The posting
About Syfe
Syfe is APAC's largest and fastest-growing digital wealth platform, trusted with over US$15 billion in assets. We are fundamentally changing how hundreds of thousands of people across Asia-Pacific build wealth through a holistic approach to managing money rather than just pushing investment products. Backed by world-class investors and recognised as a leader in WealthTech, we are a team of passionate builders creating the future of wealth management.
About the role
This is a 6-month contract role. You'll hit the ground running from your first week, working directly with product managers and engineering on a large product surface. We need someone who can ramp up fast, frame problems quickly, and leave behind work and patterns the team keeps building on after you've gone.
This is a hybrid role, with 3 days in the Melbourne office.
The Right Profile
- You ramp up fast. You get to grips with a new domain, product and team in your first few weeks, and start shipping soon after.
- You frame before you design. Handed a problem, you quickly clarify what success means, the real constraints and what's out of scope, and align with your PM and engineers on it.
- You think things through without being hand-held. You go deep on a problem, anticipate edge cases, error and empty states before anyone asks, and hand over designs that hold up in the build.
- You work hand in hand with product managers and engineering, breaking the work into short, achievable milestones that fit inside six months.
- You bring strong craft and judgement, and make the speed-versus-quality trade-off deliberately instead of discovering it at the deadline.
- You use AI to build highly polished, working prototypes that engineering can use as a starting point for the build, not just a reference to recreate.
- You don't have a fixed design process. You adapt it to the problem in hand and get your hands dirty beyond design – content, research, funnels, metrics.
Key Responsibilities
- Independently operate within a larger design team to work on large, complex product surfaces – several flows that need to hold together – working directly with product managers and engineering from your first week.
- Frame problems before designing them: clarify fuzzy asks, define what success looks like and what's out of scope, and get alignment with your PM and engineers early.
- Break the work into short milestones that each ship something within the six months, rather than one launch at the end.
- Design end to end, thinking through edge cases, error and empty states so engineering can build without back-and-forth.
- Use AI to build polished, working prototypes that engineering can use as a starting point for the build.
- Craft polished, differentiated experiences, using and extending our design system so the product stays coherent.
- Hold design quality through the build – review what shipped against what was designed, and get the gaps closed.
Minimum Qualifications
- A portfolio that shows how you frame problems, not just how you solve them – what success meant, what you chose to test, what you learned, and what moved as a result. Outcomes matter more than screens here.
- 6+ years of product design experience designing and shipping web and Android / iOS apps in Fintech, eCommerce, SaaS or other online businesses, including end-to-end ownership of a product surface.
- Evidence of working fluently within an existing design system – using its components and patterns well, and extending them where the product needs it.
- Strong visual and interaction design skills, with excellent judgement in typography, layout, hierarchy, consistency, and interaction details.
- High proficiency in Figma – on design and prototyping. Familiarity with AI tools like Claude, Codex, Cursor or Antigravity.
- Strong communication and storytelling skills – able to explain a concept and defend a decision with reasons rather than taste, and to influence PMs, engineers and data partners.
- Available to commit to a 6-month contract and ramp up within your first few weeks.
Good to Have
- Experience working within the wealth management industry, or in another regulated domain where constraints shape the experience.
- Exposure to online B2C environments, with a strong understanding of consumer digital experiences.
- Experience contributing to or maintaining a design system.
Come As You Are
We believe in the power of diversity and are dedicated to creating a welcoming and innovative environment for all our employees. So we embrace and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds and provide equal employment opportunities for all.
Due to the volume of applications, we regret that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.
