Staff Product Manager, Agentic Payments

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.

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.

As the payments landscape undergoes its biggest paradigm shift in decades our Payments Platform Team is expanding beyond legacy card rails to build the next-generation infrastructure for global commerce. We combine deep technical expertise with first-principles product thinking to design intuitive highly scalable rails that bridge traditional fiat processing autonomous AI execution and stablecoin settlement.

As a Staff Product Manager Agentic Payments based in our San Francisco office you will lead the core strategic bets driving Airwallexs future processing engine. You will work across several key initiatives such as our one-click-checkout tool Airi) and build out our Stablecoin Acceptance and Agentic Commerce products

In this role you wont just optimize authorization ratesyou will design how AI agents buy sell and settle globally seamlessly bridging fiat card networks with instant stablecoin liquidity.

You will lead high-impact zero-to-one and scale initiatives across three core payment vectors:

1. Agentic Commerce & Autonomous Payments Architecture

• Define Machine-to-Machine Payment Protocols: Build standard API/SDK primitives and execution layers enabling AI agents to programmatically initiate authorize and verify payment transactions without manual human friction.

• Integrate Airi into Core Payments: Partner with our AI/ML engineering teams to deploy Airi across the checkout lifecycleutilizing LLMs and predictive models for real-time routing intent detection dynamic risk scoring and automated fraud defense.

• Programmable Spending & Identity: Architect fine-grained authentication spend controls and identity verification mechanisms specifically tailored for autonomous software agents acting on behalf of businesses and consumers.

2. Stablecoin Acceptance & Hybrid Settlement

• On-Ramp / Off-Ramp Orchestration: Architect robust stablecoin (USDC USDT etc.) payment acceptance rails enabling merchants to accept digital dollars globally with instant low-cost clearing and automated conversion into local fiat currencies.

• Unified Checkout Infrastructure: Embed stablecoin payment flows natively alongside traditional payment methods (Card Schemes Local Payment Methods) within our single API integration giving merchants zero-friction access to Web3 liquidity.

• Capital Efficiency & Treasury Integration: Collaborate with Treasury and Liquidity Risk teams to leverage stablecoins for instant cross-border merchant payouts and balance-sheet optimization.

3. Scalability Resilience & Industry Leadership

• Build Next-Gen Foundations: Ensure our underlying payment engines scale to handle massive transaction volumes with 99.999% uptime strict fault tolerance and near-zero latency.

• Drive Ecosystem Standards: Represent Airwallex in global standards bodies scheme working groups and developer communities defining protocol specs for agentic commerce and crypto-fiat settlement.

• 8 years of professional experience in Product Management with significant exposure to high-growth fast-paced fintech or tech environments.

• Proven track record building and scaling core payment infrastructure acquiring products card scheme integrations or blockchain/stablecoin payment systems.

• Strong technical background with a Bachelors degree or higher (preferably in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related quantitative field).

• Deep Domain Expertise: Hands-on experience with payment authorization flows ISO 8583/20022 messaging card scheme rules or blockchain-based token standards (ERC-20 Solana SPL) and stablecoin architecture.

• AI & Agentic Systems Native: Demonstrated understanding of LLMs tool-use agents multi-agent workflows and how software agents interact with APIs to execute real-world economic actions. Familiarity and interest in agentic commerce and payment standards and protocols like x402 A2A AP2 and UCP.

• Technical Mastery: Exceptional capability to engage in deep architectural discussions with principal engineers review API contracts and evaluate transaction protocols.

• First-Principles Thinking: Ability to decompose highly complex unstructured problems (like autonomous machine payments) into clear execution-focused product roadmaps.

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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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