Talent Acquisition Partner, Product and Design

Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. More than 676,000 businesses, including McLaren Racing, Qantas, SHEIN, and Tik Tok, use us, directly or through our platform partners, to run their financial operations or build and monetize financial products of their own.

We started in Melbourne in 2015 to build the infrastructure global commerce runs on. We're the regulated backbone behind global payments: not by accident, but by design. A decade plus, 85+ licenses, and a financial infrastructure spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.

We're co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore, with more than 2,300 people across 27 offices. We hire builders with founder-level energy, people who move fast with good judgment, dig in with real curiosity, and make calls from first principles rather than waiting to be told what to do. Read our operating principles to see it in full.

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…