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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.
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, the Founding Designer of this new team, 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.
As our first designer for this newly created product, 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 energy of an early-stage startup
Location Requirement
This full time role is hybrid/3 days per week in San Francisco. We believe that working shoulder-to-shoulder in the same space is essential for the speed, creativity, and trust-building required at this early stage.
To protect you from recruitment scams, please be aware that Airwallex will not ask for bank details, sensitive ID numbers (i.e. passport), or any form of payment during the application or interview process. All official communication will come from an @airwallex.com email address. Please apply only through careers.airwallex.com or our official LinkedIn page.
Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters. Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s). Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary.
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.
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Airwallex is a financial technology company that offers integrated solutions for cross-border payments. We facilitate international money transfers through a combination of payment collection, foreign exchange and local payment distribution. Supported by high profile investors including Tencent, Sequoia and MasterCard, Airwallex brings extensive experience in the Asia Pacific to the global multi-currency market. Our FX and Payment engine has integrated with the best liquidity providers around the world, evolving the traditional FX machineries into comprehensive personal and business toolkits that are ready to use, to substantially simplify the FX and payment process for global distribution.
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