# Senior Design Lead, Developer Experience

**Company**: PayPal
**Location**: New York City, NY
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $218,000.00 - $323,950.00 Annually
**Category**: Design
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

This role leads a team of product and UX designers supporting developer experience, design systems, and AI-enabled design tooling across PayPal. The successful candidate is an experienced people leader and active design practitioner who coaches designers, manages performance, builds a healthy team, and contributes directly when senior design judgment or technical depth can improve outcomes.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Establish overall business or technical strategy for user experience initiatives

- Negotiate with and influence decision-making reaching the senior executive level

- Identify and resolve unique situations of substantial significance in user interface or interaction design

- Allocate resources, responsibly and apply creativity to enhancing user and customer experiences across digital and physical products and services

- Lead the development of user experience strategies that resonate with target audiences

- Support and mentor less-experienced roles to provide an example of innovation, excellence, and day-to-day learning

**Requirements:**

- 10+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience

- 2 years of experience leading others

- Demonstrated experience with hiring, coaching, performance management, career development, team health, retention, and difficult feedback or personnel decisions

- Strong current skills in interaction design, prototyping, information architecture, design critique, and user-centered product development

**Nice to Have:**

- Experience designing developer-facing products, platforms, dashboards, or internal tools

- Experience helping to build, govern, scale, or increase adoption of a design system

- Experience evaluating or improving AI-assisted design or development workflows

- Ability to use code or low-code tools to build functional prototypes or lightweight internal tools

## Skills

### Required
- interaction design
- prototyping
- information architecture
- design critique
- user-centered product development
- leadership
- coaching
- performance management

### Nice to have
- AI-assisted design
- design systems
- developer experience
- design tooling

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