Product Lead, Growth

Airwallex; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global payments platform seeks a Product Lead for Growth in San Francisco to drive user acquisition and retention. This role involves leading a strategic team, optimizing product adoption, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement. Ideal candidates will have extensive product management experience and a strong analytical background.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of overall professional experience.
• 3+ years of formal people management experience.
• Experience in product management and development.

Responsibilities

• Own the strategy, roadmap, and execution of growth initiatives.
• Partner closely with marketing, engineering, and data teams.
• Mentor a high-performing team of product managers and analysts.

Skills

Communication

Data-Driven Decision Making

Problem Solving

Leadership

Education

Exemplary Academic Achievements

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 more than 37 locations around the globe. Valued at US$5.6 billion and backed by world-leading investors including Sequoia, Lone Pine, Greenoaks, DST Global, Salesforce Ventures and Mastercard, 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

As the Product Lead for Growth, you will lead a highly strategic team and drive our evolution to an increasingly self-serve experience. You will work with a talented and dedicated design, data, and engineering team and lead them to generate meaningful commercial impact via product-led growth and build best-in-class tooling for internal and external users.

This role is based in San Francisco.

Responsibilities:

As the Product Lead for Growth, you will own the strategy, roadmap, and execution of growth initiatives that drive user acquisition, activation, and retention across Airwallex’s product suite. You’ll partner closely with marketing, engineering, data, and regional teams to identify high-leverage opportunities, run rapid experiments, and scale successful tactics globally. Your work will blend product thinking with data-driven decision-making to optimize conversion funnels, reduce friction, and increase product adoption. You’ll champion a culture of continuous testing, learning, and iteration while mentoring a high-performing team of product managers and analysts. This role is ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of product, data, and growth, with a strong bias for action and impact.

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:

• 10+ years of overall professional experience

• 3+ years of formal people management experience

• Experience in product management, go-to-market propositions, product design, product planning, and development

• Evidence of exponential growth of a fintech or B2B SaaS product

• Experience working with the following stakeholder groups: Data Science, Design, Customers, Engineering, Marketing, Senior Leadership team

• Exemplary academic achievements (e.g., high GPA, Dean’s list, scholarship, etc.)

• 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

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

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

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in any of the following is a plus: hyper-growth startup environments, software engineering, financial technology

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.