Staff Product Designer, Design Systems

Airwallex • San Francisco, CA

9h

About The Position

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.
Attributes We Value
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.

Requirements

• 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
• Excellent methodical and critical thinking skills

Nice To Haves

• Content strategy, HTML/CSS knowledge is a bonus

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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed