Staff Product Designer

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 200,000 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 2,000 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$8 billion and backed by world-leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Visa, Mastercard, Robinhood Ventures, Sequoia, Salesforce Ventures, DST Global, and Lone Pine Capital, 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.

The Role
We're hiring a Staff Product Designer to help design the next generation of financial software: AI-native, autonomous, and radically user-centric. You’ll partner closely with engineering and product leadership to go from zero to one: from strategic concepts through to high-fidelity execution.

This role is 60-40 UI to UX, and we want someone with exceptional visual/UI craft who has proven they can design thoughtful, usable workflows.

You’ll shape not just the product itself, but the design culture, principles, and direction of this journey.

What You’ll Do

• Define and drive the product design vision — from the first sketch to live product

• Invent new interaction paradigms for a world where AI agents do the work, and humans supervise and steer

• Work hand-in-hand with product and engineering to rapidly explore, prototype, and iterate

• Balance broad strategic thinking with hands-on execution in Figma, Lovable, and other vibe-coding tools

• Translate complex financial workflows into elegant, approachable experiences

• Contribute to product strategy, roadmap, and customer validation
  

Who You Are

• A true 0→1 designer: You’ve built products from scratch and thrive in ambiguity

• Strong on the tools: You can independently own end-to-end design work — from early visual concepts through to polished UI and developer handoff

• Technically minded: You’re energized by working with AI, automation, or complex systems — and can think through both capabilities and limitations

• Deeply collaborative: You love working side by side with engineers and product leads to figure things out

• Customer obsessed: You design with clarity and care for non-expert users, and you know how to validate and refine your ideas with real feedback

• Startup-ready: You’re comfortable moving fast, wearing many hats, and making trade-offs

• Experience: Minimum 8 years as a product designer with expertise in desktop web, mobile web, and native app experiences.

Nice to Have

• Experience designing for AI-native, SaaS or workflow automation products

• Background in fintech, finance operations, or tools for startups
  

Why Join Us

• A rare opportunity to be the first design hire building an entirely new product inside one of the world’s most ambitious Fintechs

• Direct impact and ownership: your design decisions will shape our product, brand, and user experience from day one

• A close-knit, fast-moving team working at the frontier of AI and global finance

• Backed by Airwallex’s scale, infrastructure, and global presence, but with the en