PayPal Design Director 

France, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes 

539665726

The Design Director on our team serves the role of The Framer. They ensure the work, problem, and objectives are well framed and set up for design teams to ignite and execute within a pod or vertical. Focused on visual and interactive 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 you will have the responsibility of 2-3 direct reports, you will find yourself mainly mentoring and leading designers while balancing a healthy dose of stakeholder management and buying on provocative design work. You will not only be supported by a set of product, content, and research designers but also designer managers who will partner with you to maintain project momentum and ways of working for the design team. 90% of this role is pure design and the level comes with an expectation that the design quality can spread not only within your pod but across pods and into our product design system team.

Standard Requirements

• 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 influence work through your vision, articulation of strategy, and hands on craft that sets the tone and example for world class product experiences with exceptional visual and interactive application.

• 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 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 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.

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

Designer Growth
Our team places great focus on our culture. 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 you’re expose

The total compensation for this practice may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. For more information, visit .

The U.S. national annual pay range for this role is

$120,300 to $287,100

Our Benefits:

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