulator and keeps the balance sheet honest. As enterprises push volume through those rails, finance stops being back office and becomes the product surface.

Funding backs the move. Bastion closed a $14.6 million strategic round led by Coinbase Ventures in September 2025, pushing total raised past $40 million. The company said the capital would fund product expansion and hiring. In September 2025 it added Jared Klee as Head of Revenue, Vince Tejada as Head of Treasury and Strategic Finance, Beth Gibson as General Counsel, and Rohan Kohli as Chief Risk & Compliance Officer — four leadership seats with finance, legal, or risk remits against a smaller engineering cohort. Sony Innovation Fund managing director Austin Noronha flagged Bastion’s compliance-first approach as the differentiator. Coinbase chief business officer Shan Aggarwal called trusted digital asset infrastructure the bedrock for scalable financial products. Investors back finance-led growth because enterprise buyers demand audits, not just APIs.

Contrast this with the prior crypto hiring cycle. For years startups chased protocol engineers and trading desks; DeFi and consumer exchanges set the talent bar. Stablecoin adoption now accelerates across traditional finance, and the buyer is a non-crypto treasury team. Those buyers want utility without license overhead. Bastion’s regulatory footing lets it act as service provider under a customer’s own license if needed. The operator who translates corporate finance into state filings is the scarce hire.

Eddequiouaq told CoinDesk that announcements within the next nine months will test the model, with additional funding commitments in progress. The finance hire is the connective tissue that lets Bastion book enterprise launches without missing a filing deadline. Watch the next earnings cycle at its customers; the rails are only as good as the close.

How Rivals Built Custody and Charter Plays

Fireblocks processed a record $212 billion in stablecoin volume in July 2025, a figure it gave Fortune. Two months later it switched on a payments network built for dollar tokens, answering the same enterprise hunger that pushed Bastion’s VP hire. The total stablecoin market cap reached $280 billion by August 2025, up from $200 billion in January, while monthly settlements climbed into the hundreds of billions by June, per Grayscale data cited by CryptoTimes.

Rivals aren’t waiting for the curve to flatten. The original Fireblocks network shipped for crypto trading, not stablecoins, CEO Michael Shaulov said. Its September 2025 rebuild links payment providers, banks, fintechs, issuers, and liquidity partners into one mesh. Shaulov told Fortune the network hands users the banking relationships and licenses of a wider company set than they could sign alone. Firms building that stack internally face months of engineering across conversion, custody, and compliance vendors, or manual processes that leak money. President Trump’s July 2025 signing of a stablecoin rule bill sharpened the chase for compliant plumbing.

In June 2026 Fireblocks extended the model with Flow, acceptance infrastructure for PSPs and fintechs. The launch covers more than 800 external wallets across EVM, Solana, and Bitcoin, plus Coinbase, Kraken, and Crypto.com as payment sources. Ran Goldi, SVP Payments & Network, said a PSP in Lagos, São Paulo, or Manila already sees consumers paying with stablecoins on chains it never built for. These firms aren’t debating whether to accept crypto, Goldi said; they want an integration that captures volume without a dedicated crypto team. Flow settles funds into a customer-controlled vault, embedded wallet, or external address, and Fireblocks never takes custody. The network handles over $200 billion in transactions each month, with Flutterwave, Africa’s largest payment company, as launch customer. Flow aligns with the Open Transaction Layer, an open standard launched in May 2026, as detailed on the Fireblocks blog, so coverage grows as providers join.

Custody choices divide the field. Paxos moved by acquisition. On November 25, 2025, the company bought Fordefi, an institutional custody and wallet tech provider. Paxos said the deal meets institutional demand for on-chain issuance and stablecoin payments. Fordefi served nearly 300 global institutions at purchase.

Circle took a third path: federal banking. It received conditional OCC approval in 2025 to form First National Digital Currency Bank, N.A., operating as Circle National Trust. Circle published the conditional OCC approval at its investor disclosure, and once live the bank falls under OCC oversight and will manage the USDC Reserve for Circle’s U.S. issuer. Circle also secured a full Financial Services Permission from Abu Dhabi Global Market, letting it act as a regulated money services provider across the UAE. It rolled out its own payments network in April 2025 and in June 2026 expanded a BNY relationship to pair custody with mint and burn for institutions.

