Senior Manager, Strategy & Operations, CEO Office

The role

You will own the end-to-end expansion of Airwallex into new markets across APAC. This involves defining market-entry strategy, licensing, product readiness, and operational launch while working with executive leadership.

What you will do

• Own the strategy for APAC expansion including sizing opportunities and prioritizing markets.
• Design market-entry models including licensing paths, entity structure, and commercial models.
• Shape the product roadmap with Product and Engineering teams.
• Partner with CEO Office leadership to frame decisions on global expansion.
• Build an operating system for market launches using AI-assisted tools, templates, and dashboards.
• Own the go/no-go and launch-readiness process.
• Execute priority CEO Office initiatives such as strategic reviews, restructuring, or crisis-response.
• Solve regulatory, product, and operating problems to establish local financial platforms.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in top-tier strategy consulting, regulatory or financial services law, or strategy and expansion roles in fintech or payments.
• Meaningful exposure to market-entry or licensing-driven projects.
• Proven track record of owning complex, multi-stakeholder programmes end to end.
• Strong operating discipline in structuring multi-workstream programmes and managing dependencies.
• Experience working with or around regulatory and licensing topics in financial services.
• Demonstrated use of AI tools in day-to-day work.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills.
• High ownership and comfort with ambiguity.

Nice to have

• Direct experience driving new-market launches or licence applications in APAC for a fintech, payments provider, or financial institution.
• Background combining strategic problem-solving and execution, such as experience in both consulting and an in-house operating role, or in both legal or regulatory and commercial or product-adjacent ro
• Familiarity with cross-functional global expansion and product-launch processes.
• Experience working in or closely with a CEO Office, Strategy & Operations, or similar central team.
• Comfort building and iterating lightweight AI tooling.

About the company

Airwallex is an AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. It provides financial infrastructure for over 675,000 businesses globally.