Product Lead, Payment Fraud

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 150,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, Rippling, 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 1,800 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US $6.2 billion and backed by world‑leading investors including Visa, Airtree, Blackbird, Sequoia, DST Global, Greenoaks, Salesforce Ventures, Lone Pine, and Square Peg, 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.

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 technical expertise with a deep understanding of our customers' needs to design and build unified, intuitive, and scalable products. As a team, we thrive in a collaborative and fast‑paced environment, constantly iterating and pushing boundaries to deliver exceptional product experiences.

This role will be part of Airwallex’s Risk Platform team, building out our Anti‑Fraud capabilities to protect our customers from Payment fraud. You will be responsible for developing and implementing strategies to prevent, detect, and mitigate fraud within our products and services at global scale, as well as leading Fraud‑related product initiatives from ideation to launch. You will bring a fraud product to market, and productise a fraud product add‑on service for Airwallex to better serve our customers.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the strategy for our Payment fraud products and prioritise the roadmap for key features and capabilities

• Work with commercial strategy teams to develop and enrich our customer facing fraud management offerings

• Oversee the product lifecycle of our fraud prevention capabilities and tools for our risk analytics and operation teams and customers

• Work with the risk analytics team to develop and implement fraud detection and prevention solutions, and monitor their effectiveness

• Lead cross‑functional teams, including engineering, data science, legal and compliance teams to develop market leading products that align with business objectives and regulatory requirements.

• Manage Airwallex’s team of Fraud Analysts and ensure proactive monitoring of fraud metrics, identification of patterns and trends, and gathering of insights to improve fraud prevention strategies and tooling.

Requirement:

• 7 to 15 years of overall professional experience

• 5+ Years of experience in Payments Fraud or Payments Risk Management

• Experience in product management, go‑to‑market propositions, product design, product planning and development

• Excellent analytical, problem‑solving, and communication skills

Additionally, you should have:

• Demonstrated high academic achievements across your Bachelor’s or higher degree in a STEM field

• Experience in Fintech or other domains with high conceptual complexity

Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value…