Senior Product Manager, AI Risk & Fraud Intelligence

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 leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Visa, Mastercard, and Sequoia.

About The Team

The Product team at Airwallex is a group of passionate builders and problem-solvers obsessed with crafting customer-centric solutions that empower businesses to operate anywhere, anytime. We combine deep technical expertise with a strong understanding of regulatory and operational requirements to design and build unified, scalable, and compliant financial products. The team thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, constantly iterating to deliver best-in-class product experiences.

Responsibilities

• Own the transaction fraud product, including real-time rules, alerting frameworks, and detection logic across our payments platform.
• Optimise monitoring rules and thresholds to improve detection quality and significantly reduce false positives.
• Build scalable post-transaction monitoring and manual review workflows, including delay modes and investigator tooling.
• Design client-specific risk controls for large and complex merchants, tailoring monitoring rules, limits, and safeguards to their transaction patterns and risk profiles.
• Expand monitoring coverage as business scales globally.
• Drive decisions across risk and compliance workflows, including automation and data-driven decisioning.
• Partner closely with Risk Operations to optimise alert triage, case management, and investigator productivity.
• Work with Data and Engineering to ensure reliable monitoring data pipelines, high-quality signals, and scalable detection infrastructure.
• Identify opportunities to leverage AI and advanced analytics to improve detection accuracy and reduce manual operational effort.
• Ensure monitoring capabilities align with AML, fraud, and regulatory requirements while maintaining a seamless customer experience.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications

• 6+ years of Product Management experience, ideally in payments, fintech, or financial crime prevention.
• Experience building or owning transaction monitoring, fraud detection, or AML systems.
• Strong data-driven mindset with the ability to analyse transaction data, alerts, and rule performance.
• Comfortable working with SQL and data tools to investigate signals, optimise rules, and evaluate monitoring performance.
• Experience defining risk detection logic, monitoring rules, and thresholds.
• Proven ability to work cross-functionally with Risk, Compliance, Operations, Data, and Engineering teams.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to translate regulatory and risk requirements into scalable product solutions.
• Experience building scalable, automated systems in regulated environments while balancing risk, operational efficiency, and customer experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AML monitoring or fraud detection platforms.
• Familiarity with case management and investigation tooling.
• Exposure to machine learning or AI-driven risk systems.

Pay

Compensation Range: $160K - $230K