Checkout.com is hiring a Staff Product Designer to lead design for Acquiring and evolve its cross-pillar design system. The role sits within Product Design, reporting to the Director of Enterprise Product Design. It carries no direct reports but shapes how the system and Acquiring team ship.
What you'll do
- Lead end-to-end design for Acquiring, mentoring designers and raising craft quality through critique and guidance
- Evolve Checkout.com's cross-pillar design system across products and surfaces, including dashboard and mobile experiences
- Partner with Product and Engineering to apply the system to real product needs and implementation constraints
- Improve how teams move from design intent to production
What we're looking for
- Staff-level product design scope: set direction without formal authority, raise quality through critique and mentoring
- Exceptional product craft across interaction, visual design, prototyping, and shipped experiences
- Ownership of complex product work, partnering with Product and Engineering from problem to delivery
- Experience shaping and evolving a production design system
- Technical fluency to collaborate with Engineering on implementation constraints and design-to-development workflows
- Shipped experience using AI-assisted design or development workflows
Nice to have
- Payments, fintech, or B2B SaaS experience
- Experience with complex enterprise, platform, infrastructure, or technically demanding products
- Experience leading a Design System guild or improving design-to-development quality across desktop and mobile
Good to know
- Reports to the Director of Enterprise Product Design
- Works from the London office three days a week
- Hybrid working model with three days per week in office