Head of Product Design
Airwallex· Design
Hybrid (US - San Francisco)$269k - $385kFull-timePosted 1mo ago
About the role
Airwallex is hiring a Head of Product Design to lead a global team of product designers and leaders across Australia, the UK, the US, and Singapore, with organizational authority and budget ownership.
Responsibilities
- Lead a global team (40+) across all product verticals: Spend Management, Business Accounts, Payments, Billing, Platform, Growth, and Design Systems.
- Continue to scale our product design organization’s practice, quality standards, systems, and culture globally.
- Continue to hire, develop, and retain a world-class design team, and expand our SF-based design studio.
- Work closely with the CPO to share our product experience strategy.
- Own the design budget end to end: contractors, tooling, learning, research, travel, and team building.
- Steward the design organization’s three operating principles (below) and evolve them as the team grows.
Qualifications
- Taste, all the way down. Exceptional product and UX judgment from strategy to the finest grain of the work: interaction patterns, information architecture, layout, UX copy.
- A world-class hirer. Track record of attracting, closing, and calibrating exceptional designers and design leaders.
- Comfort with complexity. Experience in fintech or a comparably complex product domain.
- Leadership at scale. Managed senior design leaders across regions and timezones; run people systems for calibration, promotion, and org design.
- Executive fluency. Comfortable with OKRs, headcount plans, budgets, and leadership-team collaboration.
Skills
Required:Product design leadershipTalent acquisition and retention
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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