Manager, Technical SEO Marketing

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.

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.

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.

We’re looking for a Technical SEO Manager to scale and optimize our global SEO efforts, drive high-intent organic traffic, and improve revenue growth. This is a unique opportunity to join the Global Growth Marketing Team and shape the technical foundation of our SEO approach.

In this role, you’ll support the Director of SEO in developing a best-in-class technical SEO strategy, ensuring our site architecture, performance, and discoverability set us apart. You’ll work cross-functionally with Growth Marketing, Content Marketing, Product, RevOps, Data, and Engineering teams to deliver impactful technical solutions. Your work will influence Airwallex’s global organic footprint, helping us capture SMB demand across multiple markets.

This role is based in San Francisco.

• Own the technical SEO roadmap, ensuring site architecture, crawlability, and indexation are optimized at scale.

• Partner with Engineering to scope and execute technical changes impacting SEO, including structured data, internal linking, site speed, and international SEO (hreflang, localization).

• Proactively identify technical issues and optimization opportunities across the website, ensuring Airwallex is ahead of algorithm and SERP changes.

• Lead site audits (crawl errors, redirects, canonicalization, duplicate content) and work with developers to implement fixes.

• Ensure site performance and Core Web Vitals are optimized across global markets and devices.

• Collaborate with the Content and Web teams to ensure on-page optimizations (metadata, schema, headings) follow technical best practices.

• Expand and scale our off-site backlink strategy by ensuring technical health supports authority growth.

• Support conversion rate optimization (CRO) initiatives with SEO-informed landing page testing.

• Establish monitoring, tracking, and reporting processes to measure technical SEO performance and its impact on growth.
  

We're looking for people who meet the minimum qualifications for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have, but are not mandatory.

• 4+ years of SEO experience, with at least 2+ years in a technical SEO role (preferably in-house for B2B, SaaS, or Fintech).

• Proven track record of driving growth through technical SEO initiatives at scale.

• Strong understanding of international SEO and multi-language/multi-domain strategies.

• Solid grasp of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript as they relate to SEO.

• Familiarity with website architectures (CMS, headless CMS, SPAs, server-side rendering vs. client-side rendering).

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to turn data into technical insights and business actions.

• Experience with Core Web Vitals, site speed optimization, and web performance best practices.

• Deep knowledge of Google Search Console, GA4, Screaming Frog, Ahrefs, and enterprise SEO tools.

• Comfortable in a fast-paced startup culture, growth-minded and hands-on.

• Excellent communication skills to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

• Bachelor’s degree.

• Working knowledge of server log analysis and crawl budget optimization.

• Experience with automation and SEO at scale (APIs, Python/SQL for reporting or audits).

• Familiarity with structured data markup and schema.org implementation.

• Understanding of EEAT principles and their technical implications in YMYL industries.

• Strong alignment with product and engineering teams, with a proven ability to influence prioritization

To protect you from recruitment scams, please be aware that Airwallex will not ask for bank details, sensitive ID numbers (i.e. passport), or any form of payment during the application or interview process. All official communication will come from an @airwallex.com email address. Please apply only through careers.airwallex.com or our official LinkedIn page.

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.

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.