Payhawk

Streamlining business spend management globally
Last updated:
January 6, 2026
Company details
HQ
London, UK
HEADCOUNT
500-999
ORG TYPE
Startup
SECTOR
Technology & Digital
About the company
Payhawk is a spend management platform that combines company cards, expenses, accounts payable, and payments in one system for finance teams. Payhawk sells to scaling and multinational companies that want tighter controls, automation, and real-time visibility across entities and currencies. Payhawk positions the product as “AI-native” and operates as a regulated financial services business in multiple regions. Payhawk has raised significant venture funding and operates across Europe and the US.
Locations and presence
Payhawk lists offices including London, New York, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Munich, Paris, Sofia, and Vilnius. Payhawk describes an office-first approach with limited monthly remote days and a separate “work from anywhere” allowance measured in days per year.
Palpable Score
57.9
/ 100
Payhawk is easiest to enter through sales development roles, but Payhawk’s current technical and operations hiring skews experienced, so first-job access is narrower than the brand scale suggests. Payhawk has some concrete onboarding and development signals in specific roles, but Payhawk does not publish a consistent, company-wide early-career pathway or a candidate-facing interview blueprint. The score is capped by limited public evidence on early-career outcomes like conversion, retention, and time-to-promotion.
Pillar 1: Early-career access

Score

11.2
/ 20
  • The company actively hires Business Development Representatives in multiple European offices without listing a minimum years-of-experience requirement in the role requirements, which keeps the door open to grads.
  • Payhawk’s engineering hiring shown publicly includes roles like Software Engineer that ask for 3+ years of experience, which reduces entry-level access in core product teams.
  • The company’s support hiring shown publicly (for example night-shift customer support) requires prior customer support experience, which limits “true first job” routes outside sales.

Pillar 2: Hiring fairness and transparency

Score

11.2
/ 20
  • The company’s public hiring content describes using role-specific scenarios and roleplays for sales hiring (for example prioritising leads across verticals), which is more job-relevant than generic interviews.
  • Payhawk’s candidate interview reports commonly describe multi-stage loops (recruiter screen, hiring manager conversation, case study or technical session, then a longer onsite or panel-style round), but the exact steps vary by role.
  • The company does not provide a single candidate guide that standardises timelines, feedback expectations, and assessment formats across teams, so transparency depends on the recruiter and function.

Pillar 3: Learning and support

Score

12.5
/ 20
  • The company promises “structured onboarding” and “sales coaching” for the BDR role, plus a stated progression ladder from BDR to Senior BDR to Account Executive.
  • Payhawk’s careers page lists learning and development programs as a core benefit, alongside regular company-wide gatherings that can support informal learning and network building for juniors.
  • The company does not publish a junior-specific onboarding framework for engineering, product, or operations, so learning support outside commercial teams is hard to evaluate before joining.

Pillar 4: Pay fairness and stability

Score

11.5
/ 20
  • The company advertises substantial time-off and flexibility benefits across roles, including 30 days paid leave and a set number of “work from anywhere” days per year.
  • Payhawk includes benefits that reduce early-career day-to-day costs, such as commuting support and health or wellness benefits, plus role-based benefits like private medical coverage in some locations.
  • The company rarely publishes salary ranges in job ads (including entry routes like BDR), which makes pay comparability harder for early-career candidates.

Pillar 5: Early-career outcomes

Score

11.5
/ 20
  • The company describes an internal progression path in sales (BDR to Senior BDR to Account Executive), which is one of the clearest early-career outcome signals visible publicly.
  • Payhawk’s public hiring content includes a claim that a large share of roles are filled through internal promotions where applicable, which supports internal mobility as a route to progression.
  • The company does not publish early-career outcome metrics like intern conversion, cohort retention, or typical time-to-promotion, so outcomes rely on role-level promises and general employee sentiment rather than tracked reporting.

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