Director of Product Design

Director of Product Design 

As the Director of Product Design for the Cross-Platform team at Tipalti, you will play a key leadership role in shaping the design vision and strategy across all products. You’ll be responsible for building and leading a high-performing design team, driving innovation, and creating a seamless and consistent user experience across web and mobile platforms. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Inspire, hire, lead, mentor, and manage a team of talented product designers.
• Define clear design goals, team responsibilities, and contribute to the product roadmap.
• Lead cross-organizational initiatives such as the design system and other cross-product workflows.
• Combine creative thinking with strategic execution to elevate the design impact across the company.
• Build a strong design culture and develop end-to-end product design processes.
• Master Figma and other design system tools and technologies to empower the team and ensure consistency.
• Drive innovation and continuously push the boundaries of user experience and design excellence.
• Establish and communicate a unified product design vision across all of Tipalti’s platforms.
• Partner closely with Product Managers and Engineers to define, design, and deliver exceptional user experiences.
• Develop a user-focused, strategically driven design team with a culture of collaboration, creativity, and continuous learning.
• Provide mentorship and career growth opportunities to team members, fostering professional development.
• Be a domain expert, deeply understanding customer needs and product capabilities.
• Collaborate with executive stakeholders to align design initiatives with business priorities and the overall product roadmap.
• Drive measurable outcomes by using metrics, research, and data-informed design strategies.
• Lead an end-to-end UX process—from ideation, wireframing, and prototyping to user testing and final delivery.
• Translate customer pain points into impactful design solutions across a complex B2B platform and mobile app experience.

 About you  

• 8+ years of relevant design experience, including 4+ years managing design teams.
• Proven track record designing complex B2B systems for web and mobile applications.
• Strong experience defining and driving creative direction and design vision across multiple projects, ensuring consistency and innovation throughout.
• Bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant field (e.g., Interaction Design, Visual Communication, Graphic Design, etc.).
• Strategic thinker who simplifies complex challenges into elegant solutions.
• Comfortable being hands-on when needed, while also serving as a coach to others.
• Experienced in collaborating with multiple development teams; familiarity with HTML and CSS is a plus.
• Fluent in spoken and written English, with excellent communication skills.
• Strong collaboration skills and ability to work closely with cross-functional teams, including UX researchers, product managers, and engineers.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Meticulous attention to detail and a commitment to delivering high-quality work.
• Has a portfolio that demonstrates a high standard of visual design, product thinking, and design leadership.
• Experience leading or contributing to a design system team is a strong advantage.

***Portfolio required***

Why join Tipalti?

Joining Tipalti means you're stepping onto a fintech rocketship in a collaborative environment. We're the financial execution experts powering high-growth companies and eliminating the pain in payables. Tipalti eliminates up to 80% of the supplier payment and regulatory compliance workload for finance departments. In short, our AI-driven technology does the work no one wants to do, and we do it better than anyone.

If you are looking for a fast-paced, dynamic, get-stuff-done, no-BS environment, and looking to advance your design career by learning from a top-notch design team – join Tipalti’s Creative Team.

We are looking for creative and passionate people to join us!
Do you have the ability to mentor, and manage your designers to understand complex problems into elegant, informed design solutions?

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Interested in learning more about us?

Tipalti is the only company handling both global partner payments and accounts payable workflows for high-velocity companies across the entire financial operations cycle: onboarding and managing global suppliers, instituting procurement controls, streamlining invoice processing and approvals, executing payments around the world, and reconciling payables data across a multi-subsidiary finance organization. Tipalti enables companies to scale quickly by making payables strategic with operational, compliance, and financial controls. Through Tipalti, our clients can efficiently and securely pay thousands of partners and suppliers in 196 countries within minutes. 

Tipalti is fueled by a commitment to our customers and a desire to build lasting connections. Our client portfolio includes high-velocity businesses such as Amazon Twitch, GoDaddy, Roku, WordPress.com, and ZipRecruiter. We work hard for our 98% customer retention rate which is built on trust, reliability and innovation. Tipalti means we handled it" - a mission to which we are constantly committed.

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Tipalti champions inclusive teams, in which every voice counts. We are committed to recruiting diverse candidates with varied personal experiences and abilities. We welcome applications from candidates belonging to historically underrepresented or disadvantaged groups, and maintain an equitable Talent Acquisition process that is free from discrimination.

As an equal opportunities employer, Tipalti complies with employment and human rights laws across the various jurisdictions in which we operate. Should you require reasonable adjustments or accommodations during the recruitment process, including access to alternate formats of materials, meeting spaces, or other accommodations that could better enable your full participation, please reach out to hr@tipalti.com for assistance.

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