# Manager, Operations Strategy (Data and AI Governance)

**Company**: Airwallex
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: $140K - $170K
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

## Compensation

The expected base pay range for this role is $140K – $170K, with additional compensation options including equity and bonus.

## About Airwallex

Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. More than 675,000 businesses use us, directly or through our platform partners, to run their financial operations or build and monetize financial products of their own.

## How you'll make impact

You'll work at the intersection of program management and operations strategy, coordinating teams across Information Security, Engineering, IT, Legal, Data, and Operations. Your responsibilities include:

- Managing end-to-end program management for cross-functional data and AI governance initiatives

- Aligning stakeholders across technical and non-technical teams on governance strategy and priorities

- Assessing access-control models, data classification frameworks, and governance standards

- Translating data and AI governance requirements into operational processes

- Driving requirements and design documents through development, review, and approval

- Defining and tracking success metrics and maintaining a living AI model and use-case inventory

## What we're looking for

**Essentials**

- 5+ years of experience in a fast-growing technology company, top-tier strategy or management consulting, or an equivalent environment

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

- Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills

- Experience with data governance initiatives and access-management initiatives

- Demonstrated ability to run programs end to end

- Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills

- A self-starter mindset with the ability to identify and prioritize opportunities

- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

**Preferred**

- Experience interpreting and operationalising requirements from regulators in a financial services or payments environment

- Experience with AI governance best practices and frameworks

- Experience operationalising privacy and AI regulations into actionable requirements

- Familiarity with identity and access-management tools such as Okta and modern data platforms such as Databricks

- Experience in technology, financial services, or a high-growth environment

## Benefits

- For US-based employees, benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan, short-term and long-term disability, basic life insurance, and well-being benefits

- 20 paid days of vacation and 12 paid days of company holidays in a calendar year

## You'll thrive here if

- You're comfortable owning the roadmap yourself

- You're comfortable making decisions with incomplete information and moving quickly

- You connect dots across functions and hold the big picture without losing grip on the details

- You simplify complexity rather than hiding behind it

- You over-communicate by design

## Skills

### Required
- data governance
- access management
- program management
- operations strategy
- stakeholder management
- analytical skills
- problem-solving skills
- communication skills

### Nice to have
- AI governance
- financial services
- payments environment
- privacy regulations
- identity and access-management tools
- data platforms

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