Leads product design quality and practice, shaping intuitive, accessible digital experiences while influencing business decisions through user-centered design and collaborating across teams.
Staff Product Designer, Design Systems
📜 Description
- Audit digital products to identify use cases, UX patterns, and inconsistencies in component usage.
- Define reusable components and patterns for diverse product needs.
- Partner with teams to align on and adopt consistent components and patterns.
- Collaborate with developers to implement and quality-check components.
- Create usage guidelines and processes for design-system upkeep.
- Advocate for adoption and improve the system using feedback, best practices, and emerging design trends.
🛠️ Requirements
- 7+ years as a designer; preferably 2+ years maintaining a design system.
- Portfolio demonstrating product design, craftsmanship, and solutions from conception to launch.
- Strong UI design skills and proficiency in Figma.
- Methodical and critical thinking skills.
- Content strategy and HTML/CSS knowledge are bonuses.
Full job description
About Airwallex
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 to see it in full.
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.
Qualifications:
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
Content strategy, HTML/CSS knowledge is a bonus
Excellent methodical and critical thinking skills
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Equal opportunity
Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. 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.
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