Payments Product Lead at Airwallex

Location: San Francisco, California
Level: Lead
Posted: Feb 5, 2026

Description

Airwallex is seeking a highly experienced individual to lead high-impact projects within their payments product team. This role involves expanding coverage of card schemes and markets, optimizing payment infrastructure using new industry standards and machine learning, and building scalable foundations for payment systems. The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in payment processing, particularly with Visa and MasterCard, and will contribute to creating customer-centric solutions.

Required Skills

Payment Processing
Machine Learning
Architectural Discussions

Additional Information

Minimum Education: Bachelor's degree or above with a competitive GPA, preferably with engineering or computer science coursework.
Required Previous Experiences: 8+ years of professional experience, ideally with exposure to a high-growth environment.
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