Product Lead, Issuing

The role

You will lead the global Card Issuing product strategy, solution design, technical roadmap, and go-to-market execution. This role involves managing a global card issuance platform and leading a team of Product Managers.

What you will do

• Own global Card Issuing product strategy, solution design, technical roadmap and go-to-market execution.
• Lead the vision for a global card issuance platform including virtual and physical cards, digital wallet provisioning, spend controls, fraud prevention and real-time transaction processing.
• Build developer-first APIs, webhooks and embedded SDKs or iframes.
• Partner with card schemes, banking partners, BIN sponsors, card manufacturers, Engineering, Architecture, Design, Legal, Compliance, Risk and Commercial teams.
• Lead, mentor and grow a high-performing team of Product Managers.
• Act as the company-wide subject matter expert on card issuing and embedded finance.
• Own product metrics including card transaction volume, interchange yield, API reliability and latency, activation rates and programme unit economics.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Product Management, Technical Product Management or Software Engineering, with demonstrated experience in card issuing, payment processing or embedded finance.
• Deep understanding of card issuing architecture, including Visa or Mastercard schemes, BIN sponsorship, card production and fulfilment, transaction authorisation, clearing and settlement, 3D Secure, t
• Proven experience building and scaling developer-facing products, including RESTful APIs, webhooks or SDKs.
• Experience partnering closely with Engineering on distributed, high-availability transaction systems.
• Strong commercial acumen, including experience modelling interchange or card economics, navigating global regulatory environments and partnering with enterprise commercial teams.
• Outstanding communication and influencing skills.
• A data-driven, first-principles approach to breaking down ambiguous business needs into executable product roadmaps.
• Experience leading teams and delivering high-impact launches in a fast-moving, multicultural and distributed environment.
• A bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, Finance or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• Experience with programmatic card creation across virtual, single-use, multi-use and physical cards.
• Experience with real-time transaction processing, remote authorisation engines and dynamic spend controls.
• Experience with wallet integrations, Apple Pay, Google Pay, 3D Secure, digital card provisioning and PCI-DSS tokenisation or PAN delegation.
• Experience working with Visa, Mastercard, BIN sponsors, card manufacturers or banking and financial partners.
• Experience across enterprise platforms, marketplaces, online travel agencies, gig platforms or fintech use cases.

About the company

Airwallex is an AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. It provides financial infrastructure for over 675,000 businesses globally.