Design Ops

Who are we? 

PayFit simplifies payroll management and HR processes for SMBs. PayFit is an automated SaaS solution to help business owners and HR professionals save time and money allowing them to refocus on what really matters: their employees.

Since 2015, we have set ourselves a mission to support the digital transformation of HR management through our ever growing range of product features and services. We have a strong presence in France and have been quickly growing in Germany, Spain, the UK and Italy. With 6,000 customers in 5 countries, we are one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in Europe.

Today, we are more than 700 employees at PayFit and we all share four core values:

We are committed to a culture of inclusion and an environment that enables fulfillment in freedom & responsibility.

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Join the PayFit adventure in our awesome Design Department! We are fast growing and we want to do so healthily. We also want to leverage continuously our level of excellence in design and customer-centricity.

With a design team of more than 20 amazing talents (and more are joining), growing in an international product organization with more than 200 players (product managers, product builders, engineers, designers, etc.), we need to set in place powerful design operations.

As a Design Ops joining PayFit, you will contribute to bring our design department to the next level. Your role will be key to put our design team at a high level of excellence.

You will be responsible for:

Operational efficiencies: Improving design team efficiency, collaboration, processes, and rituals. Working closely with our amazing Product Ops team, partner with them on cross-department initiatives to ease and improve collaboration and efficiency between designers, PMs and engineers.

Design System Mechanics: Strengthen our Design System processes/ecosystem and push forward its adoption. Centralizing our assets, tools and documentation, breaking silos to converge all team material to one single source of truth. Support the construction of a Design System embracing all our brand & product design assets.

Design Team Growth & Fulfillment: Enable a healthy growth of our design team by building processes and tools to ease and empower our designers recruitment, onboarding and training. Support an environment where diversity and inclusion play a key role in the design department. You also facilitate team buildings and events to improve our design team cohesion, fulfillment, and happiness at work.

• You have at least 5 years of experience as product designer or project manager working closely with a design team, with a strong experience on design systems and design teams collaboration (you have at least one significant experience leading, scaling or processing a design team).

• You are passionate about Design Systems and processes, you are obsessed with automation and efficiency.

• You have strong analytical skills. You enjoy coordinating stakeholders and managing projects.

• You are proficient in English

• You have strong communication skills and a very strong team spirit. You enjoy collaboration, understanding other people’s pain points and co-designing solutions for others.

• You are empathetic, accessible and an educator. You enjoy explaining and sharing about your work

• Experience of hyper-growth in a start-up or a scale-up company

• Experience as a Design ops for a big design team

• Experience in design recruitment and building a design culture

• High engagement in Design communities

• Engage in any action/organisation related to diversity and inclusion at work

We are looking for passionate and innovative people who want to build the next big success story with us! Do you recognize yourself in these words? Do you want to join an incredible adventure? Tell us who you are, what you’ve done, and what you're looking to achieve. We’ll be more than happy to meet you :)

• An international and dynamic team with the opportunity to visit our different offices (Paris, Berlin, Barcelona, London, Milan)

• A work from anywhere policy to allow you flexibility in regards to where you want to work in one of our five countries (France, United Kingdom, Germany, Spain and Italy)

• 1 trip of 200 euros value per year to travel to one of our European office

• 150 euros equipment budget to comfortably work from home

• An accessible office for people with disabilities

• A gym at our Paris office and a Gymlib membership with preferential rates

• Restaurant tickets card (Swile)

• 20 weeks of maternity leave supported by PayFit and 4 weeks of partner leave (Signed the Parental Act)

• Health insurance (supported to 60% by PayFit) and payment of medical consultations via the platform Qare

• One day per year dedicated to volunteer for an association

• A fulfilling and inclusive workplace, offering equal opportunities for any minority, disability, gender identity and sexual orientation. Don’t forget: everyone fits at PayFit!

• CV submitted with portfolio including design A-Z project examples.

• First call with Zalihata, Design Ops, to exchange on your experience, your professional goals & desires and measure the potential fit with the mission.

• Remote project review or case study review with a User researcher and a Product Ops

•  Meeting with a senior Designer and a member of the Design System team

• Meet Léa Mendes, VP Design