Head of Growth Data Science

About this role

ABOUT AIRWALLEX

Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. More than 675,000 businesses, including McLaren Racing, Qantas, SHEIN, and TikTok, use us, directly or through our platform partners, to run their financial operations or build and monetize financial products of their own.

We started in Melbourne in 2015 to build the infrastructure global commerce runs on. We're the regulated backbone behind global payments: not by accident, but by design. A decade plus, 85+ licenses, and a financial infrastructure spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.

We're co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore, with more than 2,700 people across 27 offices. We hire builders with founder-level energy, people who move fast with good judgment, dig in with real curiosity, and make calls from first principles rather than waiting to be told what to do. Read our operating principles https://www.airwallex.com/en-us/operating-principles to see it in full.

ABOUT THE TEAM

Airwallex is seeking a Head of Growth Data Science to lead the team responsible for using data, experimentation, and advanced analytics to accelerate global growth.

The Growth Data Science team partners closely with Product, Marketing, Sales, and regional business leaders to identify growth opportunities across the customer lifecycle—from acquisition and activation to conversion, retention, and expansion. You will help define our growth strategy, build scalable measurement frameworks, and develop the models and insights that guide investment across markets and products.

This is a full-time role based in San Francisco.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Act as a strategic data partner to senior leaders across Growth, Product, Marketing, Sales, and regional businesses.

• Translate complex analyses into clear recommendations that shape business strategy and investment decisions.