Senior Product Manager, AI Risk & Fraud Intelligence

Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time intelligent economy. More than 676000 businesses including McLaren Racing Qantas SHEIN and TikTok use us directly or through our platform partners to run their financial operations or build and monetize financial products of their own.

We started in Melbourne in 2015 to build the infrastructure global commerce runs on. Were the regulated backbone behind global payments: not by accident but by design. A decade plus 85 licenses and a financial infrastructure spanning North America Europe the Middle East and Asia-Pacific.

Were co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore with more than 2300 people across 27 offices. We hire builders with founder-level energy people who move fast with good judgment dig in with real curiosity and make calls from first principles rather than waiting to be told what to do. Read our operating principles to see it in full.

About The Team

The Product team at Airwallex is a group of passionate builders and problem-solvers who are obsessed with crafting customer-centric solutions that empower businesses to operate anywhere anytime. We combine deep technical expertise with a strong understanding of regulatory and operational requirements to design and build unified scalable and compliant financial products. As a team we thrive in a fast-paced collaborative environment constantly iterating and raising the bar to deliver best-in-class product experiences.

What Youll Do

We are looking for an experienced Senior Product Manager to lead the development and optimisation of our transaction monitoring capabilities across payments and financial operations. This role sits at the intersection of risk compliance data and product ensuring that our monitoring systems effectively detect suspicious activity while maintaining an excellent customer experience.

You will own the end-to-end product strategy for real-time and post-transaction monitoring including rule design alert optimisation workflow automation and client-specific risk controls. You will work closely with Risk Compliance Operations Data and Engineering teams to build scalable and intelligent monitoring systems that reduce fraud and financial crime while minimizing operational overhead.

This role will be based in San Francisco or Singapore.

Responsibilities

Own the transaction fraud product including real-time rules alerting frameworks and detection logic across our payments platform. Optimise monitoring rules and thresholds to improve detection quality and significantly reduce false positives. Build scalable post-transaction monitoring and manual review workflows including delay modes and investigator tooling. Design client-specific risk controls for large and complex merchants tailoring monitoring rules limits and safeguards to their transaction patterns and risk profiles. Expand monitoring coverage as business scales globally. Drive decisions across risk and compliance workflows including automation and data driven decisioning. Partner closely with Risk Operations to optimise alert triage case management and investigator productivity. Work with Data and Engineering to ensure reliable monitoring data pipelines high-quality signals and scalable detection infrastructure. Identify opportunities to leverage AI and advanced analytics to improve detection accuracy and reduce manual operational effort. Ensure monitoring capabilities align with AML fraud and regulatory requirements while maintaining a seamless customer experience.

Who You Are

Were looking for candidates who meet the minimum qualifications below. Preferred qualifications are a plus but not mandatory.

Minimum Qualifications

• 6 years of Product Management experience ideally in payments fintech or financial crime prevention.

• Experience building or owning transaction monitoring fraud detection or AML systems. Strong data-driven mindset with the ability to analyse transaction data alerts and rule performance.

• Comfortable working with SQL and data tools to investigate signals optimise rules and evaluate monitoring performance. Experience defining risk detection logic monitoring rules and thresholds.

• Proven ability to work cross-functionally with Risk Compliance Operations Data and Engineering teams.

• Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to translate regulatory and risk requirements into scalable product solutions.

• Experience building scalable automated systems in regulated environments while balancing risk operational efficiency and customer experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AML monitoring or fraud detection platforms.

• Familiarity with case management and investigation tooling.

• Exposure to machine learning or AI-driven risk systems.

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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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