Principal Product Designer- Payments

Overview

As Principal Product Designer on Teya’s Payments team, you will shape how merchants across Europe accept, reconcile, and manage payments within a secure, compliant ecosystem. You’ll lead end-to-end experiences and define the design language for a strategic product area, while growing a small, ambitious design team. You’ll collaborate with product, engineering, and research to turn ideas into launch-ready solutions, using data and prototyping to drive impact. You’ll work in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment that values craft and mentorship.

Pay / Benefits

• Flexible working hours
• GymPass health and wellbeing benefits
• Maternity and paternity leave options
• Cycle-to-Work Scheme
• Health and Life Insurance
• Pension Scheme

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the vision for Teya’s payment products to enable seamless payment acceptance and management for small businesses
• Own end-to-end product experiences from concept to launch in collaboration with product, engineering, and research
• Design secure, compliant payment flows that reduce friction and build trust for merchants and customers
• Leverage AI to create smarter, adaptive experiences that optimize payment acceptance and reduce operational complexity
• Understand European merchants’ needs and design solutions that make a real difference in their daily operations
• Bring clarity to complex systems through strong structure, thoughtful design, and exceptional craft
• Use research, data, and rapid prototyping to test, learn, and iterate with purpose
• Help grow the design culture at Teya by raising quality and mentoring others

Key requirements

• 8+ years of Product Design experience
• At least 3 years leading work in complex or regulated environments such as fintech or payments
• Strong portfolio showing UX/UI craft and attention to detail
• Ability to bridge strategy and execution and guide vision while staying close to craft
• Experience collaborating with engineers, researchers, and stakeholders at all levels to ship work
• Curiosity about AI and its potential to make design adaptive and predictive
• Driven by real-world impact and comfortable in fast-changing, ambiguous environments

• collaboration
• curiosity about AI
• mentoring and leadership
• payments systems design (acceptance to settlement and reconciliation)
• secure and compliant design practices
• AI-enabled product experiences

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