Lead Product Designer

About Us:
DailyPay is transforming the way people get paid. As a worktech company and the industry’s leading on demand pay solution, DailyPay uses an award-winning technology platform to help America’s top employers build stronger relationships with their employees. This voluntary employee benefit enables workers everywhere to feel more motivated to work harder and stay longer on the job while supporting their financial well-being outside of the workplace.
DailyPay is headquartered in New York City, with operations throughout the United States as well as in Belfast. For more information, visit DailyPay's Press Center.

The Role:

As a Lead Product Designer, you will be a primary architect of the user experience for our flagship consumer mobile product. You are an expert practitioner who thrives at the intersection of human behavior, business strategy, and high-fidelity execution. You will ensure that every design decision at DailyPay is grounded in a deep understanding of our users' needs and the "so what" behind our product strategy.

This is a high-impact leadership role for a designer who can navigate a complex mobile-first ecosystem and build intuitive experiences for a diverse range of users. Based in our New York City office, this hybrid position blends remote focus with high-energy, on-site collaboration, working shoulder-to-shoulder with our UX, Research, and Product teams to solve the future of earned wage access.

How You Will Make an Impact:

• Design Excellence & Craft: Own the end-to-end design lifecycle for consumer mobile features—from foundational discovery and wire-framing to pixel-perfect, developer-ready delivery across iOS and Android.

• Squad Design Leadership: Act as the design authority within your product squad. You will be a strategic partner to Product and Engineering, aligning design initiatives with our 12-to-24-month vision and business goals.

• Strategic Influence: Translate broad, conceptual ideas into valuable, elegant experiences. You will use design as a tool for collaboration, creating the artifacts necessary to align stakeholders across the organization.

• Mentorship & Growth: Foster a culture of rigorous inquiry and craft excellence. You will elevate the team through active mentorship, thoughtful design critiques, and leading by example.

• Methodological Rigor: Partner closely with the Research team to validate complex interactions and UI patterns. You’ll ensure our experience is both intuitive for the user and high-performing for the business.

• Delivery & Systems: Collaborate with engineers to implement and maintain a cohesive product. You will help evolve our design system to ensure consistency and scalability across mobile and web platforms.

• Market Advocacy: Stay at the forefront of the consumer finance and payments industries, ensuring our design patterns account for the unique nuances of financial wellness.

What You Bring to The Team:

• 6+ years' experience in product design, with a portfolio showcasing high-impact, consumer-facing mobile products that have shipped at scale.

• Process Mastery: Deep expertise in managing the design process from start to finish—bringing your multidisciplinary squad along for the journey and knowing when to be "scrappy" vs. "deep-dive."

• Mobile-First Mindset: Mastery of iOS and Android design patterns, with the ability to create high-fidelity prototypes that communicate complex motion and interaction.

• Leadership Flexibility: A "player-coach" mentality. You are comfortable diving into Figma one hour and leading a high-level stakeholder alignment meeting the next.

• Strategic Problem Solving: Proven ability to move from "insight" to "recommendation," with a track record of influencing product roadmaps.

• Exceptional Communication: The ability to distill complex human behaviors and financial flows into clear, compelling narratives that move people to action.

• Fintech Expertise (desirable): An appreciation for the complexities of financial data, regulated industries, or multi-sided marketplaces. You know how to design for trust and clarity.

What We Offer:

• Exceptional health, vision, and dental care

• Opportunity for equity ownership

• Life and AD&D, short- and long-term disability

• Employee Assistance Program

• Employee Resource Groups

• Fun company outings and events

• Unlimited PTO

• 401K with company match