Director, Product Design Product Design Berlin

vor 3 Wochen


Berlin, Deutschland Payrails Vollzeit

Payrails is an innovative technology company with ateam that has many years of experience in the payment industry anda real-life understanding of the merchants’ needs. We have seen thecomplexity firsthand and we have learned from all the challengeswe've faced. Now we want to help leading technology companiesaround the world accept payments and build financial services withminimal upfront investments.

Our vision atPayrails is to reimagine payments. We do this by removing heavyreliance on Engineering efforts using composable building blocksthat put the control firmly in the hands of our customers. We existto help our customers become more productive and flexible,impacting directly on their ability to grow.

Weare joined in our mission by top-tier clients Andreessen Horowitz,HV Capital, EQT, and General Catalyst alongside a great cast ofknowledgeable angel investors to enable us to solve the growingcomplexity of payments.

At Payrails, we arecommitted to building a team full of the most talented people.Excellence is part of our values and we understand that in order toachieve this, we need to build an environment where skilled peoplecan work openly, collaboratively, and with the utmost trust in oneanother. We believe people thrive the most when they are fullyaware of what the business is trying to achieve, why it isimportant to the market, and what challenges lie in the way toreaching our goals. In such an environment we believe people cantruly excel, grow and enjoy working together. We try hard to be acompany where everyone is inspired and feels a sense ofresponsibility to do the right thing to help us bring our vision tolife. Succeeding with us is about finding solutions to the mostpressing problems and executing themeffectively.

YourTeam

Payrails is a dynamic workplace and ourdesign team sits at the core of this landscape. Our mission is todrive a successful intersection between User Experience,Technology, and Business. We do this by focusing on 3 mainpillars:

  1. Understand merchant needs andchallenges in their ecosystem
  2. Identify simpleand meaningful solutions
  3. Partner with productand engineering to think holistically about systems andarchitectures that come together to create pragmaticsolutions

Our Design team offers youthe opportunity to work alongside a group of highly ambitious andknowledgeable Product Managers and Designers, while being facedwith highly complex problems that affect customers on a globalscale.

What You Will BeDoing

Lead by example, actively contributing todesign projects from concept through execution, balancing hands-ondesign work with strategic direction.

Collaborateclosely with Product, Engineering, and stakeholders to tacklecomplex design problems and create user-centered solutions thatalign with both user needs and businessobjectives.

Partner with product managers toprioritize design opportunities and translate them into actionable,high-quality deliverables.

Guide and mentor asmall but growing team of designers, fostering a collaborative,hands-on design culture where everyone contributes andinnovates.

Take ownership of our design system,working directly with front-end engineers to build and refinecomponents that ensure consistency and efficiency across ourproduct.

Continuously drive alignment andfacilitate design discussions with stakeholders to build consensusand move quickly, iterating as needed to keep pace with ourfast-evolving startup environment.

Balancestrategic direction with tactical design tasks, including UI/UXdesign, prototyping, and interaction design in Figma, to directlyimpact our product’s quality and userexperience.

You'll Be Great for This RoleIf

You have 10+ years of hands-on product designexperience, with at least 5 years leading design teams or projectsin high-growth environments, ideally within startups ortech.

You’re skilled in Enterprise-level productdesign but enjoy being directly involved in the design process,from ideation to implementation.

You thrive inambiguous and fast-paced settings, able to shift seamlessly betweenhigh-level strategy and hands-on designtasks.

You think holistically about user andbusiness needs, keeping outcomes at the forefront while navigatingtrade-offs in a lean, startup setting.

You areproficient in Figma and can create and iterate on high-quality,practical designs, articulating your decision-making processclearly.

You’re comfortable synthesizing feedbackfrom different sources, making informed decisions quickly, andadapting to change.

You bring a collaborative andproactive mindset, excellent communication skills, and the abilityto inspire cross-functional partners.

You have aportfolio that demonstrates your design thinking, problem-solvingabilities, and measurable impact, especially in product ecosystemsand complex domains likepayments.

Please submit an up-to-dateportfolio in English as part of yourapplication.

Why You Should JoinPayrails
  • You can truly create yourown path by taking responsibility and implementing your ownideas.
  • We offer visa and relocation support toyou and your family where required.
  • We offer ahybrid working environment.
  • You have 27 annualvacation days + 1 day of paid birthday leave for you to have funand party without any worries
  • We get togetherregularly for team lunches and events.
  • You helpus shape the future of payments.
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