Hybrid Senior Product Designer – Payments

at Perk

• Job title: Senior Product Designer – Payments
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Barcelona, Spain

About the role

• Senior Product Designer responsible for shaping the user experience for payment solutions. Collaborating with product and engineering teams to create impactful designs.

Responsibilities

• Drive high-velocity execution in close collaboration with product and engineering, holding the bar on both craft and speed
• Bridge user needs and business goals, making sure design has a clear voice in shaping what gets built and why
• Conduct and synthesize user research to deeply understand customer problems, translating insights into clear, intuitive experiences that reduce complexity and guide users toward confident outcomes
• Design experiences that help millions of employees and thousands of finance teams seamlessly manage expenses, cards, and invoice processing.
• Prototype rapidly using tools like Claude and Cursor to explore interaction patterns early, accelerate decision-making, and shorten the path from idea to shipped product
• Stay current on emerging AI trends and product patterns, building a clear point of view on what matters and bringing that perspective into how we design at Perk
• Push design practice forward: championing the user inside the triad, contributing to a culture of high craft, and moving toward more iterative, AI-native ways of working

Requirements

• Experience that counts: 5+ years of product design experience at a fast-growing tech company. Experience with Expense Management, FinTech, or SaaS products is a strong plus.
• Payments domain strength: Proven experience in at least one core payment area (e.g., payments processing & orchestration, payment methods, subscription management) and familiarity with financial concepts (e.g., reconciliation, invoicing).
• Strong customer empathy and design thinking, with a passion to understand the business traveler's journey — from booking intent through spend management — and the friction points unique to managed travel
• Strong customer empathy and design thinking
• Fluency in data, using qualitative and quantitative signals to validate design decisions, measure impact, and inform tradeoffs
• Demonstrated ability to influence product direction inside cross-functional teams
• Ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders and large cross-functional teams
• Strong communication and storytelling skills, able to articulate design rationale, tradeoffs, and vision to product, engineering, and senior stakeholders
• Passion for AI, shown through hands-on building, prototyping, or side projects, and staying current on research and tools.
• Fluency with modern prototyping tools (e.g. Cursor, Bolt, Claude Code) and comfort with design/collaboration environments like Figma and Git.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Professional development opportunities