Staff Product Designer | Payments

Teya

Hello. We’re Teya. Teya was founded on a simple belief: local businesses deserve better. They are the cafés, restaurants, salons, shops and entrepreneurs that bring character to our high streets, create jobs and keep communities moving. Yet for too long, financial services has made life harder for them - with clunky tools, poor support and complexity that gets in the way of running a business. Teya exists to change that. We’re building a financial platform for local businesses across Europe - one built around simple tools, thoughtful design and real human support. Our Members rely on us to help them run their business with confidence, and that responsibility shapes the way we work. We move fast. We care about quality. We stay close to the detail. And we believe great performance and genuine hospitality should go hand in hand. If you want to build meaningful products, solve real problems and make a genuine difference for local businesses, we’d love to hear from you YOUR MISSION As a Principal / Staff Product Designer – Onboarding, you will be a senior individual contributor leading design for high-impact growth initiatives across the customer lifecycle—from acquisition and activation to engagement, monetization, and retention. This role sits at the intersection of product strategy, experimentation, and systems thinking. You’ll partner closely with Product, Engineering, Data, and Marketing to identify growth opportunities, run experiments, and scale what works—while raising the bar for design quality and craft across Teya. WHAT YOU’LL DO * Own and drive design strategy for growth initiatives across web and product surfaces * Lead end-to-end design for complex, ambiguous growth problems—from discovery to delivery and iteration * Partner with Product Managers, Engineers, Data Scientists, and Growth Marketers to define hypotheses, experiments, and success metrics * Translate insights from data, user research, and experimentation into clear design direction and impactful solutions * Design and refine onboarding, activation flows, pricing and packaging, upsell/cross-sell experiences, and lifecycle touchpoints * Balance rapid experimentation with high-quality, scalable design solutions * Influence product and growth strategy through strong design thinking and storytelling * Contribute to and evolve Teya’s design system to support speed and consistency at scale * Mentor and coach other designers, raising the overall design maturity of the organization * Act as a design leader without formal people management—setting standards, shaping culture, and leading by example WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR * 8+ years of experience in product design, with significant experience in growth, experimentation, or funnel optimization * Proven track record of designing products that drive measurable business impact (e.g. activation, conversion, retention, revenue) * Strong understanding of experimentation frameworks, metrics, and data-informed decision-making * Exceptional craft across interaction design, UX, and visual design * Ability to simplify complex problems and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners * Experience working in fast-paced, product-led environments (fintech experience is a plus, not a requirement) * Comfort operating at both strategic and hands-on levels * Strong leadership and influence skills, with a collaborative and pragmatic mindset NICE TO HAVE * Experience designing for SMBs, payments, or financial products * Familiarity with growth tooling, analytics platforms, or A/B testing frameworks THE PERKS * Flexible working hours—we trust you to manage your time. * Physical and mental health support through GymPass: free access to 1,500+ gyms in the UK, 1-1 therapy, meditation sessions, digital fitness and nutrition apps. * Extended and improved maternity and paternity leave choices for flexibility and support. * Cycle-to-Work Scheme. * Health and Life Insurance. * Pension Scheme. * 25 days of Annual Leave (+ Bank Holidays). * Office snacks every day. * Friendly, comfortable, and informal office environment in Central London. Teya is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone regardless of race, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, or background can thrive and do their best work. We believe that a diverse team leads to better ideas, stronger outcomes, and a more supportive workplace for all. If you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process whether for interviews, assessments, or other parts of the application—we encourage you to let us know. We are committed to ensuring that every candidate has a fair and accessible experience with us.

