PayPal Principal Designer Branded Checkout 

France, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes 

905109856

Department Overview
This role sits within the broader Experience Design department which is made up of unique product design specialties including: Consumer, Merchant, Research, Content, Design Systems, and Operations. Experience Design is driving the design and experience strategy that will evolve thegeared towards

Pod Overview
In this role you will be instrumental in defining the future of our core PayPal Checkout experiences. This flagship portfolio includes all payments for one-time purchases and billing agreements, Pay Later integrations, balance and rewards usage, growth, andinternationalization.Working in close partnership with teams across the business including Identity, Credit, Merchant, and Core App, you willbe responsible for

Role OverviewAs a Principal designer you serve as a creative director and leader of experience strategy for specific projects within a pod and will set the tone and standard for the design output for the product and more junior designers. Focused on craft, you will lead by example and drive the definition, strategy, and design concepts against specific briefs from the business and our product partners. While not a manager, you will find yourself mentoring and leading a small group of designers with a very

• 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. All designers are expected to be as sensitive to visuals as they are to system and interaction details.

Role Requirements

• 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 yourpreviouswork and candemonstrate

• Deep understandingforhow 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.

• architectureand 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.

• 12+ years of experience in consumer facing digital product design work.

Designer Growth
This includes, our ways of working, our rituals around feedback, our tact for delivering nurturing critique, and our attention to each and every designer’s aspiration as they ascend towards their next defined career levels.You will have opportunities
to stretch into areas beyond your core pods and will experience hands on mentorship to ensure

Recruitment Process
As you move through the process of consideration you will begin withan initialscreening to assess yourwith the roleyour personal ambitions and the reality of the roleapplying for.

Following yourphases if they continue tothe potential for a role.

Stage 1:An initial30-45 minutehiring manager meeting to review some work samples.

Stage 2: A1 hour

Stage 3: A series of 1:130-45 minuteinterviews with members of your panel and potential additional partners who were not in the panel and potential additional partners who were not in the panel presentation.