Challenging but opportunities abound and culture starting to change for the better - Senior Strategy Manager Airwallex Employee Review

5.0
Mar 4, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

It is a scale up but still lots of opportunities to build. Easy to identify opportunities for improvement, take ownership, and make impact. Most people here are very switched on and want to make a real impact. Commercially, the business is doing really well, and has good momentum (good product market fit in key markets), and hopefully once the sales growth continues to grow and stabilise, it creates opportunities to start to invest more in people, teams, and culture. The CEO while can be quite controversial at times, is extremely motivated and works very hard to make sure Airwallex can succeed.

Cons

There are cultural challenges mostly driven from top down (mostly a hangover from what worked well in the early start up days), but I can see there are meaningful shifts over time (execs taking up coaching, systems and structures slowly being put in so that we don't waste time on basic things which don't need to be recreated over and over again are not). We just need everyone on board to continue helping shape (brick by brick) this company into one that will outlast time and become one of the best places to work.

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5.0
Jul 20, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Love the incredibly fast pace and the massive growth -- very few companies are scaling at 80% YoY at a scale of >$1bn ARR, The leadership team and technical talent are brilliant.

Cons

Here in San Francisco, the company's still very much in a Series A stage-- that can be a good or bad thing depending on your perspective. You just have to be willing to be scrapping and work hard.

5.0
Jul 13, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

High autonomy and agency. As a senior IC I have leadership's trust in driving my work, engaging with partner executives and generating new ideas and partnerships. Clear line of sight into how my work positively impacts the company. I can draw the line between my effort and that enabling a small or large part of our success. Diverse product and partner work. I work with large and small partners and across our entire product offering, which keeps my day to day fresh and diverse. Great people, all hard working, smart and well credentialed.

Cons

Global team makes for frequent night time calls, if something can't be handled over Slack. Hard driving. There's lots to do and big ambitions, so everyone is spread thin working on high priority/impact projects.

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