Product Analysis and Design Director in London

About AirwallexAirwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 250,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, 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 2,300 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 27 offices around the globe. 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. Attributes We ValueWe hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. Here, you'll tackle complex, high‐visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. We are seeking a visionary, hands-on Director of Product Design to define the future of Airwallex's payments platform, the global infrastructure that powers how businesses accept payments online and in-person across currencies, methods, and markets. You will own the design strategy and execution of our core payments capabilities, including global e-commerce, point-of-sale, one-click-checkout, and risk and compliance-critical experiences. You'll partner closely with product and engineering leaders across Payments and Risk teams, and lead a high-performing team of product designers building powerful payment experiences, APIs, and workflows. ResponsibilitiesProduct & Design StrategyDefine a clear, opinionated design strategy for how customers understand and use cash, high-yield, and credit accounts, and inter-account transfers as their organisation grows. Partner with PM leaders to frame problems, prioritise opportunities, and ensure design is embedded early in product strategy, not only at execution time. Establish moving money into, within, and out of Airwallex as a user experience foundation that other product areas (e.g. Spend management, Subscription billing, etc.) Design Leadership & ExecutionLead end-to-end experience design: Oversee research, object modeling, interaction design, research and testing, and UI design for your team's products and features. 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. Build a collaborative, growth-oriented design practice: Help shape the rituals, feedback practices, and shared standards that keep designers connected across regions and domains. Integrate with design systems and platform patterns: Collaborate with the design system team to ensure your team's experiences use and extend shared patterns. People Leadership & Org BuildingLead 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. 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. RequirementsExperience: 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. Experience in online payments, risk & compliance, or adjacent financial products. Design craft & systems thinking: Deep strengths in interaction design, information architecture, and UX for complex workflows and data-heavy products. Data- and research-informed: Familiar with partnering closely on user research and quantitative analysis to inform decisions, validate designs, and measure impact. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to make complex financial and technical concepts accessible to diverse audiences. Degree in Design, HCI, Computer Science, or a related field. Working at AirwallexWe 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 RecruitersTo 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. 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. LocationUK - LondonEmployment TypeFull timeLocation TypeHybridDepartmentDesignProduct Design