Company Description

Checkout.com is one of the most exciting fintechs in the world. Our mission is to enable businesses and their communities to thrive in the digital economy. We’re the strategic payments partner for some of the best known fast-moving brands globally such as Wise, Hut Group, Sony Electronics, Homebase, Henkel, Klarna and many others. Purpose-built with performance and scalability in mind, our flexible cloud-based payments platform helps global enterprises launch new products and create experiences customers love. And it's not just what we build that makes us different. It's how.

We empower passionate problem-solvers to collaborate, innovate and do their best work. That’s why we’re on the Forbes Cloud 100 list and a Great Place to Work accredited company. And we’re just getting started. We’re building diverse and inclusive teams around the world — because that’s how we create even better experiences for our merchants and our partners. And we need your help. Join us to build the digital economy of tomorrow.

Job Description

Summary:

Product designers at Checkout.com craft world-class financial products and payment experiences that are intuitive, empowering, and grounded in user needs. You’ll be an integral part of the product development process, shaping ideas, designing end-to-end flows, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver elegant solutions that drive impact for our merchants.

At Checkout.com, you’ll design tools that power critical payment operations for businesses of all sizes, from fast-scaling startups to global enterprises. Our users rely on us to move money, manage risk, and optimise performance. As a design team, we aim to set a new standard for enterprise UX by combining deep customer insight with exceptional craft.

You’ll report to the Product Design Director within the Merchant Services pillar and work closely with peers across Product, Engineering and Research. As part of a fast-moving team, we’re looking for a self-driven individual who can take ownership of scoped product areas and deliver high-quality design work with clarity and focus. You'll help us raise the bar for design craft while contributing to a thoughtful and inclusive team culture.

The team:

We are more than 30 people across Product Design, UX Research, Content Design, and Design Operations.

We operate in a hybrid working model, with three days in the office per week.

Roles and responsibilities

• Works independently across project phases, consistently delivering user-centred solutions with reliability and focus.

• Drive product design through the full lifecycle, from understanding customer needs, defining problems, exploring solutions, to delivering high-quality visual and interaction designs

• Collaborate with cross-functional peers to build a shared understanding of goals, context, and product vision

• Contribute to the development of the team’s design direction and elevate the overall design quality within your product space

• Communicate the end-to-end user experience clearly with cross-functional teams and advocate for design decisions using data and customer knowledge

• Leverage appropriate tools and prototyping methods to explore and validate ideas effectively

• Deliver production-ready design specs and documentation that align with system patterns and product constraints

• Manage project scope, timelines, and delivery expectations by breaking work down into tasks, revisiting priorities and trade-offs when necessary

• Actively participate in design critiques, retrospectives, and feedback sessions to improve your own work and support your peers

• Maintain clear and inclusive documentation so others can understand and build upon your work

• Build strong working relationships across disciplines and help align your team around shared goals and priorities

• Support and contribute to the team’s inclusive and collaborative culture by role modelling Checkout.com’s values

Qualifications

• Experience designing end-to-end flows and shipping features in a collaborative, agile environment

• Solid proficiency across core areas of product design: interaction design, visual design, and product thinking

• Ability to solve design challenges with user needs and business constraints in mind

• Comfortable presenting and explaining design rationale to peers and cross-functional partners

• Demonstrates good judgement in choosing appropriate fidelity and tools to explore and communicate ideas

• Self-motivated, able to manage time and expectations across multiple initiatives

• Strong communication skills and openness to feedback

• Contributes to inclusive design practices and champions a fair, supportive workplace

• Seeks out opportunities to grow and actively reflects on areas for improvement

• Maintains curiosity and a growth mindset, welcomes being challenged and embraces new perspectives

Additional Information

Apply without meeting all requirements statement

If you don't meet all the requirements but think you might still be right for the role, please apply anyway. We're always keen to speak to people who connect with our mission and values.

We believe in equal opportunities

We work as one team. Wherever you come from. However you identify. And whichever payment method you use.

Our clients come from all over the world — and so do we. Hiring hard-working people and giving them a community to thrive in is critical to our success.

When you join our team, we’ll empower you to unlock your potential so you can do your best work. We’d love to hear how you think you could make a difference here with us.

We want to set you up for success and make our process as accessible as possible. So let us know in your application, or tell your recruiter directly, if you need anything to make your experience or working environment more comfortable. We’ll be happy to support you.

Take a peek inside life at Checkout.com via

• Our Culture video https://youtu.be/BEwnpHuadSw
• Our careers page https://www.checkout.com/careers
• Our LinkedIn Life pages bit.ly/3OaoN1U
• Our Instagram https://www.instagram.com/checkout_com/