Principal Executive Recruiter, Talent Acquisition
US - New York · 10+ years experience · Full-time · Hybrid · Posted Oct 16, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 10+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- US - New York
About AirWallex
- Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. More than 675,000 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 https://www.airwallex.com/en-us/operating-principles to see it in full.
About the role
- The Principal Executive Recruiter will help scale the leadership bench at Airwallex to support sustained global growth.
- This role involves partnering with senior executives across GTM, G&A, Product, Engineering, and Design to scope roles and execute search strategies.
Responsibilities
- Own executive searches end to end, from sourcing and candidate engagement through offer acceptance.
- Drive strategic hiring alignment with senior executives by shaping candidate profiles and search strategies.
- Build trusted relationships with candidates and deliver a consistently positive executive candidate experience.
- Partner with hiring managers throughout the recruitment process, bringing market insight, strong judgment and influence to critical hiring decisions.
- Improve executive recruiting practices as Airwallex continues to grow globally.
Requirements
- 10+ years of recruitment experience, including hiring senior-level talent at VP or C-level in a fast-paced, growth-stage environment.
- Strong ability to ramp up on new domains in a short period of time.
- A proven track record of successfully recruiting and closing candidates across various domains.
- Strong collaboration and influencing skills.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Preferred qualifications
- Demonstrated proficiency hiring for Product, Engineering and Design (PED) roles.
Workplace
- Work from the New York office three days a week.
