Senior Product Designer(UX/UI)

• Work with engineers and product managers to develop new features and improve existing features that put user experience top priority.
• Experience various challenges to deliver a new financial experience to users.
• Design the total UX/UI for PayPay application and app/web tools for PayPay merchants.
• Design UX strategy based on project goals.
• Create design concepts using frameworks such as creating user personas and journey maps
• UX flow and UI design based on concept
• Conduct quantitative and qualitative research and analysis using questionnaires and interviews
• Analyze and suggest improvements using numerical analysis tools
• Other wide range of work related to product design, such as organizing design workshops

Responsibilities

• Commit to the business by designing a high-level UX strategy based on a deep understanding of PayPays strategy and KGI/KPI, and a comprehensive decision to balance profit and UX.
• Communicate closely with other roles such as product managers and engineers, as well as stakeholders, and make decisions based on a wide perspective of PayPays overall UX, not as a single function of the UX.
• Team management, quality control, and training junior to middle level designers.

Qualifications

• More than 6 years of hands-on professional experience in mobile app (iOS/Android) or mobile web UX/UI design.
• Experience in UX/UI design using Figma and Adobe
• Hands-on experience in product release, effectiveness measurement, and product improvement
• Business conversation level in Japanese or English
• Experience in using PayPay application

Preferred qualifications

• Hands-on experience in design utilizing HCD (Human Centered Design) and design thinking
• Experience in facilitating design workshop
• Experience in designing and conducting user surveys and interview scripts
• Experience in managing in-house services
• Experience working on multiple projects from requirement definition to prototyping and visual design
• Experience in building and operating design systems
• Management experience

Ideal candidate profile

• Flexible and like to take on new challenges
• Ability to discover issues on their own, propose improvement methods, and bring it to fruition
• Has a user centric mindset and willingness to commit to the business by drawing up optimal design strategies
• Team-oriented and able to communicate smoothly with other professionals
• High level leadership skills to lead projects to success by involving others