Responsibilities
- Lead Design Initiatives: Define and deliver product design across multiple initiatives, ensuring alignment with user needs and business goals. Lead the development of end-to-end features and services that resonate with our users.
- Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with cross-functional teams including product, engineering, and business partners, to build coherent, high-quality experiences that are both functional and delightful.
- Advocate for Design Systems: Champion the Deel UI/Design System strategy, driving adoption through an iterative approach that balances consistency with innovation.
- Design and Prototype at Speed: Rapidly design, prototype, and test new features based on a deep understanding of business, customers and technology, to deliver thoughtful solutions even in the face of ambiguity.
- Mentor and Guide: Provide mentorship to Product Designers, offering constructive feedback to foster growth and skill development. Lead design practice rituals and develop new standards that enhance team efficiency.
- Identify and Solve Bottlenecks: Partner with product and engineering teams to identify bottlenecks, make informed recommendations, and implement improvements that streamline process.
- Drive Clarity from Complexity: Navigate ambiguity with ease, driving clarity and actionable insights from complex situations. Equally, balance user and business needs to create solutions that are impactful and strategic.
- Outstanding Communication and Facilitation: Bring people together through inspiring design and narrative. Foster alignment across teams by effectively communicating a design vision and facilitating collaboration.
Requirements
- Passion for Design: A deep passion for Product Design and UX Design craft; committed to creating meaningful, impactful user experiences.
- Extensive Experience: A minimum of 5-7 years as a Product Designer in a fast-paced environment, with at least 2 years leading holistic design as a Staff Product Designer (or equivalent title).
- Multi-Disciplinary Expertise: Strong skills in UI, UX, and visual design, with a proven track record of crafting functional yet delightful customer experiences. Comfortable working through complex flows, creating engaging interfaces, and storytelling through visuals and prototypes.
- AI: Curiosity about AI and emerging technologies; experience designing AI-assisted or AI-powered product experiences or using AI tools as part of your design workflow. A portfolio that includes examples of work related to AI-powered features, AI-assisted workflows, or experiments with AI tools.
- Data-Informed Design: Your design work is deeply rooted in ideation, experimentation and evidence, ensuring that recommendations are always backed by data.
- Comfortable with Ambiguity: Able to work at speed while maintaining high-quality and thoughtful solutions; driving clarity from complexity and ambiguity.
- Balances User and Business Needs: Equally focused on user experience and business objectives, ensuring that design solutions meet both criteria effectively.
- Strong Communicator and Facilitator: An outstanding communicator who can bring people together, build strong relationships, and gain alignment across teams. Inspires through design and narrative.
- Mentorship Experience: Experienced in mentoring Product Designers, providing guidance that enables them to learn, grow, and progress in their careers.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Builds strong relationships with cross-functional partners, developing best practices for engagement and collaboration across the organisation.
- Industry Knowledge: Strong knowledge of Payroll and Fintech, with the ability to apply this expertise to deliver impactful design solutions.
- Embedded Team Experience: Experienced in being deeply embedded within a development team, working with a light touch from the Product Manager to deliver high-quality outcomes.
Benefits
- Stock grant opportunities dependent on your role, employment status and location
- Additional perks and benefits based on your employment status and country
- The flexibility of remote work, including optional WeWork access
Work Arrangement
Remote (Worldwide)
Team
Team size: 7000. Structure: Globally distributed team
Additional Information
- Deel is an equal-opportunity employer that values diversity and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of race, religion, sex, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, pregnancy or maternity or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
- Deel will provide accommodations on request throughout the recruitment, selection and assessment process for applicants with disabilities.
- This application process does utilise Automated Employment Decision Tools (AEDT) and AI systems to assist in evaluating candidates based on experience level, technical skills and qualifications.
- As a fully remote company, we also utilise AI-powered deepfake and fraud detection technologies to verify the authenticity of candidate identities and interactions during assessments and interviews.
- Human oversight is maintained in all final hiring decisions.
- Your personal data is not used to train AI models.
- For NYC Residents: In accordance with NYC Local Law 144, an independent bias audit has been conducted on AEDT; results are available at Ashby, Covey.
