# Associate Director, Strategy & Operations - CEO Office

**Company**: Airwallex
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $170K - $300K
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

## Compensation

The expected base pay range for this role is $170K – $300K, with additional compensation including equity and bonus.

## 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 works directly with Airwallex’s executive leadership on strategic, operational, and organizational priorities. This small, high-trust team solves complex, company-critical problems across global expansion, product strategy, financial infrastructure, organizational scaling, and AI transformation.

## What you’ll do

As part of the CEO Office, you will work closely with Airwallex’s leadership team on high-priority initiatives that shape the direction of the company globally. You will operate across strategy and execution: helping frame problems, drive alignment, and ensure complex initiatives move from idea to outcome.

Projects may include:

- Scaling new products and business lines globally

- International expansion and market entry strategy

- Regulatory and banking infrastructure initiatives

- Organisational effectiveness and operating model design

- Commercial acceleration and go-to-market execution

- M&A evaluation and post-merger integration

- AI-enabled operational transformation

- Cross-functional strategic initiatives tied to company priorities

## Who you are

You are intellectually curious, highly structured in your thinking, and execution-oriented. You are comfortable operating in ambiguity and able to move fluidly between strategic thinking and practical problem solving.

You are someone who:

- Learns quickly and enjoys steep learning curves

- Communicates clearly and concisely

- Has strong business judgment

- Can balance detail orientation with speed

- Is comfortable with high expectations and high ownership

- Enjoys building rather than observing

## Minimum qualifications:

- 5–8 years of experience in top-tier consulting, high-growth technology companies, investing, strategic finance, or similarly high-performance environments

- Demonstrated track record of leading complex cross-functional initiatives and driving measurable outcomes

- Exceptional problem-solving and structured thinking abilities

- Strong executive communication skills, including the ability to synthesize complex topics clearly and concisely

- Ability to operate effectively in fast-moving, ambiguous environments with high ownership and accountability

- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills across seniority levels and functions

- High degree of commercial judgment and operational pragmatism

- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

## Preferred qualifications:

- Experience in fintech, financial services, or other regulated industries

- Experience working directly with senior executives or founders

- Prior experience in consulting, investment banking, private equity, venture capital, or strategic finance

- Experience scaling products, markets, or operational functions in international environments

- Strong data analysis and business modelling capabilities

- Demonstrated ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution

## Skills

### Required
- strategic thinking
- problem-solving
- communication
- stakeholder management
- commercial judgment

### Nice to have
- fintech
- financial services
- consulting
- investment banking
- private equity
- venture capital
- strategic finance
- data analysis
- business modelling

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