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Expansion Lead

Verto· Operations
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Hybrid (London, United Kingdom)Full-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Expansion Lead to orchestrate delivery and scaling of products across global markets, coordinating cross-functional efforts (Banking Ops, Regulatory, Legal) to drive market entry and growth in North America, UAE, Francophone Africa, and Southeast Asia.

Responsibilities

  • Strategic Market Orchestration: Lead the end-to-end delivery of market launches. You will ensure all functional workstreams are aligned toward shared commercial milestones.
  • Partnership Management: Proactively manage relationships with banking partners, legal advisors, and regulators in expansion markets. Drive momentum with external stakeholders, ensuring project timelines stay on track via clear communication and expectation setting.
  • Expansion Playbook Development: Codify the market entry process into a repeatable, scalable playbook. Document lessons learned from each launch to improve time-to-market and operational efficiency.
  • Governance Frameworks: Establish and refine decision-making structures for every market. Define internal roles and responsibilities to unblock tasks quickly, ensuring key decisions are documented and shared.
  • Product Localisation & Feedback: Bridge local market requirements with the global Product team to ensure market launches meet local customer needs and regulatory standards.
  • Knowledge Integration: Maintain a comprehensive project view of the market lifecycle and keep stakeholders informed, ensuring cross-functional teams focus on high-impact priorities.
  • Transition & Handover: Manage the handover phase from market go-live to local Country Managers or BAU teams to maintain momentum.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years’ experience in operations, expansion, or programme management, preferably fintech or payments.
  • High Agency with a track record of driving complex projects to completion.
  • Commercial Savvy with understanding of operational impact on bottom line.
  • Stakeholder Collaboration – ability to build consensus across internal teams and external partners.
  • Analytical & Organised with strong documentation and roadmapping skills.
  • Global Mindset with experience across diverse geographic markets.

Skills

Required:Operations managementStrategic market entryStakeholder management

Benefits

  • Insurance paid by the company
  • Health and wellness benefits (location-dependent)
  • Yearly salary review based on inflation, personal and business performance
  • Access to Udemy library
  • Budget for professional development courses
  • Work-From-Anywhere policy for certain durations
  • Integration programme to work from global offices
  • Regular team social events
  • Pension scheme (location-dependent)
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Exposure to globally distributed teams
  • Location-specific benefits (car lease, cycle to work, gym membership)
Last updated Aug 5, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Verto

Cross-Border Payments and FX Simplified

Verto is a cross-border payment platform for businesses; our mission is to simplify cross-border payments in emerging markets, particularly Africa. We do this by providing businesses with superb infrastructure that they can use to convert, hold, receive and make payments across 49 currencies. By connecting Businesses, Liquidity providers, FX Brokers, and Payment Institutions, and banks through our marketplace, companies can choose their foreign exchange rates at the time that suits them, therefore, providing a constant liquidity flow cheaply.

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