VP, Regional Strategy, Middle East & Africa

Circle Internet Financial

This is a senior individual contributor role for a hands-on strategic operator. The VP, Regional Strategy partners closely with the MEA Managing Director to research, frame, and evaluate the strategic choices facing the region, translating complex market, regulatory, and organizational inputs into clear options and recommendations.

The role owns regional strategy development, market and competitive intelligence, scenario analysis, and decision preparation. You will build narratives, models, and materials to support informed trade-offs around where to invest, what to prioritize, and how to sequence growth.

Success is measured by the quality of insights delivered, the clarity with which strategic choices are framed, and how effectively leadership decisions are informed by rigorous analysis and a deep understanding of the MEA landscape. This is a builder role suited for someone who values ownership, rigor, and follow-through. It is not a purely advisory position, and expectations center on producing tangible outputs and meaningful decision leverage for the MEA Managing Director.

What you ll work on:

Regional Strategy Data & Decision Framing

• Lead the analytical work underpinning regional planning, including assumptions, risks, dependencies, and investment considerations

• Develop and maintain the MEA regional strategy narrative (annual and rolling multi-year), including market prioritization, growth opportunities, and explicit trade-offs

• Build scenario analyses (e.g., regulatory changes, product launches, macro shifts) that surface options, implications, and recommended paths forward

• Produce clear, structured decision memos for material strategic choices (where to invest, what to deprioritize, sequencing)

Key outputs: Annual MEA strategy narrative; periodic strategy updates; decision memos and scenario models

Strategic Alignment & Cross-Functional Planning Support

• Partner with Product, Finance, Compliance, Policy, and Business teams to ensure regional strategy is grounded in accurate inputs, constraints, and opportunities

• Support planning discussions by providing strategic context, analysis, and clarity on priorities and trade-offs

• Surface strategic risks, interdependencies, and implications to inform leadership decision-making

Key outputs: Strategic planning inputs; risk and dependency summaries; leadership planning materials

Cross-Functional Strategy Enablement:

• Translate regional strategy into clear strategic guidance for Product, Legal, Compliance, Marketing, Partnerships, and Business

• Clarify decision questions, ownership, and escalation paths to reduce ambiguity

• Frame cross-functional initiatives to ensure objectives, success criteria, and decision context are clear before handoff

Key outputs: Strategic initiative briefs; decision and ownership frameworks; alignment materials

Market, Regulatory & Competitive Intelligence:

• Work closely with the Policy team, which owns regulatory engagement and policy strategy, to ensure decisions are informed by the right data and context

• Develop and maintain market and regulatory intelligence for MEA, focused on implications for growth, product, and partnerships

• Maintain a clear view of the competitive landscape to inform strategic and GTM choices

• Synthesize insights into actionable, decision-relevant guidance

Key outputs: Market and regulatory briefs; competitive landscape updates; strategic implications summaries

Strategic Communications & Executive Enablement:

• Draft strategic materials for the MD, including board updates, executive readouts, and leadership briefings

• Ensure consistency across strategy narratives, priorities, and executive messaging

• Prepare the MD for high-stakes meetings with clear options and data-driven narratives

Key outputs: Executive decks and briefs; talking points; post-meeting summaries

Strategic Client & Ecosystem Insight Support:

• Work closely with Business Development leaders, who own account and partner relationships, to identify priority accounts, partners, and ecosystems

• Act as a force multiplier for BD through data-driven perspectives on market potential, use cases, and strategic fit

• Support senior engagements by clarifying objectives, hypotheses, and desired insights

• Capture insights from key engagements to inform ongoing strategy and MD decision-making

Key outputs: Strategic account and ecosystem perspectives; engagement prep materials; post-engagement insight summariesbr>