Airwallex - Director of Product Design

• Raise the quality bar: Set and maintain a world-class standard for UX and UI quality in complex, data-rich screens (e.g. tables, charts, reconciliation views, approvals), ensuring work is robust and polished across desktop, mobile web, and native mobile apps. • Raise the quality bar: • Drive a rigorous discovery and validation practice: Ensure your teams use research, experimentation, and product analytics to understand customer behaviour. • Drive a rigorous discovery and validation practice: • Build a collaborative, growth-oriented design practice: Help shape the rituals, feedback practices, and shared standards that keep designers connected across regions and domains. • Build a collaborative, growth-oriented design practice: • Integrate with design systems and platform patterns: Collaborate with the design system team to ensure your team’s experiences use and extend shared patterns. • Integrate with design systems and platform patterns: • People Leadership & Org Building • Lead and grow a high-performing design team: Manage and develop senior and staff-level product designers across our London and Singapore design studios, setting clear expectations for impact, craft, and ownership. • Lead and grow a high-performing design team: • Create healthy, effective design-product-engineering partnerships: Develop ways of working that make collaboration with PMs and engineers productive, with design engaged from problem framing through to launch and iteration. • Create healthy, effective design-product-engineering partnerships: • Experience: 12+ years in product / UX design with significant time spent on complex, system-heavy products (e.g. B2B SaaS, developer platforms, financial or payments products). 4+ years leading designers, including managing senior designers or design managers. • Domain knowledge: Experience in online payments, risk & compliance, or adjacent financial products. • Domain knowledge: • Design craft & systems thinking: Deep strengths in interaction design, information architecture, and UX for complex workflows and data-heavy products. Able to think at both the screen and system level: flows, states, permissions, object relationships, and edge cases. • Design craft & systems thinking: • Leadership & influence: Proven ability to set vision, align stakeholders, and lead multi-quarter initiatives that cut across multiple domains and teams. Comfortable debating trade-offs with senior product and engineering leaders, and advocating for customer outcomes with clarity and pragmatism. • Leadership & influence: • Data- and research-informed: Familiar with partnering closely on user research and quantitative analysis to inform decisions, validate designs, and measure impact. • Data- and research-informed: • Communication & storytelling: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to make complex financial and technical concepts accessible to diverse audiences. • Communication & storytelling: • Adaptability: Thrives in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with evolving priorities and ambiguous constraints. • Adaptability: • Background working with API products and developer-facing experiences. • Degree in Design, HCI, Computer Science, or a related field. • Working at Airwallex • We work in a hybrid model, with teams collaborating in-office and remotely across regions. • Airwallex is a high performance, high responsibility, high impact workplace where you’ll be expected to take ownership and ship meaningful work. • If you’re excited to design the financial operating system for modern businesses and lead a pivotal part of that experience, we’d love to hear from you. • Applicant Safety Policy: Fraud and Third-Party Recruiters • 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. • Equal opportunity • Equal opportunity