PayPal is seeking a visionary leader with an unwavering commitment to user-centered design to build trust and security within their financial products and cultivate a visually sophisticated brand experience.
Requirements
- Thorough command of the UX lifecycle with deep, direct experience in all skill areas and tools, including facilitation of workshops or other collaboration techniques to drive momentum and credibility within the organization
- Complete UX skillset, to deliver excellence across products and platforms, mobile apps, and financial services expertise an advantage
- Experience leading delivery, through feedback, design critique, presentation to program sponsors, planning, and coordinating with partners where needed
- High degree of craft, taste, and product intuition, with a keen eye toward future trends, emerging technology, and shifting customer expectations.
Responsibilities
- Design leadership - drive best practices in process and methodology and deliver against business and customer needs
- Guide UX efforts across teams, including strategy, planning, and working with cross-functional partners to remove blockers and present effectively to senior staff and stakeholders
- Leverage and extend the use of design systems, style guides, patterns, and assets in the creation of UX deliverables
- Contribute to the wider UX community, mentoring others, and leveraging your strengths to help others grow
- Ensure that all the organization’s output/visuals are consistent with the overall brand and strategic commitments.
- Apply a customer-focused, iterative design process.
- Make design decisions based on research and insights, as well as advocate for continuous learning and inclusive design best practices.
Other
- 10 to 12+ years in a UX role, bachelor’s and/or master’s degree in the study of user experience, design, research, or related fields or equivalent professional experience
- Collaborate with other cross-functional Design team members (Research, Content Design, UX Operations, Branding) and Business and Engineering stakeholders.
- Expect an immersive, fast-paced environment.
- You will oversee multiple projects while flexing your skills as an effective communicator, especially when relaying creative concepts to our design teams and company stakeholders.
- We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Please don’t hesitate to apply.
