Talent Acquisition Partner, Product and Design

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.

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 Talent Acquisition team at Airwallex plays a pivotal role in shaping the company's future by sourcing and recruiting the brightest and most ambitious minds to drive our company forward. We collaborate with hiring managers and leadership teams to understand business needs and proactively find the right individuals who will contribute to our success. As trusted advisors, our team is passionate about building strong relationships with candidates and delivering a seamless recruiting experience that reflects Airwallex's operating principles, dynamic culture and global ambitions.

What you'll do

Airwallex is looking for a Talent Acquisition Partner, Product & Design to own full-cycle recruiting for our Product and Design organizations. You will partner directly with hiring managers across Product Management, Product Strategy, Data Science, and Design to fill critical roles that power Airwallex's payments, treasury, spend, issuing, and platform products serving 200K+ customers globally.

This is a high-impact, hands-on recruiting role where you will build pipelines, run structured interview processes, and close exceptional candidates in a competitive fintech talent market. You will work closely with the broader Product & Design TA team, Employer Branding, and Total Rewards to position Airwallex as an employer of choice for product and design talent.

This role is based in San Francisco or New York City.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with senior leaders and hiring managers to define role requirements and build clear, effective hiring strategies for product and design functions.

• Design and execute creative, data-driven sourcing strategies across platforms, events, and outreach to attract diverse talent.

• Manage the full recruiting lifecycle from intake through offer close, including candidate screening, interview coordination, feedback calibration, and compensation negotiation.

• Act as a talent advisor to Product and Design hiring managers, providing market intelligence, candidate insights, and pipeline data to inform hiring decisions and workforce planning.

• Ensure a high-quality candidate experience at every stage of the process, reflecting Airwallex's operating principles and culture.

• Collaborate with Employer Branding, People Partners, and Total Rewards to strengthen Airwallex's positioning in the product and design talent market.

Who you are

We're looking for people who meet the minimum requirements for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have, but are not mandatory.

Minimum qualifications:

• 7+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with a meaningful portion focused on product management, product strategy, design, or related disciplines in a technology or startup environment.

• Proven ability to influence hiring managers and senior stakeholders on talent strategy, role requirements, and candidate assessment.

• Strong sourcing skills with a track record of building diverse candidate pipelines through direct outreach, referrals, events, and creative channels.

• Experience using applicant tracking systems (e.g., Ashby, Greenhouse) and recruiting data to manage pipelines, track metrics, and drive process improvements.

• Excellent communication and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple searches simultaneously across different hiring manager groups.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience recruiting in a high-growth fintech, payments, or financial infrastructure company, with familiarity navigating global or multi-regional hiring.

• Comfort operating in environments with high standards, fast iteration cycles, and evolving priorities.

• Entrepreneurial mindset with a bias toward action and continuous improvement.

• Curiosity to learn quickly, adapt fast, and grow through stretch opportunities, with a genuine passion for building teams that shape the future of financial technology.

To protect you from recruitment scams, please be aware that Airwallex will not ask for bank details, sensitive ID numbers (i.e. passport), or any form of payment during the application or interview process. All official communication will come from an @airwallex.com email address. Please apply only through careers.airwallex.com or our official LinkedIn page.

Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters. Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s). Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary.

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.