Staff Product Designer, Spend

US - San Francisco · 7+ years experience · Full-time · Hybrid · Posted Oct 11, 2026

At a glance

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 https://www.airwallex.com/en-us/operating-principles to see it in full.

Airwallex is hiring a Staff Product Designer, Spend to define and drive product design vision for Spend from first sketch to shipped product.
The role involves partnering with product and engineering to translate complex financial workflows into approachable experiences across desktop, mobile web, and native app platforms.

Define and drive product design vision for Spend, from first sketch to shipped product, in partnership with product and engineering.
Collaborate with product managers to scope design requirements, and build lean project plans that leave room for research, exploration, and testing.
Research, understand, and advocate for user needs at every stage of product development, translating complex financial workflows into approachable experiences.
Lead end-to-end design across desktop, mobile web, and native app experiences, working closely with engineers through critical moments of the process and a smooth handoff.
Partner with cross-functional teams, including the design system team, to explore and deliver solutions that hold together as a system, not just as individual screens.
Build deep domain knowledge so you can see the big picture and connect the work happening across your team.
Contribute to product strategy, roadmap, and customer validation, and help shape the design culture and principles of the team.

7+ years as a UX/product designer, with expertise across desktop web, mobile web, and native app experiences.
Strong work demonstrating complex systems, multi-channel user journeys, and intricate object relationships.
Proficient in UX methods including generative research, information architecture, interaction design, and user testing.
Comfortable thinking in systems.
Ability to articulate design rationale clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
A proven track record of leading projects end to end in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.