Product Lead, Agentic Payments Platform

Airwallex; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Airwallex is looking for a Product Lead in Amsterdam to shape the future of our payments infrastructure. You will lead key initiatives for optimizing the merchant experience and improving payment flows through AI-native capabilities.

The ideal candidate has over 10 years of experience in high-growth fintech environments and is skilled in technical discussions surrounding mission-critical systems. This role offers a chance to significantly impact one of the fastest-growing fintech companies globally.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in a high-growth environment, ideally in fintech or platform products.
• Technical fluency to engage in architectural discussions around high-scale systems.
• Experience building or scaling API products in a fintech or payments environment.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end merchant experience with low-friction onboarding.
• Optimize global payment flows to improve settlement speed and accuracy.
• Drive reliability and compliance for resilient capabilities.

Skills

High-growth environment experience

Exceptional communication skills

Analytical rigour

Collaborative mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Tools

API products experience

Job description

The Role

At Airwallex, product is at the heart of everything we do. We are looking for visionaries to come build the next‑generation payments platform. Our team brings together commercial strategy, engineering, design, and regulatory expertise to deliver powerful financial products to customers around the world. We obsess over the details, push the boundaries of what’s possible, and build world‑class solutions that scale globally.

As a Product Lead, you’ll play a defining role in shaping the future of our payments infrastructure by pioneering an Agentic Payments Platform. You will be tasked to reimagine existing industry workflows with AI‑native capabilities—designing strategy, defining solutions, and driving delivery from concept to launch. You’ll lead our Payments Product team, focused on building and optimizing the core clearing and settlement platform that powers how money moves across card networks, banks, ledgers, and most importantly, our merchants' wallets.

In this role, you’ll lead key initiatives end‑to‑end, including:

• Owning the end‑to‑end merchant experience: From instant, low‑friction onboarding through to the ongoing lifecycle, reducing complexity at every step.

• Optimizing global payment flows: Enhancing platform capabilities (e.g., intelligent batching, fee netting, routing) to improve settlement speed, accuracy, and cash velocity.

• Strengthening infrastructure: Driving reliability, compliance, and liquidity management to deliver resilient capabilities for reconciliation and regulatory reporting.

• Deploying AI‑native capabilities: Embedding autonomous agents into how we interact with merchants, collect feedback, and automate traditional industry workflows—powering smarter support, proactive insights, and real‑time visibility.

You’ll work closely with product, engineering, design, and commercial teams to bring these cutting‑edge capabilities to life, and help shape the infrastructure behind one of the most dynamic, AI‑forward fintech platforms in the world.

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; technical or engineering coursework a plus.

• Technical fluency and the ability to engage confidently in architectural discussions around high‑scale, mission‑critical systems.

• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to translate product strategy across technical and non‑technical teams.

• Analytical rigour: a sharp eye for detail, structured problem‑solving skills, and a data‑driven mindset.

• Bias for action: grit, persistence, and ownership to turn complex ideas into real‑world products quickly.

• Collaborative mindset and the ability to thrive in cross‑functional, cross‑cultural teams.

Preferred

• Experience building or scaling API products, ideally in a fintech or payments environment

This is a chance to own core infrastructure that powers global money movement—and make an outsized impact at one of the fastest‑growing fintech companies in the world.

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.