Product Director, Financial Markets (FX) & Financial Platform

Airwallex; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Airwallex is seeking a Product Director to own the financial markets and financial platform product strategy and roadmap. You will lead a high-performing team of Product Managers, collaborating with engineering, partnerships, and operations to drive money movement, FX, and platform initiatives.

The role involves working with finance, partnerships, and legal to navigate regulatory complexity while delivering fast iterations and scalable solutions for clients globally.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Product Management, Engineering or a related technical field
• Excellent communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences
• Ability to structure complex problems and inform decisions with data and first-principles insights
• Drive and persistence to move ideas to reality quickly
• Ability to thrive in cross-cultural, cross-functional teams

Responsibilities

• Define and own Airwallex’s financial markets product strategy, solution design, roadmap, and delivery plans
• Lead, mentor and develop a team of product managers
• Collaborate with engineering and design to build high-quality, scalable features and user experiences across web and mobile
• Work with commercial, marketing, legal and finance to navigate regulatory and operational complexity while delivering simple products
• Balance long-term vision with near-term growth in a data-driven environment
• Extend financial markets into new verticals and validate opportunities
• Monitor product performance and drive ongoing improvements

Skills

Product strategy

Team leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Data-driven decisions

Problem solving

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

About Airwallex

Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. More than 675,000 businesses, including McLaren Racing, Qantas, SHEIN, and TikTok, use us, directly or through our platform partners, to run their financial operations or build and monetize financial products of their own.

We started in Melbourne in 2015 to build the infrastructure global commerce runs on. We're the regulated backbone behind global payments: not by accident, but by design. A decade plus, 85+ licenses, and a financial infrastructure spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.

We're co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore, with more than 2,300 people across 27 offices. We hire builders with founder-level energy, people who move fast with good judgment, dig in with real curiosity, and make calls from first principles rather than waiting to be told what to do. Read our operating principles to see it in full.

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 strategic leadership role gives you full ownership of Airwallex’s financial markets and financial platform product strategy and roadmap. The Financial Markets team owns our FX platform, Liquidity Platform and Stablecoin platform. The Financial Platform team owns our ledger, wallet experience, reporting and reconciliation. As Product Director, you’ll collaborate deeply with financial partnerships, engineering, commercial, and operations teams to solve complex challenges and support ongoing product innovation. You’ll manage and mentor a high-performing team of Product Managers, act as the subject matter expert for money movement and FX within Airwallex, and champion fast iteration on product launches and feature enhancements.

This role can be based in SF, Singapore, Melbourne or Sydney

Responsibilities

• Define and own Airwallex’s financial market’s product strategy, solution design, roadmap, and delivery plans.

• Lead, mentor and develop a team of high performing product managers.

• Partner closely with engineering and design teams to build high‑quality, scalable features and user experiences across web and mobile, driving clarity on requirements, trade‑offs and timelines.

• Collaborate closely with commercial, marketing, legal and finance teams to navigate regulatory and operational complexity while delivering simple, easy‑to‑use products for our clients. Deeply understand user needs, target markets, and the competitive landscape; leverage customer and partner feedback to inform strategy and prioritization.

• Manage difficult tradeoffs between long-term product vision and near-term growth, adapting quickly within a highly data-driven, fast-paced environment.

• Lead the extension of financial markets into new verticals and use cases, validating opportunities and taking new propositions from concept to launch.

• Monitor product performance, drive continuous operational improvement, and remain ahead of industry trends in finance, payments, and technology.

Who you are

• 8 + years of overall professional experience within Product Management, Engineering or a related technical field

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a related field

• A understanding of e-trading, efx, trading technology

• 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 to take ownership and move ideas to reality in short periods of time

• Ability to thrive in cross-cultural and cross-functional teams

• Experience considering both user requirements and commercial strategy in order to drive meaningful product growth

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.