Staff Product Manager, Card Schemes

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 1,800 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$6.2 billion and backed by world-leading investors including Visa, Airtree, Blackbird, Sequoia, DST Global, Greenoaks, Salesforce Ventures, Lone Pine, and Square Peg, 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, and you're 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're humble and collaborative; turn zero‑to‑one ideas into real products, and you "get stuff done" end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you'll tackle complex, high‑visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you, let's build what's next.

About the team

The Product team at Airwallex is a group of passionate builders and problem-solvers who are obsessed with crafting customer-centric solutions that empower businesses to operate anywhere, anytime. We combine technical expertise with a deep understanding of our customers' needs to design and build unified, intuitive, and scalable products. As a team, we thrive in a collaborative and fast-paced environment, constantly iterating and pushing boundaries to deliver exceptional product experiences.

What you'll do

This role will be part of the payments product team, building out our capabilities that enable businesses to collect credit card payments and other forms of payments on their website or app from consumers around the world. You'll be working on the payment lifecycle end to end, from connections with the card schemes, authorizations, captures, refunds, and reconciliation.

This role is based in Singapore, Amsterdam, or London.

Responsibilities:

You will be responsible for leading high-impact projects from ideation to launch on topics such as:

• Expanding our coverage of card schemes and markets to provide merchants globally the ability to acquire payments of all major card brands

• Optimizing the competitiveness of our card payments infrastructure through adoption of new industry standards and working closely with our machine learning team to increase the success rate of payments

• Building stable foundations for our payment infrastructure to scale with our business growth, reducing internal manual efforts and minimizing the risk for any service interruptions for our merchants
  

Who you are

We're looking for people who meet the minimum qualifications for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have, but are not mandatory.

Minimum qualifications:

• 8+ years of professional experience, ideally with exposure to a high-growth environment

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

Preferred qualifications:

• Deep expertise in payment processing, working on direct integrations with Visa and MasterCard (preferably on acquiring side)

• 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 team

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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.

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