Design Lead (Payments)

TL;DR

Design Lead (Payments): Lead a small design team behind the core merchant product experience for global payment flows, with an accent on experience strategy, quality bar, and systems-heavy interaction design. Focus on designing stateful, conditional payment workflows, partnering with Product and Engineering on major trade-offs, and extending the design system while leading research and coaching designers.

Location: Remote (United Kingdom; Hungary; Ireland; Poland; Portugal; Romania; South Africa)

Company

hirify.global builds unified payments infrastructure that helps merchants connect and orchestrate multiple payment services through a single platform.

What you will do

• Own the experience strategy and quality bar for the merchant workspace domain, making final calls on major design trade-offs.
• Lead and develop 2–3 designers: coach through real work, run critique to raise the bar, and conduct honest growth conversations.
• Stay in the tools: spend about half the time on the hardest or highest-leverage design problems.
• Partner with Product and Engineering leads as an equal voice on strategy, shaping what gets built and why.
• Extend the design system by adding patterns and components needed in your domain.
• Lead research to uncover non-obvious problems across different user groups, then translate findings into direction.

Requirements

• Strong portfolio of shipped product design on complex, systems-heavy products (SaaS, fintech, infrastructure, or developer-facing work preferred).
• Experience leading designers (formally or as the senior person others looked to) and raising quality through others.
• Deep craft across interaction, visual, and information architecture; ability to set standards.
• Proven ability to own a domain end to end—from ambiguous problem to shipped outcome with measurable impact.
• Judgment to decide when to go deep vs. move, with autonomy to run an area without close management.
• Remote-first working style: written, asynchronous, and self-directed; comfortable with ambiguity and shifting context.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote, globally distributed team with remote-first working practices and planned face-to-face time (workations, annual retreat, co-working access worldwide).
• Competitive share options.
• Uncapped holiday with a minimum of 25 days to be taken.
• £500 toward home office setup, best equipment for the role, and co-working space access.
• Workations and company retreat, generous learning budget, and private medical insurance.
• Additional perks and benefits vary by location.

Hiring process

• Intro call with a Talent Partner.
• Interview with the Hiring Manager.
• Challenge stage contextualized to the role, followed by a final values-alignment interview.