Staff Product Designer, Checkout

Shape seamless, trusted, and visually polished experiences for Afterpay's online checkout, contributing to a broader design strategy and collaborating across teams.

Responsibilities

• Shape the design vision for parts of Afterpay's online checkout experience.
• Partner closely with product, engineering, sales, ML, data science, and research teams to define what we should build and why.
• Translate complex, high-stakes problem spaces (payments, limits, repayment clarity, merchant integration) into clear, intuitive, and visually polished experiences.
• Explore, prototype, and deliver innovative solutions that push the boundaries of checkout and payment design.
• Contribute to a holistic design approach across checkout, repayment, and merchant-facing surfaces.
• Influence product strategy by framing opportunities, championing customer needs, and elevating design thinking across the team.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience crafting impactful digital products.
• A bias toward ownership: you thrive when given responsibility for meaningful product areas and driving them forward.
• Exceptional visual and interaction design craft, with a strong portfolio that demonstrates customer-centric payment or commerce experiences.
• Proven ability to drive design and strategy within a product area or complex project.
• Strong product and systems thinking: able to connect the dots across customer journeys, merchant requirements, and financial systems.
• Experience working cross-functionally with product managers, engineers, researchers, and business partners to shape product direction and push projects forward with velocity.
• Comfort navigating ambiguity in a fast-paced, global environment.

Key Skills

• Visual and interaction design craft
• Driving design and strategy
• Product and systems thinking
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Navigating ambiguity

Benefits

• Remote work
• Medical insurance
• Flexible time off
• Retirement savings plans
• Modern family planning