Global Expansion Associate

Blank Street•New York, NY

7h•$150,000 - $165,000•Remote

About The Position

Blank Street is seeking a Global Expansion Associate who is a strategist, operator, and builder. This role involves analyzing new markets, understanding their economics, and making data-driven recommendations for expansion. The associate will also be responsible for building launch plans, coordinating cross-functional teams, and developing AI-native tools and systems to improve efficiency and leverage. The position offers a unique opportunity to shape the company's global growth and work closely with senior leadership.

Requirements

2–4 years in a data-heavy, high-performance environment such as consulting, banking, PE, or BizOps/strategy at a high-growth company, or have founded something.
Data and finance savvy. ROIC, P&Ls, TAM, and unit economics are second nature.
Experience building tools, automations, agents, or dashboards that replaced real manual work, and constantly spotting new ways AI can create leverage.
Ability to find the signal in messy data and turn it into clear, confident recommendations.
Extremely organized with the ability to drive dozens of moving pieces toward one outcome.
Great communicator with crisp, executive-ready writing skills.
High ownership, low ego, energized by building from scratch.
Willingness to travel as new markets require.

Nice To Haves

AI beast: Your first instinct is to build a system, not open PowerPoint. But when a deck is the right answer, you can build a great one insanely fast.

Responsibilities

Drive new market launches from kickoff through ramp, coordinating everything required to successfully open a new city or country.
Bring together Real Estate, Design, Ops, People, Supply Chain, Marketing, Finance, and Product around one clear launch plan.
Own the critical path, surface risks early, and drive decisions when things get off track. Build AI-powered PM systems so owners, milestones, and risks are tracked without manual follow-up.
Parachute into the hardest launch problems and jump in to help resolve them.
Stay close to newly launched markets, using performance data and on-the-ground learnings to help them ramp successfully.
Turn every launch into a better, more templatized playbook for the next one, so each market opens faster and more predictably than the last.
Help identify Blank Street’s next cities and countries, assessing markets through consumer, competitive, real estate, financial, and operational data.
Build the business cases behind our biggest expansion decisions, leveraging AI tools.
Help determine where we invest, when we launch, and how we enter.
Translate what we learn on the ground into a smarter global expansion strategy.
Work directly with senior leadership on expansion priorities and help shape materials that go to our Board.

Benefits

$150,000 - $165,000 annual salary
Equity package
15 days of paid annual leave (on top of company-observed holidays and sick time)
Three health plan options, with full coverage available for two employee-only tiers
Commuter benefits
Parental leave
Bereavement leave
Exclusive access to our coveted Regulars program – yes, that means free coffee, matcha and more! ☕️
Regular social outings with the team
Free Blank Street swag