VP Global Operations

Tensec is an AI-native platform that enables trade companies to manage cross‑border payments, FX, treasury management, and future trade finance.

Founded in 2023, it helps small‑ and medium‑sized businesses enter global trade with a user‑friendly and secure banking solution.

We are a global fintech with teams in San Francisco, New York, Miami, Monterrey, and São Paulo. The company is backed by top venture capital firms.

• What You’ll Own
• Operational Leadership
• Serve as the first point of contact for day‑to‑day operational, legal, and cross‑functional questions from senior leadership.
• Advise the product team on operational and legal requirements for client onboarding; coordinate legal review of onboarding flows.
• Ensure the operations organization supports the PMO function for cross‑functional initiatives.
• Deploy and responsibly use AI‑assisted operational tools to improve client‑facing and internal workflows.
• Treasury Backend Infrastructure
• Build a proprietary orchestration layer above vendor infrastructure to enable flexible rail and market operations.
• Manage and expand the vendor network, evaluate, negotiate, and onboard new partners for additional markets.
• Collaborate with engineering and product to develop and improve orchestration technology for intelligent, automated Treasury.
• Work closely with Treasury and Finance teams to deliver infrastructure that meets their operational needs.
• Advise on risk framework requirements for Treasury operations and ensure support for risk program ownership.
• Guarantee legal soundness of Treasury infrastructure across all operating jurisdictions, coordinating with local counsel.
• US Market Buildout
• Own operational and legal groundwork for existing licenses, partnerships, and US market entry targeting H2 2026.
• Identify and manage regulatory, banking, and operational dependencies for a defensible US launch, including marketing reviews.
• Hire and lead the US operations lead for on‑ground execution.
• Monitor and advise on emerging AI governance requirements for US operations.
• Compliance Advisory
• Inform the CCO organization on legal requirements in the US and cross‑jurisdictional markets that shape the compliance program.
• Strategically advise on compliance program design, translating regulatory developments across BSA/AML, Fin CEN, OFAC, and sanctions.
• Ensure the compliance team has the legal substance required to execute well; ownership of external compliance relationships sits at COO level.
• Legal Affairs
• Serve as Tensec’s primary internal legal voice across US matters: corporate (excluding board matters), contractual, marketing, regulatory, and risk.
• Coordinate the existing legal network and manage MTL obligations.
• Lead legal review of client agreements, vendor contracts, and external partnerships.
• Build scalable legal infrastructure—templates, playbooks, and review processes—for future legal leaders.
• Act as the internal legal resource for People & HR matters across jurisdictions.

Who You Are

• A builder energized by the absence of a playbook; you figure things out and move.
• Intellectually honest, relentlessly curious, and quick to become the expert.
• High agency and ownership of outcomes; you clarify, fix, and lead.
• Comfortable in large‑scale ambiguity—multi‑jurisdictional operations, trade finance, AI‑governed treasury.
• A natural institutional builder who designs at future scale while managing today’s complexity.
• Experienced in institutional culture; you know what to leave behind and thrive on equity trajectory.
• Why Now

The treasury infrastructure, trade finance architecture, operational expansion, and legal foundation that will transform Tensec from three to thirty markets must be built now by someone who understands all dimensions concurrently.

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