Senior Product Designer (6 month fixed-term contract)

Zipcolimited; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Zip Co Limited is seeking a Senior Product Designer to own complex design challenges from discovery through delivery. You will work as an individual contributor with Product, Engineering and Design leaders, shaping customer experiences that make paying with Zip simple and human.

You’ll combine research insights with exceptional design craft to turn complex problems into beautifully simple experiences, exploring AI-enabled experiences and intelligent automation to create meaningful value for

Qualifications

• Experience designing complex customer-facing digital products in fintech, payments or high-scale environments.
• Strong ability across native mobile and web design.
• Portfolio demonstrating exceptional UI, motion design, accessibility and scalable design systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end design across multiple product domains from discovery to delivery.
• Create high-quality visual and interaction design with rapid prototyping.
• Use user research and insights to inform product strategy and translate ideas into experiences.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to balance user needs with business goals and feasibility.
• Evolve Zip’s design systems and accessibility standards, championing craft.
• Experiment with AI-enabled experiences and new interaction patterns to improve the customer experience.
• Share expertise to strengthen design capability across the team.

Skills

Product design

UI design

Interaction design

Visual design

Job description

• Shape intuitive, trusted experiences used by Zip customers, while exploring how AI can unlock the next generation of digital commerce.
• Bring deep product, interaction and visual design experience across native mobile and web, with a portfolio that demonstrates exceptional craft.
• Work flexibly from our Sydney office, partnering closely with Product, Engineering and Design across multiple squads.

Write your story with a career at Zip

Join Zip’s Product Design team and help shape customer experiences that make paying with Zip simple, intuitive and human.

As a Senior Product Designer, you’ll take ownership of complex design challenges from discovery through to delivery, working as an individual contributor alongside Product, Engineering and Design leaders.

You’ll combine customer insight with exceptional design craft to turn complex problems into beautifully simple experiences. As Zip explores the opportunities presented by Agentic Commerce, you’ll also experiment with AI enabled experiences, intelligent automation and emerging interaction patterns to understand where they can create meaningful value for our customers.

What you’ll own

• Lead end to end design across multiple product domains, from discovery and experimentation through to detailed design and delivery
• Create high quality visual and interaction design, bringing ideas to life through rapid prototyping and beautifully crafted customer experiences
• Use customer research, insights and experimentation to inform product strategy and translate abstract ideas into tangible experiences
• Partner closely with Product and Engineering to balance customer needs, business priorities and technical feasibility
• Help evolve Zip’s design systems, principles and experience standards, championing accessibility and exceptional design craft
• Explore emerging AI enabled experiences, intelligent automation and new interaction patterns, rapidly prototyping ideas that have the potential to improve the customer experience
• Lead by example, sharing your expertise and helping strengthen design capability across the broader team

What you'll bring to the team

• Experience designing complex, customer facing digital products within fintech, payments, technology or another high scale, customer focused environment.
• Strong experience designing across both native mobile apps and web products.
• Deep capability across product, interaction and visual design, supported by a portfolio demonstrating exceptional UI, motion design, accessibility and scalable design systems.
• The ability to turn complex customer problems into simple, intuitive and beautifully crafted experiences.
• Strong storytelling and stakeholder management skills, with experience partnering closely with Product and Engineering to align thinking and deliver high quality customer outcomes.
• Curiosity and hands on experience exploring AI enabled experiences, intelligent automation or emerging interaction models.
• A mindset that embraces AI and new tools to adapt, learn and grow
• An aptitude for identifying and managing risks. Whether you are a People Manager or an Individual Contributor, we are all leaders at Zip, therefore effective risk management is important to how we run our business and part of all our roles
• Our values in your DNA: Customer First, Own It, Stronger Together and Change the Game

What you’ll get in return

As we write this next exciting chapter in our story, we will continue to move at pace and embrace change. For you, this might mean opportunities to learn new skills with hands‑on experience, broader responsibilities, or the buzz of seeing your work impact customers faster.

Zip is a place where you’ll get out exactly what you put in. When you join the team, we'll do our best to make sure you can be yourself and surround yourself with smart, friendly colleagues and leaders who have your back, so that you can make the big things happen.

Be a part of a team that reflects the diversity of our customers

We pride ourselves on being a workplace that provides equal opportunities to people of all ages, cultural backgrounds, sexual orientations, gender identities, abilities, veteran status, and everything else that makes you unique.

Equally, we’re committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive. Please let us know If there are any adjustments that need to be made to ensure you have a fair and equitable experience.

And finally…get to know us

Zip Co Limited (ASX: ZIP) is a digital financial services company, offering innovative, people‑centred products that bring customers and merchants together.

Operating in two core markets - Australia and the US, Zip offers point-of-sale credit and digital payment services, connecting millions of customers with its global network of tens of thousands of merchants.

We’re proud to be a values‑led business and our values - Customer First, Own it, Stronger Together and Change the Game - guide us in everything we do.