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 200,000 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 2,000 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$8 billion and backed by world-leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Visa, Mastercard, Robinhood Ventures, Sequoia, Salesforce Ventures, DST Global, and Lone Pine Capital, 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.
About the team
You’ll be part of a collaborative, results-driven Growth team that thrives on elevating customer experience and deepening lifetime value. We value creativity, data-driven decision-making, and a builder’s mindset. Our team is passionate about finding new ways to deliver value to customers and scale Airwallex’s impact globally. We support continuous learning, mentorship, and career growth, and we celebrate diverse perspectives and backgrounds.
What you’ll do
We’re looking for a Director, Global Growth, Lifecycle to own and optimize the full customer journey. In this role, you’ll turn data into insights and insights into measurable growth — improving conversion, activation, and retention across the funnel. You’ll lead a growing team across regions, partner cross-functionally, and evolve lifecycle from execution into a strategic growth lever.
This role is based in either San Francisco or Singapore.
Responsibilities:
Set and execute lifecycle strategy - Define and execute campaigns that drive conversion, activation and retention across the customer journey
Optimize performance with data - Build a rigorous test-and-learn approach, using quantitative analysis to uncover root causes of performance shifts and continuously improve outcomes
Lead and develop a team - Guide a growing lifecycle team, setting priorities, sharpening their analytical toolkit, and raising the bar for execution quality
Drive cross-functional impact - Partner with Product, Data Science and Marketing Operations to ensure lifecycle campaigns are tightly integrated into the broader growth engine
Make lifecycle a strategic growth lever across the funnel - Champion lifecycle marketing as a growth lever and help evolve the team’s scope from execution to optimization, insights, and strategic influence across the funnel
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:
10+ years’ experience in Growth, with at least 3 years managing a team
Strategic problem solving: Strong strategic and growth mindset, able to identify opportunities across the customer journey and translate insights into scalable, measurable initiatives
Analytical toolkit: Advanced analytical skills with the ability to interpret data, diagnose performance drivers, and develop data-backed recommendations
Marketing exposure: Understanding of lifecycle marketing, with hands-on experience designing and executing programs that drive customer conversion, activation, and retention
Creativity and user focus: Combines creative thinking with data-driven insight to deliver user-centric content that engages and drives action across lifecycle touch points
Leadership: Experience leading projects or teams, with the ability to coach others and raise performance standards
Communication: Structured, persuasive communicator comfortable influencing senior stakeholders
Bias to action: Entrepreneurial mindset with a track record of delivering results in fast-paced, dynamic environments
Bachelor's degree in a relevant field
Preferred qualifications:
Experience in fintech, product-led growth, or B2B SaaS
Experience in fast-paced environments, preferably within a startup or scale-up
Advanced degree (MBA or Master’s) is a plus
Experience with SQL or close collaboration with data teams preferred
Hands-on experience in Lifecycle/CRM marketing
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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.