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About the Role

WhiteBIT is seeking a strategic leader to drive the group strategy process, maintain a portfolio-wide view, and identify value creation opportunities. This role involves evaluating new projects, markets, and strategic moves, supporting executive decision-making, and leading a high-performing strategy team within the dynamic fintech and blockchain industry.

Responsibilities

Own and maintain the group strategy process, including the strategic narrative, priorities, key choices, assumptions, and periodic refreshes.
Maintain a portfolio-wide view of businesses, products, markets, capabilities, and strategic initiatives, identifying imbalances, gaps, duplication, concentration risk, and adjacency opportunities.
Develop evidence-based recommendations on group focus areas, strategic resources, and future investment, while preserving the Investment Committee's decision authority.
Ensure major roadmaps and programs align with the approved group strategy and portfolio logic.
Set the strategic research agenda based on the group's highest-priority decisions and uncertainties.
Build and maintain structured intelligence on markets, competitors, regulation, technology, customer behavior, business models, and relevant macro trends.
Convert research findings into implications, scenarios, strategic options, and concise recommendations.
Establish strong standards for source quality, analytical rigor, assumptions, fact-checking, and institutional knowledge retention.
Continuously identify and prioritize value creation opportunities across the existing portfolio, including growth, cross-business synergies, product/market adjacencies, partnerships, operating-model improvements, and other strategic moves.
Structure each opportunity into a clear thesis covering expected value, strategic rationale, risks, dependencies, required capabilities, sequencing, and success measures.
Work with the Portfolio Management Team and Business Owners to convert approved opportunities into roadmaps and executable initiatives without taking over day-to-day execution ownership.
Lead independent strategic review of new project proposals and market plans before submission for approval.
Assess strategic fit, market attractiveness, competitive position, economics, risk, execution readiness, alternatives, and portfolio implications; test critical assumptions through scenarios and sensitivity analysis.
Formulate a clear recommendation (proceed, revise, stage, defer, or stop) and define key conditions or milestones for success.
Partner with the M&A and Deal Team on strategic fit, investment thesis, and portfolio impact of potential acquisitions, divestments, and other transactions.
Establish a systematic after-action review approach for major strategic actions, initiatives, and completed deals.
Compare actual outcomes with the original strategic thesis, expected economics, risk assumptions, milestones, and value-creation plan, and assess the resulting effect on the group portfolio.
Capture lessons learned, identify repeatable patterns, and feed findings back into strategy, evaluation frameworks, and future recommendations.
Prepare clear, concise, and decision-grade strategic recommendations for Investment Committee and senior leadership consideration.
Work with the Board/IC Secretary to ensure strategic materials are complete, internally consistent, and framed around the decision required, alternatives, trade-offs, and implications.
Support interpretation of execution feedback and result reporting from the Portfolio Management Team and Business Owners, focusing on strategic implications and any need to revisit prior assumptions or decisions.
Maintain a disciplined distinction between analysis/recommendation, governance decision-making, and execution ownership.
Lead, coach, and develop the Strategy and Research Team; allocate work against the highest-value strategic questions and maintain clear accountability for output quality and deadlines.
Build repeatable methods, templates, and analytical standards for strategy development, market/project evaluation, portfolio review, research, and after-action analysis.
Create a high-trust culture that values intellectual honesty, constructive challenge, clear writing, collaboration, and decision usefulness.

Requirements

Minimum 10 years of relevant experience in corporate strategy, strategic finance, investment, corporate development, management consulting, private equity/venture capital, investment banking, or a comparable analytical leadership role.
Demonstrated experience developing or maintaining enterprise or group-level strategy and translating complex analysis into clear choices for senior decision-makers.
Strong portfolio mindset, with the ability to assess strategic fit, concentration, adjacency, risk, expected value, and trade-offs across multiple businesses, products, markets, and initiatives.
Strong financial and investment analysis skills, including business-case review, valuation logic, unit economics, scenario analysis, and sensitivity testing.
Proven ability to evaluate new projects, market-entry plans, strategic initiatives, and investment theses independently and to challenge assumptions constructively.
Excellent research and intelligence capabilities, including the ability to synthesize market, competitor, regulatory, technology, and customer signals into decision-relevant implications.
Experience preparing executive and Investment Committee/Board-level materials, recommendations, and concise decision memos.
Prior experience leading and developing a high-performing strategy, research, or analytical team, with strong quality-control standards.
Experience in financial services, FinTech, digital assets, payments, banking, brokerage, investment, or financial infrastructure is strongly preferred.
Excellent written and verbal communication, stakeholder management, and presentation skills; able to build trust while maintaining independent judgment.
High professional integrity, intellectual curiosity, discretion, and the confidence to provide an evidence-based challenge to senior stakeholders.
Advanced degree or relevant professional qualification is a plus.

Skills

Corporate strategy
Strategic finance
Investment analysis
Corporate development
Management consulting
Private equity
Venture capital
Investment banking
Analytical leadership
Portfolio management
Financial analysis
Business-case review
Valuation
Unit economics
Scenario analysis
Sensitivity testing
Market research
Competitive analysis
Regulatory analysis
Technology analysis
Customer behavior analysis
Executive presentation
Stakeholder management
Team leadership
FinTech
Digital assets
Blockchain
Web3

Location

Global

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Minimum 10 years of relevant experience
Leadership experience

Education Level

Advanced degree or relevant professional qualification is a plus

Benefits

Modern equipment
Comfortable working conditions
Inspiring environment
24 calendar days of paid leave
Additional days off for national holidays

About the Company

WhiteBIT is a global team of over 1,200 professionals creating a new fintech era by making blockchain accessible to everyone in everyday life.
The company operates a blockchain platform with over 8 million users worldwide, emphasizing transparency and security.
WhiteBIT's strengths include breakthrough solutions, rapid adaptation to market challenges, and technological superiority.
Official partners include the National Football Team of Ukraine, FC Barcelona, Lifecell, FACEIT, and VISA.

Equal Opportunity

WhiteBIT offers all candidates an equal opportunity to join the team.
All hiring decisions are made without regard to race, national origin, gender identity or sexual orientation, age, religion, disability, medical condition, marital status, familial status, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic of an individual.