Senior Manager, Social Impact

About Airwallex Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. More than 676,000 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 2,300 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 to see it in full. About the team The Social Impact team at Airwallex is responsible for defining and delivering the company's social impact strategy across our global footprint. We work at the intersection of business growth and social good, partnering with teams across the company to create meaningful, measurable impact in the communities where Airwallex operates. The team is early-stage and globally distributed, offering the opportunity to shape a function from the ground up while leveraging the infrastructure of an 11B+ fintech platform. What you'll do Reporting to the Director of Social Impact, the Senior Manager, Social Impact will be building and implementing Airwallex’s impact initiatives and strategy around the world. You will play a critical role in building Airwallex’s impact function globally – it is a “zero to one” role, a startup within a startup. The remit of Airwallex’s impact function can best be understood as a question: How can Airwallex - a purpose-driven business that exists to help businesses thrive - leverage its unique constellation of business assets (e.g., product, technology, data, talent, capital, brand, network) to contribute to society, while ensuring activities help support Airwallex’s long-term business objectives, whether it be strengthening brand trust, contributing to the employee value proposition, etc. A core part of the role will be leading our initiative to drive Airwallex platform adoption amongst organizations that serve the world such as social enterprises, nonprofits, and multilaterals, and thereby helping these organizations better serve the world. You will also have opportunities to lead a variety of other initiatives, and will only be bounded by your own capacity. Airwallex’s commitment to impact is underpinned by its participation in Pledge 1%, a global movement for corporate impact, where Airwallex has pledged 1% of its equity, product, profits, and time toward contributing to society. This hybrid role is based in San Francisco, CA Responsibilities: Contribute to the development of Airwallex’s social impact strategy Lead all social impact priorities in the U.S., including designing and launching a marquis U.S. impact program Lead or support a variety of global social impact priorities, which could include - driving Airwallex platform adoption amongst nonprofits and social enterprises, refining and operationalizing our ESG strategy, developing our giving strategy & fund structure, designing & launching product features to activate giving, activating our data for public good (in partnership with data science team), strengthening our high-impact volunteering programs, etc. Cultivate a robust external network globally in relevant areas and source high-impact opportunities for Airwallex to consider pursuing Work cross-functionally across the Airwallex organization - e.g., with leadership, communications / corporate affairs, marketing, commercial, product, design - to build buy-in, align priorities, and implement initiatives with quality Operate as an