Company Description
Are you a visionary Product Designer with a passion for crafting intuitive and impactful experiences in the FinTech space? Xplor Pay is seeking a Lead Product Designer to join our dynamic team and drive the evolution of our payment solutions.
Xplor Pay is a leading payment solutions provider dedicated to simplifying complex transactions and empowering businesses worldwide. We offer a comprehensive suite of payment products and services, from merchant processing and online gateways to integrated software solutions, all designed to enhance efficiency, security, and growth for our diverse client base. Our mission is to build seamless, reliable, and innovative payment experiences that enable businesses to thrive.
Job Description
As a Lead Product Designer at Xplor Pay, you will be a pivotal force in shaping the user experience of our cutting-edge payment products. You will:
Lead Design Initiatives: Take ownership of complex design problems from conception through execution, delivering high-quality, user-centered solutions for new features and product enhancements across our global Partner and Merchant Solutions.
Strategic Vision: Collaborate closely with Product Management, Engineering, and Business Development to define product strategy and requirements, ensuring design aligns with business goals and user needs.
Hands-on Design & Research: Conduct user research, create user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups using tools like Ballpark, Hotjar, and Figma, ensuring designs are consistent with our Apollo Design System.
UX/UI Excellence: Champion best practices in user experience (UX) and user interaction design (IxD), including usability heuristics, accessibility standards, and information architecture.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Facilitate effective communication and collaboration between design, product, and engineering teams, ensuring a shared understanding of design intent and technical feasibility.
Mentorship & Guidance: Provide mentorship and constructive feedback to product designers, fostering a culture of design excellence and continuous learning within the team.
Design System Contribution: Actively contribute to and evolve our Xplor Pay design systems, ensuring consistency, scalability, and efficiency across all products.
User Advocacy: Be the voice of the user, advocating for their needs and pain points throughout the product development lifecycle through qualitative and quantitative research methods.
Iterative Development: Participate in agile development processes, including sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives, ensuring timely delivery of design assets.
The average base salary pay range for this position is $125,000 to $150,000.
In this role, you may work remotely as long as you are located within the lower 48 states of the US.
Qualifications
Experience: 5+ years of experience in UX Design, with a strong portfolio showcasing successful UX/UI solutions for complex web and mobile applications. Experience in a Lead or Senior role is highly preferred.
Design Expertise: Mastery of design tools such as Figma (our primary tool) and Design Thinking. Proficient in creating wireframes, user flows, prototypes, high-fidelity mockups, research questions, and user surveys.
UX Principles: Deep understanding of user-centered design principles, usability heuristics, information architecture, design systems, and interaction design patterns.
Research Acumen: Experience conducting and synthesizing user research (interviews, usability testing, surveys) to inform design decisions.
Technical Understanding: Solid understanding of front-end development technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and the ability to communicate effectively with engineers about technical constraints and opportunities.
Communication: Excellent verbal, written, and visual communication skills, with the ability to articulate design decisions and rationale to diverse audiences.
Problem-Solving: Proven ability to break down complex problems into manageable, actionable design solutions.
Leadership: Demonstrated ability to autonomously lead design initiatives, influence stakeholders, and mentor team members.
Bonus Skillsets
Experience in a B2B SaaS environment.
Familiarity with analytics tools (e.g., Google Analytics, Hotjar) and using data to inform design decisions.
Familiarity with the use of AI in design, research, and copy (e.g., Co-pilot, Figma Make, Miro AI).
Proficiency in front-end coding (e.g., HTML, CSS) for prototyping or component development.
Compensation Range
The estimated annual salary range for this position is $130,000 - $150,000, plus benefits and potential bonuses. The exact compensation will vary based on experience, qualifications, and location.
Join us in shaping the future of payments!
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
More about us
We are the first global platform combining SaaS with embedded payments and tools to help businesses grow and succeed. We offer software solutions in fast-growing “everyday life” verticals: Education, Fitness & Wellbeing, Field Services and Personal Services – and a global, cloud-based payment processing platform. With operations in North America, Australasia, Asia, Europe, and the UK, we serve over 106,000 customers that processed over $38 billion in payments across 20 markets in 2024.
Good to know
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Xplor is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We're dedicated to attracting, retaining and developing our people regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status and age. Applications are encouraged from all sectors of the community. All Information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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