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
Our Talent Acquisition team shapes Airwallex’s future by finding and engaging top talent worldwide. We partner closely with hiring managers and leaders to understand business needs, deliver exceptional candidate experiences, and build high‑performing teams that reflect our dynamic culture and operating principles.
What you’ll do
Airwallex is scaling our engineering teams globally, and we’re looking for an exceptional Talent Acquisition Manager to take our engineering hiring to the next level. In this dynamic hybrid role, you’ll lead and mentor a high‑performing team of recruiters while directly driving some of our most critical, high‑impact engineering hires. You’ll partner closely with senior engineering leaders (e.g., VP Eng, CTO) to shape talent strategy, trial bold new approaches, and build the world‑class teams powering Airwallex’s next stage of growth.
This role is based in London.
Responsibilities:
* Lead and develop the team: Mentor a high‑performing group of recruiters, set clear goals, and support their professional growth.
* Shape hiring strategy: Partner with engineering leadership to forecast needs, define talent priorities, and maintain a consistently high hiring bar through interviewer calibration and alignment.
* Own critical hires: Drive full‑cycle recruitment for senior and hard‑to‑fill engineering roles, delivering an exceptional candidate and stakeholder experience.
* Use data to drive decisions: Track key metrics, identify bottlenecks, and continuously optimize recruiting efficiency and outcomes.
* Enhance recruiting impact: Strengthen employer brand, refine processes and leverage tools to improve speed, quality, and candidate experience.
Who you are
* Experienced leader: 10+ years in recruiting, including 3+ years leading or mentoring recruiters, with a track record of building high‑performing teams.
* Engineering hiring expert: Proven success hiring top engineering talent across multiple levels, including senior and leadership roles.
* Trusted partner & communicate: Skilled at stakeholder management, influencing senior engineering leaders, and communicating clearly across all levels.
* Data‑driven operator: Use metrics and insights to guide strategy, measure success, and drive continuous improvement.
* Hands‑on and strategic: Balance executing critical hires with leading the team, thriving in a fast‑paced, scaling environment.
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.
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