Product Director, Financial Markets (FX) & Financial Platform

What You’ll Do

• This strategic leadership role gives you full ownership of Airwallex’s financial markets and financial platform product strategy and roadmap.
• The Financial Markets team owns our FX platform, Liquidity Platform and Stablecoin platform.
• The Financial Platform team owns our ledger, wallet experience, reporting and reconciliation.

As Product Director, you’ll collaborate deeply with financial partnerships, engineering, commercial, and operations teams to solve complex challenges and support ongoing product innovation. You’ll manage and mentor a high-performing team of Product Managers, act as the subject matter expert for money movement and FX within Airwallex, and champion fast iteration on product launches and feature enhancements.

This role can be based in SF, Singapore, Melbourne or Sydney

Responsibilities

• Define and own Airwallex’s financial market’s product strategy, solution design, roadmap, and delivery plans.
• Lead, mentor and develop a team of high performing product managers.
• Partner closely with engineering and design teams to build high‑quality, scalable features and user experiences across web and mobile, driving clarity on requirements, trade‑offs and timelines.
• Collaborate closely with commercial, marketing, legal and finance teams to navigate regulatory and operational complexity while delivering simple, easy‑to‑use products for our clients. Deeply understand user needs, target markets, and the competitive landscape; leverage customer and partner feedback to inform strategy and prioritization.
• Manage difficult tradeoffs between long-term product vision and near-term growth, adapting quickly within a highly data-driven, fast-paced environment.
• Lead the extension of financial markets into new verticals and use cases, validating opportunities and taking new propositions from concept to launch.
• Monitor product performance, drive continuous operational improvement, and remain ahead of industry trends in finance, payments, and technology.

Who You Are

• 8 + years of overall professional experience within Product Management, Engineering or a related technical field
• Bachelor's degree or higher in a related field
• A understanding of e-trading, efx, trading technology
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to convey product strategy to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Close attention to detail, ability to structure complex problems and inform decisions with data and first-principle insights
• Drive, grit, and persistence to take ownership and move ideas to reality in short periods of time
• Ability to thrive in cross-cultural and cross-functional teams
• Experience considering both user requirements and commercial strategy in order to drive meaningful product growth

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