Strategy Associate

Skills

About the Role

You will drive strategy and support decision making by leading market research and competitive analysis, developing value propositions, and constructing pitches for partnerships. You will build strategic narratives and supporting analyses to enable successful collaborations. You will size and evaluate opportunities in new geographic markets, including market sizing regulatory mapping and go to market sequencing. You will partner with product engineering and commercial leaders to shape expansion strategy translating market signals into prioritized opportunities. You will build financial and operating models to size opportunities and inform investment decisions. You will coordinate cross functional workstreams across legal finance product and commercial teams to move strategic initiatives from concept to execution. You will represent the team in external meetings with prospective partners advisors and counterparties. You will stay close to industry trends competitive moves and regulatory developments across relevant markets.

Requirements

• 3-5 years of experience at a top-tier management consulting firm (MBB or equivalent), with strategy work in financial services, payments, or technology preferred.
• Alternatively, comparable experience in a corporate strategy, strategic finance, or growth role at a high-performing fintech, payments, or technology company.
• A track record of structuring ambiguous problems, driving to clear answers, and translating analysis into decisions.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to make complex topics accessible to executive audiences.
• Advanced proficiency in building executive-quality decks and analytical models.
• Comfort operating with limited oversight in a fast-moving, high-stakes environment.
• Strong project management instincts and the ability to drive cross-functional execution.
• Intellectual curiosity, commercial judgment, and a bias toward action.

Responsibilities

• Lead preparation for high-impact commercial opportunities, including market research, competitive analysis, value proposition development, and pitch construction.
• Develop strategic narratives, supporting analysis, and materials to support key partnerships.
• Build and pressure-test the analytical case for entering new geographic markets, including market sizing, regulatory mapping, competitive dynamics, and go-to-market sequencing.
• Partner with product, engineering, and commercial leadership to shape and evaluate product expansion strategy, translating market signals into prioritized opportunities.
• Build financial and operating models to size opportunities, evaluate trade-offs, and inform investment decisions.
• Coordinate cross-functional workstreams across legal, finance, product, and commercial teams to move strategic initiatives from concept to execution.
• Represent the team in external meetings with prospective partners, advisors, and counterparties.
• Stay close to industry trends, competitive moves, and regulatory developments across relevant markets.

Benefits

• Unlimited time off
• Flexible working
• Health dental and vision plans for you and dependents with 100% company subsidized life insurance
• 401(k) with a 4% company match
• Equity option plan
• Rain Cards for testing company services
• Health and wellness spending benefits
• Team summits and offsites