Product Designer, Design Systems (3 Month Contract)

What do we do?

Paddle offers SaaS companies a completely different approach to their payment infrastructure. Instead of assembling and maintaining a complex stack of payments-related apps and services, we’re a Merchant of Record for our customers. That means we take away 100% of the pain of payment fragmentation. It’s faster, safer, cheaper, and, above all, way better. 

We’re backed by investors including KKR, FTV Capital, Kindred, Notion, and 83North and serve over 3000 software sellers in 245 territories globally. 

The Role:  

At Paddle, we’re committed to delivering exceptional user experiences across our digital products. Our design team is building a robust design system to scale our impact and create consistency across our product suite. We’re looking for a skilled Design Systems Designer to join us as a contractor and help bring this vision to life.

As a Design Systems Designer, you’ll play a critical role in shaping and evolving our design system. You’ll collaborate with designers, developers, and product managers to create accessible, scalable, and cohesive components that empower product teams to deliver exceptional interfaces efficiently.

What you'll do: 

• Design System Development: Define, design, and test core components, patterns, and guidelines to establish a scalable and cohesive product design framework.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with designers, developers, and product managers to align on functionality, accessibility, and implementation.

• Documentation: Create clear, concise documentation to guide design system adoption and usage.

• Iterative Improvement: Gather feedback from stakeholders to refine and expand the design system as needed.

• Accessibility: Ensure components meet accessibility standards, such as WCAG 2.1, incorporating tools like ARIA roles or Axe.

• Scalability: Build for flexibility to support the evolving needs of our product suite.

We'd love to hear from you if you have:

• Experience: Proven experience in UX/UI design, with a focus on design systems or component libraries.

• Technical Proficiency: Advanced Figma skills, with familiarity in front-end technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (React knowledge is a bonus).

• Attention to Detail: A keen eye for clean, reusable, and scalable design.

• Communication: Strong ability to articulate design decisions and collaborate with technical and non-technical teams alike.

• Problem-Solving: Confidence in addressing challenges in implementing design systems at scale.

• Adaptability: Comfortable navigating ambiguity and adapting to evolving priorities.

• Tools Knowledge: Experience with design tokens and tools like Storybook is a plus.

Everyone is welcome at Paddle

At Paddle, we’re committed to removing invisible barriers, both for our customers and within our own teams. We recognise and celebrate that every Paddler is unique and we welcome every individual perspective. As an inclusive employer, we don’t care if, or where, you studied, what you look like or where you’re from. We’re more interested in your craft, curiosity, passion for learning and what you’ll add to our culture. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t match every part of the job ad, especially if you’re part of an underrepresented group.

Please let us know if there’s anything we can do to better support you through the application process and in the workplace. We will do everything we can to support any accommodations needed. We’re committed to building a diverse team where everyone feels safe to be their authentic self. Let’s grow together. 

Why you’ll love working at Paddle

We are a diverse, growing group of Paddlers across the globe who pride ourselves on our transparent, collaborative and respectful culture. 

We live and breathe our values, which are:

Exceptional Together

Execute with impact

Better than Yesterday

We offer a full suite of benefits, including attractive salaries, stock options, retirement plans, private healthcare and well-being initiatives. 

We are a ‘digital-first’ company, which means you can work remotely, from one of our stylish  hubs, or even a bit of both! We offer all team members unlimited holidays and enhanced parental leave. We invest in learning and will help you with your personal development via constant exposure to new challenges, an annual learning fund, and regular internal and external training.