layiq

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worthy; deserving; fitting; suitable.

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LAYIQ - Senior Associate, Strategy & Operations, CEO Office at Airwallex

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.
Who you are

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, such as payments, money transmission, e-money, banking, card issuing, or FX.
Experience working across functions such as Product, Engineering, Legal, Compliance, Risk, Finance, Treasury, Operations, and Commercial to deliver a shared business outcome.
Experience building lightweight automation, dashboards, or AI-enabled workflows to improve research, reporting, decision-making, or program execution.
Fluency in Spanish and/or Portuguese.
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Equal opportunity
Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don’t regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

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