Staff Product Designer, Design Systems

Airwallex; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Airwallex is seeking a senior product designer to audit and strengthen our design system across digital products. You will craft reusable components, define patterns, and ensure consistency across teams.

The role requires 7+ years design experience, 2+ years maintaining a design system, strong UI skills with Figma, and familiarity with HTML/CSS as a bonus. Sydney, Australia, offers a fast-paced, global environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years as a designer, with 2+ years in maintaining a design system.
• A portfolio showing deep product design craft from concept to launch.
• Strong UI design with proficiency in Figma.
• Content strategy; HTML/CSS knowledge is a bonus.
• Excellent methodical and critical thinking.

Responsibilities

• Audit digital products to gather use cases and UX patterns.
• Create reusable components and pattern definitions for diverse use cases.
• Identify inconsistencies in component usage and design versus system.
• Collaborate with teams to ensure alignment and adoption of components.
• Work with developers to implement and quality check components.
• Create component and pattern usage guidelines.
• Advocate the design system value to stakeholders and drive adoption.

Skills

UI design

Design system maintenance

Content strategy

HTML/CSS knowledge

Tools

Figma

Job description

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.

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 to see it in full.

Responsibilities

• Conduct audits to gather use cases and UX patterns across our digital products, create reusable component and pattern definitions that can support a diverse range of use cases.
• Identify inconsistencies in existing component usage and design, and deviations from the existing design system
• Work collaboratively with teams to ensure alignment and adoption of a consistent set of components and patterns
• Work collaboratively with developers to implement and quality check components
• Crafting component and pattern usage guidelines
• Enforce processes to guide the appropriate usage and upkeep of the design system
• Champion the value and advantages of the design system to internal stakeholders, advocating for its adoption within our organization, and demonstrating its positive impact on user experience and efficiency.
• Continuously enhance and adapt the design system based on user feedback, industry best practices, and emerging design trends.

Qualifications

• 7+ years as a designer, with preferably 2+ years of experience maintaining a design system
• A portfolio that demonstrates a deep understanding of product design, craftsmanship, and innovative solutions from conception to launch
• Strong UI design skills with proficiency in Figma
• Content strategy, HTML/CSS knowledge is a bonus
• Excellent methodical and critical thinking skills

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