Staff Data Scientist

Job description

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 150,000 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 1,800 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe.

Valued at US$6.2 billion and backed by world-leading investors including Visa, Airtree, Blackbird, Sequoia, DST Global, Greenoaks, Salesforce Ventures, Lone Pine, and Square Peg, 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

As a global team, we span across Australia, China, USA, and Singapore, revolutionizing applied data science, data engineering and platform solutions to support Airwallex's rapid growth.

You will collaborate with a diverse range of cross‑functional partners, including Product, Engineering, Marketing, Sales, Finance, and more, to tackle complex data problems and shape the future of fintech

This role is based in Singapore.

Responsibilities:

• Uplevel the data science team by providing technical mentorship, assuming hands‑on leadership to resolve complex problems, and setting the vision for longer term direction
• Serve as a strategic thought leader with cross‑functional teams to inform, influence, support, and execute strategy and investment decisions
• Apply technical expertise with quantitative analysis, experimentation, data mining, and the presentation of data to develop strategies for our products.
  
  
• Identify and measure success of product efforts through goal setting, forecasting, and monitoring of key product metrics to understand trends.
  
  

Who you are

We're looking for people who meet the minimum qualifications for this role.

The preferred qualifications are great to have, but are not mandatory.

Minimum qualifications:

• 7+ years industry experience and an advanced degree (PhD or MS) in a quantitative field (e.g. Statistics, Engineering, Sciences, Computer Science, Economics)
• Experience with communicating the results of analyses to leadership teams and cross‑functional teams to influence the strategy
• Technical mentorship experience with machine learning and experimentation in an industry setting
• Expert in data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python), and/or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R)

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in schema design and dimensional data modeling a plus
• Experience in technology, financial services and/or a high growth environment is advantageous

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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.

Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters.

Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s).

Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary.

If you are approached by someone claiming to represent Airwallex, please verify with our team.

Required Skill Profession

It & Technology