Staff Product Manager, Agentic Payments

About Airwallex

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 250,000 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 2,300 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 you’re ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us.

Attributes We Value

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 you’re 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.

You're humble and collaborative; turn zero‑to‑one ideas into real products, and you “get stuff done” end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you’ll tackle complex, high‑visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you, let’s build what’s next.

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.