Market Expansion Lead - Financial Partnerships

Xendit provides payment infrastructure across Southeast Asia and is expanding to Greater China and LATAM. We process payments, power marketplaces, disburse payroll and loans, provide KYC solutions, prevent fraud, and help businesses grow exponentially. We serve our customers by providing a suite of world-class APIs, eCommerce platform integrations, and easy to use applications for individual entrepreneurs, SMEs, and enterprises alike.

Our main focus is building the most advanced payment rails for Southeast Asia, with a clear goal in mind — to make payments across and within SEA simple, secure and easy for everyone. We serve thousands of businesses ranging from SMEs to multinational enterprises, and process millions of transactions monthly. We’ve been growing rapidly since our inception in 2015, onboarding hundreds of new customers every month, and backed by global top-10 VCs. We’re proud to be featured on among the fastest growing companies by Y-Combinator.

About the Job

Xendit is going from a Southeast Asian payments provider to a global one. Every new market we want to sell in has to exist before it can be sold in: an entity, a licence or a licensed partner, bank accounts, and live rails. This role owns that.

You will help decide which markets we enter, build the case that gets them funded, choose whether we build, buy, or partner for the licence, and then run the entry end to end until the market is licensed, funded, connected, and handed over to a country commercial lead. You will do it as a repeatable playbook rather than a one-off project, so the second market is faster than the first and the fifth is faster than the second.

The role sits in Financial Partnerships and reports into its leadership, with direct exposure to the CRO and CEO, who sponsor this mandate. It carries no formal authority over the functions it depends on — Legal, Compliance, Risk, Corporate Secretarial, Treasury, Product, Finance — and every timeline you own runs through them. Influence, preparation, and follow-through are the job.

We are hiring this role at manager through lead level. We will scope the mandate, the market load, and the title to the person we hire rather than the other way around.

Responsibilities

• Market intelligence: Screen and rank candidate markets on market size, regulatory openness, payment rails, competitive density, and merchant demand. Maintain a live pipeline and a decision-ready entry book per market.
• Business case and investment decision: Build the cost-to-launch and cost-to-operate model, the revenue and margin projection, and the breakeven view. Take the go/no-go paper to leadership and defend it.</l