Regional Business Manager - Caribbean

Remitly; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 156,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible paid time off

Health, dental, vision + 401k matching

Parental/military/family leave

Mental health benefits

Employee stock purchase plan

Continuing education benefits

Job summary

Remitly is seeking a Regional Business Manager to own growth in USA-to-Caribbean corridors, overseeing strategy, analytics, and operations across product, pricing, marketing, risk, and partnerships. You will work in a hybrid environment from Seattle, Arlington, or New York City, coordinating with multiple teams to drive regional growth.

Responsibilities include defining long- and short-term growth visions, building a tactical roadmap, and turning insights into prioritized actions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in business management, growth, or general mgmt roles in a B2C context, fintech or financial services.
• Native level fluency in Spanish.
• Ownership mentality with a track record of delivering results and owning markets.
• Bias for action and ability to drive initiatives to completion.
• Experience owning a market/product/P&L end-to-end and driving cross-functional impact.
• Deep regional/cultural expertise including migrant communities in the US and money-movement knowledge.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to generate high-quality hypotheses.

Responsibilities

• Own sustainable growth in your USA-to-Caribbean corridors, measuring KPIs like new customers, MAU, transactions, revenue, and profitability.
• Serve as market expert, understanding customers, competitors, and regulatory environments to inform decisions.
• Define long- and short-term growth strategy and a tactical roadmap to achieve it.
• Collaborate with pricing, product, marketing, risk/fraud, and other teams to push for decisions and launches.
• Support commercial talks with disbursement and destination partners to create customer offers.
• Monitor market developments and translate insights into regional priorities.
• Build business cases and influence roadmaps across partner teams.
• Drive regional product initiatives with US-LAC teams and translate opportunities into clear requirements.
• Support development cycles and measure outcomes after launches.
• Share learnings with other Regional Business Managers and the US-LAC GM.

Skills

Growth strategy

B2C

Fintech

Regional expertise

Problem solving

Hypotheses

Influence

Ownership

Spanish fluency

Job description

Job Description: At Remitly, we believe everyone deserves the freedom to access, move, and manage their money wherever life takes them. Since 2011, we've tirelessly delivered on our promise to customers sending money globally, providing secure, simple, and reliable ways to manage their money, ensuring true peace of mind. Whether it's supporting loved ones back home, growing a business across continents, or pursuing new opportunities abroad, we're not just here to move money— we're here to move our global customers forward. We're looking for builders, reimaginers, and global thinkers who want to work at the intersection of technology, trust, and transformation. If that's you and you're ready to do the most meaningful work of your career—we invite you to join over 2,800 passionate Remitlians worldwide who are united by our vision to transform lives with trusted financial services that transcend borders.

About the Role

Remitly is hiring a Regional Business Manager to own growth in our USA to Caribbean markets (these markets cover customers sending money to the Caribbean countries from the USA). The Regional Business Manager will own this corridor and be responsible for the growth and health of the markets in their region. This is a strategy, analytics, and operations role involving planning, building, and executing initiatives across product, pricing, marketing, risk/fraud, analytics, customer service, engineering, and other departments. You will report to the USA To Latin America & Caribbean (USA-LAC) General Manager and work in a hybrid environment from our Seattle, Arlington/Washington DC, or New York City office.

You Will

• Own sustainable growth in your cluster of USA to Caribbean corridors, measured against key performance indicators like new customers, monthly active customers, transactions, volume, revenue, and profitability.
• Serve as the market expert for your corridors, building a deep understanding of customers and their communities in the US, the competitive set, and the receive-side ecosystem (payout partners, regulation, and local market conditions), and bringing that context and customer insights into decisions across the business.
• Define both the long and short term strategic vision for growth in your corridors, and the tactical roadmap of initiatives for how to achieve that vision.
• Partner closely with and drive action across pricing, product, marketing, risk/fraud, and other relevant teams: set a clear point of view on what your corridors need, push for decisions and launches, and follow through to measured results.
• Support commercial conversations with disbursement and destination partners in your markets, turning partner opportunities into customer-facing offers.
• Monitor competitor activity, market developments and customer trends, translating insights into regional priorities.
• Build business cases for key initiatives and influence prioritization of partner-teams' roadmaps through structured business impact / customer centric frameworks.
• Drive ideation of regional product initiatives, and work with the US-LAC product, engineering, and design team to translate customer and commercial opportunities into clear requirements.
• Support the development cycles & measure outcomes post launch.
• Share learnings with the other Regional Business Managers and the US-LAC GM so that what works in one cluster can be applied across the region.

You Have

• 5+ years of professional experience in business management, growth, or general management roles in a B2C context, ideally in money movement, fintech, or financial services.
• Native level fluency in Spanish (required)
• An ownership mentality and a track record of ownership.
• We are looking for someone with a bias for action who “gets things done” and is hungry to grow their areas of the business.
• Owned a market, product, or P&L end to end and driven results across some combination of pricing, product, marketing, and risk/fraud.
• Deep regional and cultural expertise, gained through lived experience, professional experience in the region, or both, including an understanding of the migrant community in the US and how customers send and receive money in these markets.
• Demonstrated problem solving skills (qualitative and quantitative).
• Can generate high quality hypotheses and dive into an ambiguous problem statement.
• Ability to balance compassionate partnership and the ability to be constructively direct.
• You will influence and network within the business and with external partners.

Preferred

• Experience in fintech, payments, or financial services.
• Ideally serving immigrant communities in the US or customers in the Caribbean.
• Product experience OR growth / marketing experience in the areas noted above.

Compensation Details

The starting base salary range for this position is typically $156,000 - $195,000. In the U.S., Remitly employees are shareholders in our Company and equity is part of our total compensation plan. Your recruiter can share more information about medical benefits offered, as well as other financial benefits and total compensation components offered with this role. #LI-Hybrid

Our Benefits

• Flexible paid time off
• Health, dental, and vision + 401k plan with company matching
• Paid parental, medical, military and family care leave
• Mental Health & Family Forming Benefits
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Continuing education benefits

Our Connected Work Culture

Driving Innovation, Together At Remitly, we believe that true innovation sparks when we come together. Our Connected Work Culture fosters dynamic in-person collaboration, where ideas ignite and challenging problems find solutions faster. Under the Company's current hybrid-work expectations, employees in this position work onsite Tuesday through Thursday each week. Additional onsite attendance may be required based on business needs, and the Company may modify its hybrid-work expectations from time to time. These intentional in-office moments are vital for deepening relationships, fueling creativity, and ensuring your impact is felt where it matters most.

Remitly is an E-Verify Employer

At Remitly, we are dedicated to ensuring that our workplace offers equal employment opportunities to all employees and candidates, in full compliance with applicable laws and regulations. Remitly is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Remitly is a leading digital financial services provider for immigrants and their families in over 170 countries around the world. Remitly helps immigrants send money home in a safe, reliable and transparent manner. Its digitally-native, cross-border remittance app eliminates the long wait times, complexities and fees typical of traditional remittance processes. Building on its strong foundation, Remitly is expanding its suite of products to further its mission and transform financial services for immigrants all around the world.