Product Manager, Local Payment Methods

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 150,000 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 1,700 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across more than 37 locations around the globe. Valued at US$5.6 billion and backed by world-leading investors including Sequoia, Lone Pine, Greenoaks, DST Global, Salesforce Ventures and Mastercard, 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.

The Role

The product organisation is at the core of Airwallex, bringing together commercial strategy, engineering, design, and financial compliance to deliver Airwallex’s product suite to a customer audience around the world. We care about perfection in the details and creating first-class products on a global scale. Our Product members are creative and dynamic problem solvers who dive into new challenges daily and can communicate across all levels of the organisation.

As a Product Manager, you will be defining Airwallex’s products, from strategy and solution design to roadmap and delivery plans. This role is part of the payments product team, building out our capabilities to offer local/ alternative payment methods to our customers. As the global payment landscape is evolving quickly, we see non-card payment methods becoming increasingly important for businesses that want to accelerate their growth and expand their global reach.

You will be responsible for leading local payment method related projects from ideation to launch, covering aspects such as:

• Studying which alternative payment methods could help businesses to increase their conversion rate, decrease their cost or otherwise help them our customers

• Leading provider selection, end-user experience design, integration and operationalization of new payment methods

• Conducting first-hand user research and collaborating closely with commercial teams, financial partnership teams and solution engineers to identify pain points and new opportunities to improve Airwallex’s local payment method offering

For this, you will collaborate closely with other product managers, engineering teams, and other stakeholders in the business.

Requirements 

• 2+ years of professional experience in a high-growth environment

• Bachelor's degree or above with a competitive GPA, preferably with engineering or computer science coursework

• Solid technical understanding and ability to engage in architectural discussions with engineering teams

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to convey product strategy to both technical and non-technical audiences

• Close attention to detail, ability to structure complex problems and inform decisions with data and first-principle insights

• Drive, grit, and persistence are necessary to take ownership and move ideas to reality in short periods of time

• Ability to thrive in cross-cultural and cross-functional teams

Preferred

• Experience in payments processing or broader FinTech

• Working proficiency in Mandarin Chinese

Equal opportunity

Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don’t regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters.  Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s).  Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary.