Staff Product Manager, Issuing Platform

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 Role
You will work cross-functionally with engineering, sales, and leadership to deliver API-driven infrastructure that empowers customers to launch innovative financial experiences at scale. Over time, you will take on leadership responsibilities, with a growing team reporting into you.

What You’ll Do

• Own the strategy, roadmap, and execution for the EmFi vertical within Issuing.

• Partner directly with enterprise customers to design and scale tailored embedded finance solutions.

• Translate complex use cases into scalable APIs and infrastructure in collaboration with engineering teams.

• Drive customer-centric product development while ensuring long-term platform scalability.

• Represent Issuing in strategic conversations with senior stakeholders and enterprise partners.

• Mentor and lead PMs, with the opportunity to grow into a broader leadership role.
  

Who You Are

• Experienced product manager with 5–10 years of experience in payments, financial infrastructure, or developer platforms, ideally with exposure to issuing, card programs, and partnerships with networks such as Visa and Mastercard.

• Strategic thinker who can identify big-picture opportunities while driving disciplined execution.

• Skilled in enterprise customer engagement and confident in leading high-level strategic discussions.

• Technically fluent, with the ability to collaborate closely with engineering teams on APIs and platform design.

• Ambitious and growth-oriented, with clear potential to step into a leadership role in the near future.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5–10 years of experience in Product Management, preferably in card issuing, payments, or fintech products.

• Proven track record managing credit, debit, prepaid, or virtual card products end-to-end.

• Experience leveraging AI/ML or data analytics to optimize card programs, detect fraud, or enhance customer experience.

• Strong ability to manage trade-offs between long-term vision and short-term execution.

• Exceptional communication skills to articulate complex payments and card product strategies to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Comfortable working in data-driven, cross-functional teams in a fast-paced fintech environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with global card networks (Visa, Mastercard, Amex) and banking partners.

• Background in hyper-growth fintech startups or payment platforms.

• Knowledge of regulatory compliance, KYC/AML, and card network rules.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, or related field.

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. If you are approached by someone claiming to represent Airwallex, please verify with our team.