Staff Product Manager, Card Schemes

Airwallex; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial technology firm in Singapore is seeking an experienced payments product manager to enhance payment capabilities and manage the payment lifecycle. The ideal candidate has over 8 years of experience, expertise in payment processing, and a strong technical background. This role involves leading critical projects to optimize the company's payment infrastructure and expand coverage, emphasizing communication and analytical skills. Join a diverse team dedicated to innovation.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional experience, ideally in a high-growth environment.
• Exposure to card payment systems, particularly Visa and MasterCard.
• Ability to communicate product strategies effectively.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects from ideation to launch on payment capabilities.
• Expand card schemes coverage for global merchants.
• Optimize card payments infrastructure through new standards.

Skills

Payment processing expertise

Communication skills

Architectural understanding

Analytical skills

Cross-cultural collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Computer Science

Job description

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 1,700 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.

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

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.