Staff Product Manager, Check-Out

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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 250,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, 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 2,300 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 27 offices around the globe. Valued at US$11 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 https://www.airwallex.com/us/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. THE ROLE At Airwallex, product is at the heart of everything we do. Our team brings together commercial strategy, engineering, design, and regulatory expertise to deliver powerful financial products to customers around the world. We obsess over the details, push the boundaries of what’s possible, and build world-class solutions that scale globally. As a Product Manager, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our payment acquiring infrastructure; designing strategy, defining solutions, and driving delivery from concept to launch. You’ll join our Payments Product team, focused on building and optimising the global check-out experience that powers how merchants collect payments across card networks, digital wallets, and local payment methods. As we scale transaction volume worldwide, this front-end infrastructure needs to be high-converting, friction-free, and localized for every buyer. In this role, you’ll lead key initiatives end to end, including: - Owning the end-to-end checkout integrations provided to merchants, from modular SDKs, hosted payment pages and APIs, providing ultimate flexibility between low integration effort and full customizability for a great developer experience - Optimizing the buyer experience on hosted payment pages, reducing friction at the most critical point of the funnel and optimizing conversion rates - Embedding AI into the checkout journey — powering predictive payment method selection, automated fraud-friction balancing, and real-time checkout insights for merchants. - Developing new capabilities that bring additional flexibility to merchants to adopt checkout to their needs, from automatic currency conversion to dynamic surcharging and sales tax calculation You’ll work closely with product, engineering, design, and commercial teams to bring these capabilities to life, and help shape the infrastructure behind one of the most dynamic fintech platforms in the world. REQUIREMENTS - 4+ years of experience in a high-growth environment, ideally in fintech, e-commerce, or merchant-facing platform products. - Bachelor’s degree or higher, with strong academic performance; technical or engineering coursework a plus. - Technical fluency and the ability to engage confidently in architectural discussions around SDKs, APIs, and high-performance frontend systems. - Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to translate product strategy across technical and non-technical teams. - Analytical rigor: a sharp eye for detail, structured problem-solving skills, and a data-driven mindset. - Bias for action: grit, persistence, and ownership to turn complex ideas into real-world products quickly. - Collaborative mindset and the ability to thrive in cross-functional, cross-cultural teams. PREFERRED - Experience working on card acquiring and local payment methods APPLICANT SAFETY POLICY: FRAUD AND THIRD-PARTY RECRUITERS To protect you from recruitment scams, please be aware that Airwallex will not ask for bank details, sensitive ID numbers (i.e. passport), or any form of payment during the application or interview process. All official communication will come from an @airwallex.com http://airwallex.com email address. Please apply only through careers.airwallex.com http://careers.airwallex.com or our official LinkedIn page. 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. 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.