Paddle

What do we do? Paddle offers digital product companies a completely different approach to their payment infrastructure. Instead of assembling and maintaining a complex stack of payments-related apps and services, we’re a Merchant of Record for our customers. That means we take away 100% of the pain of payment fragmentation. It’s faster, safer, cheaper, and, above all, way better.  We’re backed by investors including KKR, FTV Capital, Kindred, Notion, and 83North and serve over 6000 software sellers in 245 territories globally.  The Role:   We are looking for an exceptional Staff Product Manager to lead our flagship Checkout experience – the most strategically critical, highest-visibility product surface at Paddle. Every dollar our customers earn flows through Checkout. This is a massive-scale engine: we handle ~10 million sessions a month, processing $180M+ in monthly payments across a global network of 10,000+ sellers. The decisions made here directly move the needle on conversion, revenue, and customer trust. This is the toughest product role at Paddle, and we're looking for someone who is energised by that. You will own the Checkout product end-to-end: its strategy, its roadmap, its performance, and its commercial outcomes. You'll operate as the senior product voice in the room with our executive team, engineering leaders, and largest customers, and you'll be expected to set the bar – not just for what we ship, but for how the wider product org makes decisions, runs discovery, and uses data. You'll work in a trio with a strong engineering lead and an experienced product designer, with daily exposure to Sales, Solutions, Customer Success, Risk, Finance, and Exco. Given the cross-functional intensity of the work, this role requires regular in-person collaboration with the Checkout team and the wider Payments group. This is an opportunity for a staff-level operator who wants to own a product that genuinely matters – one with hard technical problems, real commercial stakes, and the platform to influence company strategy. What you'll do:  Strategy & Roadmap Ownership: * Own the long-term vision and strategy for Checkout, grounded in market trends, payments innovation, customer needs, and Paddle's commercial goals. Translate this into a roadmap you can defend at Exco and to customers. * Make – and stand behind – the tough prioritisation calls. Navigate ambiguous, multi-stakeholder trade-offs where the "right" answer requires deep judgement across technical constraints, commercial impact, compliance, and UX. * Set the bar for discovery and prioritisation across the wider Payments group; coach other PMs on how to do this well. Product Development & Delivery: * Lead end-to-end delivery of complex, multi-faceted initiatives without needing oversight. Define and enforce the delivery standards (discovery, specs, experimentation, launch quality) that the rest of the product team operates against. * Work in a tight trio with engineering and design to ship fast, instrument well, and iterate based on real customer signal. Use AI tooling to compress the loop from idea to spec to prototype – we expect ideas to be testable in days, not weeks. * Run a continuous programme of optimisation – A/B tests, beta programmes, usability research – to compound conversion and UX gains across a high-volume, consumer-facing surface. Data, Metrics & Commercial Impact: * Own the KPIs that matter for Checkout (conversion, authorisation rates, revenue impact, NPS, etc.) and weave them into the strategic narrative for the business. * Dive into data independently. We don't expect you to wait for an analyst; we expect you to pull the numbers (with AI help where it accelerates you), form a hypothesis, and bring a recommendation. * Use product data to influence business strategy beyond your immediate roadmap – pricing, GTM, risk policy, settlement, etc. Stakeholder Management & Storytelling: * Align senior stakeholders – including Exco, Sales leadership, and key customers – around the Checkout strategy. Tailor the message, never the substance. * Craft compelling written narratives. At staff level we expect your docs to be the artefact that drives decisions, not a deck or a meeting. * Be a credible technical partner to engineering on complex payments, integrations, and platform decisions. GTM & Customer Proximity: * Oversee GTM for Checkout launches across multiple customer segments and geographies, working with Marketing, Sales, Solutions, and Support. * Shape the customer-centric culture of the team – consistently in front of customers yourself, and building the processes that keep the rest of the team close to them too. We'd love to hear from you if you: * You're used to owning a high-stakes, high-complexity product end-to-end with clear, measurable business impact – or you're a senior PM who is unambiguously operating beyond your title. * You have specific, hands-on experience with payments, checkout, or comparable consumer-facing fintech experiences at scale. You understand auth rates, 3DS, SCA, PSP economics, fraud trade-offs, etc. * You've worked on high-volume, consumer-facing products where small UX or technical changes have outsized commercial impact, and you can talk through specific wins you've owned. * You're technically credible – comfortable in the details with engineers, able to reason about systems, APIs, and trade-offs without needing them to translate. * You're data-fluent and metrics-led. You don't believe a thing until you've seen the numbers, and you can run your own analysis end-to-end. * You use AI as a daily force multiplier – for research, writing, analysis, and building functional prototypes – and can show specific examples of how it's changed the quality and speed of your output. You'll be working alongside engineers and designers who are pushing the same boundary. * You've built and shipped in scale-up or startup environments, including zero-to-one work. You're at home with ambiguity, not blocked by it. * You're an outstanding written and verbal communicator – English is your primary working language, and your writing changes minds. * You're comfortable managing hard trade-offs across customers, Sales, Engineering, Compliance, and Exco – and you stay constructive when the room is tense. * You value regular, in-person collaboration with your team and wider stakeholders – this role isn't a fit for fully remote working. Everyone is welcome at Paddle At Paddle, we’re committed to removing invisible barriers, both for our customers and within our own teams. We recognise and celebrate that every Paddler is unique and we welcome every individual perspective. As an inclusive employer we don’t care if, or where, you studied, what you look like or where you’re from. We’re more interested in your craft, curiosity, passion for learning and what you’ll add to our culture. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t match every part of the job ad, especially if you’re part of an underrepresented group. Please let us know if there’s anything we can do to better support you through the application process and in the workplace. We will do everything we can to support any accommodations needed. We’re committed to building a diverse team where everyone feels safe to be their authentic self. Let’s grow together. Our Values * Paddle Together - “None of us, is as smart as all of us” * Paddle Simply - “Simple can be harder than complex: you have to get your thinking clean to make it simple” * Paddle for others - “We can realise our wildest dreams, so long as we help enough other people to realise theirs” Why you’ll love working at Paddle We are a diverse, growing group of Paddlers across the globe who pride ourselves on our transparent, collaborative and respectful culture. We are a ‘digital-first’ company, which means you can work remotely, from one of our stylish hubs, or even a bit of both! We offer all team members unlimited holidays and 4 months paid family leave regardless of gender. We invest in learning and will help you with your personal development via constant exposure to new challenges, an annual learning fund, and regular internal and external training.

