# Senior Associate, Strategy & Operations, CEO Office

**Company**: Airwallex
**Location**: San Francisco, US
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: $90K - $140K
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

## Compensation

The expected base pay range for this role is $90K – $140K, with additional compensation including equity and bonus opportunities.

## About Airwallex

Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. More than 675,000 businesses use us to run their financial operations or build and monetize financial products.

## About the team

The CEO Office Strategy & Operations team partners directly with Airwallex's executive leadership on the company's most important priorities, working across regions and functions to turn complex problems into clear decisions and executable plans.

## Responsibilities:

- Build market-entry strategies, assessing market attractiveness, customer opportunity, competitive dynamics, regulatory feasibility, and Airwallex’s right to win.

- Design the market-entry model, evaluating licensing pathways, entity structures, partnerships, and operating models.

- Translate strategy into product requirements, partnering with Product and Engineering to convert market-entry and regulatory requirements into concrete product scope, sequencing, and launch dependencies.

- Drive cross-functional launch readiness, owning defined workstreams within market launches and working across functions to identify critical-path dependencies and drive issues toward resolution.

- Enable executive decision-making, synthesizing complex perspectives into clear choices and recommendations.

- Build the Global Expansion operating system, developing reusable frameworks, dashboards, templates, and lightweight AI-enabled tools.

- Take on broader CEO Office priorities, flexing onto high-priority initiatives beyond core market expansion.

## Who you are

### Minimum qualifications:

- 2–4 years of experience in top-tier strategy consulting or in a strategy, operations, expansion, product strategy, or regulatory role within fintech, payments, banking, or financial infrastructure.

- Strong structured problem-solving skills, with the ability to break down ambiguous problems and develop a point of view.

- Experience driving at least one complex cross-functional initiative involving product, regulatory, operational, or commercial stakeholders.

- Excellent communication and synthesis skills, with the ability to explain complex issues clearly and concisely to different audiences.

- High ownership and operating discipline, with the ability to move quickly, manage dependencies, and follow through reliably.

- Comfort using AI tools for research, analysis, drafting, synthesis, or workflow improvement.

### Preferred qualifications:

- Experience in fintech, payments, banking, or financial infrastructure, particularly in strategy, operations, product, expansion, or regulatory roles.

- Experience in financial or payments markets in Latam.

- Experience supporting new-market launches, new financial products, or other complex cross-functional initiatives.

- Exposure to financial-services regulation or licensing.

- Experience working across functions to deliver a shared business outcome.

- Experience building lightweight automation, dashboards, or AI-enabled workflows.

- Fluency in Spanish and/or Portuguese.

## Skills

### Required
- structured problem-solving
- cross-functional initiative management
- communication and synthesis
- AI tool usage
- Spanish
- Portuguese

### Nice to have
- fintech experience
- payments market experience
- financial regulation knowledge
- lightweight automation experience

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