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Max ease. Full speed.\nWhether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money.\nAs part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money.\nFor everyone, everywhere.\nMore about our mission and what we offer.\nJob Description\nOur ability to offer hyper-localised products and services determine the quality of our service to our Italian customers. And our relationships with regulators, governments, and payment systems are crucial too. So, we’re on the hunt for an executor with a brilliant mind and strong complex problem-solving skills to help more customers save money with us.\nWe’re looking for a Country Manager for Italy. This is a unique and exciting opportunity to play a pioneering role to grow Wise in one of our key markets in Europe, allowing millions more potential customers to save money by using our services. You will have full responsibility for overseeing our local team and operations, defining our market expansion and winning strategies for product localisation and executing on it, and being the face of Wise in Italy.\nYour mission:\nDefine the opportunities and direction for our products in Italy. Collaborate across global and regional teams, and inspire others so that we deliver the best solution.\nWork closely with product teams (Product Managers and Product Engineers) to develop our vision and build better and hyper-localised products and experiences for our customers in Italy.\n\nWork with our global teams (Product, Finance, Treasury, etc.) to ensure our customers and products are at the centre of our mission.\n\nTo deepen our presence and infrastructure in Italy.\nIdentify the most appropriate way to grow Wise in Italy. If we need new licences and/or registrations to offer more products and services in Italy, you will work with the central banking and expansion team to manage the entire process: understand the regulations, prepare, coordinate and submit the application, and obtain the regulatory licence as well as support the fulfillment of any other local requirements.\n\nIdentify opportunities to offer the best product in the market taking advantage of our existing and future authorisations.\n\nManage and support the day to day requirements for our authorisation in Italy, both from a Product and Compliance perspective.\n\nLead our Italian branch and operations into its next stage of growth.\nYou will also be appointed as Country Manager for Italy and be one of the Directors/Legal Representatives of our Italian branch.\n\nManage the relationship with the local regulators and other important strategic relationships, and be accountable for strong governance.\n\nWork with our team in our European headquarters and maintain oversight of Wise’s business operations in Italy. Guide strategy, provide leadership and alignment amongst the various functions responsible for ensuring the proper functioning of the entity. Providing leadership on the ground to local teams and functional leads to ensure smooth operations.\n\nParticipate in all relevant committees and Board meetings.\n\nRepresent Wise in Italy, working with Public Relations, Government Relations, and Product Marketing teams to drive brand awareness and position Wise as a key industry player.\n\nTake ownership of maintaining and improving existing relationships with industry partners and other financial institutions. You will:\nLead commercial and relationship discussions with partners to ensure we offer the most sustainable and competitive service in the market.\n\nCreate new opportunities within existing relationships with relevant financial and non-financial institutions in Italy to ensure we continuously improve our product (i.e. increase speed, reduce costs, add more visibility to our transactions, etc.).\n\nStrong Complex Problem Solving Operations.\nAdapt and scale high-velocity global and regional operational frameworks into granular, local execution.\n\nOrchestrate rapid responses to critical incidents ensuring business continuity while minimising risk exposure.\n\nUtilise deep quantitative rigour to conduct root-cause analysis on operational and product bottlenecks.\n\nManage and harmonise relationships with disparate stakeholders ranging from local regulators and central banks to global product and engineering squads to unblock critical dependencies.\n\nThis role would suit someone who is:\nExcellent at creating and managing relationships with regulatory authorities and government bodies, constantly creating opportunities to improve them.\n\nStrong understanding of managing local entity operations and ensuring relevant compliance.\n\nAble to get stuff done. Not afraid to get hands dirty to deliver what is needed - we’re a fast growing company and you will need an entrepreneurial mindset to thrive.\n\nDeep understanding of how financial and payments systems, and how the relevant regulators work, and the different decision makers that need to be taken into account to make things happen.\n\nUnderstand financial and payments regulations (and other relevant regulations for tax, law enforcement, consumer protection, etc.) in a changing regulatory environment and have an understanding of risk and anti-money laundering controls.\n\nFamiliar with different licensing frameworks and requirements in Italy.\n\nYou are business fluent in Italian and English.\n\nAble to work independently and flexibly within a fast-moving environment. Able to travel to our other offices from time to time to work with the relevant stakeholders.\n\nPassionate about transforming the financial industry for good.\n\nAdditional Information\nFor everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders - without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.\nWe're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.\nInclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.\nIf you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs.\nKeep up to date with life at Wise by following us on LinkedIn and Instagram.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6426,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"Italian","level":"Advanced (C1)","optional":false},{"language":"English","level":"Advanced (C1)","optional":false}]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Italy","iso":"IT","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Artificial Intelligence","Internet Services","Manufacturing","Internet Service Providers"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-26T20:00:25Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":63,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.632,"p_room":1,"age_days":1,"expected_fill_days":17,"reasons":["conf:1","stale_co","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-28T05:59:10Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/modelwise-country-manager-italy","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/modelwise-country-manager-italy.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-28T19:01:08Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":25994,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-29T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":4410409},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=4410409"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fmodelwise-country-manager-italy"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fmodelwise-country-manager-italy"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fmodelwise-country-manager-italy"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/modelwise-country-manager-italy\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fmodelwise-country-manager-italy"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3290994}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"modelwise.ai","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3290994},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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