Senior Product Designer - Digital Payments Apps/Fintech

The Role

We are seeking an experienced Senior Product Designer to lead the end-to-end design of next-generation digital payments and wallet solutions across mobile and web platforms. The role combines UX strategy, UI design, interaction design, visual design, and motion design to deliver seamless, secure, scalable, and premium digital experiences throughout the complete payments lifecycle.

The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in designing transaction-heavy FinTech products, transforming complex payment and compliance workflows into intuitive user experiences while defining the product's visual language, interaction model, and design system.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Own the complete product design lifecycle from discovery, user research, wireframing, prototyping, usability testing, visual design, and developer handoff.
• Design intuitive user journeys for digital wallets, P2P transfers, QR payments, bill payments, remittances, merchant payments, checkout, onboarding, KYC, authentication, identity verification, and account management.
• Simplify complex payment workflows, financial products, backend processes, and regulatory requirements into seamless user experiences.
• Craft premium, pixel-perfect interfaces with exceptional visual hierarchy, typography, spacing, color systems, accessibility, and consistency across iOS, Android, and Web.
• Design purposeful micro-interactions, animations, and motion that enhance usability, feedback, engagement, and product quality.
• Translate complex, data-heavy financial information into clear, intuitive, and highly scannable interfaces.
• Define, build, maintain, and scale enterprise design systems, reusable UI components, interaction patterns, design tokens, and documentation.
• Optimize user journeys for usability, accessibility, conversion, task completion, performance, and error recovery using research, usability testing, analytics, and data-driven insights.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, Compliance, Risk, Operations, Customer Experience, and Business teams throughout Agile delivery cycles.
• Present design concepts, rationale, prototypes, and user insights to stakeholders while ensuring high-quality, pixel-perfect implementation.
• Support product storytelling, landing pages, service design, and customer journey mapping where required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Computer Science, or a related discipline.
• 5–8+ years of Product Design experience, preferably within Digital Payments, FinTech, Banking, Digital Wallets, Financial Services, or Telecom-linked Payments.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end product design for transaction-heavy, mobile-first applications with premium UI, interaction design, motion design, and scalable design systems.
• Hands-on experience designing digital wallets, payment flows, checkout journeys, QR payments, P2P payments, KYC, onboarding, authentication, financial dashboards, transaction history, and merchant experiences.
• Strong expertise in UX research, information architecture, user journey mapping, wireframing, interactive prototyping, design thinking, service design, interaction design, accessibility (WCAG), and usability principles.
• Expert proficiency in Figma; experience with Sketch, Adobe XD, FigJam, and Miro is preferred.
• Hands-on experience with motion design tools such as Adobe After Effects, Rive, Lottie, and Principle.
• Strong understanding of design systems, responsive and mobile-first design, data visualization, conversion optimization, API-driven products, payment gateway integrations, banking systems, and Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Knowledge of KYC, AML, Fraud Prevention, PCI-DSS, BPMN 2.0, customer journey orchestration, AI-powered products, conversational interfaces, and data-intensive applications is highly desirable.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, presentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills with experience working in fast-paced, high-growth product environments.

Success Measures

• Deliver intuitive, frictionless, and secure user experiences across the complete payments lifecycle.
• Build premium, visually polished interfaces with purposeful motion and interaction design.
• Establish scalable enterprise design systems that ensure consistency across all digital products.
• Improve user engagement, conversion, task success rates, and customer satisfaction through data-driven design.
• Deliver high-performance, scalable digital payment experiences through strong collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Application Question(s):

• Have you designed end-to-end user journeys for digital payment products such as wallets, P2P transfers, QR payments, checkout, bill payments, remittances, or merchant payments? If yes, please describe the products and your specific contributions.
• Have you designed KYC, onboarding, authentication, identity verification, or fraud-prevention experiences within a regulated FinTech or banking environment? What compliance or usability challenges did you solve?
• Have you built or maintained a scalable design system and designed product-level micro-interactions or animations using tools such as Figma, After Effects, Rive, or Lottie? Please share examples.
• Describe a complex financial workflow or data-heavy interface you designed (such as transactions, dashboards, investments, or payment history). How did you simplify it while improving usability and user success?
• Tell us about a product you designed from discovery through production. How did you collaborate with Product Managers, Engineers, Compliance, and other stakeholders to deliver a high-quality experience?
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