Sr. UX Designer, Venmo Teens

Job Description Summary: This role calls for a Designer with an unwavering commitment to user-centered design. This passion translates into flawless execution, leveraging a deep understanding of design patterns to build trust and security within our financial products. They will cultivate a visually sophisticated brand experience that resonates with our target audience, all while influencing stakeholders to champion their design vision. Job Description: You will be part of the Venmo design team across all end-to-end experiences for Venmo consumers globally and work closely with your product and engineering partners to inform and drive the strategy and roadmap. You will work with cross-functional team members to build and deliver the best possible experiences across all aspects of commerce from discovery to post-purchase experiences. You will be the creative lead for the teen pods, playing a key role in mentoring junior designers and driving strategically important initiatives. Ideally, though not required, the candidate will have experience working on consumer teen apps, a deep understanding of their needs, and familiarity with legal and regulatory conditions. This role calls for a Designer with an unwavering commitment to user-centered design. This passion translates into flawless execution, leveraging a deep understanding of design patterns to build trust and security within our financial products. They will cultivate a visually sophisticated brand experience that resonates with our target audience, all while influencing stakeholders to champion their design vision. Responsibilities: Partners with design, engineering, design systems and product management team members in the execution and delivery of PayPal’s products and services, using a customer-focused, iterative design process. Contributes to the planning and estimating work and participates in broader work stream coordination and expectation setting. Creates high-quality deliverables and executes based on product design goals and priorities without prescriptive guidance or direction, managing their work to a more extensive schedule. Leverages and extends the use of established product design techniques, templates, presentations and assets in the creation of product design analysis, solutions and materials. Contributes to the adaptation of PayPal product design tools, methodology and software, and proposes new solutions or optimizes existing ones. Creates opportunities to foster collaborative cross-discipline dynamics. Drives product design team delivery excellence, furthering influence to achieve product design goals. May lead one or more individuals in experience and design initiatives. Informally mentors junior product design practitioners in best practices, process and methodology. Requirements: 7+ years experience. Bachelors or Master Degree in the study of design including one of the following; Design, Information Architecture, Human Factors or equivalent project/portfolio experience. Thorough understanding of product design methodology and lifecycle across significant channels and platforms. Customer-focused, with experience using design research methods to uncover customer insights. Effectively operates within an iterative design team, managing product design responsibilities against defined milestones and plan with little day-to-day oversight. Thorough knowledge of essential channels and platforms, with experience in mobile, dedicated, web and native solution design. Experience with resources such as; pattern library, repositories, and internal communication tools. General awareness of technology mediums (i.e., JavaScript, HTML/CSS) including differences between them.

Salary : $97,000 - $234,000