Airwallex
Product Lead, Agentic Payments Platform
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About Airwallex
Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 200,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more – with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale.
Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 2,200 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$8 billion and backed by world-leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Visa, Mastercard, Robinhood Ventures, Sequoia, Salesforce Ventures, DST Global, and Lone Pine Capital, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you’re ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us.
Attributes We Value
We hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You bring strong role-related expertise and sharp thinking, motivated by our mission and operating principles. You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions from first principles, balancing speed and rigor.
You are:
- Humble and collaborative, turning zero-to-one ideas into real products
- Decisive and proactive, getting "stuff done" from end-to-end
- Leveraging AI to work smarter and solve problems faster
- Capable of tackling high-visibility challenges with exceptional teammates, while growing your career alongside us
If you match this mindset, let’s build what’s next together.
The Role
At Airwallex, product sits at the heart of everything we do. We're seeking visionaries to help build the next-generation global payments platform. Our team combines commercial strategy, engineering, design, and regulatory expertise to deliver impactful financial products for businesses worldwide.
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Product Lead – Agentic Payments Platform
You’ll play a pivotal role in redefining our payments infrastructure, spearheading the Agentic Payments Platform.
Your key responsibilities include:
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Redefining industry workflows with AI-native capabilities:
- Designing long-term strategic direction for payment systems
- Diving deep into cross-functional solutions and driving delivery
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Ownership of end-to-end payments infrastructure:
- Leading global development of the clearing and settlement platform that powers the movement of money across card networks, banks, ledgers, and merchant wallets
You’ll Focus On:
- Merchant experience: Simplifying onboarding and optimising the lifecycle, reducing complexity at every interaction
- Payment optimisation: Enhancing global flows with intelligent batching, fee netting, and dynamic routing to improve speed, accuracy, and cash velocity
- Infrastructure resilience: Ensuring reliability, regulatory compliance, and robust liquidity management for reporting and reconciliation
- AI-native deployment:
- Pioneering autonomous agent integration for AI-driven merchant interactions (personalised support, proactive insights, and real-time visibility)
You’ll collaborate across teams—product, engineering, design, and commercial—to bring cutting-edge payments solutions to life, shaping the back-end of one of the most dynamic AI-forward fintech platforms.
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; preference for technical or engineering backgrounds
- Technical fluency: Ability to engage in high-scale architectures for mission-critical systems
- Exceptional communication skills: Translate tech and business strategy clearly across teams
- Analytical prowess: Detail-oriented with structured problem-solving and data-driven decision-making
- Bias for execution: Grit, persistence, and determination to rapidly scale ideas into high-impact products
- Thrives in cross-functional, global environments
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Preferred:
- Experience building or scaling API products in fintech or payments domains
This is your chance to own the infrastructure that powers global money movement and to make transformative impact at one of the fastest-growing fintech platforms today.
Applicant Safety Policy
To protect you against recruitment fraud: Airwallex will never request:
- Banking details
- Sensitive IDs such as passport numbers
- Any form of payment during application or interviews
All official communications will come from @airwallex.com emails. Only apply via careers.airwallex.com or our LinkedIn page.
Recruiter Guidelines:
Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms or recruiters. Fees will not be paid unless a prior agreement is in place for specific roles. Unscheduled submissions will be deemed to accept this condition unconditionally.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Airwallex is an equal opportunity employer. Diversity and inclusion are core values—we assess all candidates on merit, qualifications, competence, and talent only. We do not consider race, colour, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, citizenship, disability, age, or any other legal classification when making hiring decisions. If you require accommodation for a disability or special need, please inform us.
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