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.