Hiring: Senior Associate, Strategy & Operations, CEO Office Company: Airwallex Location: San Francisco, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-03 14:45:04 Target Skills & Keywords : Embedded Systems, Product Strategy, Program Management, Salesforce About the job Experience: •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. Required Skills: •As Senior Associate, Global Expansion Strategy & Operations, you will help take new Airwallex markets from strategy to launch across the Americas. •This role goes beyond traditional program management. You will be expected to understand the substance behind the workstreams you support, form hypotheses, identify what is actually blocking progress, and help move complex issues toward decisions. •Over time, you will develop a broad understanding of how a global financial platform is built – from regulatory strategy and product infrastructure to operations and commercial launch. •This role is based in San Francisco. •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. 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. •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. •Exposure to financial-services regulation or licensing, such as payments, money transmission, e-money, banking, card issuing, or FX. •Fluency in Spanish and/or Portuguese. •Applicant Safety Policy: Fraud and Third-Party Recruiters •To protect you from recruitment scams, please be aware that Airwallex will not ask for bank details, sensitive ID numbers (i.e. passport), or any form of payment during the application or interview process. All official communication will come from an @ Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!