Staff Product Manager, Agentic Payments

Airwallex • San Francisco, CA

8d • $175,000 - $250,000 • Onsite

About The Position

As a Staff Product Manager – Next-Gen Payments Infrastructure, based in our San Francisco office, you will lead the core strategic bets driving Airwallex's future processing engine. You will work across several key initiatives, such as our one-click-checkout tool Airi) and build out our Stablecoin Acceptance and Agentic Commerce. In this role, you won't just optimize authorization rates—you will design how AI agents buy, sell, and settle globally, seamlessly bridging fiat card networks with instant stablecoin liquidity.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional experience in Product Management, with significant exposure to high-growth, fast-paced fintech or tech environments.
• Proven track record building and scaling core payment infrastructure, acquiring products, card scheme integrations, or blockchain/stablecoin payment systems.
• Strong technical background with a Bachelor's degree or higher (preferably in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field).

Nice To Haves

• Deep Domain Expertise: Hands-on experience with payment authorization flows, ISO 8583/20022 messaging, card scheme rules, or blockchain-based token standards (ERC-20, Solana SPL) and stablecoin architecture.
• AI & Agentic Systems Native: Demonstrated understanding of LLMs, tool-use agents, multi-agent workflows, and how software agents interact with APIs to execute real-world economic actions. Familiarity and interest in agentic commerce and payment standards and protocols, like x402, A2A, AP2, and UCP.
• Technical Mastery: Exceptional capability to engage in deep architectural discussions with principal engineers, review API contracts, and evaluate transaction protocols.
• First-Principles Thinking: Ability to decompose highly complex, unstructured problems (like autonomous machine payments) into clear, execution-focused product roadmaps.

Responsibilities

• Define Machine-to-Machine Payment Protocols: Build standard API/SDK primitives and execution layers enabling AI agents to programmatically initiate, authorize, and verify payment transactions without manual human friction.
• Integrate Airi into Core Payments: Partner with our AI/ML engineering teams to deploy Airi across the checkout lifecycle—utilizing LLMs and predictive models for real-time routing, intent detection, dynamic risk scoring, and automated fraud defense.
• Programmable Spending & Identity: Architect fine-grained authentication, spend controls, and identity verification mechanisms specifically tailored for autonomous software agents acting on behalf of businesses and consumers.
• On-Ramp / Off-Ramp Orchestration: Architect robust stablecoin (USDC, USDT, etc.) payment acceptance rails, enabling merchants to accept digital dollars globally with instant, low-cost clearing and automated conversion into local fiat currencies.
• Unified Checkout Infrastructure: Embed stablecoin payment flows natively alongside traditional payment methods (Card Schemes, Local Payment Methods) within our single API integration, giving merchants zero-friction access to Web3 liquidity.
• Capital Efficiency & Treasury Integration: Collaborate with Treasury and Liquidity Risk teams to leverage stablecoins for instant cross-border merchant payouts and balance-sheet optimization.
• Build Next-Gen Foundations: Ensure our underlying payment engines scale to handle massive transaction volumes with 99.999% uptime, strict fault tolerance, and near-zero latency.
• Drive Ecosystem Standards: Represent Airwallex in global standards bodies, scheme working groups, and developer communities defining protocol specs for agentic commerce and crypto-fiat settlement.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior