Airwallex

Head of Risk Operations

Who can apply: US-based role. The employer has not said which states are eligible — confirm before applying.
Location as listed by the employer: “US - San Francisco”
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About this role

Airwallex is hiring for a Head of Risk Operations role (full-time). See the official posting for full details.

Requirements

  • Proven experience, including senior leadership in large-scale, multi-jurisdiction operations in a rapidly growing regulated financial-services or payments/fintech business
  • Proven track record of scaling Risk Operations (at least 2 of Payments, Issuing and Credit) across multiple geographies, and of building globally consistent performance
  • Background in Fraud Ops and ATO risk control
  • Strong commercial and analytical judgement — comfortable framing decisions in unit economics, scalability and return on investment
  • Track record of operating at the Operations–Product–Risk intersection and driving cross-functional outcomes without full reporting-line authority
  • Demonstrated delivery of automation/AI-led transformation in an operations setting
  • Evidence of big data/analytics (including SQL, DBX and BI tooling)
  • Cross-border payments; multi-entity, multi-licence environments

Summarized from the employer's posting — check the full posting for every requirement.