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Alexandra Chen

+1 (650) 555 0142·achen@stanford.edu·Palo Alto, CA·linkedin.com/in/alexandrachen

Summary

Operator and product leader with 11 years scaling consumer fintech across LATAM and APAC. Built and led teams from 0→60. Comfortable in ambiguity, allergic to slide decks. Currently exploring what's next.

Experience

Mercado Pago
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Latin America's largest digital wallet (~50M MAU)
VP, Consumer Products
2022 – Present

Responsible for consumer banking, lending, and savings products across 9 countries. P&L of $1.2B. Direct report to CEO.

  • Grew daily actives from 11M to 28M (+155%) by re-architecting the home and rewriting onboarding for low-bandwidth contexts.
  • Launched Mercado Pago Pro, a paid tier with 4.2M paying members in 14 months — now $310M ARR.
  • Built and led a team of 60 across product, design, research, and analytics; reduced senior attrition from 22% to 6%.
Director, Growth
2020 – 2022

Led growth org during the move to in-person commerce after COVID closures.

  • Recovered offline TPV from -68% to pre-pandemic levels in 7 months by partnering with 80,000 small merchants on a fee-free QR product.
  • Cut paid CAC by 41% by replacing performance ad spend with a referral mechanic that drove 38% of new account opens.
Nubank
São Paulo, Brazil
Senior Product Manager
2017 – 2020

Owned credit card and personal lending for the Brazilian market.

  • Shipped Nubank's first secured-card product, opening up the bank to ~12M previously-declined applicants.
  • Reduced default rates 19% by rebuilding the underwriting flow around real-time cash-flow signals.

Education

Stanford Graduate School of Business
2024
Sloan Fellow, MSx Program
A one-year, full-time degree program for experienced leaders.
Universidad de los Andes
2014
B.S. Industrial Engineering
Magna cum laude. Thesis on supply-chain optimization for Andean coffee co-ops.

Additional

Languages
Spanish (native), Portuguese (fluent), English (fluent), Mandarin (conversational)
Community service
Mentor — Endeavor Latin America. Board observer — Fundación Empresarios por la Educación, Bogotá.
Awards
Forbes 30 Under 30 — LATAM Finance, 2021. Endeavor Entrepreneur, 2019.
Interests
Trail running, generative music, the slow demise of physical newspapers.
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