Staff Product Designer

Airwallex; Sydney; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Airwallex is seeking an experienced Product Designer to shape the evolution of our global banking products. You will partner with product managers, engineers, and writers to map user flows, prototype interactions, and launch new products and services.

You’ll lead and mentor cross-functional teams, translate research into actionable design, and balance speed with rigor. The role offers ambitious impact within a rapidly growing fintech and equity participation.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product design experience required.
• Excellent UX, visual and interaction skills with masterful craft.
• Ability to define direction, lead others, and drive teams.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Product Managers, Engineers, Product Strategists, and Writers to define problems, map user flows, prototype interactions, and launch new products and services.
• Indirectly lead the work of a team as the defacto creative director on innovative projects.
• Build strong relationships with leaders and stakeholders; communicate effectively.
• Understand research methods and balance technological, business, and user opportunities with constraints.

Skills

UX design

Visual design

Interaction design

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Research methods

Systems thinking

Storytelling

Strategic thinking

Ambiguity navigation

Job description

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 250,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, 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 2,300 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 27 offices around the globe. Valued at US$11 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.

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 250,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, 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 2,300 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 27 offices around the globe. Valued at US$11 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&nbquo;like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You bring strong role&nbquo;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.

Our Product Designers support and shape the evolution of Airwallex products. Working cross–functionally you will ensure consistency with, and contribute to, our brand and product architecture. We have big plans.

What You’ll Do:

• Partner with Product Managers, Engineers, Product Strategists, and Writers to define problems & goals, map user flows, prototype interactions, and launch new products and services.

• Indirectly lead the work of a team of talented designers, product managers and engineers as the defacto creative director of innovative projects.

• Build strong relationships with leaders inside and outside of core product teams; show strong communication and executive stakeholder management skills.

• Have a keen understanding of research methods, technological, business and user opportunities and constraints.

What You’ll Bring:

• 8+ years of experience in product design.

• Excellent UX, visual and interaction skills and craft —a master in your field.

• The ability to define direction and process, and lead others through it.

• Can effortlessly motivate and drive small to medium teams to transform a product.

• Demonstrated ability to help a team navigate ambiguity, set vision, and set strategy for global products.

• Systems-thinker with the ability to think beyond the pixels and design for offline experiences.

• Experience with making complex information, tools, and services easily digestible for your audience.

• Strong storytelling, presentation, communication and stakeholder management skills.

• 0 to 1 experience or experience redesigning major elements of product, experience, or service design.

At Airwallex you’ll have the ability to make an impact in a rapidly growing, global fintech. We want you to share in our success, which is why you’ll be offered a competitive salary plus valuable equity within Airwallex.

Equal opportunity

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.