# Lead Product and UX Designer

**Company**: PayPal
**Location**: Austin, Texas
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $198,000.00 - $294,250.00 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.

**Essential 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.

**Additional Responsibilities & Preferred Qualifications:**

- 10 or more years of relevant experience in product design, UX design, interaction design, or a related field.

- 5 or more years of experience directly managing product or UX designers.

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

- A portfolio or set of case studies that shows strong storytelling, product and systems thinking, design judgment, leadership results, and meaningful personal contributions to the work.

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

- Experience leading design work for complex digital products and connecting user needs with business goals and technical constraints.

- Working knowledge of design-system architecture, component models, semantic design tokens, accessibility, front-end implementation constraints, and design-to-code workflows.

- Experience using qualitative and quantitative evidence to identify problems, guide design decisions, and evaluate outcomes.

- Demonstrated ability to work across organizational boundaries and influence product, engineering, design, and senior leadership partners without direct authority.

- Clear written, verbal, and visual communication skills.

**Benefits:**

- Comprehensive, choice-based programs to support all aspects of personal wellbeing,physical, emotional, and financial.

- Generous paid time off.

- Healthcare coverage for you and your family.

- Resources to create financial security and support your mental health.

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## Skills

### Required
- interaction design
- prototyping
- information architecture
- design critique
- user-centered product development
- design-system architecture
- component models
- semantic design tokens
- accessibility
- front-end implementation constraints
- design-to-code workflows

### Nice to have
- AI-assisted design
- design tooling
- developer experience
- design systems
- inclusive-design practices
- WCAG
- global products
- regulated environments
- products that require strong security, privacy, and risk controls

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