Alexandra Chen
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
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%.
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.
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.