About the role
As Senior Associate, Global Expansion Strategy & Operations, you will help take new Airwallex markets from strategy to launch across the Americas. You will work alongside senior members of the CEO Office and leaders across the company to answer some of the hardest questions involved in entering a new financial market: Where should we enter? How should we enter? What do we need to build? What could prevent us from launching? And how do we make each subsequent expansion faster and more scalable? Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 2–4 years of experience in top-tier strategy consulting (MBB or equivalent), or in a strategy, operations, expansion, product strategy, or regulatory role within fintech, payments, banking, or financial infrastructure
- Strong structured problem-solving skills. You can take an ambiguous problem, break it down, identify what matters most, and develop a point of view without waiting for perfect information
- Experience driving at least one complex cross-functional initiative involving product, regulatory, operational, or commercial stakeholders, with clear personal ownership for moving the work forward
- Excellent communication and synthesis. You can go deep enough to understand a complex issue and then explain it clearly and concisely to different audiences, including senior stakeholders
- High ownership and operating discipline. You move quickly, manage dependencies and follow-through reliably, seek feedback early, and are willing to roll up your sleeves when needed
- Comfort using AI tools. You use AI for research, analysis, drafting, synthesis, or workflow improvement and exercise sound judgment around verification, source quality, and when human expertise is required
More about this role
Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. More than 676,000 businesses, including McLaren Racing, Qantas, SHEIN, and TikTok, use us, directly or through our platform partners, to run their financial operations or build and monetize financial products of their own.
We started in Melbourne in 2015 to build the infrastructure global commerce runs on. We're the regulated backbone behind global payments: not by accident, but by design. A decade plus, 85+ licenses, and a financial infrastructure spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.
We're co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore, with more than 2,300 people across 27 offices. We hire builders with founder-level energy, people who move fast with good judgment, dig in with real curiosity, and make calls from first principles rather than waiting to be told what to do. Read our operating principles to see it in full.
The CEO Office Strategy & Operations team partners directly with Airwallex's executive leadership on the company's most important priorities.
We work across regions and functions to turn complex, ambiguous problems into clear decisions and...
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