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About the Role
The CEO Office works directly with Airwallex’s executive leadership on high-priority strategic, operational, and organizational initiatives. This role offers close exposure to senior leadership, direct involvement in high-stakes decision-making, and the opportunity to work on complex scaling challenges within a global fintech platform.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with Airwallex’s leadership team on high-priority initiatives that shape the company's global direction.
- Operate across strategy and execution, helping frame problems, drive alignment, and ensure complex initiatives move from idea to outcome.
- Scale new products and business lines globally.
- Develop international expansion and market entry strategies.
- Lead regulatory and banking infrastructure initiatives.
- Design organizational effectiveness and operating models.
- Drive commercial acceleration and go-to-market execution.
- Evaluate M&A opportunities and manage post-merger integration.
- Lead AI-enabled operational transformation.
- Execute cross-functional strategic initiatives tied to company priorities.
- Regularly collaborate with senior leaders across product, engineering, finance, commercial, legal, operations, and regional teams.
Requirements
- 5–8 years of experience in top-tier consulting, high-growth technology companies, investing, strategic finance, or similarly high-performance environments.
- Demonstrated track record of leading complex cross-functional initiatives and driving measurable outcomes.
- Exceptional problem-solving and structured thinking abilities.
- Strong executive communication skills, including the ability to synthesize complex topics clearly and concisely.
- Ability to operate effectively in fast-moving, ambiguous environments with high ownership and accountability.
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills across seniority levels and functions.
- High degree of commercial judgment and operational pragmatism.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience in fintech, financial services, or other regulated industries (preferred).
- Experience working directly with senior executives or founders (preferred).
- Prior experience in consulting, investment banking, private equity, venture capital, or strategic finance (preferred).
- Experience scaling products, markets, or operational functions in international environments (preferred).
- Strong data analysis and business modelling capabilities (preferred).
- Demonstrated ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution (preferred).
Skills
- Intellectual curiosity
- Highly structured thinking
- Execution-oriented
- Comfort operating in ambiguity
- Ability to move fluidly between strategic thinking and practical problem solving
- Fast learning
- Clear and concise communication
- Strong business judgment
- Balancing detail orientation with speed
- Comfort with high expectations and high ownership
- Enjoy building
- AI utilization for efficiency
- Stakeholder management
- Influencing skills
- Commercial judgment
- Operational pragmatism
- Data analysis
- Business modelling
Location
- Global
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5-8 years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
About the Company
- Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses, empowering over 250,000 businesses worldwide with integrated solutions for payments, spend management, treasury, and embedded finance.
- Founded in Melbourne, Airwallex has a team of over 2,300 employees across 27 global offices.
- The company is valued at US$11 billion and backed by leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Visa, Mastercard, and Sequoia.
- Airwallex is building the global payments and financial platform of the future.
- We hire builders with founder-like energy who seek impact, accelerated learning, and ownership.
- We value strong expertise, sharp thinking, and a mission-driven approach.
- We operate with speed, good judgment, curiosity, and first-principles decision-making.
- We are humble, collaborative, turn ideas into products, and get things done end-to-end.
- We use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster.
- Airwallex is building the global financial infrastructure for modern businesses, entering a critical phase of global scale and platform expansion.
- Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
Equal Opportunity
- Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
- We value diversity and consider anyone seeking employment based on merit, qualifications, competence, and talent.
- We do not 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 hiring decisions.
- If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.