Ledgy

At Ledgy, we’re on a mission to make Europe a powerhouse of entrepreneurship by building a modern, tech-driven equity management and financial reporting platform for private and public companies. In 2026, we aim to be the leading provider for European IPOs and reporting for share-based payments. We are a value-based company with a core focus on being humble, transparent, ambitious and impactful, all in order to delivery the best experience for our customers and end users. We are proud to partner with some of the world’s leading investors. New Enterprise Associates led our $22m Series B round in 2022, with Philip Chopin joining Sequoia’s Luciana Lixandru on our board. We were founded in Switzerland in 2017 and today we operate globally from offices in Zurich and London. We encourage diversity and are an international team coming from 26 different countries and speaking 25 different languages.   About the Role As a Senior/Staff Software Engineer at Ledgy, you’ll design and build elegant, scalable systems that power how companies manage their equity. You’ll collaborate with fellow engineers (based mainly in Zurich and London), product managers, and designers to develop industry-leading automation and experiences — while many in our space still rely on manual processes. In the first 30 days: * Be paired with an onboarding buddy who will introduce you to the world of equity management * Get to know our engineering team, product managers, and designers * Understand how your team’s surface area connects to the broader Ledgy platform * Start contributing to the codebase with the guidance of experienced team members In the first 3 months: * Ship independently on impactful product features and improvements * Participate in architecture discussions around scaling workflows, data models, and integrations * Work alongside other engineers to implement robust, reliable data flows * Develop a deep understanding of how companies manage and automate equity * Participate in code reviews and help maintain our engineering standards In the first 6–12 months: * Take ownership of key features and improvements within your team’s domain * Help shape the technical direction and architecture of Ledgy’s equity platform * Collaborate with Product and Design to deliver polished, user-centric experiences * Mentor other engineers and share expertise in automation, data modeling, and scalability Teams we’re hiring for Core Equity — Owns the foundational logic that powers Ledgy’s equity engine. Every equity-related event  such as issuing shares, creating new pools, or adjusting ownership — generates transactions. This team defines and maintains the transaction logic, data model, and core domain behaviour that ensure Ledgy’s platform remains accurate, scalable, and compliant. Workflows & Automation — Focuses on automating complex equity workflows and integrating with third-party services, including the trading exchange. The team builds systems that help company admins efficiently onboard and offboard employees, automate equity grants and terminations, and enable employees to sell their shares seamlessly once vested. Reporting — Transforms Ledgy’s core equity data into financial, operational, and compliance reports. The team manages large, complex datasets and ensures reporting is accurate, performant, and reliable across jurisdictions and company structures. Their work powers the insights companies and auditors rely on for decision-making and transparency. The job is a good fit if: * You have 7+ years of experience working as a Software Engineer * You're excited about the impact of equity on entrepreneurship and its real-world impact for companies * You enjoy tackling complex financial data transformations and compliance requirements * You enjoy writing clean, maintainable TypeScript code, both in the backend and frontend * You are excited to work with React, NodeJS, and MongoDB * You thrive in collaborative environments and enjoy pair programming * You take pride in creating robust, tested solutions for critical business operations Being part of Ledgy means: * Recharge and re-energize with flexible working hours, 25 days of vacation, and up to 40 days of remote work from outside your home country. * We make space for your own professional development, with a generous yearly learning & development budget. * This role will receive a competitive salary + benefits + equity. All salaries are aligned with competitively benchmarked ranges based on work location and levelling. * For candidates based in London or Zurich we use a hybrid work model of 1 day in the office per week. Our tech stack: We have a modern, cohesive stack that lets us move fast while maintaining quality: * Language: TypeScript * Frontend: React, Tailwind CSS, tRPC * Backend: tRPC, Node.js, MongoDB * Infrastructure: GCP, Terraform Cloud, Kubernetes, Docker, Github Actions The interview process: * CV Review: we review your resume to see if we might be a good fit * Getting to know you (30 min): meet with someone from our people team to talk about your experience and to answer questions about the role * Live Coding (75 min): We'll present you with an equity domain problem to solve collaboratively using your preferred language and IDE * System Design (60 min): You'll walk us through an architecture you've significantly contributed to in the past, and we'll explore different aspects based on your experience * Culture Interview: A chance to meet one of our founders for a 30 minute chat about Ledgy’s mission and values * Offer 🎉