Senior Product Manager - Global Payments Platform

Airwallex; Melbourne; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Airwallex in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Product Manager to shape the future of global money movement, embedded commerce, and unified payment acceptance. You will own the end-to-end product lifecycle from strategy to roadmap, leading cross-functional teams to modernise omnichannel workflows and scale across international markets.

In this role you will drive AI-native capabilities, developer-first APIs, and integrations with POS and platform checkouts while expanding capabilities

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product management experience building high-scale platform products in fintech/payments/commerce infrastructure.
• Hands-on domain expertise in card acquiring, embedded finance, marketplaces, or PayFac-like setups.
• Proven ability to engage deeply with engineering on API design, distributed ledgers, high-throughput processing, and hardware/software interfaces.
• Exceptional analytical rigor with ability to structure ecosystem workflows and drive data-based trade-offs.
• High agency and entrepreneurial bias for action in a fast-growing environment.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication across diverse international regions.

Responsibilities

• Own vision, roadmap, and delivery plans for platform payments and in-person commerce solutions across geographies.
• Architect seamless integrations tying POS workflows and embedded checkouts to core clearing, ledgers, and multi-currency settlement engines.
• Build developer-first APIs, unified commerce SDKs, and terminal management systems to reduce integration overhead.
• Pioneer AI workflows and autonomous agents across onboarding, dispute/risk management, reconciliation, and loyalty optimization.
• Expand capabilities around alternative payment methods, card acquiring, and loyalty redemption loops for platforms.
• Ensure high-availability infrastructure and tooling to meet regulatory mandates and manage platform risk.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Hardware/Firmware, Commercial, Legal/Compliance, and Operations to scale products globally.

Skills

Product management

Domain expertise payments

Engineering collaboration

Analytical rigor

Action-oriented

Communication skills

Bachelor's degree or higher

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher (CS/Engineering/quantitative)

Job description

Airwallex in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Product Manager to shape the future of global money movement, embedded commerce, and unified payment acceptance. You will own the end-to-end product lifecycle from strategy to roadmap, leading cross-functional teams to modernise omnichannel workflows and scale across international markets.

In this role you will drive AI-native capabilities, developer-first APIs, and integrations with POS and platform checkouts while expanding capabilities