The three split on custody but share a thesis: enterprises buy compliance, not build it. Fireblocks routes volume without holding funds. Paxos and Circle own regulated status and widen it.

The next enterprise treasury payment will likely clear through a Fireblocks pipe, a Paxos vault, or a Circle charter — not a correspondent bank.

Enterprise Buyers Rent the License, Not the Risk

Bastion Platforms Trust Company, LLC holds a limited purpose trust charter from the New York State Department of Financial Services. Bastion’s acquisition of Dibbs Trust Company, reported by The Federal Newswire, expanded that charter to enable regulated stablecoin issuance for enterprises. That single license lets a retailer or B2B platform move dollars on-chain across 60+ countries without filing its own banking permit. The enterprises pulling this thread are not crypto hedge funds or DeFi protocols. They run supplier networks, creator payout systems, cross-border marketplaces, and embedded finance inside consumer apps. Their goal is operational: settle invoices faster, move treasury between entities in real time, pay global contractors without wire delays. They want stablecoin speed and reach but refuse to become regulated financial entities.

Bastion’s regulated foundation answers that split demand. The trust company provides the chartered basis for stablecoin issuance and management, while state money transmitter licenses support custody and transmission of digital currencies across the United States. Custodial wallets and conversions run through Bastion Platforms US, LLC (NMLS ID: 2523302) and partner entities. An enterprise can choose a Bastion-issued token or a client-licensed model, as detailed on Bastion's site, launching a branded USD-backed stablecoin without building issuance infrastructure from scratch. The full stack covers issuance technology, banking integrations, compliance programs, and reporting through one API.

Outsourcing the license is plain math. Launching stablecoin capabilities means managing federal and state licensing, compliance programs, and ongoing regulatory scrutiny. Building custody technology, smart contract governance, reserve management, and conversion rails in-house requires deep crypto-native expertise, significant capital, and years of development. Retrofitting compliance onto existing infrastructure means controls always chase the product. For a non-crypto business, that overhead dwarfs the payoff of slightly faster settlements.

The buyer constituency falls into operational buckets. Cross-border payments teams need faster settlement and fewer intermediaries. Treasury groups want liquidity movement between entities. B2B settlement desks serve suppliers and global contractors. Payout platforms handle merchants and creator economies. Embedded finance teams ship payment features inside apps. None of these use cases require a trading desk or decentralized exchange. They need programmable dollar rails that fit accounting workflows from day one.

Bastion’s own page states the buyer’s posture without hedging:

Most enterprises don't want to become regulated financial entities; they want the utility without the overhead.

That line captures why the infrastructure layer wins. The strongest draw is operational efficiency. Finance teams automate payouts, treasury transfers, and conditional payment logic, cutting manual work and shortening processing times. Bastion adds permissions, approval paths, and recordkeeping a plain wallet cannot reproduce. A marketplace can power retail stablecoin payments for subscriptions and in-app purchases, or extend to card programs and remittances, while the regulated entity of record stays Bastion.

Vendor choice carries risk procurement teams now weigh explicitly. Some infrastructure providers also issue their own stablecoins, compete for the same customers, or lock buyers into proprietary ecosystems. Bastion positions itself as the partner that does not sit on the other side of the market. Still, U.S. policy direction keeps shifting; that uncertainty slows procurement and legal review even when the payment case is strong. Compliance obligations attach quickly when value moves for customers or counterparties, so the enterprise cannot ignore the regulator entirely. It rents the license instead of owning it.

The next adoption phase favors execution over hype. As global commerce becomes faster and more programmable, enterprise buyers will look for platforms that fit treasury, compliance, and reporting workflows from day one. The promise is dependable financial operations, not market excitement.

The enterprise that rents Bastion’s New York charter will never file its own permit; it will rely on a remote VP of Finance to close the books on every branded dollar moving across 60-plus countries — the unglamorous gatekeeper of rails that Circle, Paxos, and Fireblocks are racing to build.

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