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Company Description Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money. Min fees. Max ease. Full speed. Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money. As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money.
For everyone, everywhere. More about our mission and what we offer . Job Description People and businesses all over the world use Wise to avoid big bank fees and week-long international wires when they send, spend, and receive money abroad. We have over 15 million customers who move $15 billion every month with us. We help them save more than $6 million in bank fees every day. Our banking relationships determine the quality of our product and a large part of its economics.
And our relationships with regulators, governments and payment systems are crucial too. So, we’re on the hunt for an executor with a brilliant mind and strong communication skills to expand our product offering in Colombia.  This is a unique and exciting opportunity to play a pioneering role to grow Wise in one of our key markets, allowing millions more potential customers to save money by using our services.
You will have full responsibility for overseeing our local operations, defining our market expansion strategy and executing on it, and being the face of Wise in Colombia.          What will you be doing? Working with the Product teams (Product Managers, Analysts and Engineers), you will help define the opportunities for our products in Colombia and will help build better products and experiences for our customers.
You will collaborate across teams and inspire others so that we deliver the best solution. Your contribution will mainly be from the payments infrastructure, regulatory and operational banking partnerships point of view. Your mission: To own and expand Wise’s regulatory presence in the country. Identify the most appropriate way to grow Wise in Colombia. You will manage the entire licensing process for Wise’s entry into Colombia and will: understand the regulations, prepare, coordinate and submit the application, and get the regulatory buy-in as well as support the fulfillment of any other local requirements for the license applications.
Identify opportunities to offer the best product in the market taking advantage of our existing framework and future authorizations. Understand existing and new regulations and figure out the best ways our product can comply with them. You will translate regulatory requirements into product implementations together with our Compliance teams. You will be one of the product team’s go-to people for regulatory knowledge.
We see regulation as an opportunity! Contribute to defining the opportunities and direction for our products in Colombia. Collaborate across teams and inspire others so that we deliver the best solution. Work closely with product teams (Product Managers and Product Engineers) to develop our vision and build better products and experiences for our customers. Your contribution will mainly be from the payments infrastructure, regulatory and operational banking partnerships point of view.
Work with our global teams (Product, Finance, Treasury, etc.) to ensure our customers and products are at the center of our mission. Be the person of reference in our new Colombia office, from both internal and external perspectives. To build new relationships with relevant financial institutions: Open new relationships with relevant financial institutions (i.e. banks, payment processors, cards issuers, processors, etc.).
You will manage the process end-to-end: find the right potential partners, pitch Wise as a client, negotiate the commercial agreements and contracts, complete account opening forms, explain our compliance processes, pass due dili