Wayflyer · 3 months ago
Entrepreneur-in-Residence (Strategic Innovation)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
5+ years expWayflyer is a company focused on empowering brands to achieve their growth potential through innovative financing solutions. The Entrepreneur-in-Residence will operate at the intersection of product, business strategy, and venture building, identifying and incubating new growth opportunities while collaborating with cross-functional teams.
AnalyticsE-CommerceFinanceMarketing
Responsibilities
Identify, validate and incubate one or more new growth opportunities (business models, verticals, services) aligned to the strategic pillars
Work with minimal structure and ambiguity: define the problem space, design hypotheses, run experiments, build prototypes and iterate rapidly
Own the vision, roadmap, business case and go-to-market for the new initiative
Mobilise cross-functional stakeholders (data, engineering, design, partnerships, underwriting) to operate as independently as possible
Track and report clear metrics for success: adoption, revenue, margin, time to launch, scale efficiency
At the end of the incubation phase, propose the the right integration path into the wider ecosystem
Qualification
Required
Entrepreneurial experience: you've founded, co-founded or led a high-growth product/venture within a fast-moving company (preferably fintech/financial services or commerce-adjacent)
Excellent at working in ambiguity and figuring things out: you're comfortable without a deep spec, you can set direction, test, learn, pivot
Strong strategic mindset: you can connect market trends, data signals and business models to identify high-leverage opportunities
Product intuition + business acumen: you can design compelling value propositions, understand monetisation, pricing, unit economics, competitive positioning
Stakeholder and team builder: you can pull together a founding team, influence senior leadership, communicate vision
A bias for experimentation: you've run user research, A/B tests, MVPs, prototypes, rapid learning cycles
Fluency in data: you define and track key metrics, draw insights, make decisions
Preferred
Experience in banking or merchant finance, marketplace or commerce ecosystems
Benefits
25 days of paid annual leave, plus public holidays.
Access support and resources to support your wellbeing, including our Wellbeing @ Wayflyer ERG.
Stay covered with private healthcare, life insurance, and critical illness cover.
Our pension plan helps you build a strong foundation for tomorrow, starting today.
We offer generous parental and adoptive leave, including 6 months of paid leave for Primary Caregivers and 3 months of paid leave for Secondary Caregivers.
With our equity scheme, you're not just an employee; you're a stakeholder in our journey.
Enjoy the freedom to work remotely from anywhere in the world for up to 60 calendar days a year.
Company
Wayflyer
Wayflyer provides funding and marketing analytics to e-commerce businesses.
201-500 employees
H1B Sponsorship
Wayflyer has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your
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Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (6)
2024 (1)
2023 (2)
2022 (3)
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$1.89BKey Investors
JP MorganLeft Lane CapitalQED Investors
2023-09-05Debt Financing· $1B
2022-09-01Debt Financing· $253M
2022-05-12Debt Financing· $300M
Leadership Team
Aidan Corbett
Co-Founder & CEO
Recent News
2025-12-25
2025-10-25
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