Staff Product Experience Designer - Customer Interfaces Job at Adyen (San Francisco)

Job Description

Staff Product Experience Designer - Customer Interfaces at Adyen. This role is based in San Francisco. Adyen values in-person collaboration, and we are an office-first company. Some international travel will be required. The base salary for this role in San Francisco ranges from $258,500 to $375,600, plus RSUs.

Job Responsibility

Drive Systemic Logic & Strategy: Take accountability for the core experience logic that connects different product suites. You work across solution areas to resolve highly ambiguous experience gaps, influencing Adyen’s strategic direction and ensuring global scalability is built into the foundation of our processes
Architectural Triad Partnership: Partner deeply with Product and Technical Leads (GPMs/VP/Solution Lead) at the earliest stages of the lifecycle. You jointly articulate a compelling long-term strategic vision, ensuring that high-level solution architecture is balanced across user needs, technical feasibility, and business viability
Eliminate Systemic Experience Debt: Proactively identify and resolve deep-seated gaps across the organization. You co-define and maintain the global PX Quality Bar, building the reusable infrastructure and foundational patterns (e.g., adaptive interfaces) that prevent fragmentation and accelerate delivery across the entire company
Strategic Mentorship & Craft Leadership: Act as a visionary multiplier by upleveling the craft and decision-making of Senior PXers. You set the standard for professional discourse, involving peers early in strategic architecture to foster the next generation of talent without the need for traditional management overhead
Design Knowledge-Sharing Ecosystems: Architect the forums and systems that allow the PX org to scale independently. You ensure critical context is documented and shared strategically, preventing organizational bottlenecks and ensuring clarity for geographically dispersed teams
Champion Alignment & Complexity Reduction: Act as the connective tissue across solutions, advocating for high-quality standards and embodying PX principles to reduce complexity and dependencies across disparate teams
Industry Innovation: Lead industry scanning to bring new PX methods, tools, and emergent technologies (specifically AI and LLMs) into Adyen, advancing our design framework and operational efficiency.

Requirements

8+ years of experience designing complex, large-scale systems or frameworks, with a proven track record of driving impact across multiple product streams or solution areas
Comfortable sitting at the table with senior business and technical stakeholders, translating complex user ecosystems and technical trade-offs into compelling, actionable narratives
You don't just design journeys
you design the systems that govern those journeys. You excel at identifying how a change in one part of the financial suite impacts the global merchant experience
You have a passion for coaching senior level peers in strategic thinking and craft excellence. You lead through inspiration and architectural standards rather than hierarchy
You are at your best when the problem is undefined. You take organizational challenges and turn them into clear, scalable frameworks that teams can execute against
You take personal responsibility for the success of Adyen’s company-wide initiatives, setting a high bar for quality and fostering a culture of proactive knowledge-stewardship.

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