Product Designer

Product Designer  - San Francisco, CA or Remote USA

Who we are:

We believe in the everyday hero. Those who have the courage to follow their passion and who have the strength and determination to realize their dreams.

Small business owners are at the heart of all we do, so we create powerful, easy-to-use financial solutions to help them run their businesses. With a founder’s mentality and a 'team-first’ attitude, our diverse teams across Europe, South America and the United States work together to ensure that the small business owners we partner with can be successful doing what they love. 

SumUp is a financial technology company that allows businesses of all sizes to receive payments quickly and simply, both in-store and online. Named as Europe’s fastest-growing company in the Inc. 5000, SumUp supports over 3 million merchants globally and operates in 34 markets across Europe, the U.S., Brazil and Chile. With its card terminals and online services relied upon by businesses of all sizes from DHL to black cab drivers – SumUp is the partner of choice for small businesses from every walk of life.

Who you are:  

You want to EMPOWER small businesses to thrive in a marketplace built for large corporations. You are obsessed with looking for opportunities to solve problems in unique and innovative ways and you want to design products that touch millions of consumers and thousands of merchants. 

We’re looking for a strong Product Designer who enjoys close collaboration with Product, Engineers, Analytics, and User Research, and Marketing to craft ground-breaking product solutions in the payments space. Our design team drives innovative payment processing and loyalty solutions for merchant businesses at scale. We cultivate and admire creative thinkers that push the boundaries beyond what is possible. You’ll be joining and fostering a culture of hands-on making, testing and collaborative learning.

You are a product designer that has relevant UX design education or experience, seeking challenging projects spanning across web, desktop, and mobile applications. You are excited to build product solutions, eager to learn, and strive for design execution excellence. You can jump straight into tasks, but still need guidance and are developing your craft.

What you’ll do:

• Report to Lead Product Designer and collaborate with cross-functional peers (Design Director, Product Management, Research, Analytics, QA, and Engineering)
• Analyze problems and design user-centric design solutions
• Design user flows, information architecture, wireframes, prototypes, animation
• Participate in hands-on user research to influence design decisions 
• Communicate design decisions to stakeholder and accept feedback
• Identify opportunities to improve existing processes and inspire best practices
• Apply visual brand consistency between all product and marketing materials
• Develop your craft to execute and design deliverables to stakeholders

What we’re looking for:

• 2-4 years of experience
• A stellar portfolio that demonstrates your UX and UI design experience
• Experience using Figma to create user flows and designs prototypes
• Examples of great layout, visual hierarchy, and typography skills
• Examples of web and/or mobile app experience
• Strategic thinking when designing user flows, information architecture, wireframes, or prototypes

Nice to haves:

• Any B2B, B2C, payments experience
• Any creative agency experience
• Any hands-on research experience (market, design trends, usability studies, competitive analysis, A/B testing)
• Any additional software experience (Illustrator, After Effects, Premier Pro, Miro)
• Experience working directly with engineers

 Compensation: 

• $100-$130k base salary + Equity 
• Compensation will be finalized based on the candidate’s experience and location

Benefits & More:

• We’re a truly global team of 3200+ people from 60+ countries, working to help small businesses across 3 continents.
• Startup environment and small, cross-functional teams 
• Medical, Dental and Vision benefits, along with too many to list!
• Benefits that holistically support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing
• Career Coaching & Development
• 4 weeks of annual PTO plus 11 paid holidays
• 401(K) Retirement Plan and Paid Parental leave
• Special Leaves including Birthday (1 day), Wedding (3 days), Wellness (1 per quarter), Volunteering (2 days)
• Sabbatical after every 3 years of employment

SumUp is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that proudly pursues and hires a diverse workforce. SumUp does not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, colour, religion or religious belief, ethnic or national origin, nationality, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age or any other basis protected by applicable laws or prohibited by company policy. SumUp also strives for a healthy and safe workplace and strictly prohibits harassment of any kind.

SumUp will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from a candidate.