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About Airwallex
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 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. Valued at US$11 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.
About The Role
Airwallex is looking for a Head of Product Design to lead our global team of product designers and leaders across Australia, the UK, the US, and Singapore. We are scaling quickly as a design organization, one with a track record of building teams and sophisticated products across domains, functions, and geographies. The right candidate will have exceptional product taste and attention to detail, and the ability to scale it across the org. This role carries real organizational authority: a seat on the Global Leadership Team, ownership of the product design budget, and a design org that is a peer to product management and engineering.
What You’ll Do
- 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.
What We’re Looking For
- 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. You know how software should look, work, and feel to be powerful and scalable, and you can articulate why in crit and move a team there. A generalist UX background with strong product sensibilities.
- A world-class hirer. You have a track record of personally attracting, closing, and calibrating exceptional designers and design leaders.
- Comfort with complexity. You’ve worked in fintech or in a comparably complex product domain, and know how to build products that handle that complexity gracefully.
- Leadership at scale. You’ve managed senior design leaders across regions and timezones, and run the people systems that make that work: calibration, promotion, and org design.
- Executive fluency. Comfortable operating in company-level planning cycles: OKRs, headcount plans, budgets, and leadership-team collaboration.
How Our Design Org Works
Three principles guide our product design org. The right candidate will help carry them forward:
- Designers do design with other designers: We trust the user-centered design process, and create space for designer-on-designer collaboration across domains. This is in addition to the natural collaboration between a designer and their product manager.
- Product design is a peer to product management: Our designers have the authority and responsibility for their work, timelines, and outcomes. Our design leaders support their designers in this, and on stakeholder management with product management and engineering.
- We’re always improving our skills: Design is a craft of behavioural and technical skills, and possessing them is what makes us designers. We run bi-weekly lunch-and-learns, fund a team learning budget, and staff a Design Practice Lead to develop key skills on our teams.
Applicant Safety Policy: Fraud and Third-Party Recruiters
To 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. All official communication will come from an @airwallex.com email address. Please apply only through careers.airwallex.com or our official LinkedIn page. Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters. Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s). Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary.
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.
Compensation Range: $269K - $385K
About Airwallex
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 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. Valued at US$11 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.
About The Role
Airwallex is looking for a Head of Product Design to lead our global team of product designers and leaders across Australia, the UK, the US, and Singapore. We are scaling quickly as a design organization, one with a track record of building teams and sophisticated products across domains, functions, and geographies. The right candidate will have exceptional product taste and attention to detail, and the ability to scale it across the org. This role carries real organizational authority: a seat on the Global Leadership Team, ownership of the product design budget, and a design org that is a peer to product management and engineering.
What You’ll Do
- 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.
What We’re Looking For
- 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. You know how software should look, work, and feel to be powerful and scalable, and you can articulate why in crit and move a team there. A generalist UX background with strong product sensibilities.
- A world-class hirer. You have a track record of personally attracting, closing, and calibrating exceptional designers and design leaders.
- Comfort with complexity. You’ve worked in fintech or in a comparably complex product domain, and know how to build products that handle that complexity gracefully.
- Leadership at scale. You’ve managed senior design leaders across regions and timezones, and run the people systems that make that work: calibration, promotion, and org design.
- Executive fluency. Comfortable operating in company-level planning cycles: OKRs, headcount plans, budgets, and leadership-team collaboration.
How Our Design Org Works
Three principles guide our product design org. The right candidate will help carry them forward:
- Designers do design with other designers: We trust the user-centered design process, and create space for designer-on-designer collaboration across domains. This is in addition to the natural collaboration between a designer and their product manager.
- Product design is a peer to product management: Our designers have the authority and responsibility for their work, timelines, and outcomes. Our design leaders support their designers in this, and on stakeholder management with product management and engineering.
- We’re always improving our skills: Design is a craft of behavioural and technical skills, and possessing them is what makes us designers. We run bi-weekly lunch-and-learns, fund a team learning budget, and staff a Design Practice Lead to develop key skills on our teams.
Applicant Safety Policy: Fraud and Third-Party Recruiters
To 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. All official communication will come from an @airwallex.com email address. Please apply only through careers.airwallex.com or our official LinkedIn page. Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters. Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s). Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary.
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.
Compensation Range: $269K - $385K
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software
- Banking & Financial Services
- Non-Profit & Social Services
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in head of product design jobs.
- 8 or more years of product design experience with at least 3 in a people-management role
- Demonstrated experience building or scaling a design team and practice
- Expert proficiency in Figma, including component libraries and design system governance
- Proven ability to set design strategy and align it with product and business goals
- Experience conducting and synthesizing user research to inform product direction
- Bachelor's degree in design, human-computer interaction, or a related field, or equivalent experience
Tips for Your Head Of Product Design Job Search
Tailor your portfolio to product outcomes
Hiring panels for head of product design roles want to see decisions, not just deliverables. For each case study, lead with the business problem, your design direction, and the measurable outcome. Remove student work and anything you didn't own end to end.
Show your cross-functional leadership evidence
Job descriptions at this level consistently ask how you've aligned product managers, engineers, and executives around design direction. Your resume should name specific initiatives where you drove that alignment, not just list team sizes managed.
Filter openings by product maturity stage
A head of product design role at a Series A startup expects you to build the practice from scratch. The same title at a public company means inheriting an established team. Knowing which stage fits you narrows your list fast and sharpens your cover pitch.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists head of product design openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Prepare a design critique for the panel round
Most head of product design interviews include a live critique of the company's own product. Before the panel, identify two or three specific interaction or hierarchy problems and frame your critique around user goals, not visual preferences. Generic feedback reads as junior.
Negotiate scope before you negotiate compensation
At the head level, reporting structure and team budget authority matter as much as salary. Before you accept an offer, confirm whether you own headcount decisions and whether design has a seat in product roadmap planning. Scope gaps are harder to fix after you start.
Head Of Product Design Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How many head of product design jobs are remote?
About 0% of head of product design openings are fully remote or hybrid as of September 2026, making it one of the more flexible senior design roles available. Fully remote arrangements are most common at companies with distributed engineering teams, particularly in enterprise SaaS and consumer platform businesses.
How do you become a head of product design?
Most people who reach head of product design move through senior individual contributor roles first, then take on a lead or principal title where they own a product surface end to end. From there, a staff or manager role that includes direct reports is usually the bridge. Building a documented design system and shipping a product with measurable outcomes strengthens your case at each step.
Can I get a head of product design role with limited leadership experience?
It's possible if you can show leadership evidence outside a formal management title. Cross-functional project ownership, mentoring junior designers, and driving a design system adoption across an engineering organization all demonstrate readiness. Target companies at an early stage where the head of product design role is being created for the first time, rather than replacing an established leader.
What does the head of product design interview process look like?
The process typically opens with a recruiter screen followed by a hiring manager conversation focused on your leadership approach and career history. A portfolio review with the product or design team comes next, often including a live critique of the company's product. Final rounds usually involve a cross-functional panel with a product manager, an engineering lead, and a senior executive, and sometimes a take-home strategy brief.
Where can I find and apply to head of product design jobs?
You can find and apply to head of product design jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Find roles that fit your experience and the product stage you want to work in, then apply directly to each listing.
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