Senior Product Manager, Transaction Risk

Airwallex; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Airwallex is seeking an experienced Senior Product Manager, Transaction Risk to lead the development and optimization of transaction monitoring capabilities. The role involves managing fraud detection and compliance efforts, collaborating closely with various teams including Risk and Engineering. The ideal candidate has over 6 years of experience and a strong analytical background in the payments or fintech sector. This position is a pivotal opportunity to enhance monitoring systems and ensure compliance while fostering excellent customer experiences.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of Product Management experience in payments or financial crime prevention.
• Experience building or owning transaction monitoring or fraud detection systems.
• Strong analytical skills to evaluate transaction data and monitoring performance.

Responsibilities

• Own the payment fraud product and design detection logic.
• Optimise monitoring rules to improve detection quality.
• Build scalable post-transaction monitoring workflows.

Skills

Product Management experience in payments or fintech

Data-driven mindset

SQL proficiency

Stakeholder management

Job description

What You’ll Do

We are looking for an experienced Senior Product Manager, Transaction Risk to lead the development and optimisation of our transaction monitoring capabilities across payments and financial operations. This role sits at the intersection of risk, compliance, data, and product, ensuring that our monitoring systems effectively detect suspicious activity while maintaining an excellent customer experience.

You will own the end-to-end product strategy for real-time and post-transaction monitoring, including rule design, alert optimisation, workflow automation, and client-specific risk controls. You will work closely with Risk, Compliance, Operations, Data, and Engineering teams to build scalable and intelligent monitoring systems that reduce fraud and financial crime while minimizing operational overhead.

Responsibilities

• Own the payment fraud product, including real-time rules, alerting frameworks, and detection logic across our payments platform.
• Optimise monitoring rules and thresholds to improve detection quality and significantly reduce false positives.
• Build scalable post-transaction monitoring and manual review workflows, including delay modes and investigator tooling.
• Design client-specific risk controls for large and complex merchants, tailoring monitoring rules, limits, and safeguards to their transaction patterns and risk profiles.
• Expand monitoring coverage as business scales globally. Drive decisions across risk and compliance workflows, including automation and data-driven decisioning.
• Partner closely with Risk Operations to optimise alert triage, case management, and investigator productivity.
• Work with Data and Engineering to ensure reliable monitoring data pipelines, high-quality signals, and scalable detection infrastructure.
• Identify opportunities to leverage AI and advanced analytics to improve detection accuracy and reduce manual operational effort.
• Ensure monitoring capabilities align with AML, fraud, and regulatory requirements while maintaining a seamless customer experience.

Minimum Qualifications

• 6+ years of Product Management experience, ideally in payments, fintech, or financial crime prevention.
• Experience building or owning transaction monitoring, fraud detection, or AML systems.
• Strong data-driven mindset with the ability to analyse transaction data, alerts, and rule performance.
• Comfortable working with SQL and data tools to investigate signals, optimise rules, and evaluate monitoring performance.
• Experience defining risk detection logic, monitoring rules, and thresholds.
• Proven ability to work cross-functionally with Risk, Compliance, Operations, Data, and Engineering teams.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to translate regulatory and risk requirements into scalable product solutions.
• Experience building scalable, automated systems in regulated environments while balancing risk, operational efficiency, and customer experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AML monitoring or fraud detection platforms.
• Familiarity with case management and investigation tooling.
• Exposure to machine learning or AI-driven risk systems.

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.