Staff Product Designer

Company Description

Checkout.com is one of the most exciting fintechs in the world. Our mission is to enable businesses and their communities to thrive in the digital economy. We're the strategic payments partner for some of the best known fast-moving brands globally such as Wise, Hut Group, Sony Electronics, Homebase, Henkel, Klarna and many others. Purpose-built with performance and scalability in mind, our flexible cloud-based payments platform helps global enterprises launch new products and create experiences customers love. And it's not just what we build that makes us different. It's how.
We empower passionate problem-solvers to collaborate, innovate and do their best work. That's why we're on the Forbes Cloud 100 list and a Great Place to Work accredited company. And we're just getting started. We're building diverse and inclusive teams around the world - because that's how we create even better experiences for our merchants and our partners. And we need your help. Join us to build the digital economy of tomorrow.

Job Description

The role
Checkout.com is seeking a seasoned product designer who will take on a strategic role in driving design excellence and quality for Checkout.com's dashboard products.
You'll build customer understanding and craft experiences to simplify payment operations, provide transparency and guidance to unlock new revenue opportunities and protect the financial health for the businesses.
Reporting directly to the Senior Director of Product Design within the Merchant Experience pillar, you should be skilled in leading the creative process and a strong collaborator with product and engineering leadership counterparts. You should also be an effective communicator by presenting work effectively with the right medium and fidelity, from creating concepts to actual designs across a diverse audience.

How you'll make an impact

• Lead design vision, strategy and execution within a large product area within merchant experience at Checkout.com
• Drive collaboration across the product organisation to facilitate building end-to-end experiences for our merchants and customers
• Set the bar for design excellence with high quality execution
• Explores and defines new patterns or standards that later become adopted by others
• Translates design language into complex user journeys across merchant journey and leverage our brand identity within product surfaces
• Identifies and helps to resolve challenges across design and cross-functional teams
• Contribute to building a collaborative, passionate and inclusive culture within design team through thought leadership and mentoring
• Leads and participates in initiatives across the Design function and contributes to Checkout's recruitment programs
• Shape Checkout.com's and the design team's culture, through collaboration, feedback, and proactive participation on key programs and initiatives

Qualifications

What we're looking for

• Proven track record and experience in design strategy and execution
• Practical experience with interaction and visual design in agile product development environment with ability to build cross-functional partnerships
• Experience delivering high quality design solutions for a variety of enterprise or consumer applications that drive meaningful business outcomes
• Excellent design chops, sets a high bar in quality and design craft in the organisation
• Strong ability to approach design challenges systematically and with long-term thinking
• Thoughtful, impact-focused and intentional in design decisions
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, including distilling findings into insights to engage and inspire various stakeholders
• Excellent cross-functional and cross-organisational relationship-building skills, with the ability to drive organisational change around design quality
• Experience developing strategic initiatives, opportunity analysis, and negotiating business trade-offs within the scope of your work
• Growth mindset, adaptability and ability to navigate ambiguity or change
• Ability to work autonomously and independently on leading teams and programs

Additional Information

Apply without meeting all requirements statement
If you don't meet all the requirements but think you might still be right for the role, please apply anyway. We're always keen to speak to people who connect with our mission and values.
We believe in equal opportunities
We work as one team. Wherever you come from. However you identify. And whichever payment method you use.
Our clients come from all over the world - and so do we. Hiring hard-working people and giving them a community to thrive in is critical to our success.
When you join our team, we'll empower you to unlock your potential so you can do your best work. We'd love to hear how you think you could make a difference here with us.
We want to set you up for success and make our process as accessible as possible. So let us know in your application, or tell your recruiter directly, if you need anything to make your experience or working environment more comfortable. We'll be happy to support you.
Take a peek inside life at Checkout.com via

• Our Culture video https://youtu.be/BEwnpHuadSw
• Our careers page https://www.checkout.com/careers
• Our LinkedIn Life pages bit.ly/3OaoN1U
• Our Instagram https://www.instagram.com/checkout_com/