Staff Product Designer, Acquiring & Design System

Overview

In this role you will lead design for Acquiring and evolve Checkout.com’s design system, shaping how merchants interact with payments at scale. You will mentor designers, raise craft quality, and drive the system to support multiple products and surfaces. You’ll collaborate with Product and Engineering to apply the system to real needs, while enabling end-to-end shipping with AI-enabled workflows. This is a cross-functional, impact-focused opportunity at a fast-moving fintech at scale.

Pay / Benefits

• hybrid working model with three days in the office
• London office location
• career growth opportunities
• collaborative culture
• impactful work at a fintech leader

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end design for Acquiring and mentor designers to raise craft quality
• Evolve cross-pillar design system across products and surfaces (dashboard and mobile)
• Partner with Product and Engineering to apply the system to real product needs and constraints
• Improve processes from design intent to production and enable end-to-end shipping with AI tooling
• Influence design direction and craft within the Acquiring team to bridge coverage gaps

Key requirements

• Staff-level product design scope or equivalent with ability to set direction and mentor others
• Exceptional product craft across interaction, visual design, prototyping, and shipped experiences
• Ownership of complex product work with close collaboration with Product and Engineering
• Experience shaping and evolving a production design system
• Technical fluency to collaborate with Engineering on implementation constraints and design-to-development workflows
• Shipped experience using AI-assisted design or development workflows (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor)

• Mentoring and critique
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Ambiguity tolerance and problem solving
• Production design system development
• Cross-product design system governance
• AI-assisted design/workflows integration

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