Implementation Manager – Embedded Finance

Location: London, United Kingdom; 3 days in the office

Salary: £85,000–£120,000 annually, plus potential equity and bonus.

Company

Airwallex provides regulated global payments infrastructure and financial products for businesses and platform partners.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end delivery of complex partner integrations from scoping and solution design through testing, certification, pilot, launch, and early optimisation.
• Translate business requirements and solution proposals into delivery plans, operating rhythms, timelines, and execution strategies.
• Manage communications, risks, dependencies, workstreams, governance, RAID logs, KPIs, and status reporting across internal and external stakeholders.
• Lead collaboration between sales, solutions engineering, product, engineering, operations, compliance, legal, finance, and support teams.
• Prioritise integration requirements with product and engineering teams while balancing roadmap constraints and client commitments.
• Track delivery metrics and lead post-launch reviews to improve integration playbooks and launch quality.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in product delivery management or project management for complex, multi-stakeholder technology or financial services implementations.
• 5+ years of professional services or client-facing delivery experience in consulting, systems integration, or enterprise implementation.
• Experience with global payment products or technology-led business solutions and translating product capabilities into partner integration plans.
• Proven ability to deliver cross-functional projects involving C-level executives, technical teams, and operations.
• Exceptional written, verbal, presentation, steering-meeting, status-reporting, and decision-influencing skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with large-scale partner integrations in fintech, payments, card schemes, payment gateways, acquiring, or embedded finance.
• Familiarity with API-based integrations and common web and API concepts.
• PMP, PRINCE2, Scrum Master, or similar project management or agile delivery certification.
• Experience managing enterprise or strategic accounts and navigating commercial sensitivities.
• Experience working effectively in fast-moving and ambiguous environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with global payments infrastructure spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.
• Collaborate with teams across sales, strategy, product, engineering, operations, and client delivery.
• Potential equity and annual bonus in addition to base salary.
• Employment benefits vary according to the nature of employment and work location.