PayPal Principal Product Designer Wallets 

France, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes 

798792613

Department Overview
This role sits within the broader Experience Design department which ismade up of unique product design specialties including: Consumer,Merchant, Research, Content, Design Systems, and Operations. ExperienceDesign is driving the design and experience strategy that will evolve theNo matter the role or level, all positions are nurtured andencouraged to think through critical problems with well-integrated, multi-
with Engineering, Product Management, Brand Design, and Marketing

Pod Overview
The Wallet pod defines the overall product architecture, service design,and money movement ecosystem, across the globe.As a Principal ProductDesigner in this pod, you’ll shape the future of how people connect,transact, and support one another financially—across cultures, borders,platforms, and payment methods. You will design for the evolving landscapeof global payments, where finance meets social connection and communityengagement. Beyond individuals, you’ll empower small businesses, content
creators, and communities to accept payments in a seamless and social way,breaking down payment barriers for global commerce. This role will focuson reimagining global wallets, from the services and tools to the visualidentity and brand expression. You will collaborate and cut across surfacesfrom checkout to peer to peer payments to the core wallet.

Role Overview

the design thinking and generate concepts and opportunities that othershave yet to consider or see. They are exceptional taste makers in terms ofart direction, visual design, and brand expression within a digital product.
As a Principal designer you serve as a creative director and leader ofexperience strategy for specific projects within a pod and will set the toneand standard for the design output for the product and more juniordesigners. Focused on craft, you will lead by example and drive thedefinition, strategy, and design concepts against specific briefs from thebusiness and our product partners. While not a manager, you will findyourself mentoring and leading a small group of designers with a very
design and the level comes with an expectation that the design quality canspread not only within your pod but across pods and into our product design

Standard Requirements

• You are kind, generous, nurturing, supportive, and can see beyondyour own ideas or instincts.

• You love to study and design for consumer behaviors with a specificinterest in consumerism, retail, and evolving cultural norms.

• You believe in the power of brand, a well-articulated point of view, andthe necessity of driving measurable business outcomes.

• A deep love and bias for designing products that blend interactiondesign with brand visual, and content design. All designers areexpected to be as sensitive to visuals as they are to system andinteraction details.

Role Requirements

• Magical powers come through your ability to add clarity toopportunities and to frame problems that drive designers and productwork into new realms.

• You love craft and are driven by refining and inventing newcapabilities - either through broadened territories like motion designor technology/software tools.

• Undeniable ability to inspire and provoke new thinking that cancatalyze partners and designers on your respective teams.

• You have a remarkable ability to set and evolve the vision of a productexperience through your strategic storytelling, problem drivenframeworks, insight gathering, comprehension of visual design andinteractive design craft.

• You have set new standards around design in your previous work andcan demonstrate major shifts in quality and perspective.Incredible ability to tell stories of your work through presentationdesign, prototypes, storytelling, and explicit connection to largerbusiness strategies.

• Deep understanding for how to motivate design work throughexplorations, concept development, and creative directions that draftoff a core brand design system.

• Proven ability to broaden a creative brief and introduce unexpectedvisionary concepts that evolve the orthodoxy and convention of aproduct experience, on behalf of the user’s behaviors.

• Ability to take calculated risks in concepts - pushing against someconventions while not straying too far that it becomes unusable orincongruent with a brand positioning or identity.

• Thrive on provoking new thinking through design work - both ininteraction, architecture and visual brand design terms.

• You love being an independent contributor but also understand youare a leader that others will look up to and model against based onyour insanely talented craft and visionary instincts.

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

Designer Growth
working, our rituals around feedback, our tact for delivering nurturingcritique, and our attention to each and every designer’s aspiration as theyascend towards their next defined career levels. You will have opportunities
to stretch into areas beyond your core pods and will experience hands onmentorship to ensure you’re expose

Recruitment Process
As you move through the process of consideration you will begin with an initial screening to assess your fit with the role you’ve applied as well as other potential roles or levels that might be a stronger fit. Our goal is to ensure we bring on designers who will love and thrive in their area of focus.To this point, we pay close consideration for your personal ambitions andthe reality of the role you’re applying for.

through three additional phases if they continue to possess the potential fora role.

Stage 1: An initial, 30-45 minute hiring manager meeting to review somework samples.

Stage 2: A 1 hour case study panel presentation with cross discipline

Stage 3: A series of 1:1 30-45 minute interviews with members of your panel and potential additional partners who were not in the paneland potential additional partners who were not in the panel