Product Designer

PayMongo is the Philippines’ leading financial operating system, enabling businesses to accept payments, manage finances, and scale effortlessly. Over the next few years, we aim to redefine the financial landscape with innovative solutions that simplify and empower business growth.

As a Product Designer, you will be a champion on producing and balancing user-centered solutions and business requirements. You will work in close collaboration with various product squads to ensure a cohesive, user-centered dashboard experience that drive merchant satisfaction and retention, advocating for a UX experience that are crucial for long term success and competitive advantage.

You will:

• Facilitate design sprints to ideate solutions with Product Managers, UI Designers, Software Engineers and other necessary stakeholders
• Ideate solutions that will cover MVP and future states of the solution
• Assist Product managers on making design decisions by balancing business and user needs
• Assist Product managers on creating a design backlog for future implementations and improvements
• Balance business and user centricity decisions when ideating solutions
• Identify and understand the core problems to be solved based on UX research output
• Connecting and grouping of problems and solutions
• Communicate design solutions with the rest of the team through documentations and presentations
• Monitor and ensure that feature is built as intended in the development phase
• Write documentations and case studies
• Produce working prototypes, low fidelity mock-ups with a mindset to validate assumptions as soon as possible

You may be fit if:

• You know the best practices in UX and product design 
• You have at least 3 years prior work experience working on digital products/software as a service in a fast-paced work environment
• You have a strong sense of ownership and autonomy, with little to no supervision required to deliver expected output within an agreed, specified timeline 
• You are a resourceful team player with great communication skills 
• You are a self-learner 
• You are strategic, systematic and forward thinking; you are always considering the pros and cons of what may happen once an interface, a feature or component is implemented. 
• You understand that every action implemented creates a rippling effect, whether that's progressive or retrogressive

You may stand out if:

• You have an outstanding portfolio with case studies to show for (You are requested to share your portfolio and case studies in your application)
• You have experience creating, scaling and maintaining design systems
• You have case studies on SAAS companies
• You understand the complexity and limitations of implementing designs in code
• You worked in a fintech company or similar products it may have

PayMongo is a financial technology company empowering businesses to scale and thrive with powerful financial tools. We started the company in March 2019, and we are backed by Silicon Valley's most forward-thinking investors including Y Combinator, Peter Thiel, Founders Fund and Stripe. We are looking for people with passion, grit and the integrity to help us build the future of payments.