Strategy Analyst (Expansion & Licensing)

About the Team:

Aspire is growing its business in multiple regions around the world which this role will help enable as a core member of the global strategy team. You’ll join a small but high-performing strategy team responsible for unlocking our growth opportunities. You will work on ways to lay pathways to fast-track license approvals and clear traditional regulatory hurdles to help expand our business into new markets. This role will require you to be based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

About the Role

• All Rounder: Be an all-rounder who can be trusted to contribute to a variety of licensing related expansion projects to expand Aspire’s presence in multiple regions.
• Strategy: Help size, define and map new markets by conducting research on the licensing and regulatory landscape of new markets including competitor analysis.
• Project management: Work collaboratively with local and international cross-functional teams to drive our licensing plans related to our local go-to-market strategies.
• Process improvement: Adapt the Strategy Team’s existing processes and build new ones to help scale our licensing plans to work across multiple regions.
• Cross Functional Collaboration: Work closely with various functional teams including Ops, Legal, Finance, Product and Compliance as part of our global licensing machine.

Minimum Qualifications:

• A Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in a business, management or related field
• 2 to 4 years of work experience, ideally in the fintech, payments, consulting, banking and/or financial services industries
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to build tools to digest complex data and generate actionable insights for management

Preferred Qualifications:

• Hands-on when needed to make things happen today instead of tomorrow, building things from scratch
• Able to work independently but also take direction from others regarding specific requirements
• Self-driven and take initiative all the time to help us build and expand our business globally

The annual US base salary range for this role is $50,000 - $90,000. This salary range may cover a number of levels at Aspire and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, performance in the interview process and final location.