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Senior Product Designer - job at Checkout

We're Checkout.com

Checkout.com is one of the most exciting and valuable fintechs in the world, with our Series D taking our valuation to $40 billion. 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, Binance, 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 number 9 on the Forbes Cloud 100 list and on Glassdoor’s list of Top 10 fintechs to work for. 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. So, join us to build tomorrow, today.

Senior Product Designer - Design Systems

As Checkout.com continues to build the next generation of online payment solutions and financial products, the role of Design within the organisation is becoming more critical with each day!

As a Senior Product Designer at Checkout.com you'll push design and innovation on the design system. Alongside your peers, you'll contribute to the continuous improvement of our ways of working, culture, and help optimise processes across the entire Design organisation.

You'll be pushing the design system forward alongside your peers, turning insights from real users into simple, beautiful, and well-designed products supporting both user needs and business goals. You'll be embedded within the design system team and collaborate across the entire business to drive difficult, nebulous or sensitive work. You'll make sense of complex problems and cut through to elegant solutions. Although you'll be embedded within the design system team, you'll participate in multiple initiatives across the entire Design organisation!

What you'll be doing

Work within the Design Systems initiative to evolve the design language across all products and verticals.
Be responsible for your overall component quality, from discovery to delivery, documentation and application of system principles.
Produce guidelines and documentation across foundational elements, components and patterns.
Seek feedback to improve the design system ease of use, quality and effectiveness of documentation
Partner with design and engineering communities to enable collaboration and adoption.
Assist with maturing the design organisation by demonstrating cross-discipline collaboration in all design system activities
Mentor other Designers through all parts of component design processes

Bonus skills

The online payments / finance industry.
Experience in designing WCAG compliant, accessible interfaces
Experience creating interactive, rich prototypes (With tools such as Framer, Axure, Principle)

About you

You care deeply. You believe you have a civic responsibility to your fellow human being that everything is made in the pursuit of perfection. You welcome criticism.
You're not an island. You can show and tell us how you've helped the people around you get better.
You think in systems. You can anticipate the ripple effects of small and large changes will have on user experiences. You can demonstrate the ability to think about interfaces in an abstracted manner separately from user journeys.
You're an enabler of peers. You work in partnership with engineering and design system communities (consumers and contributors).
You're detailed. You have a strong attention to detail to ensure the quality of design system deliveries are high.
You want to make accessible solutions. You want to design for accessibility and ensure Checkouts design system meets our company Accessibility Definition “All colleagues and customers have equal access to checkouts products and services regardless of their ability, age, education, race, nationality, or disabilities. We leverage accessibility as a usability amplifier for all by placing accessibility at the core of our decision-making.”
You highly prize being accountable. You take ownership for every action, confess faults and failures, strive for better, and build trust.
You place quality over speed, but you iterate and improve as swiftly as possible.
You're self motivated and can work independently. We trust you to take the initiative making sure everyone has everything they need.
You love learning. You might not have experience for everything this role requires, but you're excited to grow and learn - sometimes 'wearing many hats' in a team.

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'll ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

What we stand for

At Checkout.com, everything starts with our values, including the experience we offer our people.

#Aspire

We supercharge your professional growth with career development programs and leadership training. You can learn your way, with tailored pathways and online platforms. And be inspired at relevant conferences.

#Excel

We don't stop at 'good' here. We strive for excellence amongst our teams every day and recognize colleagues who take it to the next level through our quarterly peer-nominated Hero awards.

#Unite

We're proud of our global connections and inclusive environment. So we champion this through our colleague-led community groups and celebrate many cultural events together.

Want to see us in action?

Take a peek inside here.

More about Checkout.com

Our technology makes payments seamless. We provide the fastest, most reliable payments in more than 150 currencies, with in-country acquiring, world-class fraud filters and reporting, through one API. And we can accept all major international credit and debit cards, as well as popular alternative and local payment methods. Checkout.com launched in 2012, and we now have a team of 1800 people across 19 international offices. To date, we’ve raised a total of $1.8 billion, with our Series D valuing us at $40 billion.

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.

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