Product Lead, Agentic Payments Platform

The role

You will shape the future of payments infrastructure by pioneering an Agentic Payments Platform. You will lead the Payments Product team to build and optimize a core clearing and settlement platform using AI-native capabilities.

What you will do

• Own the end-to-end merchant experience from onboarding to lifecycle.
• Optimize global payment flows including intelligent batching, fee netting, and routing.
• Strengthen infrastructure for reliability, compliance, and liquidity management.
• Deploy AI-native capabilities by embedding autonomous agents into workflows.
• Work with product, engineering, design, and commercial teams to deliver capabilities.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in a high-growth environment, ideally in fintech or platform products.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher, with strong academic performance.
• Technical fluency and ability to engage in architectural discussions around high-scale, mission-critical systems.
• Exceptional communication skills to translate product strategy across teams.
• Analytical rigour with structured problem-solving skills and a data-driven mindset.
• Bias for action, grit, persistence, and ownership.
• Collaborative mindset and ability to thrive in cross-functional, cross-cultural teams.

Nice to have

• Technical or engineering coursework
• Experience building or scaling API products, ideally in a fintech or payments environment

About the company

Airwallex is an AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. It provides financial infrastructure spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.