Senior Product Manager, Localization, Brazil

About Airwallex

Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 150,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more – with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale.

Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 1,800 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$6.2 billion and backed by world-leading investors including Visa, Airtree, Blackbird, Sequoia, DST Global, Greenoaks, Salesforce Ventures, Lone Pine, and Square Peg, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you're ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us.

Attributes We Value

We hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You bring strong role-related expertise and sharp thinking, and you're motivated by our mission and operating principles. You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions from first principles, balancing speed and rigor.

You're humble and collaborative; turn zero‑to‑one ideas into real products, and you "get stuff done" end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you'll tackle complex, high‑visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you, let's build what's next.

What you'll do

As the founding product manager in Brazil, you have the unique opportunity to shape Airwallex's expansion effort in Brazil, one of our priority growth markets and the first in South America. You will play a key role in localizing and launching our innovative payment, treasury, and issuing products in Brazil. You will partner closely with local regulators, external partners, and cross functional Airwallex teams including but not limited to Product, Engineering, Commercial, Legal & Compliance, and Operations. This is a high impact role and your work will directly impact how Brazilian customers experience Airwallex solutions.

This role is based in São Paulo, Brazil.

Responsibilities:

You will be responsible for leading local launches across the Airwallex product suite:

• Orchestrate cross-functional efforts to launch our global treasury and payment network, payment acquiring, issuing, and spend management products in Brazil, in compliance with local regulatory requirements

• Coordinate integration with central bank financial infrastructure, including PIX and other key systems, as well as local banks, PSPs, and fintech networks to enable seamless transactions

• Act as the Brazil voice of customers and partner with global Engineering and Product teams to define, prioritize, and identify innovative solutions to deliver localized features

• Monitor performance and drive iteration, using local market feedback, usage data, and competitive benchmarks to refine the Brazilian product experience and enhance product-market fit

• Inform LATAM product roadmap and strategy by deeply understanding the latest developments and local trends, target markets, and competitive landscape

Who you are

We're looking for people who meet the minimum qualifications for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have, but are not mandatory.

Minimum qualifications:

• 5+ years of professional experience in a fast-paced, high-growth environment

• Hands-on experience with wallet, payments acquiring or issuing products

• Strong project management skills to align stakeholders across technical and non-technical audience, and coordinate multiple complex workstreams

• Bachelor's degree or above in a technical field (engineering or computer science coursework) with a competitive GPA

• Fluency in English and Portuguese

Preferred qualifications:

• Strong ownership mindset and execution skills, ability to be scrappy

• 2-3 years of direct experience in a dedicated product management role in a fintech company

• Working knowledge of digital wallet, card networks, card issuance, and the underlying payment infrastructure

• Solid technical understanding and ability to engage in architectural discussions with engineering teams

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to convey product design concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences

• Experience working in cross-cultural and cross-functional teams

Equal opportunity

Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don't 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 our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters.  Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s).  Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary. If you are approached by someone claiming to represent Airwallex, please verify with our team.

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