This role will be part of our newly formed AI team, where we are setting out to build Agentic Finance as we prepare for a post-SaaS world and move up the value chain from delivering not just finance infrastructure and tooling, but finance work.

The Role
We're hiring our Founding Product Designer to help invent the next generation of financial software: AI-native, autonomous, and radically user-centric. You’ll partner closely with engineering and product leadership to go from zero to one: from strategic concepts and interaction design to high-fidelity execution.

As our first designer, you’ll shape not just the product, but the design culture, principles, and direction of Agentic Finance.

What You’ll Do

• Define and drive the product design vision — from the first sketch to live product

• Invent new interaction paradigms for a world where AI agents do the work, and humans supervise and steer

• Work hand-in-hand with product and engineering to rapidly explore, prototype, and iterate

• Balance broad strategic thinking with hands-on execution in Figma, Lovable, and other vibe-coding tools

• Translate complex financial workflows into elegant, approachable experiences

• Contribute to product strategy, roadmap, and customer validation
  

Who You Are

• A true 0→1 designer: You’ve built products from scratch and thrive in ambiguity

• Strong on the tools: You can independently own end-to-end design work — from early concepts through to polished UI and developer handoff

• Technically minded: You’re energized by working with AI, automation, or complex systems — and can think through both capabilities and limitations

• Deeply collaborative: You love working side by side with engineers and product leads to figure things out

• Customer obsessed: You design with clarity and care for non-expert users, and you know how to validate and refine your ideas with real feedback

• Startup-ready: You’re comfortable moving fast, wearing many hats, and making trade-offs

• Experience: Minimum 6 years as a UX/Product designer with expertise in desktop web, mobile web, and native app experiences.

Nice to Have

• Experience designing for AI-native or workflow automation products
  Background in fintech, finance operations, or tools for startups

• Systems thinking applied to agentic or multi-step user journeys
  

Why Join Us

• A rare opportunity to be the first design hire building an entirely new product inside one of the world’s most ambitious Fintechs

• Direct impact and ownership: your design decisions will shape our product, brand, and user experience from day one

• A close-knit, fast-moving team working at the frontier of AI and global finance

• Backed by Airwallex’s scale, infrastructure, and global presence, but with the energy of an early-stage startup

Location Requirement
This role is in-person in San Francisco (3 days per week). We believe that working shoulder-to-shoulder in the same space is essential for the speed, creativity, and trust-building required at this early stage.