Airwallex
Staff Product Manager, Card Schemes
US - San Francisco, Remote. Posted 9 months ago
The role
You will lead high-impact product initiatives across the card payments lifecycle. You will expand card scheme coverage, improve payment infrastructure competitiveness, and build scalable foundations.
What you will do
- Expand coverage of card schemes and markets
- Work with partners such as Visa and Mastercard to help merchants accept major card brands globally
- Improve competitiveness of card payments infrastructure by adopting new industry standards
- Partner with Machine Learning to increase payment success rates
- Build stable foundations that scale with business growth
- Reduce manual effort and minimise the risk of service interruptions for merchants
Required qualifications
- 8+ years of professional experience
- Experience leading complex product initiatives from ideation through launch
- Strong understanding of the card payments lifecycle, including scheme connections, authorisations, captures, refunds, and reconciliation
- Ability to engage in architectural discussions with Engineering and translate technical concepts for non-technical audiences
- Strong communication skills and experience working cross-functionally with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to structure complex problems and inform decisions with data and first-principles thinking
Nice to have
- Bachelor’s degree or above, preferably with Engineering or Computer Science coursework
- Deep expertise in payment processing, including direct integrations with Visa and Mastercard, preferably on the acquiring side
- Experience working with card schemes, payment standards, or acquiring infrastructure
- Experience partnering with Machine Learning teams to improve payment performance
- Experience working in cross-cultural and globally distributed teams
About the company
Airwallex is an AI-native financial operating system used by over 675,000 businesses to run financial operations or build financial products. The company provides regulated financial infrastructure spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.