Description
At Airwallex, product is at the heart of everything we do. We are looking for visionaries to come build the next-generation payments platform. Our team brings together commercial strategy, engineering, design, and regulatory expertise to deliver powerful financial products to customers around the world.
As a Product Lead, you’ll play a defining role in shaping the future of our payments infrastructure by pioneering an Agentic Payments Platform. You will be tasked to reimagine existing industry workflows with AI-native capabilities,designing strategy, defining solutions, and driving delivery from concept to launch. You’ll lead our Payments Product team, focused on building and optimizing the core clearing and settlement platform that powers how money moves across card networks, banks, ledgers, and most importantly: our merchants' wallets.
Key responsibilities include:
- Owning the end-to-end merchant experience: From instant, low-friction onboarding through to the ongoing lifecycle, reducing complexity at every step.
- Optimizing global payment flows: Enhancing platform capabilities (e.g., intelligent batching, fee netting, routing) to improve settlement speed, accuracy, and cash velocity.
- Strengthening infrastructure: Driving reliability, compliance, and liquidity management to deliver resilient capabilities for reconciliation and regulatory reporting.
- Deploying AI-native capabilities: Embedding autonomous agents into how we interact with merchants, collect feedback, and automate traditional industry workflows,powering smarter support, proactive insights, and real-time visibility.
Requirements:
- 10+ years of experience in a high-growth environment, ideally in fintech or platform products.
- Bachelor’s degree or higher, with strong academic performance; technical or engineering coursework a plus.
- Technical fluency and the ability to engage confidently in architectural discussions around high-scale, mission-critical systems.
- Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to translate product strategy across technical and non-technical teams.
- Analytical rigour: a sharp eye for detail, structured problem-solving skills, and a data-driven mindset.
- Bias for action: grit, persistence, and ownership to turn complex ideas into real-world products quickly.
- Collaborative mindset and the ability to thrive in cross-functional, cross-cultural teams.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience building or scaling API products, ideally in a fintech or payments environment