Manager, Paid Media

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 250000 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 2300 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 youre ready to do the most ambitious work of your career join us.

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 youre motivated by our mission and operating principles. You move fast with good judgment dig deep with curiosity and make decisions from first principles balancing speed and rigor.

Youre humble and collaborative; turn zerotoone ideas into real products and you get stuff done end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here youll tackle complex highvisibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you lets build whats next.

Were seeking a data-driven and creative Paid Media Manager to plan execute and optimize digital campaigns across global paid channels. Youll own the performance and day-to-day management of paid search paid social and display campaigns that drive acquisition pipeline growth and ROI.

In this role youll blend analytical rigor with hands-on execution partnering closely with Growth Strategy Product Marketing Creative and Analytics to translate business objectives into efficient scalable campaigns. Youll be instrumental in building the frameworks insights and best practices that power our global demand generation engine.

Strategy & Planning

• Develop and execute multi-channel paid media strategies (SEM paid social programmatic/display YouTube retargeting) aligned with funnel goals and business priorities.

• Own budget planning forecasting and pacing to meet CAC ROAS and pipeline targets.

• Collaborate with regional and product marketing teams to localize campaigns and ensure relevance across markets.

• Recommend new growth opportunities audiences and channels based on data-driven insights.
  

Execution & Optimization

• Build and manage paid campaigns end-to-end: keyword/audience selection ad copy creative testing and bid strategy.

• Continuously optimize for performance leveraging testing frameworks (A/B multivariate holdout experiments) to improve CTR CVR and CPL.

• Monitor and report on campaign performance daily and weekly identifying trends and actionable insights.

• Ensure proper tracking and attribution (UTMs pixels offline conversions Salesforce/Marketo sync).

• Manage and QA all campaign builds following standardized naming conventions and governance frameworks.
  

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with Creative and Content to develop ad variations tailored to audience segments and funnel stages.

• Collaborate with Analytics and RevOps to ensure visibility into lead quality pipeline contribution and ROI.

• Work with Product Marketing to align messaging audience strategy and campaign sequencing.
  

Testing & Insights

• Maintain a structured testing roadmap across channels for creative audience and bidding experiments.

• Surface insights on platform algorithm changes auction dynamics and audience performance trends.

• Share performance learnings across regions to scale best practices globally.
  

• 58 years of experience managing paid media programs in B2B SaaS fintech or e-commerce environments.

• Deep hands-on expertise in the breadth of DemandGen and Acquisition and across ad unit types in Google Ads LinkedIn Ads and Meta Ads (other platforms like YouTube Reddit Quora and programmatic are a plus).

• Proven success optimizing campaigns for pipeline ROI and LTV:CAC efficiency.

• Strong analytical skills; comfortable using Excel/Sheets Looker Tableau or GA4 to analyze campaign data.

• Experience with marketing automation and CRM systems (Marketo HubSpot Salesforce).

• Exceptional project management and attention to detail able to run multiple campaigns simultaneously.

• Excellent communicator who can translate performance data into actionable business insights.

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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 dont 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.

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Manager