Global Expansion Associate

Blank Street•New York City, NY

4d•Remote

About The Position

Blank Street is seeking a Global Expansion Associate who is a strategist, operator, and builder. This role involves sizing new markets, understanding their economics (ROIC, P&Ls, TAM, paybacks), and using data to make clear recommendations for expansion. The associate will also build launch plans from scratch, coordinate teams, and identify potential issues. A key aspect of the role is building AI-native tools and systems to increase efficiency and leverage for a small team, rather than relying on manual processes. The associate will work across various functions and with senior leadership, influencing the company's global growth and strategy. The role requires someone who is data and finance savvy, proficient with AI tools, insightful, organized, an excellent communicator, and possesses high ownership with low ego. Willingness to travel is also expected.

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.
Proficiency in understanding ROIC, P&Ls, TAM, and unit economics.
Experience building tools, automations, agents, or dashboards that replaced real manual work using AI.
Ability to build a system as a first instinct, rather than opening PowerPoint.
Ability to build a great PowerPoint deck quickly when needed.
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.
Crisp and executive-ready writing skills.
Ability to build trust across functions and levels.
High ownership and low ego.
Willingness to travel as new markets require.

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