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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 critical 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.
- Engage in projects such as scaling new products, international expansion, regulatory initiatives, organizational effectiveness, commercial acceleration, M&A evaluation, AI-enabled operational transformation, and cross-functional strategic initiatives.
- Regularly collaborate with senior leaders across product, engineering, finance, commercial, legal, operations, and regional teams.
- Thrive in high-context, high-accountability environments and solve difficult problems with imperfect information.
- Accelerate personal development and take on increasing leadership responsibility.
Requirements
- Proven 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
- Quick learning
- Clear and concise communication
- Strong business judgment
- Detail orientation
- Speed
- Comfort with high expectations
- High ownership
- Building rather than observing
- Stakeholder management
- Influencing skills
- Commercial judgment
- Operational pragmatism
- Data analysis
- Business modelling
Location
- San Francisco
- Singapore
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
About the Company
- Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy.
- More than 676,000 businesses use Airwallex to run financial operations or build and monetize financial products.
- Started in Melbourne in 2015, Airwallex is the regulated backbone behind global payments.
- Has over 85 licenses and financial infrastructure spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.
- Co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore, with over 2,300 employees across 27 offices.
- Hires builders with founder-level energy who move fast with good judgment, dig in with curiosity, and make calls from first principles.
- Building the global financial infrastructure for modern businesses with rapid growth across payments, banking, software, and AI-enabled financial products.
Equal Opportunity
- Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
- Values diversity and considers anyone seeking employment based on merit, qualifications, competence, and talent.
- Does 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.
- Provides accommodation for individuals with disabilities or special needs upon request.