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Senior Associate, Strategy & Operations, CEO Office

Airwallex· Operations
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Hybrid (US - San Francisco)$90k - $140k + equity + bonusFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior-level strategist focusing on global expansion strategy and operations within the CEO Office, responsible for taking new Airwallex markets from strategy to launch, with cross-functional collaboration across Product, Engineering, Legal, Compliance, Risk, Finance, Treasury, Operations, and Commercial.

Responsibilities

  • Build market-entry strategies. Assess market attractiveness, customer opportunity, competitive dynamics, regulatory feasibility, and Airwallex’s right to win. Help develop recommendations on where we should expand and what capabilities we need to succeed.
  • Design the market-entry model. Evaluate licensing pathways, entity structures, partnerships, and operating models. Work with Legal, Compliance, Finance, Treasury, and other teams to translate regulatory constraints into practical business and operating decisions.
  • Translate strategy into product requirements. Partner with Product and Engineering to convert market-entry and regulatory requirements into concrete product scope, sequencing, and launch dependencies. Help ensure the roadmap reflects what is actually required to operate and scale locally.
  • Drive cross-functional launch readiness. Own defined workstreams within market launches and work across functions to identify critical-path dependencies, surface blockers early, establish clear ownership, and drive issues toward resolution. Support go/no-go decisions across product, regulatory, operational, risk, and commercial dimensions.
  • Enable executive decision-making. Synthesize complex and sometimes conflicting perspectives into clear choices and recommendations. Prepare concise materials for CEO Office and executive leadership on market prioritization, investment decisions, key trade-offs, risks, and launch readiness.
  • Build the Global Expansion operating system. Develop reusable frameworks, dashboards, templates, and lightweight AI-enabled tools that make expansion more systematic. Automate areas such as regulatory research, licence mapping, competitive intelligence, status reporting, risk tracking, and dependency management where doing so improves speed and quality.
  • Take on broader CEO Office priorities. Flex onto high-priority initiatives beyond core market expansion, including strategic reviews, restructuring or migration programs, crisis-response workstreams, and cross-market operating or structuring questions.

Qualifications

  • 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.

Skills

Required:Market-entry strategyCross-functional program managementCommunication and synthesis
Nice to have:Regulatory and licensing awarenessAI-enabled workflow improvement

Benefits

  • Based on country and employment type; details available upon request.
  • US-based benefits include medical, dental, vision insurance, 401(k), disability, life insurance, well-being benefits, 20 paid vacation days, 12 paid holidays per year.
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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