Staff Product Manager, Agentic Payments

ABOUT AIRWALLEX
Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. More than 675,000 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. We're 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.
We're co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore, with more than 2,700 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 https://www.airwallex.com/en-us/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.
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.
THE ROLE
As a Staff Product Manager, Agentic Payments, based in our San Francisco office, you will lead the core strategic bets driving Airwallex's 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 won't just optimize authorization rates—you will design how AI agents buy, sell, and settle globally, seamlessly bridging fiat card networks with instant stablecoin liquidity.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
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 lifecycle—utilizing 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.
WHO YOU ARE
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- 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 Bachelor's degree or higher (preferably in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field).
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 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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EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
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 don’t 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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