PayPal is looking to solve the problem of creating innovative experiences that make moving money, selling, and shopping simple, personalized, and secure, and to evolve the PayPal experience beyond the core transaction and into new realms of the end-to-end commerce journey.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in consumer-facing digital product design work
- Deep love and bias for designing products that blend interaction design with brand visual and content design
- Undeniable ability to inspire and provoke new thinking that can catalyze partners and designers
- Remarkable ability to set and evolve the vision of a product experience through strategic storytelling, problem-driven frameworks, insight gathering, comprehension of visual design and interactive design craft
- Proven ability to broaden a creative brief and introduce unexpected visionary concepts that evolve the orthodoxy and convention of a product experience
- Ability to take calculated risks in concepts, pushing against some conventions while not straying too far that it becomes unusable or incongruent with a brand positioning or identity
- Thrives on provoking new thinking through design work, both in interaction, architecture, and visual brand design terms
Responsibilities
- Define the future of PayPal's core Checkout experiences
- Shape the vision for how PayPal makes payments the smartest way to pay for every purchase
- Generate concepts and opportunities that others have yet to consider or see
- Lead by example and drive the definition, strategy, and design concepts against specific briefs from the business and product partners
- Mentor and lead a small group of designers with a minimal amount of administrative responsibility
- Set the tone and standard for the design output for the product and more junior designers
- Drive the design and experience strategy that will evolve the PayPal experience
Other
- Kind, generous, nurturing, supportive, and can see beyond your own ideas or instincts
- Love to study and design for consumer behaviors with a specific interest in consumerism, retail, and evolving cultural norms
- Believe in the power of brand, a well-articulated point of view, and the necessity of driving measurable business outcomes
- 0% travel required
- Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. degree (not specified, but implied as a general requirement)
- Commitment to diversity and inclusion, with a focus on creating a workplace with a sense of acceptance and security where all employees feel included and valued
