PayPal · 4 hours ago
Principal Designer, Money Movement and Agentic Commerce
San Jose, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$188K/yr - $324K/yr
12+ years expPayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years, creating innovative experiences for consumers and businesses. The Principal Designer will lead experience strategy and design output within the team, serving as a creative director and mentor for junior designers, focusing on enhancing the PayPal experience in money movement and commerce.
E-Commerce PlatformsFinTechMobile PaymentsTransaction Processing
Responsibilities
Push the design thinking and generate concepts and opportunities that others have yet to consider or see
Serve as a creative director and leader of experience strategy for specific projects within a pod
Set the tone and standard for the design output for the product and more junior designers
Lead by example and drive the definition, strategy, and design concepts against specific briefs from the business and our product partners
Mentor and lead a small group of designers with minimal administrative responsibility
Focus on craft and ensure design quality spreads within your pod and across pods
Add clarity to opportunities and frame problems that drive designers and product work into new realms
Refine and invent new capabilities through broadened territories like motion design or technology/software tools
Inspire and provoke new thinking that catalyzes partners and designers on respective teams
Set and evolve the vision of a product experience through strategic storytelling, problem-driven frameworks, and insight gathering
Demonstrate major shifts in quality and perspective in previous work
Tell stories of your work through presentation design, prototypes, and explicit connection to larger business strategies
Broaden a creative brief and introduce unexpected visionary concepts that evolve the orthodoxy and convention of a product experience
Take calculated risks in concepts while maintaining usability and brand positioning
Thrive on provoking new thinking through design work in interaction, architecture, and visual brand design terms
Qualification
Required
12+ years of experience in consumer facing digital product design work
You are kind, generous, nurturing, supportive, and can see beyond your own ideas or instincts
You love to study and design for consumer behaviors with a specific interest in consumerism, retail, and evolving cultural norms
You believe in the power of brand, a well-articulated point of view, and the necessity of driving measurable business outcomes
A deep love and bias for designing products that blend interaction design with brand visual, and content design
Magical powers come through your ability to add clarity to opportunities and to frame problems that drive designers and product work into new realms
You love craft and are driven by refining and inventing new capabilities - either through broadened territories like motion design or technology/software tools
Undeniable ability to inspire and provoke new thinking that can catalyze partners and designers on your respective teams
You have a remarkable ability to set and evolve the vision of a product experience through your strategic storytelling, problem driven frameworks, insight gathering, comprehension of visual design and interactive design craft
You have set new standards around design in your previous work and can demonstrate major shifts in quality and perspective
Incredible ability to tell stories of your work through presentation design, prototypes, storytelling, and explicit connection to larger business strategies
Deep understanding for how to motivate design work through explorations, concept development, and creative directions that draft off a core brand design system
Proven ability to broaden a creative brief and introduce unexpected visionary concepts that evolve the orthodoxy and convention of a product experience, on behalf of the user's behaviors
Ability to take calculated risks in concepts - pushing against some conventions while not straying too far that it becomes unusable or incongruent with a brand positioning or identity
Thrive on provoking new thinking through design work - both in interaction, architecture and visual brand design terms
You love being an independent contributor but also understand you are a leader that others will look up to and model against based on your insanely talented craft and visionary instincts
Benefits
Flexible work environment
Employee shares options
Health and life insurance
Medical, dental, vision, and other benefits
Company
PayPal
PayPal is a financial service company that provides online payment solutions to its users worldwide.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$12.17BKey Investors
Kohlberg Kravis RobertsBlueRun Ventures
2025-11-17Post Ipo Debt· $6.95B
2023-06-07Post Ipo Debt· $5B
2015-07-20IPO
Leadership Team
Simon Bladon
CEO, UK
chaloem khompitoon
President & CEO
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