Senior Manager, Global Performance Marketing Strategy, AMER

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 2,200 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 https://www.airwallex.com/us/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 The Marketing team at Airwallex drives brand awareness and customer engagement through innovative and strategic campaigns. We work to communicate the value of our financial solutions, attract new customers, and strengthen relationships with existing ones. By leveraging data-driven insights and creative strategies, we ensure Airwallex stands out in a competitive market. Our team is passionate about telling the Airwallex story and supporting the company's growth and success. WHAT YOU’LL DO We’re looking for a data-driven, strategic, and highly collaborative marketing leader to shape the global performance marketing strategy that fuels customer acquisition, revenue growth, and efficiency across all regions. The Senior Manager, Global Performance Marketing Strategy will partner closely with regional marketing leads, product marketing, analytics, and revenue teams to design scalable frameworks, operating models, and investment strategies across paid media, SEM, paid social, and emerging digital channels. You will lead the building of the roadmap and playbook for global growth — translating business goals into integrated acquisition plans, building standardized testing methodologies, and ensuring consistency in execution across markets. This role is based in San Francisco. RESPONSIBILITIES: - Develop and operationalize the global performance marketing strategy across paid search, paid social, programmatic, and emerging channels. - Partner with regional teams to localize global frameworks into market-specific plans that drive efficiency and scale. - Develop options for channel mix strategy, investment allocation models, and measurement frameworks tied to pipeline, revenue, and LTV:CAC goals. - Lead quarterly planning cycles, including budget forecasting, scenario modeling, and regional investment trade-offs. - Collaborate with the global execution team to become hands-on in campaign execution and optimization. - Own standardized reporting to highlight growth, opportunities, and streamline communication and communication cadences for regions. - Own the synthesis of learnings by region and be responsible for sharing out with stakeholders across the globe. - Partner with vendors and internal teams to de