Manager, Global Growth, Lifecycle

Airwallex; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

A global financial technology company based in San Francisco is seeking a Global Growth Manager for Lifecycle. The ideal candidate will have over 7 years of experience leading customer lifecycle initiatives and an analytical mindset. Responsibilities include designing and optimizing customer engagement strategies and ensuring digital channels foster personalized user experiences. This role offers an opportunity to impact global growth, supported by a collaborative team, within a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience leading growth initiatives across the customer lifecycle.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data.
• Hands-on experience designing and executing lifecycle/CRM programs.

Responsibilities

• Lead the evolution of customer engagement strategy.
• Design the lifecycle engagement journey.
• Lead the strategy for regional digital channels.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication

Execution excellence

Marketing exposure

Experimentation mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA or Master’s (preferred)

Tools

SQL

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 200,000 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 2,000 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$8 billion and backed by world-leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Visa, Mastercard, Robinhood Ventures, Sequoia, Salesforce Ventures, DST Global, and Lone Pine Capital, 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 team

You’ll be part of a collaborative, results-driven Growth team that thrives on strategic, creative campaigns that move the business forward. We value creativity, data-driven decision-making, and a builder’s mindset. Our team is passionate about finding new ways to deliver value to customers and scale Airwallex’s impact globally. We support continuous learning, mentorship, and career growth, and we celebrate diverse perspectives and backgrounds.

What you’ll do

As the Global Growth Manager for Lifecycle, you will lead the evolution of our customer engagement strategy. You will design and optimize the lifecycle journey in a few high-impact regions, driving measurable gains in conversion, activation and retention. You will execute a unified global strategy, partnering with regional stakeholders to scale lifecycle initiatives into a consistent driver of long-term growth.

This role is based in San Francisco.

Responsibilities:

• Lead Lifecycle Strategy: Design the end-to-end lifecycle engagement journey in direct collaboration with Self-Serve Leads in high-impact region(s), ensuring global frameworks are optimized for local market nuances.

• Own Regional Digital Channels: Lead the strategy and operational health for email, push, and in-app messaging. Ensure these high-impact channels are optimized to deliver personalized engagement and consistent growth across managed regions.

• Drive End-to-End Campaign Execution: Transform high-level lifecycle strategies into high-performing programs. Lead the development and optimization of lifecycle initiatives that deliver measurable gains in conversion, activation, and long-term retention.

• Regional Funnel Accountability: Take full ownership of E2E growth metrics within your regions. Leverage deep-dive quantitative analysis to identify high-impact opportunities for experimentation, ensuring data-driven decision-making at every touchpoint.

• Drive Regional Experimentation: Initiate and lead a high-velocity experimentation roadmap within managed regions, testing innovative tactics to uncover local growth levers and scale successful pilots into global frameworks.

• User-Centric Communication: Champion a "customer-first" messaging philosophy, delivering personalized and compelling content that resonates with users and reduces friction throughout the lifecycle.

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:

• 7+ years of experience leading growth initiatives across the customer lifecycle, or experience at a top-tier strategy/management consulting or equivalent

• Analytical toolkit: Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret campaign and behavioral data, identify trends and develop data-backed recommendations

• Marketing exposure: Hands‑on experience designing and executing lifecycle/CRM programs that drive customer conversion, activation and retention

• Experimentation mindset: Experience running A/B tests and applying structured experimentation to improve performance

• Execution excellence: Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously

• Communication: Clear and structured communicator comfortable working with cross‑functional partners

• Bias to action: Proactive and results‑oriented, with a track record of delivering impact in fast‑paced environments

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in fintech, product‑led growth, or B2B SaaS

• Experience in fast‑paced environments, preferably within a startup or scale‑up

• Advanced degree (MBA or Master’s) is a plus

• Experience with SQL or close collaboration with data teams preferred

• Hands‑on experience in Lifecycle/CRM marketing

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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.