Senior Manager, Social Impact

Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 250,000 businesses worldwide with fully integrated solutions to manage business accounts, payments, spend management, treasury, and embedded finance at a global scale. Founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 2,300 innovators across 27 offices globally, backed by world-leading investors and valued at US$11 billion.

Attributes We Value

We hire builders with founder-like energy who thrive on impact, accelerated learning, and ownership. You bring strong expertise and sharp thinking, motivated by our mission and operating principles. You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions from first principles. You’re humble, collaborative, and turn ideas into real products end-to-end. You leverage AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you’ll tackle complex, high-visibility challenges with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking.

About The Team

The Social Impact team at Airwallex defines and delivers the company's social impact strategy globally. We work at the intersection of business growth and social good, partnering across the company to create meaningful, measurable impact in the communities where Airwallex operates. The team is early-stage and globally distributed, offering the opportunity to shape a function from the ground up while leveraging the infrastructure of an 11B+ fintech platform.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development of Airwallex’s social impact strategy
• Lead all social impact priorities in the U.S., including designing and launching a marquis U.S. impact program
• Lead or support global social impact priorities, such as:
  • Driving Airwallex platform adoption amongst nonprofits and social enterprises
  • Refining and operationalizing our ESG strategy
  • Developing our giving strategy and fund structure
  • Designing and launching product features to activate giving
  • Activating our data for public good (in partnership with the data science team)
  • Strengthening high-impact volunteering programs
• Cultivate a robust external network globally in relevant areas and source high-impact opportunities for Airwallex
• Work cross-functionally across the organization (e.g., leadership, communications, marketing, commercial, product, design) to build buy-in, align priorities, and implement initiatives
• Operate as an “entrepreneur” within Airwallex, launching, refining, and scaling high-impact initiatives
• Drive communications and narrative storytelling both internally and publicly on our social impact strategy and initiatives
• Support our President/Co-founder and Director of Social Impact on impact-related priorities as they arise

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in a rigorous business environment (e.g., management consulting, top-tier tech) and impact environment (e.g., social impact, CSR, sustainability)
• Experience and comfort in both corporate/commercial and impact contexts, able to bridge the two (e.g., those who have worked at the intersection of corporate x impact, or business x government)
• Track record of delivering outsized results and high level of ownership
• Experience and comfort operating globally, including independently working in and launching new markets
• Demonstrated ability to develop and execute social impact strategy, including program design, stakeholder engagement, governance, and measurement
• Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills, including with senior executives, board members, external partners, and nonprofit/government audiences

Qualifications

• Experience building or scaling a social impact function from early stage (zero to one), including setting strategy, standing up programs, and growing a team
• Familiarity with impact measurement and reporting frameworks (e.g., ESG reporting, double materiality assessments, or equivalent)

Pay

Compensation range: $200K - $240K

This hybrid role is based in San Francisco, CA.